It seems unbelievable but we haven’t aired a new drama since the summer of last year. astonishment inside disneyplus. The mouse company’s recent box office hit had studio executives thinking about raising the accelerator a little bit and slowing down. With covert invasionDisney plans to undo the bellows and first great premieres of Wandavision. We’re still thinking green after months of waiting, and this isn’t a beer ad. We pass after Hulka’s green to the green of the skrulls. This color has become very associated with foreign genres in popular culture and other television series. From Spock’s Vulcan blood Star warsto lizards v, led by the reptilian Diana (jane badler). The threat we encounter here bears more similarities with the latter. We can’t trust anyone because we don’t know who is friend and who is foe. This The conspiracy has arrived.
Secret Invasion a spy thriller Marvel style with an upscale cast. The first of six episodes of this soap opera premiered on Wednesday. samuel l jackson maintains its character Nick Fury. Until now, Fury hasn’t had any solo titles in movies from the Marvel universe and has limited himself to a luxury supporting role. Still, we don’t know if he will be overshadowed by the other characters in the cast as the episodes progress. Because we have translators of charisma. Olivia Colman (Crown), Martin Freeman (fargo And sherlock), Ben Mendelsohn (their generations), Don Cheadle , Cobbie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother and stump city) And Emily Clark (game of Thrones). The series begins with the outbreak of a new threat, which causes the return of the world’s most famous super agent. Shield to the Earth. Nick Fury, who is no longer the same and psychologically affected by Thanos’ sudden move. Now it will be his turn to wage his own war with a shadow enemy. The first episode ended with a shocking death, but we don’t know if it’s the finale as it seems.
This skrulls They came to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and they did it to stay. The time has come with Secret Invasion. put this very important alien race in its place in the comics but for the time being it played a rather secondary role in the screen adaptations. It is so secondary that until now the possibility that they could be on the side of the bad guys was not even considered. And that they were one of their first enemies Fantastic FourMarvel’s first supergroup. Especially in number two of the collection, it was held there by faraways. 1962 when the publisher tries to leave their old name behind Atlas and at the beginning of the revolution that will turn the comic book world upside down. They are green, have pointed ears and a jaw very reminiscent of Thanos’s (although they belong to different races according to the canon), and shapeshift and be anyone. Since then, Skrulls have become a recurring threat in publisher-published stories. One of the most iconic epics Avengers it was in the 70s Kree/Skrul WarI and many of us hope it will be adapted for the big screen at one of the Marvel cinematographic stages.
Skrulls debuts on the big screen in 2019 Captain MarvelIt’s like an alien race of refugees that Nick Fury granted asylum on Earth. Moviegoers would definitely be a little surprised to find that the Skrulls are now part of the good guys. Either one of the two or the writers went too far, or we had to wait for a turn that most veterans knew was coming. This race has always belonged to the side of very bad villains. We came to the United States in the early 1960s. Witch huntwhere conspiracy theorists see Communist enemies infiltrated everywhere. With his shapeshifting abilities, the Skrull can be anyone and hide in their highest power tiers. And his mission was: destabilize. Over the years, it’s become a cliché for these scenario twists that the character isn’t dead in the next issue, or even a few months later, they’re partying outside, and we’re met with a shocking death a few months later. imitated by someone else. a skrull. One of the most notorious cases, Kurdone of the most popular characters X patrol But there are many more examples.
Thanks to the Skrulls’ ability to infiltrate, one wonders if the Skrulls were behind the political events that sparked the comics’ superhero civil war. In the third season of Star Trek: Picard, we had a very similar example of what could happen to us now with the return of the changelings. An alien species and shapeshifter Deep Space 9 and with the ability to arouse paranoia among the public ability to sneak out of the shadows.
While the motivations of the Skrulls have not been explored in the comics (they were bad guys, period), in the series humanize the enemy and understand what moves them. There was already that refugee character in the cartoons then Galactus Your planet has been swallowed. But that’s another story. After being accepted to Earth in the TV series, there is a group of people who are very angry and disappointed that they are not given what they promised, and they are looked down upon. skepticism and distrustface to face institutional racism. And during this time they quietly plan their revenge. The first part, this faction of the rebels Deciding to launch an attack on Earth. It is a matter of curiosity that he is in the environment where the action takes place at this beginning of the series. Moscow. We don’t know if they’ll have time to reveal everything they need to be, or if they’ll just lay the groundwork to introduce us to a new enemy with this series. We will see this in the coming weeks.
By the way, it started with Secret Invasion argumentafter learning that the sequence of credit titles is detailed using artificial intelligence. an event that actually happened writers strike Which practically paralyzed industry in the United States. One of the collective demands is for greater guarantees and legal certainty that artificial intelligence is not replacing it to reduce costs. Those who see this possibility as something very distant and that it is only science fiction movies Confirmation came that it was something here and now. Like the Skrulls.