when they started bringing on directors and writers who have never seen/studied any previous MCU title, and are proud of that fact, the MCU was doomed.

I liked the part where Fury said he couldn't call in any Avengers, because a humanity extinction level threat was "personal"

Remember when Joel took full responsibility for the failure of Batman and Robin,and didn’t blame the fans? Good times.

Someone said "Peacemaker is a better secret invasion story than secret invasion" and I 100% agree with that.

"Killing a beloved character shouldn't be off limits, it's all in the execution." I see what you did there.

What’s so insulting about this is major actors like Samuel Jackson and Emilia Clarke being wasted on trash shows

You forget the "why blame Nick Fury and not Carol Danvers...the person that fly all over the Galaxy?"

Rhodey being a skrull also murders Stark's character. Remember Tony helped Rhodey through the whole rehab process, even creating the cybernetics for Rhodey. But apparently no one noticed Rhodey was actually an alien. How would that operation go? Random doctor: "Uhm Mr. Stark? The patient isn't human?" Stark: "what do you mean?" Doctor: "The patient is a different species, an alien, and it looks like it can shapeshift and already walk" Stark: "give him the cybernetics anyway I'm sure its fine" For fuck sake

The audacity of Disney+ to raise the price of their subscription after giving us all these complete garbage shows

Fury: You can't keep depending on these superheroes to swoop in and save our asses *Proceeds to depend on a superhero*

My biggest problem is that at the end of Captain Marvel, she was tasked with finding the Skrulls a planet and even had a space station. Somehow, she was forgotten about.

This show expects you to ignore the fact that Nick Fury could have asked: Tony and Bruce to make a probe to find a planet, Thor to let the Skrulls live on Asgard or New Asgard or use the Rainbow Bridge to find a new home in one of the different realms, Dr. Strange to find a dimension, Scott Lang to find a home in the Quantum Realm, or the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Nova Corp to find a planet. And, of course, Carol Danvers was also supposed to be finding a planet anyway. Multiple movies have gone by where Nick could have said something about the Skrulls! Why would he never tell them about these aliens when they work with aliens all the time?

If Disney thinks we're paying an increased price for the crap they produced this year they are going to have a rude awakening.

It's weird how "hero turns old and out of touch and needs to get back in the saddle" has become a trend. Some of my favorite stories like Unforgiven, Logan, Rocky Balboa, Creed and even Metal Gear Solid and Batman Beyond use it. It's such a great premise for exploring a character, but so many modern writers do such a crap job at it.

Maria Hill would’ve worked great as the POV character of this show. She’s clearly been groomed as Fury’s successor, BY FURY! That would’ve allowed him to keep his mysterious status. And set up a “is this Fury or a Skrull?” tension.

The MCU has taken the audience for granted. It’s like when a relationship first starts and both sides are on their best behavior. Then, they get comfortable and complacent and stop trying.

Looks like not only AI made the show’s intro, it also wrote the “script”

What i don't understand here is why isn't there some people at the MCU whose job is to make sure the story is consistent with the history of everything? Don't they know their fans?

Can we stop pretending that Emilia Clarke is an imposing physical presence. Even if she's holding a small rifle it looks massive compared to her.

The part that gutted the show for me was the revelation that Fury was carried by skrulls almost from the beginning of his days with shield. The show doesn't JUST verbally abuse Fury, they belittle almost all of his accomplishments.... so that the verbal abuse is partially justified................ not to mention every time Fury is verbally abused he basically has no come back. Where other MCU shows/films take the piss out of legacy characters by just having them act pathetic/dumb, THIS show has to thoroughly assassinate their entire role in the MCU. He's basically become a motivational speaker of sorts. At this point I'm wondering what he's going to be like in The Marvels, and while phase 4/5 have revealed to audiences that the showrunners don't even watch previous shows to check much continuity at all; this time I'm hoping this is the case.

There were so many issues with this TV show but the one that bugs me the most is when Skrulls change their shape, they change their clothing.

Disney could just hire a writer that has experienced making a spy movies/series and that's it. Best series ever.

Audience: We expect this to not be a piece of garbage. Director: I’m not here to fulfil your expectations.

“I don’t read reviews… because my art is a dialogue with the audience.” After suffering through this show, I’m not surprised at all to learn the director literally doesn’t understand what dialogue is. 😂

I feel a little bad for Emilia Clarke, everything she gets cast in just goes to complete shit

I'm pretty sure someone briefed Fury that there was an entire unpopulated Thanos planet out there. That could have worked.

The most egregious crime this series has committed against its legacy characters (apart from Rhodes, of course) is when then literally have Talos VOMIT to the audience that he and the rest of the skrulls were the ones responsible for Fury's rise in the ranks of SHIELD. Honestly, if this is the level of writing we have to expect from future projects, I find it hard that Marvel will survive another 5 years.

There are times where I genuinely wonder if the people in Hollywood forget that theirs is a paid service. I don't see how else they can justify some of their behavior, or spending habits.

If you read Secret Invasion it is a well-written and compelling story with huge implications in the Marvel universe. Feige actually told the director and writers not to read this and just kind of wing it. Let that sink in. Feige told them to just cobble together something and gave them a dump truck full of money. This is why this mini series became a three hour and a bit of total unwatchable trash.

The funniest thing about the show is that She-Hulk already took the piss out of the blood plot line last year, you can tell these teams didn't talk to each other

PSA: Agents of Shield did Secret Invasion better. God that show was so underrated.

Emelia Clarke seems like the final blow that comes into finish off a franchise 😅

They'll treat Rhodes / Warmachine like they did Loki in his TV show -- they'll just assume Rhodes knows everything that happened to his Skrull counterpart because they won't want to deal with the implications of this stupid show.

The directors said they didnt even read the comics

Falcon didn't shoot Rhodey, Vision did. Falcon just moved out of the way. What was he supposed to do, hold still and take the hit?

At this point I'm starting to think they are ruining everything on purpose! It's like they hate superheroes and are willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars just to piss fans off.. No company in the world would by mistake keep people in charge that keep making movies or tv shows that only makes them lose huge amounts of money.. It's insane!

captain america and the winter soldier is still my favorite MCU movie. it was so well written and well well executed.

To me by far the most insane thing about this show is that they imply, fury had secret scroll spies everywhere since "Captain Marvel". This means that a bunch of skillful spy shapeshifters loyal to fury were completely unable to find out about hydra inside of shield. Like did no one even think about this. Or are we supposed to assume that all these shapeshifting spies, which according to their own dialogues killed for fury, meaning they're also skilled, were completely oblivious to the hydra threat. Like the fact that such a big organisation could stay quiet under the eyes of Nick Fury was already a bit of stretch, but at least it was still believable as even with his incredible skill and intellect, Fury was still just one man, but with this secret scroll organisation under his belt it becomes completely unbelievable. Man I hate it when shows manage to damage prior shows and movies. Another stupid thing is, that at least from what I understand, the power of captain marvel was given to her by the blast of the teseract, and is not a part of her DNA (because otherwise we could be sure that the krill would have extracted it immediately), so why the hell are they able to get her powers through her DNA? It feels like they just did, what they thought would look cool witbout any thoughts as to whether it makes sense...

At least we got a good meme out of it "Have you lost your reptilian mind?"

Maria Hill was in a few episodes of Agents of Shield. She was not a field agent. She is the "Guy in chair" roll. When they killed her off I knew this was going to be wrong.

Actually Rhodey was already hinted to be a shape shifter since Ironman 2, glad to see it finally paid off

they completely forgot the "secret" in "Secret Invasion" and that will never not make me laugh

I really don't understand why Marvel got it so wrong. In general, Disney have the best data on what works at a universal level and give little winks to the niche fan bases. I am very surprised. Also, this show does not look like a 200 million production, where did all the money go? I hope this is rock bottom and the next productions start getting better. I hope this is blipped and we never talk about it again. Thank you for the video!

That was a really cringe worthy line spoken by Olivia Coleman too. Talking about men being murderers, "That's what all of the podcasts are about." Just like She-Hulk, they show how insecure they are about their own writing. They have to reference critique in the show itself, trying to brush it off with name-calling and showing a complete lack of self-awareness. Bit of a shit stain on her career.

Also, Rhodie has been a skrull since after Endgame. Firstly, his blood was red in the final Endgame fight, so that's that. But also, it would make sense that he was taken to the hospital after that fight and was then compromised by the skrulls there after.

Thought it'd be dark and cool, gritty. And it was so/so for a lil... But it was basically She Hulk with Nick Fury...

Secret Invasion could’ve been the next Avengers big two part movie event, but once again they dropped the ball on the one.

How tf did they even get Ebony Maw's DNA? One version of him died in the middle of space, and another turned to dust. Where and when would they have gotten his DNA?

likely case the fight where they turned a Amelia Clarks arm into Drak's arm all those effects of different superheroes were probably some reused asset to save on money

Someone said Peacemaker is a better secret invasion storyline than Secret Invasion 😂

Samuel L. Jackson is way too good to play in BS stories like this. It's sad Hollywood don't deliver many well-written stories these days.

It's sad to say that Marvel has become part of a system that is comfortable with zero accountability.

Phase 4 should’ve been all about the Skrulls. I don’t think there’s any way to save the MCU at this point, because they’ve wasted so many potential stories. I guess they could just decanonize all of Phase 4 with the exception of No Way Home and start over.

The Snakes on a Plane clip at the end was apt. That line wasn't in the movie, they went back and filmed it, because of movie fans. It is now permanently embedded in pop culture, because they did something really cool, and it appeased fans, and elevated the profile of the movie far beyond what they could have imagined. The whole situation is really insane from a business standpoint. If it was my 200 million dollars, I would need to see some receipts/timesheets.

As it was said in another Disney movie: “let past die, kill it if you have to”. It seems that for some reason Ryan Johnson is so respected it writing community it adopted this quote as it’s raison d’etre. Also, can we appreciate for a moment absolute unhingeness that was Secret Invasion directors interview? I think that only one time I’ve seen man so proud of his poop was in South Park episode.

Why does Emilia Clarke need Drax or Bucky DNA when she has the hulk DNA?

10:00 AND Thanos was surviving off of the fruit that grows there. There is also FOOD on that planet for the shapeshifters too

Winter Solider is hands down the best MCU movie imo

That Skrull Rhodey went with the Avengers to Thanos' garden planet, he's literally been there and didn't tell the other Skrulls about it.

Wait. Ebony Maw’s powers gives you his rings too!?? Lmaoooo

The only way I could think of it being worse was if his wife was actually a male skrull who took the form of a woman and they hit us over the head with a trans allegory in addition to an immigration allegory.

This version of Nick Fury was originally based on The Ultimate Universe version of the character who was a complete badass and a super soldier, wth happened??

The MCU machine is like Skynet becoming self aware. It's stubborn, self-important, and a detriment to all of humanity.

Don't forget that Rhodey also knew about the planet Thanos went to after the blip, so that Skrull is either picky or stupid

I liked the part where gravik said "it's gravin' time" and graviked all over everyone.

It was pretty much written like modern comic books. Crap on the past, writers/producers/directors self insert through proxy characters, disregard serving the story to serve other things.

The MCU needs a retcon

The scene where gravik was talking down on nick fury was so well acted. Than that all goes to waste as it wasnt the actual nick fury. Imagine what that speech would have done to the real fury. This show missed so many things.

I didn't watch this show. It didn't look too good. The biggest issue being that Secret Invasion is a massive crossover story similar to Infinity Gauntlet. It requires a bunch of characters to be involved with a lot of stakes, but all this had was Fury and Rhodes.

In my head cannon, Rhodie has been a Skrull since Iron Man 2

Tessa thompson, emily clark, and sophia turner really have a talent for acting without changing their facial expressions.

To anyone still enjoying Disney/Marvel, " Are you out of your Reptilian Ass Mind?!". My family and I stopped watching Disney/Marvel a long time ago. All of their products are the same, no matter what it is.

The "Thanos planet" is actually Saturn's Moon Titan, if we're following the comics. And that makes it even more stupid, because Titan is very easy to reach, at least with the technology that they have in the MCU

the Skrull Rhodey reveal is just an excuse for the Director to see a someone naked....

I guess they decided to follow "There are only three Indiana Jones movies" with "There are only three Marvel movie phases"...

Maybe this is the same situation in she-hulk where the writers admit they don't know how to write a legal procedural. They don't know how to write a spy thriller. Says the kind of quality the next generation of writers have.

Doing secret invasion THIS dirty is crazy. I was so hyped [god knows why] and fought through 1 episode and couldnt go back

rumour has it, when this show got wrapped up. The higher ups failed to guess who was who and demanded for it to be made clear before hand.

I’ve tried to watch this show five times. Five. Based on this, there will not be a sixth.

I ignored this show but after hearing what happened to Nick Fury I said, “Remember No Marvel.”

Peacemaker did this secret invasion aliens among us plot better than secret invasion.

"What a piece of shit!? " Basically a summary of entire phase-4.

2:31 I searched up my full name and found Marvel’s Taskmaster. The cool one from the comics, not that god-awful MCU replacement.

You do great work and have amazing takes! Hope you have a great day and thank you for the great content!

That is the biggest issue I have too. MCU always want to talk about how they need more female empowerment and yadi yadi ya but the characters that would've been great candidates for shows or be brought back to have there own movies in phases 1 and 2 especially! Were absolutely wasted. Like, here is a great example. Where is Dr. Cho from Avengers 2? Having Mariah go out the way she did actually made me quit the show.

15:10 Hold up, Rhodey was definitely not injured at the hands of Falcon. That was all Vision

One thing I will say and will probably fall on deaf ears: Disney is a company hellbent on making the most money. Including underpaying smaller actors and writers. It's apparent that these gigantic budgets aren't being used to pay the employees for decent work; the money went straight up to the CEOs and shareholders. The reality is not that smaller actors and writers are on strike despite TV shows and movies being shit, it's that TV shows and movies are shit BECAUSE actors and writers are unable to put in decent work with these ridiculous conditions imposed by Disney and other corporations. They don't even make enough money to live comfortably and are forced to run side hussles. Do you know what all great movies and TV shows had in common? The cast, crew, and writers were well paid and satisfied; they were working out of a desire to create rather than desperation to survive. We're not going to see another decent TV show or film until the actors and writers are treated fairly.

For those who have lost track, Disney is now at 6 to 10 instances of disrespecting a legacy male character by having them be upstaged/replaced by a young female character: 1. Rey replacting Luke in the Star Wars sequel triology 2. Kit Tanthalos upstaging Willow in Willow 3. Kate Bishop upstaging Hawkeye in Hawkeye 4. Helena Shaw upstaging Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones 5 5. Cruz Ramirez upstaging Lightning Mcqueen in Cars 3 6. Giah upstaging Nick Fury in Secret Wars And there are 4 more instances that are a bit more disputable on if they should be counted or not 7. Nehanda replacing T'Challa in Wakanda Forever 8. Riri Williams replacing Tony Start in Wakanda Forever 9. Bo-Katan upstaging Mando in Mandalorian 10. Wendy upstaging Peter Pan in the Peter Pan live action remake.

Peacemaker did secret invasion 100 times better

"A dialogue with the audience" -who they haven't listened to at all in many years.

My issue with Secret Invasion is, Fury states he won't call in the hero's because that could potentially allow Gravik and co to get the DNA, swap them etc and that he can't rely on heros he needs to do this himself, then proceeds to give Gravik and Giah The Harvest which gives them the powers anyway and he's still relying on a powered person 🧐🧐

I don’t think that Brody is a skrull in endgame, skrull Brody would not have given a shit about anything going on there. They made skrull Brody just an asshole throughout which Brody wasn’t an asshole in infinity war and endgame. I just think he couldn’t walk because he’s been still for a bit of time and was still delusional for what the skrull did to him.

What you said at the end is so true. Hollywood NEED to gain some humility. If they are not making this shows and movies for their audience, then, who are they making this for? Their investors? Anyway, I haven't seen Secret Invasion and don't have any interest in doing so. Guardians 3 was the last marvel proyect I watched and I don't think that's going to change.

That arm, man. Damn. I was all in as much as I could be but that final episode was just a pile of runny shit on all our faces.

Cynic never fails to entertain.

As much as the Rhodes Skrull reveal was stupid, it kind of hilariously implies that in order to sell the idea that he was Rhodes, some random Skrull broke their own spine and seriously crippled themselves so they could realistically go through rehab.

When Nick Fury after all this time started talking about being a “brother” and how hard it is to be a top guy, i screamed so hard my goodness! Since when is Fury a victim of this in all of the MCU?? It was so out of character and I truly can’t believe Jackson really thought it was necessary for the character…

Rhodie being a Skrull also undermines Nick Fury's "help a brother out" speech.

Fucking "Peacemaker" was a better secret invasion show than "Secret Invasion"! Congrats, Marvel! You got outdone by a show whose main character is played by a guy we can't see!!!

Massive SHOUTOUT to Captain America: The Winter Soldier.. Not knowing what to expect was the calling card HECK we all knew who the winter soldier was (side note for me I thought they were talking about Cap because he was a Capsicle and forgot about Bucky and only caught on when Nat mentions WS while watching the film in theatres) but when Cap removes the mask and all shook says "Bucky" was such a massive reveal.. Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely are masters at writing and trusting The Russos to deliver... MASTERCLASS