Three episodes into “Secret Invasion,” I have to admit I’m prett underwhelmed. By all rights, this series should feel like a spiritual successor to The Winter Soldier, but it’s falling flat for me on nearly every level.

The cast is doing a great job, Ben Mendelsohn in particular, but they’re being let down by the material.

Also, the die-hard “Agents of SHIELD” fan in me is just waiting for Director Mackenzie to show up and save the day.

  • Value SubtractedOPMAEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I was actually inspired by this show to revisit “Captain Marvel” (alas, I was still unimpressed by it), and I’d totally forgotten that the film ended with Carol taking the Skrulls to find a new home. It’s pretty jarring to realize that that failed pretty much immediately, and Carol…I guess just noped out of the whole affair?

    • AcidEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah it’s very sad that suddenly it just all got retconned for the sake of it, at least they could have explained it away as they tried to find places and it turned into a warzone type situation and they had to come back to earth where it’s safe.

      To be honest Captain Marvel as a character is someone they shouldn’t have added to the mcu because any story she is apart of and she doesn’t solve makes no sense.

      She’s basically Superman of the MCU how can she not find them a home and make them safe?

      I think if they really wanted to make her a thing they shouldn’t have done it as a prequel, prequels never end up well.

      • Value SubtractedOPMAEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I think the explanation of “we couldn’t find anyone who would accept us” that they tossed off works well enough on its own…it just raises the question of what the heck Carol thinks of all this, since she was pretty invested in the endeavour.

        “Captain Marvel” as a film is a weird one. To me, it has all the components of an entertaining film, but manages to be kind of dull an uninspiring. I feel like the exact same script and actors in the hands of a different director could have been pretty good, if not great. The sequel already looks far more charming.

        • AcidEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Yeah Captain Marvel as a film just felt so flat.

          All the nostalgia beats didn’t stick and Brie Larson while probably a very good actor just felt like her humour didn’t land because the way they wrote the character doesn’t seem to fit with her as a person or the way she portrayed the character.

          I don’t think it was just a better director needed I feel like Brie was miscast in the role at least if they wanted to write her in the way they did but that’s my opinion on it.