Secret Invasion

Secret Invasion has been a wildly boring disappointment thus far and as the series begins to come to a close there seems to be little to no hope for a turnaround. The penultimate episode is consistent, and therefore leaves little to praise. But here we go with the second to last episode of Secret Invasion.

Talos is dead and Gravik is absolutley losing his mind, having even his own followers questioning his leadership.

Fury makes it very clear that he knows that Rhodey is a Skrull.

Gaia is alive and makes contact with Fury, but I swear to go their on screen interaction is so devoid of any emotion. It also looks like they are setting Gaia up to be the one that saves the day but they have given us no narrative reason why we should believe that she is capable of doing so. She has hardly had any screentime, when she is on screen she is being used as a pawn by either Talos or Gravik and she has had 0 moments where we find out who she is. So why on earth would I believe that she is going to finally be her own person? And even if she does save everything, that is super shitty writing as there was no set up to the payoff. But we’ve already established that these writers have no sense of structure, or common sense. Their writing ability is that of someone who has been told that they are good at everything their whole lives and so with no education, skill or natural talent decides to take up screenwriting. And though their script is bad daddy is going to get it made anyway. It's a prime example of the kind of writing that is going to destroy the art of filmmaking.

Fury’s wife and Gaia are having a heart to heart for some reason. Their interaction doesn’t even pass the Bechdel test, the lowest metric for whether or not you are capable of writing realistic women. Also whoever the set designer was that decided to arrange the Fury’s books by color is a raging psychopath. Anyway Wifey Fury and Gaia fight off agents together and it's the most we’ve seen either of them do. Like the men that write this think that 1 scene of women being badass together erases the fact that they have both been nothing but silent plot devices up till now. Which makes their badass moment jarring more than anything else. It’s not fun, it's not cute, it's not badass, it's placating, sexist and insulting.

“They can’t defend the world the way I can”...Fury this whole problem is one that YOU caused by being a selfish piece of shit. This whole conflict was born from Fury breaking a promise, that if he had kept we wouldn’t be here right now.

Olivia Coleman is the only good part of this show because she is delightful in everything. I really want to love Emilia Clarke’s character but they wrote her so poorly that I just can’t.

We end on what I am assuming is supposed to be a cliffhanger. Truly this show is so terrible, the poor and inconsistent pacing, the lack of structure, the horribly sexist written female characters, the lack of any emotion whatsoever, there is nothing about this show that makes it redeemable or necessary. At this point I can pretty much guarantee that nothing that comes out of this show is going to be necessary to the future of the MCU. You can watch The Marvels just fine without it. Secret Invasion has proven to be a waste of money and my time.