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My Reaction / Review for Secret Invasion Season 1 Episode 3: Episode Two was a bit mediocre and I gave it a rating of 6.7/10. I really hope this episode is decent. Ok Gravik's plan sounds good, having humans fighting each other is the perfect way to gain control. Wait Gravik wants to make Skrulls a super powered race? How? Seems like Fury has relationship related trouble. Love Talos as a character more with each episode. 25 minutes in and I enjoy this episode more than the previous one, the pacing feels better. Did Gravik just kill Giah? I hope not, she is an interesting character. Why does Fury's girlfriend wants to talk to Gravik? Overall an entertaining episode, I liked it. My rating is 7.5/10.

This is what happens when your show has only 6 episodes to develop characters and stories. It's also baffling that they choose to have filler episodes like this when they have so few episodes to tell their story.

Basically, they just kill Emilia Clarke's character for... reasons I guess? Like was that supposed to be shocking or what? What an absolute waste of Emilia Clarke. I honestly don't understand the point of them just randomly killing characters.

Killing Maria Hill is one thing, at least we've gotten familiar with her in the past movies and her death has some shock value to it, but killing G'iah? Really? We don't even know her. How am I supposed to care about her death if you gave her the bare minimum characterization and failed to make the audience care about her?

At this point I don't even care about Fury, to be honest. They're making him act less like Nick Fury with each episode.

There are only six episodes in this mini-series, so it's already nearly impossible to make the audience care about your characters if you're not a great writer. But having seemingly major characters killed left and right before even establishing them is just baffling.

You're not brave and risk-taking and "Anti Marvel Formula" for killing these characters, you're just trying to flex and say "See, this is an MCU show and I'm definitely showing blood and killing my characters! Aren't we cool and edgy?" No, you're not. If killing G'iah was intended to be shocking and she's actually not coming back - which I'm not sure how she can come back because it seems like these Skrull just die by one bullet which even puny humans have survived worse -, then they failed miserably. I wasn't shocked when it happened, I was just baffled and genuinely confused as to what the writers were going for. I honestly want to know what the thought process was.

Moving on from G'iah's death rant, the episode itself is pretty mid and I would've given the whole episode a 5/10 if they didn't kill G'iah for no reason. It's somehow past the halfway point of the story, and the show has failed to grab me. Episode two got me more interested in the show, but this episode plummeted the show again and is somehow even worse and boring than the first episode, even without G'iah's death.

The whole point of this episode was for Gravik to weed out the mole. An entire episode dedicated to only building up to Gravik killing G'iah. This is not an episode that happens in a mini-series with a one-digit episode number. This is an episode that happened in old cable shows that had 20+ episodes.

So you're telling me that they had so little story that they decided episode three should be a filler?

How can you get your hands on making one of the most interesting and complicated (well, maybe not that complicated) comic book storylines, and still run out of story to tell in only 6 episodes? And a poor job at even making that interesting?

This honestly feels like those 2000s Marvel movies that are written by the worst writers and are b movie laughingstocks. The only thing different is that the production is now fancier. Yeah the cinematography is decent and yeah the cast is pretty great, but the writing is just awful.

I've noticed that except Loki, every other MCU D+ show has looked like it was a fan-made project. They got all these great storylines that you could make Avengers level of scale in the story and all these intriguing plots that every child would dream to see in live-action, but you slap a mid budget to it and send it to Disney Plus to make a mediocre show about it and disregard literally everything interesting about the story you've chosen.

It's not like the movies are any better either. They too take some decent storylines and turn them into farce while being one of the richest companies in the world that could hire the best writers and make the biggest-scale movies ever and have some decently-written shows for your streaming service. But they decide to dump $300M into an Indiana Jones sequel and add another flop to the list of their greatest 2023 accomplishments of having flops after flops with their high-budget movies.

It was kinda obvious from the very first scene of the show that this wasn't going to be well-written or that interesting to watch, but this episode was the final nail in the coffin and proved that it's gonna get even worse.

I was cautiously optimistic about this from the first I saw the trailers and thought this one might be different, but I now know that there's no hope for Disney Plus other than Andor. Not one show coming out of this machine is gonna be interesting, well-written, or worthwhile. If I had Disney money, I would've found thousand other better ways to waste and burn it away.

So we start off seeing three members of Gravik's resistance getting on board a British nuclear sub, yet further into the episode we only see one the three have an active role in trying to launch a missile from the sub as the captain is questioning the orders...so why didn't they assume the identity of the captain?

The whole build up to going to the Commodore's home to get him to rescind the launch order was about saving lives and not killing innocents...moments later Talos and Fury are shooting sailors left and right to get to the Commodore. So on the basis that they can't tell Skrull from Human they are killing folk without any prejudice in order to save lives. It's notable that none of these sailors revert to Skrull form so it's therefore assumed that they have killed innocent people, which I will assume will be glossed over in the next episode.

The whole scene on the sub is just awful and smacks of poor writing and low budget for the shot, the CGI is fine and the internal of the sun looks ok, albeit more akin to a warship control room given the size of the room, but the real issue is that there is a middle about to be launched without any pre-launch sequence, no one talking about confirming target, etc. Everyone is quiet in their seats doing business as normal and it's just the captain and Skrull exo talking about following orders and launching the missile. And then there is the automated messaging service announcing that a missile is to be launched and again it sounds to confirm the aborted launch, that in itself is ludicrous yet it's made so much worse by a claxon sounding to alert the crew to the impending missile launch, it's as if the writers don't care that a sun is supposed to be hidden and quiet and going out of its way making such noise goes completely against submarine warfare/operations.

Seriously? Killing off another character so soon just feels cheap. You have arguably one of the best actresses in recent time in Emilia Clarke and she's dead in episode 3?!!! It is marvel so theres a possibility that she'll come back somehow. But it just feel like wasted potential with that character and actress. I've been waiting for a more mature marvel project since moon knight and was hopeful when I saw the trailer for Secret Invasion. Emilia Clarke, Samuel L Jackson, Cobie Smulders AND Olivia Coleman in an espionage alien invasion series. How could you not be excited?! Well I cannot wait until it's over. Completely boring and I couldn't care what happens now. Just going to watch as it's weekly.

There seems to be a writing/production shortcoming here. It feels/unwinds like the American Broadcasting Co... like rehashed "Agents of Shield". And I don't feel I'm off on the economics in the Mouse House. Getting the masses to pay a Disney+ premium on top of keeping the next installation of network television's 70 years of evolution off of ABC and within Marvel Studios reeks of economic shuffling more than anything else. This is not the Nick Fury from the MCU up until now. An assumption would be that this issue comes from Iger-Chapek-Iger transition... I refuse to think that Feige's track record with this house is due to him. But so far this series has a lot of "tell me, don't show me" in it, what appears to be waste of talent costs (Clarke, Smolders) and not much chops.

The Gravik character pretty much sums up a huge flaw with all of the Marvel shows and movies. It is clear he is unstoppable: he has all of these powers and has all of these people under his wing and yet we know he'll engage in a long fight scene with someone down the road and he'll eventually lose.

Emilia Clarke was a huge part of this star-studded cast so if this is truly the end of her character it will be disappointing, but that is not the bigger issue with tonight's episode. This episode featured probably the least exciting break-in and home invasion fight I have ever seen on the big or small screen.