This is going to sound weird but, I genuinely think if they played this episode in reverse that this would be an amazing show. SPOILERS TL;DR on bottom my ultimate review
First you open MOSCOW, Nick Fury is investigating 50 people going mysteriously missing along with his new lover Maria Hill. Its shocking but they are an item now. In my version they kiss. Nick goes to get a cotton candy and then explosions rock the carnival! In the fray, someone shoots Maria and she dies. Now this becomes a personal Final Retirement Investigation/Saving the World for Nick Fury.
Nick meets up with Ben Mendelsson as his Skrull contact and they have a beer at a bar discussing old times and Ben goes to help get info. Nick is very drunk and leaves the bar and gets captured by Olivia Colman's spies in his weak state. Ben then meets up with his daughter to get info about Marias killer. Emilia Clarke gives him a bunch of lies and then drives off to her secret Russian Base and you see the truth! They steal the brains of people to use to blend in to the world!!! Its all this plot to steal Russia so Skrulls have somewhere to live or something.
The episode ends with the Skrull shooting the SHIELD guy and then they have that footrace and the big reveal is that Nick discovers its a dead Skrull and this is a Skrull plot!!! The last shot is Ben trying to contact Nick Fury and Nick doesn't know whether to answer...Secret Invasion directed by:
Anyway, my point being, TL;DR I was going into this show hoping it was a mystery. I want to discover secrets WITH Nick. I don't want to just be told and shown the stakes in the first 20-30 minutes and just be waiting for the bad guys to get comeuppance. I am sick of this stupid trope where there is a character that tries to be evil but realizes that her leader is lame and she just helps Nick which is obviously what Emilia Clarke will do if I am wrong I will eat my hat.
As a War show, we know basically its Skrulls vs Humans and they blew up humans, abduct them, so a lot of the magic of the premise is just lost for me. It will be interesting to see who betrays Nick and all that I am just saying if it was more of a mystery I would get to discover scenes with Nick and feel like I was part of a cool mystery thinking about if there are good Skrull/Bad Skrull what the dude who shot the SHIELD guy means. But as a War show I just see this as Nick needing to save the day from evil forces which is just boring to me and not what I was hoping for.
First you open MOSCOW, Nick Fury is investigating 50 people going mysteriously missing along with his new lover Maria Hill. Its shocking but they are an item now. In my version they kiss. Nick goes to get a cotton candy and then explosions rock the carnival! In the fray, someone shoots Maria and she dies. Now this becomes a personal Final Retirement Investigation/Saving the World for Nick Fury.
Nick meets up with Ben Mendelsson as his Skrull contact and they have a beer at a bar discussing old times and Ben goes to help get info. Nick is very drunk and leaves the bar and gets captured by Olivia Colman's spies in his weak state. Ben then meets up with his daughter to get info about Marias killer. Emilia Clarke gives him a bunch of lies and then drives off to her secret Russian Base and you see the truth! They steal the brains of people to use to blend in to the world!!! Its all this plot to steal Russia so Skrulls have somewhere to live or something.
The episode ends with the Skrull shooting the SHIELD guy and then they have that footrace and the big reveal is that Nick discovers its a dead Skrull and this is a Skrull plot!!! The last shot is Ben trying to contact Nick Fury and Nick doesn't know whether to answer...Secret Invasion directed by:
Anyway, my point being, TL;DR I was going into this show hoping it was a mystery. I want to discover secrets WITH Nick. I don't want to just be told and shown the stakes in the first 20-30 minutes and just be waiting for the bad guys to get comeuppance. I am sick of this stupid trope where there is a character that tries to be evil but realizes that her leader is lame and she just helps Nick which is obviously what Emilia Clarke will do if I am wrong I will eat my hat.
As a War show, we know basically its Skrulls vs Humans and they blew up humans, abduct them, so a lot of the magic of the premise is just lost for me. It will be interesting to see who betrays Nick and all that I am just saying if it was more of a mystery I would get to discover scenes with Nick and feel like I was part of a cool mystery thinking about if there are good Skrull/Bad Skrull what the dude who shot the SHIELD guy means. But as a War show I just see this as Nick needing to save the day from evil forces which is just boring to me and not what I was hoping for.
