A Very Public Secret Invation

Secret Invasion was only six episodes long, and yet it has provided me with huge amounts of confusion, none of which was related to the story itself.

Oddly, the best comparison I can come up with is director and writer of Iron Man's "live action" Lion King.

The cast was fantastic, it looked really cool because of the locations and top notch visual effects...

and I have no idea why it was made.

It seemed like it should have been both bigger and smaller.

Samuel L. Jackson was awesome, but a "Nick Fury Finds His Mojo Again" story felt like it should have been more focused and smaller scale. 

On the other hand, a million Skrulls that have been posing as humans since well before that first film of the MCU seems like an issue far more massive than should have been handled in a month and a half miniseries, where each episode was a bit more than a half hour.

Some very cool characters were killed off, which will leave gaps in future films. But besides Skrulls, the MCU is playing heavily with the multiverse This means there are multiple ways any of them could come back.

Plus we now have a minor character with the powers of ALL the Avengers plus an insane pile of other heroes and villains. How will that dynamic work? 

Not only that, but the President in this series (who we know won't be president by the time of the Thunderbolts movie) made Aliens literally illegal. There's a fair amount of those in Marvel...and we also know the X-men are coming. Does that mean Alien prejudice and Mutant prejudice will be the same thing? 

Or will they be separate but extremely similar? 

Neither of these options sounds like a good idea.

At least we got Olivia Coleman as an awesome spymaster in the Marvel Universe now, and that's very cool. I guess fixing Nick Fury's arc would have resonated more emotionally if it had been obvious he was broken before this series started. 

Did I enjoy the show? Yes. 

Do I think introducing what becomes a massive shift in what's going on in the Marvel universe in such a short series with a giant pile of loose ends is a good idea? 

Not really.

There will either be movies ignoring what should be enormous ramifications of what happened here...

Or it will have a huge influence on everything else, and take away time from individual storytelling. 

Well, they did want the cinematic Marvel Universe to be as interconnected as the comics.

And now here we are.

It'll be interesting to see if they can pull off the follow up to this gigantic can of worms they opened. 

Then again, there's also the possibility they'll just "Secret Wars" the whole universe away and start over clean.

Oh well, I'll see everyone at the movies and we'll all learn if they can pull this off.