James Ledbetter

When Secret Invasion was announced as a D+ series, I was immediately angry with the fact that Feige made the terrible decision to relegate one of Marvel’s greatest story arcs to a minor storyline. And now, after watching it, I’m even angrier. In my opinion, Secret Invasion would have been a better MCU saga coming out of the Infinity Saga. It would have subverted everyone’s expectations for the next “big bad” like Thanos by making the main antagonist be The Avengers themselves, after they unravel in paranoia and Marvel could have revealed an occasional Skrull posing as a hero or villain in an end credit scene or during a plot that we thought was about something else entirely different, slowly making us aware that some of our favorite characters had been replaced without our knowing. Instead, the MCU boffed arguably the greatest comic arc of all time by cramming a bunch of unrelated story elements into a series that didn’t know its own identity. The death of several people was never revisited, causing those losses to feel empty. The fact that it took 3 episodes to get to a prominent Skrull reveal made it feel as though more would revealed, but once that reveal was made, we pretty much knew the goal of the antagonists and the only big surprises left felt forced, such as the big battle in the third act. I wasn’t invested in anyone in that fight and couldn’t have cared less if they both died. In fact, I probably would have preferred that to what we got. Sadly, it looks like the MCU has lost its magic. I honestly am losing interest, because I so sick of watching some of my favorite heroes and storylines get butchered by a studio that has completely lost its central focus. Marvel is going to need to pull a miracle to fix all of the damage that Feige has inflicted in phases 4 and 5.

Just finished the game and was amazed the entire time. Final boss fight was incredible.