The spectacular soundtrack Chris Bowers (who also signed Bridgerton and Queen Charlotte) gives the right clue to the line of the Secret Invasion series: dramatic and out of tune with other Marvel themes. Beautiful.

The most faithful fans are not enjoying the return of Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), even less, the narrative of Secret Invasion. I differ because I’m appreciating it. Of course, the story is lint and repetitive: everyone is pissed off at Fury’s abandonment after the blip. He is out of shape, doesn’t keep promises, is arrogant, and even ungrateful to his Skrull friends. When he returns to Earth, Fury discovers that a Skrull orphan who arrived on the planet as a child, Gravik (Kingsley Ben-Adir), got tired of waiting for the promises made 30 years ago that they would have a new home and decided to accelerate human extinction. No one can blame him, aside from not going out of their way to help them, both Fury and Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) use them for their own ends. Fury has to save Earth, already been secretly invaded for years.

And that’s it. The only one who wants the same thing is Talos (Ben Mendelsohn), but even he is tired of the spy’s arrogance. And that’s it, nothing more than that happened in four episodes. Oh yes, Gravik discovered and used the formula to turn Skrulls into Super Skrulls, yet Fury still refuses to ask the Avengers for help. Is it because he anticipates that they also have a list of complaints about abandonment and bullying? At this point, that alone could justify Fury’s stubbornness, who loses Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) and likely Talos in the process. The fact that 8 episodes three of them ended with someone killed on the road by Gravik takes away any emotion. More of the same?

What remains is that with Gravik in charge, and not knowing who is a Skrull or not, it may take Fury a while to find an alternative. At least there’s no multiverse here. Rhodey (Don Cheadle), for example, is no longer “he”, but we don’t know when. With no allies, Fury still insists on doing everything himself. His wife, Priscilla (Charlayne Woodard), actually a Skrull named Varra, also gave up trying, only saving him from killing him because of the history between them. And G’iah (Emilia Clarke) is fed up with parental submission to humans. She was playing double duty, but Gravik thinks he killed her not knowing that she is now a super Skrull herself.

What some found far-fetched, but I found beautiful, was using Raymond Carver’s poetry as the source and basis for the episode. Carver was a writer credited with revitalizing American literature in the 1980s, who struggled with alcoholism, and whose excerpt called Late Fragment was his last poem, written shortly before he died in 1988. Included in the book, A New Path to the Waterfall, he reflects on his life and his impending death.

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

Fury certainly, at the moment, is far from achieving anything even remotely close to being loved. In 2012, Priscila, quoted the text to him, when he was still, all well, and made it clear that the story of the two could be true love. However, in the current two, the conversation returns as a veiled farewell. She has the order to kill him and he is ready to defend himself. Both are wrong. And now?

The same words of poetry apply to Talos, who coveted only the same thing for himself and his people. We’ve followed the trajectory and friendship between General Skrull and Nick Fury for years. First seen as an antagonist by Fury and Captain Marvel, he has long since sided with the good guys and still has faith in humans. If it’s really his farewell to the Marvel universe (I bet it is), unfortunately, Talos wasn’t loved. Who doesn’t feel for him?

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