Secret Invasion - The Pitiful Collapse of the MCU

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🎬 In this FilmSpeak video essay, we discuss Secret Invasion - The Pitiful Collapse of the MCU and why the MCU is dead

Is the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) in a state of decline? In this MCU video essay and review of the latest Marvel series Secret Invasion, we delve deep into the reasons behind the pitiful collapse of the MCU and why the post-Avengers: Endgame era seems to be struggling.

Join us as we examine one of the pivotal events that seemingly contributed to the MCU's downfall culminating in Secret Invasion. This widely anticipated storyline held the promise of delivering intense action and shocking revelations, but did it live up to the hype? I mean Disney was basically calling this the MCU's answer to Andor. We'll explore how Secret Invasion may have missed the mark and disappointed fans, leaving a sour taste in the mouths of loyal viewers and another failure at the hands of Kevin Feige.

Furthermore, we'll analyze how the MCU's once-successful formula may have lost its charm in the post-Avengers: Endgame era. What factors have contributed to the perceived decline? Has the studio been taking risks with new characters and stories, or has it been playing it safe, leading to a lack of innovation and excitement? We also call into question the recent emphasis of quantity over quality and the negative effect the Marvel Disney Plus shows have had on the overall MCU. Why can't they seem to figure it out? It's really such a shame because Secret Invasion is bad.

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Nick Fury learns of a secret invasion of Earth by a faction of shapeshifting Skrulls; Fury joins his allies, and together they race against time to thwart an imminent Skrull invasion and save humanity. Secret Invasion stars Samuel L. Jackson, Emilia Clarke, Don Cheadle, Olivia Coleman, Kingsley Ben-Adir, and Ben Mendelsohn.
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[intarsting]

The main problem of this series is New Asgard, where aliens live peacefully on erth and cause no threat. Why do scrulls live in Russia and America, where they are considered to be a threat, instead of living in New Asgard?

[aymaanrashid]

As a lifelong die hard mcu fan, i am not disappointed

I am just heartbroken

[ZadnoleyaEdits]

I was really hopeful for Secret Invasion. Winter Soldier was the last time the MCU felt SORTA grounded and that would’ve been refreshing atp.

[Richard-otfn]

They should of had 3-4 years off after endgame. Imagine the hype for when it came back

[kins]

No one found that bizarre that Rhodes was walking fine without his mechanical supports.

[Qwazin]

It seems like the formula for every MCU show is to tease the audience with a genre, then meander for 5 episodes until everything fizzles out in a finale that resolves everything with CGI people punching each other.

[KiraLawliet]

A while ago, I was hopeful that the MCU was going to get people enthusiastic about it again. I was hopeful that Marvel, Feige, and Disney had been listening to the criticisms of Phase 4 and would correct those failings given enough time. Even if the corporate suits at these companies didn't care, I had faith that Feige cared, because he seems like he genuinely loves the comics and wants to do them justice on the big screen. The occasional success like No Way Home, Moon Knight, and GotG 3 gave me some bit of hope that the ship would steady and get back on course.

But I'm not hopeful anymore. Everything is falling apart.

Phase 5 was supposed to open with our first big look at the new big villain of the MCU. And what did we get? Ant-Man 3. Probably the worst movie in the entirety of the MCU to date. A movie where Kang, supposedly the next Thanos, is treated like a generic bland villain and gets taken out by ants and a giant head who spouts lines like "My name is Darren and I am not a dick."

After Ant-Man, Gotg 3 restored SOME of my faith, but I knew in the back of my mind that it was only good because of James Gunn, and that he was going to be gone after this. So, I was hopeful, or rather desperately optimistic, that Secret Invasion would be the next Winter Soldier, and would bring people back on board to loving (or at least being interested in) the MCU again. But those hopes have been dashed. Secret Invasion had one of the worst opening episodes I've ever seen for a Disney+ series, maybe as bad or even worse than She-hulk, leading into a season that was overall adequate at BEST, ending in a finale that was just downright insulting.

Chalk this up with the fact that the next few shows AND movies in the MCU lineup don't seem to be exciting ANYONE, as well as the fact that the MCU's big main baddie is now embattled in a huge domestic abuse scandal, and I don't think the franchise can survive at this point. Some people think the SAG-AFTRA strike might make things worse, or better, but personally, I think it's happened too late for it to have any noticeable difference now.

I'm so dejected. I loved the MCU. I've stuck with it ever since I was in middle school. I remember the days when people used to get excited over each new release and flooded the theaters to see them. With only a couple exceptions, I haven't seen anyone that excited for a new MCU release since Endgame. I even defended Phase 4 through most of its ups and downs, because I believed that SOMEONE high up at these companies would step in and see enthusiasm dipping and say "we need to do something to get people excited again!" But no. We've had three years—THREE GODDAMN YEARS—of half-assed mediocrity, both on the big screen and the small one. It's inexcusable now. They've had plenty of time. They've had plenty of chances. And now, I don't think they even care if their movies and shows stop making money. It's clear they have some bs Wall Street workaround to still make bank off of failing properties, and that's all they care about.

It genuinely makes me furious. I hate these corporate pigs so much. We could have had something extraordinary! The Multiverse Saga could have been something tremendous, it could have been something never before done in the history of cinema, and it would have been such an AMAZING social experience! But no. Corporate greed killed it, like it kills everything else good in this world. Capitalism ruins art, folks. It may be a trite statement, but it's damn true. And don't ever let anyone tell you any different.

[King_Notch]

The biggest Part of the MCI success was the wait for the next piece of the puzzle when u add tv shows and over saturate you take away that break in between.

[rykerising]

This show was more obsessed with Super Skrulls than making a spy thriller.

[hawsrulebegin]

Imagine if this had been done by the succession team? Deep, meaty conflicts, regret, trust issues, sneaky behaviour and lots of tension. Instead we get a true waste of potential and cast talent. Gutted.

[kanhaibhatt]

Maria Hill was in the mcu for 12 years and she didnt do a single thing. Genius writing.

[malmaller]

I have zero faith The Marvels or Loki season 2 is gonna get things back on track. And then after that, it's Echo, Ironheart, and Agatha.. all projects that will likely be at the very least divisive if not panned. It's looking very bleak...

[trevorthai]

Secret Invasion was handled way better in Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. I still miss that show a lot.

[jake_edinburgh]

I wish Nick being a father figure to Gravik wud have bin explored & emphasized more. Also if they just stuck to the 4samples, making the dna Kool-aid was overkill not only for the series but for the universe altogether

[PaulinaAngel]

The funniest thing is that there were people going on twitter and other platforms saying that Secret Invasion is the show that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. wish it could have been, only that the entire series was basically a poor take on the AOS:LMD season, I was left unfullfilled, I've been feeling that way since the Disney+ shows began to happen, none of these shows really have the kind of suspense that we got from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Defenders Series. If only someone like Coulson or Daisy Johnson appeared, and bring back S.H.I.E.L.D. into the MCU, then this series would have had some kind of backbone.

[Vaughndaleoulaw]

The fundamental issue is they are releasing too much stuff way too quickly. And I don’t think that is the creatives fault.

[arcr]

It's crazy how the MCU has lost so many people's interest, including mine. The last MCU anything I watched in cinemas was Spiderman No Way Home, and GotG 3 is the only movie I'm interested in seeing eventually since.
And for the MCU itself, there's been comparisons for it's current development to Marvel's back in the day with good reason. It doesn't seem that they learned from their mistakes but just took their time getting there.

[justinstoll]

This show had a great possibility to have been a good espionage thriller. Instead, (I don't use this term lightly) it may have assassinated several characters and did devolve into another CGI battle fest. I was slack jawed with that last episode. And this comes from someone who unironically digs Eternals level MCU. I couldn't believe how crap this show was.

[DodaGarcia]

I think it's very unlikely that it will turn out Rhodes had been a Skrull for that long, a hospital gown is not something people wear that rarely in their lives, especially someone disabled of a certain age. As others have pointed out, the leg braces (that he's not wearing in Falcon and the Winter Soldier) are a better clue of when that change might have happened.

But yeah, I agree that it was at the very least a bizarre choice to put him in a hospital gown of all things. Maybe it was meant to signify that he was kidnapped while under anesthesia for a procedure and therefore without access to his War Machine gear? It certainly left things a lot more ambiguous than they had to be at this point.

[tealeafonthewind]

At this point, my relationship with the MCU feels like the sunk cost fallacy in its most distilled form. Every time they announce a new project, I know in my heart that it's going to let me down, but after 15 years i cant quite bring myself to stop watching.