It makes me sad to realize that we’re halfway through the season of Secret Invasion because I love Nick Fury’s (Samuel L. Jackson) cocky bad temper. He relies on his network of spies and allies, but everyone is pissed at him. Practically the last words of Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) to him were complaining about how he “came back” from the blip: traumatized and disappointed, abandoning everyone to go live in space on a mission that kept him physically absent as he was in the 5 years after Thanos. In other words: an ungrateful.

When he returns, we discover some things he ‘lost’: the Skrulls just hadn’t taken over Earth because for some reason they thought that 30 years later Fury was still committed to helping them, when they obviously weren’t a priority either for him or for Captain Marvel (Brie Larson). Fury being Fury returns just as Gravik (Kingsley Ben-Adir) – a young Skrull who appears to have grown up as his adopted son – is leading the invasion and finishing Thanos’ service. Honestly, so far, the “rebel” arguments are the most convincing, and yet, for some reason, Talos (Ben Mendelsohn) stays true to Fury, and — SPOILER — planted G’iah (Emilia Clarke) among the antagonists to always stay ahead. In a wonderful monologue, Talos puts Fury in his place: the super spy was never the human, but Talos. Or, perhaps Talos “lost” G’iah for a little while, but he certainly already got her back.

And that’s it, in the third episode Gravik’s plan doesn’t move forward, but important points are tied. G’iah’s true role, who Fury’s wife is, how they met, married, and are now after he exiled himself to space, and how Talos resents – finally – the way Fury takes credit for everything he’s given without trying hard to do his side. The real and interesting clash, but little explored, is the leadership dispute between Gravik and Talos.

A few things remain to be clarified, the most immediate being confirmation that Gravik is more intimate with Fury than has been shown thus far and whether Maria Hill will return. Because G’aiah’s dismissal was a childish suspense effort. To use her “death” as a cliffhanger for episode 4 when all the trailers already showed her with a gun in her hand fighting one side (which we now know to be the humans) takes away any possible gasp. In fact, it’s almost a faux pas considering that no one would have seen the trailer!

Anyway, Secret Invasion is more about relationships and straight talks than action and adventure. What makes the Marvel universe as interesting as it is!

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