Secret Invasion (Ep 1): Spoiler Review & Discussion (w/Thor and Naboo)

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[quintenhall]

I was surprised how fast they killed off Hill

[Roger_Roger]

I loved it when Nick Fury says, _What's with all these MFing Skrulls on the planet?_

[LongLiveDarwin]

My one minor gripe with this episode/skrulls in general and it could just be me forgetting exactly how the skrulls work but they can shapeshift into the clothes someone is wearing. Like to figure out if someone is a skrull or the real person you could just ask them to take their beanie off. 😂

[HighHeelKnight]

30 years, and The Skrulls still haven't found a replacement home planet!?
THIRTY YEARS!!?? 🤦🤦🤦

[Cheesehead_Caleb]

Seems like Secret invasion is giving Nick Fury the Jake Skywalker treatment and I'm NOT a fan.

[istari]

I got a "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" vibe from the episode. I very much liked the serious tone; there's been a lack of it in Marvel lately. A pretty good start but I'm not sold yet; I think the next episode will tell us a lot about where the show is going and how it is going to get there. It was good to see Emilia Clarke on the screen again.

[alioda_]

Maria Hill dying made me go insane lmao

[MandalorSkyrd]

It doesn't make sense that in *30 years* no one was ever able to get just one ship to get the Skrulls away from Earth. Like hell they're stuck "on" Earth for that long.

[cecagna]

I thought this episode was mediocre and am surprised to see praise for it. The dialogue is truly awful, on par with Thor: The Dark World. Even an acting titan like Samuel L Jackson noticeably had trouble delivering some of the utter crap given to him. A "clock fetish"? "Mercy's your weakness"? We've already had an MCU show about a sympathetic resistance group with unsavory methods, why did we get another one? A spacefaring species is reduced to the Green Flagsmashers, bravo Disney. This is supposed to be a spy thriller but lacks any suspense outside the first five minutes. Gravik is apparently the antagonist but isn't built up at all. If anything, the inevitable Skrull impersonating Rhodes shows more competence in this episode.

[Kevin_Street]

Just watched it! Like, less than 30 minutes ago.

And it's a bit... I don't know, predictable? There's certainly potential here, with an Invasion of The Bodysnatchers vibe crossed with a spy show. But everything was so easy to see coming. Falcon and Winter Soldier didn't end very well, but I remember the beginning being a lot more fun than this. I think Secret Invasion may be the first victim of the budget cuts at Disney.

I'd like to know more about the Skrulls. According to this show they've been looking for a new planet for 30 years, and have finally decided to take our world instead. But why? What did we do to them? In the comics Skrulls were always evil imperialistic aliens, but in the MCU they were introduced as sympathetic. What made them lose all sympathy for humans and think of us as shells? Are there any "good" Skrulls left beside Talos? Is there a reason Gravik wants to murder eight billion people instead of just living quietly on their nuclear reservation? They've already established that the Skrulls can live in places people don't want anymore. Coexistence shouldn't be a problem.

Oh, and I don't see any reason why Skrulls couldn't impersonate each other. But it would be impossible to have an organized Skrull society if they had no way of telling who was really who. There'd be no trust. Fortunately Talos seemed to recognize G'iah even though she was in a form unfamiliar to him, so there must be something.

[ABxx]

Didn't like seeing Agent Hill go. Not at all. Also I'm so with Naboo on struggling to see what's going on in some of these dark scenes. Other than that, pretty good start.

[moogiesboy]

I'll be shocked if somebody, at some point, doesnt say "this isnt terrorism, its terrerforming."

[paulsanford]

Saw it last night with my young adult daughter and we thought it was… uh… good(?)… decent(?)… Really good compared to much of the Phase 4 disappointments for sure. We didn’t see a bunch of obvious mistakes (vfx, story, dialogue), but I definitely wouldn’t put it in Andor’s league of writing, directing and acting. Agree that the serious tone was welcome, though it says a lot that we’re all excited when flat out stupid is avoided (looking at you Love & Thunder). Hopefully, this continues and even ramps up to pre-Phase 4 standards (or even WandaVision/Loki standards)! 🤞

Small nit - in several scenes Fury’s cloudy eye didn’t look cloudy. Therefore, assume it’s a vfx effect vs. practical at this point and they either just missed it in post production or were looking to save a few bucks with Disney budget cuts.

[Loki_Yogi]

I did appreciate the tone, but I just couldn't get past the dialogue and acting. I'm not sold yet. I'll tune in next week, but I don't have high hopes for this one. 🙏

[dianesinger]

watched it yesterday agree it was well done and happy Marvel is getting it together with a good series

[Magemo]

It does not seem as well written as Andor ... every thing spy related seems ... artificial. But I need more episode. All this plan involving Emilia Clark seems weird to me. Also having a skrull in Moscow making bomb just to organise a money exchange with him ? basically everything that happenned in this episode was wanbted by Gravik ... and usually omnipotent villains fall in the incoherent category

[Stixx-]

The entire episode I was like, "what about Ross?? Is he ok??"

[decay]

Huh.. First positive review i have heard about this one..

[videovoidtv]

I always like Hill. I was shocked when she went out like that. I literally gasped lol. What a nasty way to die.

[jetblast]

I was definitely intrigued by the first episode, had an Andor feel to it, although it’s too soon to say that it’s earned that comparison. I too liked the more serious, character-driven style of writing…hoping that continues. Agent Hill’s unceremonious death was definitely a shocker…did not see that coming. Perhaps that means that it was effective? I’m not sold yet…I think the outcome will depend on how Nick Fury responds and how his character develops for this series. G’iah was definitely an interesting character, seemingly duplicitous. Looking forward to next week’s episode.