Secret Invasion

There are three good things about this series. The first is that it allows Samuel l Jackson the opportunity to display his acting talents. The other is the performance of Olivia Coleman as the head of British intelligence. She gives an effortless and charming performance that is full of deadly, dry humor. The last good thing is the very end of the series where in the present of the United States goes on a homicidal rampage and starts to assassinate undercover operatives publicly. Just so out of place that it becomes a bit campy. And those are the only good things about this series. The writing is atrociously bad, both in terms of dialogue and plot. Jackson's performance is good as I said before but it is marred by him having to deliver some of the most wooden lines that I have ever heard. The plot is no better. Nick Fury promises to find the Scrull a new home and in return for this, they will help him with some shady spy work. At the time of this deal there are about 11 Scrull on the planet. This deal does not make any sense because at the time they make it there's only one human being who is capable of interstellar travel. Shockingly, or not shockingly at all, nick Fury is unable to find them a new home. After this, millions more Scrull arrive. One of them decides that humans are not taking care of the earth properly and need to go extinct. So he hatches this convoluted scheme to steal the DNA of certain Avengers, so he can create a race of super Scrulls. This makes no sense for two big reasons. One, scrolls are said to be immune to the effects of radioactivity, and it seems that radioactive activity actually helps their plants to survive. And unless you have a detector radioactivity is invisible, so it would be possible for aliens that can shape-shift to place devices which would generate high amounts of radioactivity and just slowly poison the human population without anyone ever knowing it or if they knew it being unable to stop it before it happened. At the end, two Scrulls fight because they have genetically enhanced their DNA with all the DNA of The Avengers. The animation of this is laughably bad, almost as bad as CGI from the Arrowverse. So if it's true that all you need to do to be a superhero is inject some DNA into you from another superhero, then why, in the many, many hours of Marvel content, didn't anyone think of that before? It just creates a massive plot hole for the Marvel Universe going into the future. I think for me, this is the worst live action Marvel television I've watched. If I can be conspiratorial for a moment, I think that this is actually a plan. Broadcast TV is dying, but people haven't stopped watching TV, they just do it via streaming. People don't want to watch great television every time they watch television, sometimes they just want something on in the background that requires minimal investment from the viewer. So if a company like Disney owns the rights to Marvel, there will always be people who will watch a Marvel series just because they like the characters. This is the 99% of the content that they fill their lives with until they create that 1% that both makes a lot of money for them and is an artistic and fulfilling experience for the viewer. But that's just my pet conspiracy theory.

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