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

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!

He always stands out.

And yes the Moscow outdoor locations screamed Britain.

Ice power was from a Frost Beast, stayed on Earth at the end of Thor The Dark World. Gravik/Giah already had that power before The Harvest at the same time they got Groot & Extremis powers.

And yeah, looks like Rhodey was taken around Civil War, which means he doesn't know about Tony's death or the whole Blip stuff. Should be interesting for Armor Wars.

As I said previous, bit disappointing throughout. They never really capitalised on the premise of Skrulls being anyone. Small bits here and there, but they set up various world leaders and influential media figures being Skrulls in Episode 2, then did nothing with that except just showed a montage of them being killed (or the real people being accidentally killed because vigilantes thought they were Skrulls) in this episode. A complete waste of what should have been the selling point of the show; the paranoia of not knowing who is or isn't a Skrull, how long they've been here, what have they been manipulating. Apart from Rhodey, they basically just always showed us instantly who was a Skrull. Instead it boiled down to CGI fight between two super-skrulls, and all I could think of when I saw Giah fighting was:

Sam Jackson, Don Cheadle, Ben Mendelsohn and Olivia Colman were all great throughout. Emilia Clarke was pretty good too, as was Ben Kingsley-Adair. Nothing wrong with the performances. Just wasted potential imo.

I was confused about the frost beast too only it showed up on the computer in episode 2 along with Groot, Cull Obsidian and Extremis and someone else mentioned here about the beast in Thor TDW (because who remembers anything that happened in that film). Neither of them used that power until now though. My first thought was Loki until I remembered he died before the battle anyway.

Not really sure why they bothered with all the different powers anyway. Most of the time it was just either use a big muscle arm for punching, or use Captain Marvel powers, and she has super-strength anyway. The Harvest could have just been Cap.Marvel's DNA and the final fight wouldn't have been any different really, maybe aside from Gravik using Ebony Maw's magic.

VINDICATION

The only other one that stood out was I think Mantis? Ghost? And seemed to be a lot of the abomination (done badly)

Yeah, fair points. I guess a lot of the heroes don't really have interesting powers. I saw Winter Soldier's name in the list of DNA they got too. That's fairly pointless. They'd already get more strength from the other DNA, and can't change to have metal vibranium arm.

Just felt like half the fight was "Drax arm punch.... Hulk arm punch.... Cull Obsidian arm punch.... Korg arm punch... Thanos arm punch....". I think if they'd slowed it down a bit, had them try to figure out the powers, what might counter each other, struggle to use the powers a bit, combine powers in interesting ways, that might have worked better. Instead they seemed to know instantly how to use the powers, mostly just punched each other a bit, but once it got to Captain Marvel powers there was little point doing anything else.

So so disappointing. Olivia Colman pretty much carried the whole show.

Really feels like they overestimated the whole toned down spy drama schtick, which left them with massive revelations that will have huge implications for the MCU that landed like a dud.

Really enjoyed that series ?

Adding to your 3rd paragraph - if Rhodey was a Skrull in Endgame, then that Skrull was with the remaining avengers when they found Thanos on his retreat planet - an entirely empty planet that could have been suitable for the Skrulls????

I can see how it makes sense but also how it doesn't. SkRhodey's actions, even his mourning of Tony, can be explained by him being hooked up to the real Rhodey, so those emotions and how he acts can probably feel just as real when you're truly in character. There's also the line in Endgame between him and Nebula after she looks at her robotic arm and says she wasn't always like this, he replies "Me neither, but we work with what we got". At the time it felt like he was talking about his legs, but it could also be retconned into being a line about being a Skrull.

We don't know how long Gravik has been gestating this plan for. Seems he was still working for Fury after Endgame as he collected the dna for the Harvest and handed it over willingly to Fury. Maybe SkRhodey and other Skrulls took over their people to be in places of power before there was an actual plan. Hard to know.

The thing that throws me off though, is in Endgame when Thanos' ship destroys the facility and Rhodey has to get out of his armour to help Rocket, he has to crawl over to him because of his legs. If he was a Skrull then, he's a real method actor.

Let's face it, it's definitely going to be shoehorned in regardless of whether there are continuity errors or not. They wouldn't have had any plans for Secret Invasion at the time of Endgame, so they'll just do what they can to make it all fit.