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I’ll be slightly amused/depressed when the Filoni movie “underperforms” at the box office because it’s going to be more niche than what people claim the MCU, but it’s going to be right up my alley so I can’t wait.

I was tempted to drop it, but then I remembered I got it as part of my Verizon package and for some reason hadn’t switched over that, so I did.

Rumor about Avengers: Secret Wars that should be taken with a grain of salt at this point, but spoilered just in case.

My daughter is aging out of all the Disney Princess movies that made this such a steal in the first place, so I’ve actually considered dropping it.

Forget about Secret Invasion, heeeeeeeere’s a Loki trailer!

Based on Ghost’s DNA being in the mix, Fury’s been collecting samples and just dumping all of them in the same tiny bottle, and Gravik knows about it since he was sent to collect samples from post-Battle for Earth.

I’m not sure if I’m annoyed by the senseless deaths that obviously won’t last, or appreciative of the if everyone knows they won’t last, we might as well go big mindset.

I think this effectively sets up Cap:Brave New World and Thunderbolts more so than The Marvels. G’iah’s recruitment felt similar to Val’s recruitment of the various Thunderbolts.

Yeah, I just went back and watched parts, and Fury was shown shooting someone with a tranq, but in an earlier scene they showed an agent lying flat on his back with what looks like a (shockingly small, tbf) wound/bullet hole in his chest.

The more I think about it, the more stupid stuff I remember, like Fury and Sonia murdering a bunch of innocent secret service agents or the President effectively declaring war on New Asgard.

She has all the powers, heroes and villains and cosmic demi-gods alike. There were a bunch of names flashing on the screen, but presumably that wasn’t intended to be an exclusive list. It’d be one thing if they had established super-Skrulls could only use one (or four, if you’d prefer) powers at a time, but they did not. This is first show I haven’t liked, and it’s because the writing is just completely wasting some good performances. I feel like this show leaves us back around Age of Ultron, except instead of being anti-superpowers, it’s anti-Skrulls.

This show falling flat and failing to live up to its premise is pretty fitting homage to the Bendis series it’s based on.

I agree, which is crazy because Gaia is now the most powerful being in the universe.

I saw Barbie today, and it is legit one of my favorite movies ever. Low key one of my favorite moments was (spoilered for minor plot detail)

I think this is the first show I’ve seen Kingsley Ben-Adir in anything, so it was a little weird seeing him as Ken in Barbie today.

I forgot about my favorite thing about this last episode. Skrhodey tells Fury that he’ll have to kill him to out him, AND IN THE VERY NEXT SCENE Sonia just shoots a hidden Skrull in the hand to out him.

I feel like that’s been the case for most of the MCU shows, and then they don’t actually wrap everything up because certain stuff ends up being left for other shows/movies or maybe gets a reference. I think my biggest problem with SI is that they have all these big moments but they don’t give them any time to breathe. Everett Ross is a Skrull! Never mentioned again. Maria Hill gets fridged, you at least get her mom (who we’ve never met before) reacting, but otherwise it’s barely even used as motivation for Fury, only as leverage against him. One of the Avengers is revealed as a Skrull and Fury keeps it to himself? Even though Fury is shown almost having a heart attack right after. Like that revelation should be be huge with massive repercussions! Talos dies and Fury just leaves him.

Is “meh” still filtered here, because this show is the definition of that. Olivia Colman is great, and I’d love to see her and Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s characters interact in the future.

Accepting that not all heroes are going to show up to help other heroes out in their solo on-going is just standard suspension of disbelief for comic books. Personally, I think it complicates things when they try to explain why other heroes can’t help. Like Fury saying he doesn’t want the Avengers to help because then the Skrulls might try to impersonate them is fucking stupid, because Gravik is obviously smart enough to think of that on his own (see, War Machine). Fury is just lucky his plan calls for impersonating Russians and not Groot. Given the scope of the show, it’d be 100x more believable to just say “I don’t know who I can trust.”

I admittedly haven’t seen much of his actual acting, but I feel like he may have a hard time pulling of a Ralph/Sue dynamic. Plastic Man, he’d knock out of the park.

Mulaney as Plastic Man apparently isn’t confirmed/was a joke spread on Twitter.

Three of four right now, with two of four ending on a surprise Skrull reveal (counting Rhodey last week).

I like the show overall, but I was amused how none of the soldiers/Secret Service really reacted to someone they thought was a Russian suddenly grabbing one of them with thick vines growing from where their arm was.

I’m guessing she gave herself Extremis powers on the sly.

“You know, I thought you looked a little different.”