Secret Invasion - Disney+ (***Spoilers***)

What is with most of these Marvel shows looking and feeling so cheap? It feels like they're being made on a low budget, but that obviously isn't true, particularly not with the casts they have.

I watched the first two episodes of this and was pretty unimpressed, immediately struck by how cheap and b-movie the whole thing felt. First episode was pretty bad, I had zero interest in watching episode 2 afterwards but struggled through.

Second episode better than the first by a wide margin but still not massively compelling.

I do enjoy almost all of the Marvel movies to varying degrees but apart from Wandavision and maybe Loki I've found all the shows utterly awful.

They made fun of the fact that Marvel TV is on a tight budget on She Hulk recently. K.E.V.I.N. asked Jennifer to change from green to human off screen as the CG team had moved onto Wakanda Forever.

OK, you all understand why an American production couldn't use the real Moscow right? And you're aware that most of "New York" is actually Atlanta.

Another decent if not wow episode.

3: Now that was a good episode! Or, at least, didn't have the fake Russia and Russians being done by england and english.

Felt proper spycraftey in the second half too. I liked the kinda ..

Checking the wiki to see if something changed in this episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Invasion_(TV_series)

New Writer credit to Roxanne Paredes: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5430944/

She seems new with only a show called FBI International under her belt apart from Shorts. lol, pun not intended. Anyway, maybe spycraft is her speciality.

I'm really liking this but the amount of freezering is a bit mad.

Talos wife Soren killed off screen

Maria Hill killed Infront of Fury

Now G'iah is shot.

The only way to get people interested in fighting the fight, seems to be a bullet to someone close to em

Another just okay episode. The show isn't really capitalising on what the premise could be, in terms of not knowing who is a Skrull, the paranoia that could cause etc. It seems like Fury at all times knows exactly who everyone is, and because of that it just becomes a bit generic and the idea of the Skrulls infiltrating organisations, places, people etc becomes no more interesting than the Hydra reveal in The Winter Solider (or Agents of Shield for that matter).

The Rhodey-Skrull is female, so I'm guessing that's going to be revealed to be Talos' wife. I'd say Talos is dead now though. If they did two fake-out deaths in a row with G'iah and then also Talos, that'd just be ridiculous.

So I'm guessing the whole Rhodey reveal is going to lead into Armor Wars. Wonder how long he has been replaced by a Skrull.

Another solid if not wow episode. Samuel L Jackson very solid as usual, Cheadle on top form too. But missing Olivia Colman entirely this episode :(

The set pieces in the show look very underwhelming and some of the acting from Jackson in the latest episode seemed a bit iffy. Would be interesting to see what the creators of Andor would have done with the same storyline, I think they would have been better at creating tension and intrigue.

He's a super Skrull which is basically Skrull genetically modified to gain super powers. The main example from the comics is the Super Skrull who had all of The Fantastic Fours powers

I am nearly sure I heard Wales...bizarrely...well that is accent actor said

It seems to be going on a bit of a tour alright...

Started to get that from the episode alright.

Until that point, I'd been guessing one power each but combining to have more power makes sense.

With so many more races around the Galaxy then, it would make sense for me to see combo powers to show up more from outside Earth.

Pyrotechnics and Skrull VFX I would imagine. Plus The legacy Avengers actors like Sam J, Don and Cobey probably don't come cheap.

Yeah. Tony Curran. Also played Vincent Van Gogh in Doctor Who, and pretty sure he was in Sons of Anarchy for a little bit, but think he was playing Irish rather than his natural Scottish in that too.

Imagine if the Skrull took over Rhodes between Iron Man 1 and 2. That would mean to this day Terrence Howard is the only man to play Colonel James Rhodes.

The Skrulls had real people they kidnapped, and then Skrulls pretending to be them. I wonder how the Blip affected that. Did some of the real people disappear and the Skrull lost access to the brainwaves/memories? Did the Skrull disappear and they were left with the real person just hooked up to the brainscanner thing?

Not much more anyone could have expected from the episode. It's the penultimate one so just designed to set up the finale. Olivia Coleman stole the show though, we finally got a decent amount of her in the episode. Disappointed SkRhodey didn't end up being Talos' wife as I predicted, just means she was killed off-screen for no reason. Which is fine I guess, can't even remember her name or the actress, but it's just a waste and missed opportunity.

Really think they've f*cked up with Fury's reasons for not calling in some of the Avengers. His previous reason of wanting to reduce the chances of Skrulls copying them made decent enough sense, but at this stage, this is the exact scenario of aliens taking over the Earth that he set up the Avengers for.

I'm going to guess that Marvel may re"brand" Ghia as Abigail brand going forward...

This weeks episode was decent I thought, Olivia Colman absolutely chewing the scenery and loved every second she was on screen. Only one episode to go.

Stop teasing us already Marvel lets get the X-Men back!

I think the whole point of the last ep was to guide Ghia to think more like Talos did and work towards coexisting with humans and let go of the resentment she held

He always stands out.

And yes the Moscow outdoor locations screamed Britain.