Olivia Colman’s character is the only one really getting shit done though.
I did like episode 5, how they go into Nick Fury’s head and how it’s setting up a final confrontation. But the series definitely needed to be paced better.
How on earth is Talos’s daughter supposed to have retrieved her alien dad’s corpse from that presidential crime-scene in order to have a quiet funeral?
Olivia Colman’s the best thing about this, so she’ll probably turn out to be a frickin’ Skrull, just to irritate me.
By pretending to be someone who is allowed to do so I imagine.
I did get a good chuckle when Fury was suiting up. He had separate storage areas for everything, including his eyepatch.
She did she was going to put on a good face.
I struggle to imagine which person she could impersonate who could plausibly remove an alien corpse to a place of their choosing, from a crime scene where the US President had almost been killed (or take it from whatever secure storage location). But then, I’m struggling with a lot in this series, so whatever.
Still hate-watching.
Although I’d watch the heck out of a Sonya miniseries. She’s got pluck 
Episode five was great! Everything is set for a fun finale.
Me too! She’s like the daughter of James Bond and Mary Poppins.
Yeah by making it clear the Skrulls are monsters they changed her character from Ominous to Grey but Heroic without her doing anything different. That said the “Hypercompetent Snark machine” character is a well the MCU goes to a little much I think.
Am I the only one who thinks Fury called Carol Danvers at the end of episode 5? The articles I see don’t even entertain that possibility.
The Marvels is coming out soon. They’ve mentioned her repeatedly. It seems obvious to me.
I wouldn’t be surprised if any or all of them make an appearance in the finale.
That was a perfectly fine episode. But I don’t think it justified the rest of the series going every which way, something I was not willing to comment upon until the series concluded, hoping it would all tie together cleverly. There was a lot of build up through the series that I expected a huge epic showdown for, but it just felt a bit disappointingly limp.
I mean, like I said, it was fine. But only that.
I was never into superhero comics, because they all seemed to end with them punching each other in the sky, which I find a completely unsatisfying way to resolve a conflict. I am very disappointed that they have also done it for pretty much every movie and TV series too.
Besides that, there’s always the tendency to escalate powers to a ridiculous degree. I mean, if you’ve just dealt with a world-ending threat in the previous issue, a new threat must trump that, until you eventually get up to beings that can destroy the hyper-omni-megaverse with a fart, which nevertheless must somehow be overcome.
I’d thought a more internal threat, as that given by an infiltration of camouflaged aliens, might be a good way to sidestep that—not every threat is just raw power. But in the end, they just chucked out all that, and had two characters with powers that dwarf anything seen so far slug it out, ending with G’iah now being the most powerful being in the Marvel universe (as far as we’ve seen), which will either need implausible contrivances to sideline her when the next threat arrives, or lead to the introduction of yet more god-like characters.
I am not sure I agree with this take. Gravik went down in a single blast, almost none of the people who’s DNA they used would have died or really been hurt all that much from it. She is certainly powerful, but doesn’t really hold a candle to any of the heavy hitters on that list.
This series set up what would have been a better show that we now may never get because it was so mediocre. Also not a fan about how a huge amount of character development for Fury ended up not being true because it wasn’t Fury actually talking.
I did like the Super Skrull fight at the end. It was neat seeing bits and pieces of other Characters and their powers.
This week tried to walk back just how evil the Skrulls as a people may have been a little. I was under the impression that Skrull council was the “Government” for the entire population. That was why I was so on board with calling them all enemies last week but it was apparently just this extremist faction’s leadership which returns some sympathy to them. Watching Skrulls and non Skrulls getting mowed down was pretty horrifying. Not sure where it goes from here but I will assume Sonya and G’ia show up in the Thunderbolts movie.
Well, I was wrong.
oof that was awful. For me, it started out meh and got slightly better each episode, but these last two were just almost unwatchably bad. It’s making very nervous for Loki S2 and Ahsoka, that Marvel and Disney+ can’t make a consistent show consistently. I liked Ms Marvel and She Hulk and Hawkeye and the latest Mandolorian, but a lot of the other more recent stuff just has been a mess. I don’t mind a mess that ends up being fine in the end but endings are definitely one of the top 3 D+ problems.
The worst part for me is I didn’t care what happened to a single person/skrull in this damn show.
Hate.
Watch.
Ugh.
I love how they made such a big deal about how radioactive the Skrull base was but the prisoners were kept there exposed for months if not years with zero ill effects.