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Secret Invasion is halfway through, and the show has some strong high points...but it's also a far, far cry from the epic crossover story from the comics. In this video we discuss some of the problems the show is having, and how these difficulties are indicative of the state of the MCU today.
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Written and Hosted by Ryan Arey ( / ryanarey )
Edited by Harriet Lengel-Enright, Randolf Nombrado, and Sofien Dami
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First of all, the show is not like the comic book. That was an amazing, huge crossover which touched every title in the Marvel comics line. The MCU will adapt those same crossover stories, but they do it in a single movie. Avengers INfinity War was the infinity gauntlet-Captain America Civil war adapted the civil war comics crossover.
Paring down crossovers into a single movie works better for the medium-but those movies still felt epic in scale. Secret Invasion does not feel epic in scale-and it should.
In the comics, Secret invasion was a major, major turning point in the universe. It's when the sins of the illuminati came back to haunt them. Public faith in the heroes fell apart-Norman Osborn was put in charge of the avengers [Norman clip]. Every single superhero was under suspicion of being a skrull-the heroes had to fight off a skrull invasion armada. It was a world war against skrulls.
The TV show is taking one small story form that crossover-Nick Fury hunting down skrull operatives, and they’ve gotten rid of everything else. This is following the MCU playbook. They paired down the infinity trilogy into a character-driven movie where Thanos is the protagonist. Civil war became a character drama where Steve had to choose between his old ex and his shiny new friend.
Doug: Wow. Civil war has the same plot as sweet home alabama.
It sure does. [trailer footage]
Back to Secret Invasion-I don't have a problem with this story focusing on Nick Fury. And just to shout out a few positives here-this show is giving us some of the best performances we’ve seen in the MCU. This is sam jackson at his best, his ost nuanced, and olivia colman is chewing through scenery like this is the last role she’s ever going to play [torture scene]. Hell the scene with Rhodey and fury is their first meeting, and it does not disappoint [clip].
But 95% of this show takes place in small rooms, small sets, or maybe on the volume. Whereas it should feel Big-instead, it's on disney plus. And this is what I really want to get into-the Disney plus Marvel shows aren't delivering like they should be. I mena, I’m enjoying them. I’ve'liked every show-I just like stories set in the MCU. I devoured every second of the shield, and flipped out at a moment like this [clip].
But you can't deny that as far as budget quality, scale-we are getting diminishing returns on these shows.
Doug: What do you mean by that?
Well, let me run through the history of the marvel disney plus shows. They were first announced in the spring of 2019, after avengers: endgame. Disney was preparing a rival streaming service to compete with Netflix, and Marvel was going to be the crown jewel in the service. That first announcement at SDCC included Wandavision, Loki, Falcon and the winretrsh=oldier, hawkeye, and what if-plus most of the phase 4 movies. Note that all of those shows involve the movie characters on the small screen.
Kevin Feige said that they were excited to have a new format to tell stories. Episodic tv is more similar to the comics original format-it seemed like a perfect fit and wanda vision fit that format perfectly. You could not have told that story in any other medium. It had to be a TV show.
Falcon and the winter soldier also looked fantastic. That opening aerial canyon chase could have been in any MCU film. Sure, it had its problems-as the excellent channel den of nerds pointed out, they had to rewrite the show to get rid of a plague storyline. But still, the show retained the big budget feel.