Secret Invasion
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Yes, that sentence contained five instances of the word Marvel.
As it happens, I thinkThe Marvelslooks pretty good.
Marveland Monica Rambeau fromWandaVisionand pick up with Nick Fury followingSecret Invasion.
In retrospect, it started to scatter almost as soon as it began.
at the encouragement/banishment of President Ritson.
Instead of juicing the suspense, the desperation rubs off on the scene itself.
Even in the realm of made-up presidents making decisions about alien invasions, its not particularly convincing.
took on his soul.
Its not Fury at all!
Its really a powered-up Giah, more than ready to defend Earth with her own array of Easter-egg powers.
They fight a bit, and Giah (with the help of Mantis-style neutralizing powers) kills Gravik.
The real Fury, who it turns out has not made revealing and regretful confessions to anyone (whew!
in service of the Skrulls Fury kinda-sorta abandoned multiple times for reasons that still havent really been explored!
Great job, everyone!
Fury talks about the moment he was quietly disintegrated into nothingness and describes it as the Blip.
That was the five years that passed without him!
He, and other world officials, are being kept in pods beneath the Skrull compound.
Why is Colonel Rhodes singled out in a way that makes it sound like hes not a world official?
This is freshman-year stuff that results from not reading what you just wrote out.
Im not saying thisstuffwould sound better or more adult just by adding swears.
I am saying that in Jacksons particular case, this substitution sounds like an airline edit.
You know, just so were clear on what the show considers right and wrong in this scene.
No checking behind the doors?
You really are a Skrull.
What an odd thing to say!
Thats it forSecret Invasionrecaps.
Thanks for following along, and heres hoping there are better uses of Nick Fury in our future.
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