The Secret Invasion Finale Was REALLY Disappointing…

What a disappointing way to end a promising show. The Secret Invasion series finale was filled with far too many contrivances, plot holes, and general poor writing to wrap off a show that started with a lot of promise yet ended up another one of Marvel’s failed productions.

Does Disney SERIOUSLY not know how to write a plot without the main lead being torn apart and supplanted by the new, younger, undeserved secondary character?

Despite starting out with strong opening episodes, the Secret Invasion series finale ended up being yet another sorry excuse for a Marvel project as the show simply followed the tired Marvel formula…but did it worse. And we all really should have expected that.

I’m really disappointed how this show, which started out with so much promise and potential to turn Marvel around, has ended up being another lifeless hack of a show baring the legendary “Marvel” brand for that’s what this show is. A hack.

If you have been following along, you’d know that Nick Fury, who has been getting dumped on all season long for no other reason than Disney and the writers are trying to build up the new, secondary characters, took the Harvest (which is a great concept do so poorly in this show) to Gravik in exchange for him and the Skrulls to leave Earth and humanity alone. Could he have had a plan dumber than that?

You’d give your archenemy of the show and someone already capable of shapeshifting into anyone in the world a vile of DNA from Tony Stark, Thor, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Mantis, Drax, Groot, Hulk, Spider-Man, Black Panther, Scarlet Witch, and Thanos himself? WHY?!?!?

That’s a vile of DNA worth more than all the world GDPs put together and multiplied by a factor of 10,000!

You literally are giving the most powerful combination of superpowers ever seen to an alien not only hell-bent on killing you, but also destroying all of humanity and Earth as we know it. I know the show couldn’t write in one of the Avengers to come down and stop Gravik as Disney doesn’t have any of the original cast under contract anymore, but Nick Fury not calling someone like Thor or Hulk to stop Gravik in this situation is utterly asinine.

Gravik and the Skrulls invasion is the reason the Avengers were created in the first place! You know, to STOP ALIEN INVASIONS as we saw in the Infinity War saga.

But what was even dumber was how it wasn’t “Nick Fury” who ended up facing down Gravik at the abandoned Russian Nuclear site, but rather the severely underdeveloped, underutilized, and lifeless Gi’ah who was using Fury’s face to trick Gravik.

No, facing down Fury’s archenemy and the antagonist to his protagonist was a bridge too far for these rotten pumpkin-brained writers to have happen as they needed Gi’ah, who has been a MCU character for about 5 minutes, to defeat the big bad looking to destroy the world.

Now, it does make sense that Gi’ah would have a role to play in Gravik’s death given he tried to murder her and killed her father, but Fury was the protagonist of the show and the main focus of revenge at the heart of Gravik’s hatred and planning. In order to have a competent story structure, you needed Fury to be the one facing down Gravik at the nuclear site…not Gi’ah.

Anyways, Gi’ah was able to defeat and kill Gravik given the supposed genius mastermind behind infiltrating all the world governments thought it would be a great idea to have Gi’ah (who was still in Fury’s skin) be within the little forcefield of adding superpowers when he synthesized the Harvest into him.

So, despite having brief appearances both in the comics and in the MCU, she’s now the most powerful being in the ENTIRE UNIVERSE given her ability to use any and every superpower of her choosing.

Yeah, this is what I’m talking about when I say the plot contrivances and undeserved character level ups. Gi’ah is now the BIGGEST Mary Sue Disney has ever put on screen as all of her powers come from the writers inserting the greatness of other legendary, developed characters onto her.

Under no circumstances should Giah be a stronger superhero than Thor, Captain Marvel, Thanos, Iron Man, Captain America, and the Hulk put together. That’s HORRIFIC WRITING and such a terrible plot hole lodged in the MCU for the end of time as she can literally solve any problem and defeat any supervillain or superhero with ease.

Oh, and the CGI used to convert Gi’ah and Gravik’s superpowers was SO AWFUL! What the hell is going on over at Marvel and Disney with the CGI and VFX departments as they’ve been putting out dud performances for fun these last few releases.

At least Kingsley Ben-Adir had a great monologue (and overall performance) to showcase his acting talents.

Nevertheless, you’re probably wondering where the real Nick Fury was during this episode, right?

Well, given how fast travel is now a thing in the MCU, Fury managed to fly all the way to President Ritson’s bedside to not only prevent an ordered nuclear strike on Russia that would start WWIII, but him and Sonya Falsworth were able to reveal Colonel Rhodes was a Skrull all along to the president as Gi’ah saved the actually Rhodey and the rest of the world leaders captured by the Skrulls in Russia.

First off, I don’t know why the US had to launch a nuclear strike on Russia to destroy the New Skrulls base? They could have used a far less destructive and WWIII-starting missile to completely obliterate the base, or they could have INFORMED THE RUSSIANS there was Skrulls hiding within their country.

I’m pretty sure the Russians would have fired more than enough missiles and rockets at the abandoned nuclear station to clear out the Skrulls while also clearing up their supposed involvement in the president’s assassination attempt. Its plot holes like this that makes it impossible to take the show’s plot and serious moments with anything more than a scoff and disdain.

The whole premise that the US would willy-nilly launch a nuclear strike against Russia, a rival nuclear power and the US’ archrivals for the last 80 or so years, is just an absurd proposition when you make the justification an assassination attempt by a bunch of guys who not only look nothing like Russians (come on, are we supposed to believe Russia has America’s great multicultural melting pot?), but also revealed themselves to be aliens.

It’s asinine to even write that down on a script’s first draft!

Regardless, the show ended with Ritson rightfully launching an all-out extermination effort on the Skrulls (given how they infiltrated all the major world governments, launched unprovoked terrorist attacks on innocent civilians, and were about to start a nuclear holocaust in WWIII), Fury heading back up to S.A.B.R.E space station, and having a gross, completely unappealing make out session with his Skrull wife.

I mean, did they really have to turn Charlayne Woodard, who is already a beautiful woman, into this gross, bald, green, razor teeth monster for Samuel L. Jackson to make out with? There’s no way Samuel L. Jackson or Nick Fury would be making out with the MCU Skrulls unless they’re getting paid millions of dollars to star in a bland, asinine, and completely ignored show.

Yes, that’s right, despite spending over $200M to make the show (and another $100M at least on marketing), the show’s premiere episode couldn’t even crack the Nielsen Top-10 STREAMING SHOWS for its release week!

Marvel’s Secret Invasions started out with a lot of promise and hype built up from its first two episodes, yet it completely fell flat on its face once the writers and producers actually had to make a compelling plot that didn’t rely on crapping on Nick Fury and his past achievements.

Oh, and before I forget, the ending message of this show was super wack as it saw Gi’ah and Agent Falsworth not only insult the bond of friendship pact Fury and Talos made 40+ years ago to create the human-Skrull alliance, but the writers also decided it was a great idea to have the theme of the show being that true friendship is stupid and alliances should only be used for each party to “use one another”.

Really? That’s the moral of the story? Being friends with other species is pathetic and pointless, so we should only use one another when we see fit. What the hell kind of message is that, you dipshit writers?!?!?

Episode 6 gets a 4.0/10 from me and Secret Invasion as a whole show gets a very disappointing 4.5.10.

What a waste this show turned out being.

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