The Reel Rejects - SECRET INVASION Ep. 1x6 Breakdown, Review, & Ending Explained!!

Episode Date: July 26, 2023

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I've checked my phone several times, and we are starting late because of him. So, Coy, you can rot in hell, you Irish bastard. You deserve everything you get. Okay, guys, let's get to it. Let's see what's going on here on this episode, the final episode, Secret Invasion. There they go. There they go.

Oh, what a great last shot. Two become one. The show's over. And I guess Agent Maria Hill just is dead. Yeah, it was the first episode that said it didn't have her as a guest star. Yeah, they didn't play that footage. Moment of truth. Moment.

Okay. Drum roll. Coy was asleep. You got something back, what do you say? Damn it, man. You missed so much. No. You could have pointed out the one or two power sets that we did not properly call.

Yeah, and maybe caught one of the names on the screen. Was ghost in the end game battle? Yeah. Or was that an ant-man phasing thing that I totally missed? Yeah, yeah. I don't know, maybe. I mean, who else has phasing abilities that we've seen up until now? I mean, I feel like that's a scene where, like, probably every single character they've ever rendered is somewhere on screen, so maybe.

All righty, guys, let's talk about it. All righty. Well, I'm sure screen crush heavy spoilers and new rock stars are going to have fun breaking down and deciphering every single power that we saw in that fight scene. I don't think that's that's not what we do what we're going to do is give our analysis commentary of course a review of the episode and factoring our experience of the entire season as a whole as well

that's what we want to do today and I'll let John go first since John tends to be the nicer one always out of everyone who ever comes on this channel that's right kind Johnny you know this was a decent finale in my eyes. This exemplifies a lot of the things

that the show has been up until now. There are a lot of really nice scenes. I think this is one of the better-ish overall episodes, but, you know, the season as a whole has had this quality of like, yeah, certain parts are really cooking. Certain things are very intriguing, certain relationships

are easy to really latch on to. And then other things feel a bit perfunctory and feel a bit kind of rushed and, you know, sort of by the numbers or at least like they could have used, used an extra ounce of inspiration or umph or something and no what i know i'm saying i'm the hot takes today all right i'm saying what no one's uh brave enough to say there are worse there are worse finales of dis on the disney plus show oh certain more disappointing ones i would say yeah and there

are probably more inconsistent shows than this one like ultimately i liked no this was on a steady deconsistent. It's on a steady decline. It naturally got there. It was on a gradual slope down to being fine. Yeah. Yeah. It all ended on a fine note. Yeah. And it's like I don't want

the response to this to teach the wrong message because I really like what this was going for. And by extension, I think the easiest Marvel series up until this point to compare this to would be Falcon and the Winter Soldier. And that was another show where I was like, I really like what you guys are going for.

And obviously that was hampered by other circumstances, but, you know, both of them are shows where you're like, ah, you got close to something really interesting and cool, but you kind of, you know, settled for like, yeah, you know, a surface level depiction of this kind of conflict. And again, I don't want to keep harping this point, but in a post and or world, you just know that it's possible to reach those heights of like, oh, all the cool sci-fi shit that we want out of this franchise plus real world ruminations and you know gray areas of sociopolitical economic espionage and things like that um i like this as a as a wrap-up to especially i mean

nick fury and priscilla is like the best part of the show name's vara sorry i didn't mean to get her right dead name but yeah like that's easily the heart and soul of the show i liked some of the wrap-ups in terms of you know finally getting to see some of Some of those powers come to the screen, but for every piece of praise, I have to lump on this as there's also a griper, a complaint, or a knit to pick. You don't have to, John. You can be the guy who likes everything. Ooh, okay. I loved this, you guys.

Best finale, best show. Most consistent content out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Quote me on that. Yeah, I mean, it was really obvious that it was going to be Gaia there. Did it make sense to me that Nick Fury would show up for the fight? And I'm really conflicted about a lot of that, like the fight in it of itself. And I have a dichotomy about it. And the great words, coigendro.

Oh, duplicitous. I do, because there's so many things I liked about it. And then there's so many things contextually that I'm like, but wait a minute. That's where I'm really coming from here. Like, I really thought Grovick's speech the entire time he was lamenting his sorrows, his pains upon. Nicholas Fury and all the blame for his actions are just being projected onto him the entire time. And it was a really impactful moment. And the first like 10 minutes or so of this episode, I did think they were, okay, they're going back a little bit more to what I was really loving about this show within the first two.

I'll let me get to the first three, like the things that I still loved about the first three episodes. and and then of course the speech of Nick Fury is giving back but the fact that it's Gaia's the one who's saying it I'm wondering what my takeaway is is that supposed to be Nick Fury's arc or is that Gaia coming to an understanding finally you know of this is what her dad like why her dad believes so much in Nick and now she sees the perspective and now she's on that side.

Did she have this conversation with Nick Fury? And now she's like, my last time before I flaked away, I'm like, was this a thing you discussed with Nick? Yeah, between the last episode and this one, Nick was like, here's everything you got to say. Because she's not like cerebrally hooked up to him, you know, the way how these other scrolls are. So to me, I'm like, whose arc does this belong to right now?

Is this a Gaia arc? Is this a Nick arc? Is this anyone's arc? and that's why I feel conflicted about that moment because it was really apparent that it was going to be Gaia and then the plan in it of itself I thought was a little ridiculous like that could have gone so awry that could have gone I don't think that was thought out at all

of what she did I'm going to give him this and we're going to battle it out it counts so much on him being okay with Nick being in the accelerator machine the reactor or whatever it is as well and it's like he could have easily been like no

beyond that it counts on the fact that she would like they don't know what powers are going to get and that's and while I think there's something so cool contextually about everything everyone having this amalgamation

of a billion different power sets that are all coming through and it's cool to see on screen and for someone who read the Secret Invasion comic book i'm like all right now we're doing a little bit of secret invasion stuff like we've had the whole paranoia thing down of who's the scroll and now we're doing the element of watching a a scroll adapt powers now they're just combining it on like two characters right and you know visually it it wasn't bad to me you know i i think it's marvel especially uh it's an easy

thing to knock at when it comes to their visuals and i'm like come on we've we've we've seen worse. Oh, sure. We've seen worse. And all things considered, I'm like, this is pretty cool. Like, there's something pretty cool about it. But like I said, the idea behind the plan is a little too far-fetched to me. And it seemed like an excuse to go down that Disney Plus route that, that she Hulk directly makes fun of for what the shows do.

Yeah. To get to the point with big VFX fight scene thing. Especially with two characters who have. all these personal charged stakes pointed at each other to just culminate in, yeah, like a smash-em-up battle, and then Gravick just gets murked on the spot, no, you know, unceremonious death. I mean, like, you get the speech, but that's pre-fight. You need a moment after the fight to send him off at least. His death was so lackluster the way that went down, just an easy, beam to the chest.

You know, like, I thought it was such a weak death scene, especially for such a great, like, a really well, written and well-performed villain. Yeah. I thought I was really, I did not, I did not like that. And what I don't like in situations like this especially is them learning powers, is them going, I'm looking at it. All right, I got it. I can just imagine what to do.

And I generally don't like that at all. I'm like, no, there should be some figuring out of what to do. Even Captain America when he's first running in that movie. He's like, what am I'm running? Oh, just way faster than I used to. Yeah, and they're each being overwhelmed with an influx of like every conceivable power from everybody who showed up in the endgame battle pretty much. So, yeah, I mean, the fact that they're immediately jumping to like, I got four quadrants of my body, all different powers. And I'm wielding them dual and it's no problems whatsoever.

I think it's really cool. I thought there was like cool parts to it. overall, the Gaia character, I think Amelia Clark, she really, I think she showed up. I think Amelia Clark really did her best. I don't feel like this show ultimately gave her much to do in the end. I think that her character was underserved, and it's Amelia Clark, who I do think is a really great actress. And I wish that they gave her more substance or something more to chew on versus what we ultimately got here. Giving her moments to Nick Fiery.

Yeah, giving her big moments of this story. And given her, I don't know, that give her stoicness, you know. And it's an interesting thing they leave off on her with, with her and Olivia Coleman. And, like, them teaming up and she's going to have this, like, the most ultimate super scroll. The only truly... I mean, she seems like one of the most powerful beings in the whole M.C. Yeah, I'm like, you seem like you beat, like, everyone. Yeah, you got Captain Marvel powers and Thanos powers.

Like, she's overpowered. Ice giant powers. frost giant frost giant frost giant and then thanos and and got everyone and characters who haven't even been named in the universe yet massively overpowered yeah massively overpowered yeah and from like the good from the hero and villain's sides alike yeah it's it's it's a little ridiculous and you thought people were like captain marvel overpower what's a guy you know like that is so that's so crazy to see what what she can do um Cool to behold.

The imagery was very cool. Like, again, that was the most excited. Like, I think her best character scene was in an episode or two ago with Vara, when they are bonding. That's, like, easily the most vivid Gaia character moment. But in this episode, I mean, you know, I did like that they, even though the Nick Fury thing is kind of confusing, like her getting to at least talk about the release of death, I thought was kind of like a moment where they sort of overlap. And you're like, okay, I can see where you two have sort of a similar experience here. Perhaps. But, yeah. Ritson, I think that so much of the interesting nuance commentary where I was crediting this show so much for not being a black and white conversation, suddenly everything devolves into a black and white conversation. And it just becomes a dick.

Yeah, with Ritson especially, I'm like, yes, I think like, is that the likely response if we're going off of real world situations? of course if we're thinking topical of course yeah absolutely i do think it the way the show handles this like slingshot effect though especially when nick fury was the one who saved his life and olivia coleman does it's both olivia coleman and nick fury there i'm like what was the conversation there because clearly they must have had a conversation with the president that did not communicate to him of like actually it's a little bit, there's some bad ones and there's some good ones.

Just like how there's some good humans and some bad humans, you know. Well, and Talos Talos saved his life. And that seems like something that Nick will go out of his way to communicate. The fact that they don't even have this conversation

pop up in the show is really upsetting to me. When I'm like, that was the whole freaking point of Taylor saving him. That was the entire point. So his death goes on just in that moment. So that's annoying to me There's a lot of problems I got with this from now

I'm not going to lie I got a lot of issues with this And funny enough for I feel like we've all been sitting here on a lot of these lately going man I wish they would kill off some characters or make some stakes And I feel like this series Killed off a few characters

And yet I feel like in some ways Those characters were less You know killed for a great impact Or some kind of massive change And more sort of slighted Because like yeah If this is the last we're going to see of Talos or Maria

Hill. I'm like I don't think it ultimately served the entirety or some big purpose to do that especially if we're not going to come back around and go hey this guy sacrificed himself for you let's get some kind of memorial now that this whole fight is done for

Talos or something because it's a character I feel like people like and have been endeared to and it's one of the shining parts coming out of Captain Marvel through this. Yeah. And I mean even Maria Hill like I you know, I always got excited to see her. She gets a prominent presence in the first episode. And then once we move past

that, it's just kind of done. Well, they had her funeral and he talks with her mom and you think there's going to be some type of... Top of episode, too. Yeah, I think it's going to be some personal conquest that Nick Fury is setting out on. It does not go that way. It doesn't really come back or it's more like, I don't want to be

framed for this shit. Yeah. That's where it ends off on. So, okay, I get the set up. It's like, seem like they were just in a hurry to get to the plot setup for where the scroll is going next. That segues into Marvels, where obviously the Cree are going to be in Marvels, and maybe they will actually address the whole scroll thing, which is a big deal for Korean scrolls to possibly get the hell along.

You know, it's a big deal. And I hope the movie does it. I hope the movie shows that. Or unless we solved it off-screen, you know, like, I don't know what they're going to do. but cool fine I guess I'm excited for that but yeah I mean

I liked Nick Fury and Varra's final moments here there are things that there's a whole thing with I can't believe in the trailer that the whole thing with the reveal of Nick Fury will eventually come back to being

you know him yeah and then here it's just like walks into the house like they'll make a moment out of it yeah and I can And not that I'm like, itching for that so much. I'm like, you could have, it just treated like it's nothing. Well, yeah, and it's torn between, I think it's torn between being those two different kinds of shows, the version where it's like, badass comeback.

Finally, I have returned to my full form versus going, like, understated and more intimate with it. And I feel like here it postures the intimacy and mostly leads with that, like, hey, kind of energy. And then in moments like that, we'll, like, randomly go flat. And I can't tell if stuff was retooled or if there were just certain things that they were more enthusiastic about than others when it came to like really bring in these moments to life on set. It is like an odd show

because it doesn't feel as like jagged and inconsistent as some shows do but it will travel from feeling quite inspired and quite punchy to feeling like again perfunctory a little bit or sort of workman-like. I mean I like the

the darkness of the final moments where you're seeing humanity start going crazy and just like taking things into their own hands. Settling. Yeah because it's on like national television and it feels real.

It's just like it's just so kind of harsh and stark and just like oh wow those people just got mowed down. Yeah yeah no it's in a TV studio. At the same time I do think of the movie the show's pacing undercuts the moments so much. It just felt like it had to move so fast that it couldn't really sink its teeth as any of the things it tried to do.

You have two really long first episodes. Like, what mandate was ordered? Yeah, who decides these things and why are all the show, like, why is there a consistent issue with the lengths of these shows? Well, it jarringly became shorter. Yeah. It jarringly became shorter. And it kicked into like a higher gear. It went from like almost an hour long for the first two, which I really liked both.

and I know there are people like I saw people in the comments in the last episode going this is probably my favorite episode and I'm that's again that's good for you guys if it is your favorite episode I cannot say that anything has reached the heights of the first two following this I think this is better than episode four and five I like this more than episode four than I think I do I don't know I really don't I don't even give a shit honestly I don't rank all the episodes

I don't one two six it's like one two and great and three was the second one below them and then after that

it's just a mix it's a mixed bag to me for four five and six so yeah this this this was

overall the finale of it all I thought was very much I still thought it was a mess and as while there was some exciting moments to be had. I still thought it was very

messy. I didn't dislike it to the point of the thing is, like when I think about Moon Knight and I think about Hawkeye I remember the penultimate's really liking. Yes. You know? Yeah, being like, whoa, this could maybe

maybe like nail a killer finale. And then the finale is I was like, oh shit. We'll wrap this all up. Yeah. We're here. I was like, well, Well, the show's been going downhill for me, so I'm not exactly disappointed. But like you couldn't leave us with like 50 minutes. I'm like, I had fun.

I'm not going to think about it ever again, probably. To me, this is like the most consistent of the inconsistent show is because the ways in which it is inconsistent are quite consistent across the show itself. I like the tone in the atmosphere and most everything. I think that gets so lost, though, over. time like the seam work remains but yeah all that stuff gets lost no yeah I'm not gonna protect like this is

a show that is marked to me by the potential it's like there are moments when it's hitting the potential there are a lot of moments when it's not I like the general veneer of what the show is and I hope that they don't decide not to pursue this flavor in the future

because it does feel a bit different and it does feel in that more again espion not to everyone always pulls winter soldier and this doesn't feel exactly like that but this feels, yeah, like, oh, the kind of government conspiracy side of all this superhero, you know, infused world. And I like that they spend the time and energy to do that. I just, yeah, I wish they could iron out the consistency factor because this is, yeah, it's like when it's flat, it's not terrible and it's not like completely out of line with what's come before. It's just, yeah, it just doesn't have the room to breathe.

well guys that those are my thoughts if you don't really want to watch the show I think you could just think out of all the shows this is the one you could just read what happens in it if you really don't care to watch out of all of them you can just like look up

what happens in it if you want so yeah what did you think about it though what are your thoughts we're here to just share ours that's our review so leave your thoughts down below. Hopefully Marvel's is good.

And we'll see how much they factor in. Humanity worried about scrolls moving forward. Unless it's just another plot line that is introduced. And we ultimately don't really think about it in the end. All right. We'll talk with you all soon. Thank you to G Fuel. I got to edit.

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