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I really really love procedurals. Unpacking mysteries are so fun on the screen. Knowing before what to come gives me an ego boost as well. That is why spy series bore me. Except for a very few conspiracy series I do not like most of them. However, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D was something interesting as there was a looming threat that the members were not ready to deal with.

Secret Invasion starts like that. The threat is much bigger and Fury is small to deal with that threat. However, it does not stay so. The show shows who the villain is right away, and they introduces Emilia Clarke who is connected enough for you to realise that the conflict that Marvel built for Fury gets solved only by killing Talos off and handing off the reins to his daughter, G’iah, here Emilia Clarke.

The show tries to misdirect, but such a trick revealed midway, by Emilia Clarke’s resurrection, makes the series a countdown for seeing the finale.

Which, I have to admit was a disappointment. Both Gravik and G’iah get the same power, yet G’iah is more powerful than Gravik somehow. No training arc nothing. I guess Emilia Clarke had more plot armor owing to her starpower. The CG was laughable at best. I wasn’t really expecting powers tbh. I wanted a more gritty approach. But whatever.

There is nothing to talk about cinematography. Marvel do not care about linking scenes visually anyway. What we do have to talk about is the opening intro. It is two minutes in length. I haven’t measured other marvel intros per se, but it did feel longer than most. Given the fact it is AI generated, I can’t help but think they are sending a message.

Sam L Jackson having a skrull love interest is the most genre-breaking marvel could have been I guess. There were a very good chance of showing racial tension even by doing what Bright did with orcs and humans. But none of those approach was there. I really wished characters from S.H.I.E.L.D would show up. At least Chloe Bennet as Quake. But no, no such luck. Ming Na Wen deserves to be on cannon as well.

It feels at this point Marvel is using their TV series as a lengthy advertisement for their future movies. A way to keep fans engaged between the gaps between movies. But like if you’re investing all that money, why can’t you get better writers?