Board 8 > I returned to Secret Invasion.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Somehow I was a lot less infuriated by the second episode compared to the first. Might have even liked it...except that six-episode count is really looming over the whole thing. Even regardless of having already looked up what happens in the rest (well, as in skimming the TV Tropes page), it's not hard to worry about whether some big reveals from this episode will get properly developed. The filmmaking and acting are good, at least aside from Emilia Clarke.

This is what happens when you don't let LMS in the Marvel topics

Wait, I forgot one joke: this is some M-She-U where Maria Hill can get casually offed after more than a decade.

*insert like 20 eye roll emojis here*

CassandraCain posted...

:)

I think a lot of the issue here is I consume the MCU only casually, which is why I'm comparatively less down on a lot of the pandemic-era movies and shows - the only Disney+ series I know I didn't like out of what I've seen is Loki somewhat strangely, although Wandavision, What If?, and Moon Knight are all borderline cases (the middle especially was VERY hit-or-miss). That wound up biting me in the butt with Secret Invasion due to it following on from Captain Marvel in a pretty jarring manner, to the point where my #1 gripe with this series is how poor of a follow-up it is to that movie.

I guess I have a bit of a reputation on this board for being disappointed in Captain Marvel? I didn't hate it but I felt like it should have been a lot better than it was - how do you take a character that is like a cross between Superman, Samus, and RoboCop and make her so freaking boring? Even Ms. Marvel made her look way cooler than her own movie did. More just clarifying for those who might be confused if they thought I made it look like Captain Marvel was some unsung classic in the previous paragraph. It's more about me having issues with the current era of MCU releases suffering from both continuity lockout AND having too many moving parts - and for that matter I always felt the former issue was overstated (e.g. I was able to jump straight into Thor: Ragnarok from The Avengers without feeling too confused and then likewise right to Infinity War, although maybe it helped that I had seen Age of Ultron and Civil War before even if I didn't really remember the details), though I have a feeling the franchise's general pop culture ubiquity and having grown up on superhero cartoons (and I mean Justice League by that) made me evidently better-equipped than a lot of people.

mnk posted...

:)

Thank you lol

20 still wasn't enough it seems

Just watch the whole series??? Its three and a half hours in total not exactly a tremendous undertaking. Or dont watch it. No reason to drag it out.

LinkMarioSamus posted...

I think a lot of the issue here is I consume the MCU only casually,

Bruh, you say "M-She-U". There is nothing casual about how you consume MCU stuff.

Too much time spent with that idiot crowd.

LightningStrikes posted...

Just watch the whole series??? Its three and a half hours in total not exactly a tremendous undertaking. Or dont watch it. No reason to drag it out.

I'm a dummy who doesn't prefer to watch something so fast like that. I'll probably be returning to Secret Invasion even sooner since I actually kind of liked this episode.

Can't wait for the inevitable LMS posts about The Marvels.

In the time taken to watch two episodes of Secret Invasion you could have watched the Zygon two parter from Doctor Who Series 9, one of Peter Capaldis best stories with basically the exact same story and themes as Secret Invasion but actually good.