Secret Invasion
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Can you hold in Extremis?)
heal herself once Gravik is out of sight, after he conveniently abandons her body.
(We can safely assume he is not a Skrull.
Or can we?!?)
She has Fury participate in a reading of Carvers Late Fragment.
(Nice touch that Fury is, boring-dad-style, more of a history guy.)
Or is he?!
No, he is not.
Fake Rhodes isnt hearing it, and she has her marching orders: Put a bullet in him.
This leads to a conversation at the Fury homestead that should be more fraught than it really is.
We should feel the years between these two.
Fury and Varra draw on each other, shoot toward each other, and both miss.
Fury makes a canned quip about whether this means they should file for divorce or stay together indefinitely.
Varra lets Fury go, knowing that the Skrulls will be displeased with her inaction.
All together, it feels like the shows biggest blown opportunity so far.
Giah wants to know the plan, now that her Skrull cover has been permanently blown.
(Although, really, being dead is the best undercover position in the world, isnt it?)
Giah is not impressed: Dont you want to live in your own skin?
Talos makes a practical appeal (where, exactly, are the Skrulls supposed to go?
She leaves in disgust.
Fury pretends that hes trying to get his job back, and Skrull Rhodes dismisses him.
TheSecret Invasioncomics are ridiculous, but they sometimes work as pulp.
The TV show seems to aspire to something brainier or more emotionally fraught and struggles to get there.
Are we meant to assume that a female Skrull has assumed the form of Rhodes?
Or do Skrulls just have a similar yet different sense of modesty compared to their human counterparts?
How long do we think Rhodes has been a Skrull?
(Though at least tell us that was still the real Rhodes bantering with Stark inIron Man 3.)
Speaking of the excellentIron Man 3, that movies Extremis … tech, do we call it?
… has made a comeback in this series.
I always just think of it as the thing that makes Pepper Potts not die.
