MARVEL'S Secret Invasion

[e30ernest]

It's a bit annoying they

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wasted 2 great characters

and this is the pay-off.

I'm starting to think, these are all alternate universes. It has to be.

 

[a-dev]

The acting was good especially SLJ, Gravik, Mend, Don and the british lady but holy crap does the MCU need to just end.

I haven't watched this and based on what I've read in this thread I don't think I'll bother. Actually I haven't watched anything MCU since a Dr Strange MoM and Thor L&T many months after they came out. It's all very meh now. I'm mildly interested in Deadpool 3 just because Hugh Jackman is in it. At this point I don't know if X-men and Fantastic 4 would reinvigorate interest.

 

[Brett Banner]

I didn’t watch this and honestly have fallen off really caring about what’s happening in the MCU the last couple years. Most of the stuff I’ve enjoyed like Moon Knight or GOTG3 had very little to do with the rest of the MCU. Anyways, I’ve certainly read a lot of the complaints and spoilers. I just read an interview with the director who confirmed that

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Rhodey has been a Skrull since right after Civil War (which makes no sense at all in the context of IW and Endgame)

and that info just retroactively ruins so much for me that, more than ever, I just want to pretend like Endgame was the real end of the MCU. Ugh. Feige slowly going senile is the only explanation I can think of at this point.

 

[choombaz]

I didn’t watch this and honestly have fallen off really caring about what’s happening in the MCU the last couple years. Most of the stuff I’ve enjoyed like Moon Knight or GOTG3 had very little to do with the rest of the MCU. Anyways, I’ve certainly read a lot of the complaints and spoilers. I just read an interview with the director who confirmed that

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Rhodey has been a Skrull since right after Civil War (which makes no sense at all in the context of IW and Endgame)

and that info just retroactively ruins so much for me that, more than ever, I just want to pretend like Endgame was the real end of the MCU. Ugh. Feige slowly going senile is the only explanation I can think of at this point.

He never says that definitively in the interview and it sounds to me like he’s pretty clueless about the MCU as a whole. I would only accept it if it came from Feige’s mouth. The entire interview is as bad as the show itself, a kind of weird alternate reality with very politician like non answers. Helps to explain why the show was rubbish. Excerpt:

I think that it's gonna be a lot of fun for fans to unpack as they revisit all the Rhodey moments since the "Captain America" moment when he was in the hospital, and to see how they feel about it.

I don't know if I wanna say it's definitive or not definitive, but I think Rhodey has been a Skrull a lot longer than we suspected.

 

[jye4ever]

I honestly never thought that Marvel would jump the shark yet here we are.

Wow.

 

[choombaz]

I honestly never thought that Marvel would jump the shark yet here we are.

Wow.

Great way of putting it. Perfect summation.

I want to start seeing gifs of tombstones with RIP MCU and their characters standing over it with flowers.

That squirt water of course.

 

[Khev]

Oh my gosh that was laughably painful (which I didn't know was a thing until this show, lol.) My son and I watched the first three episodes and then just skipped the last two weeks and watched the finale because it was all so boring. Then when even the finale opens with two minutes of boring Fury talking to boring wife we just started fast-forwarding even that.

That final battle was just goofy.

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So when exactly did the skrulls "harvest" Mantis' powers? Was Kevin Bacon a skrull, lol.

So stupid, and just sad at this point. Endgame was the end and they should just pull a "Willow" and purge everything that came after off of Disney Plus.

 

[e30ernest]

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So when exactly did the skrulls "harvest" Mantis' powers? Was Kevin Bacon a skrull, lol.

It was explained an episode or two before this one, so during one of the ones you skipped.

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Basically, Fury sent a Skrull clean-up crew to harvest as much leftover DNA from the Battle of Earth (Endgame).

 

[Khev]

It was explained an episode or two before this one, so during one of the ones you skipped.

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Basically, Fury sent a Skrull clean-up crew to harvest as much leftover DNA from the Battle of Earth (Endgame).

Oh brother, okay thanks for clarifying, lol.

 

[Khev]

"Trying to harvest DNA from Endgame" is what they should just name the entire sad MCU at this point.

 

[Bleah]

I would only accept it if it came from Feige’s mouth.

Meh. There are times that even Feige himself doesn't know what he's talking about.

 

[choombaz]

Meh. There are times that even Feige himself doesn't know what he's talking about.

That’s a worry. Maybe he needs to go and see a doctor.

 

[chrisstbh]

Meh. There are times that even Feige himself doesn't know what he's talking about.

Like for the last 4 years?

 

[Bleah]

Like for the last 4 years?

Off the top of my head:

- who was the strongest in the infinity saga

- If half of the plant life was also wiped out by Thanos as well

- if the MCU is 616 or another universe

 

[The Buffinator]

I didn’t watch this and honestly have fallen off really caring about what’s happening in the MCU the last couple years. Most of the stuff I’ve enjoyed like Moon Knight or GOTG3 had very little to do with the rest of the MCU. Anyways, I’ve certainly read a lot of the complaints and spoilers. I just read an interview with the director who confirmed that

Spoiler

Rhodey has been a Skrull since right after Civil War (which makes no sense at all in the context of IW and Endgame)

and that info just retroactively ruins so much for me that, more than ever, I just want to pretend like Endgame was the real end of the MCU. Ugh. Feige slowly going senile is the only explanation I can think of at this point.

That spoiler doesn't even make sense within the context of this show. It seems logical that Gravik & his cronies started replacing people after the snap with Fury and others gone and the world in chaos, not way back when CW took place.

 

[Dave_W]

That spoiler doesn't even make sense within the context of this show. It seems logical that Gravik & his cronies started replacing people after the snap with Fury and others gone and the world in chaos, not way back when CW took place.

But then when they blipped back the skrulls cover would be blown, unless they rounded them all up before people noticed, which is even harder to believe. I like that fact that the real Rhodes doesn't know that Stark is dead. Maybe we'll see all that unfold in Armour Wars.

 

[chrisstbh]

It was mentioned that the Skrull rebellion didn't start until after Endgame. Gravik was still working for Fury at least until after the battle.

Rhodey was bleeding red and legitimately heartbroken over Tony's death. If they retcon him being a Skrull then it just shows that they want everything to be connected but seem to forget that everything they're trying to connect actually exists.

 

[Dave_W]

Unless Rhodey went into hospital for something after endgame, then it's a retcon.

 

[Brett Banner]

Sorry I can’t remember what interview it was so I can’t link to it, but they seemed to have a pretty succinct “yup that’s right” answer to a question of whether Rhodey had been one since CW.

BUT. I just saw another interview where they said they don’t know and it’s a question for Kevin Feige. So who the hell knows. Either way it doesn’t really make me want to sit down and watch the show lol.

 

[jye4ever]

Stark IM1 confirmed Skrull!