But maybe that’s just information being strategically withheld, and the show’s flashbacks will get progressively more specific about what “serious threat” Fury was facing in 1997. Which is … what, exactly? Why wouldn’t Fury explain this to the people he’s trying to convince to join him? (Even if he’s bullshitting a little, wouldn’t he try to gin up a better motivation than “trust me”?) It’s at this elliptical point, just a few minutes into the second episode, where it becomes equally arguable that Secret Invasion is already taking some shortcuts to keep its undercover-Skrull story from undermining a bunch of continuity - and in doing so, is undermining other aspects of itself. In the process, we also see a young Gi’ah, whose mother is the first to volunteer for Fury’s mission. Talos is on hand, too, making explicit Fury’s lynchpin role in the Skrulls’ future: “This man, I trust,” he tells the small group, somehow not adding, for maximum irony, “and in no way would I expect him to put this task off for several decades and then go on unrelated space missions without us.”įury addresses the Skrull recruits, too, and preaches cooperation, saying that “the world is facing a serious threat, and I could use your help.” He proposes that the Skrulls use their valuable shape-shifting skills to spy for him in exchange for the tireless efforts (cough!) of him and Captain Marvel (double cough!) to secure them a new home. In London, Fury meets Gravik, the future Skrull revolutionary, as a prodigious child recruit the Kree killed his parents, and Fury is told that the kid has the grits and the goods for his new project. The opening scene of its second episode, a flashback to 1997 and (approximately) Captain Marvel–era de-aged Nick Fury, is intent on filling in any emotional gaps viewers who missed that billion-dollar blockbuster (or, more likely, don’t remember much of its particulars). It’s arguably admirable that Secret Invasion doesn’t depend heavily on your knowledge of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to make sense.
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