Fans are still complaining about a lot – and more – of Marvel‘s content in this dark phase, but even more so in Secret Invasion. Of all the issues, like the constant absence of Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) always so busy that she rarely helps Earth, or, now, the absence of any and all Avengers in the series that is led by Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) It’s past the point of being reasonable. In other words, it’s hard to get Gravik’s (Kingsley Ben-Adir) reason to want to end the clowning and take over the planet once and for all. Because we will see the clash of the two in the final episode and we will still be without a convincing explanation for 30 years that pass without Captain Marvel and Fury having fulfilled the promise made to the Skrulls, or Fury’s reluctance to call at least a single Avenger to help it.

Well, Fury suffers and loves in his own way. They confirm that we really lost Talos (Ben Mendelsohn), wronged and humiliated by everyone, including G’iah (Emilia Clarke), but Fury has little time to try to prevent the 3rd World War from starting and so he continues on as he did when he lost Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders). The key to the story here is that Gravik knows that Fury has been secretly collecting DNA from nearly all of the Avengers and wants access to the material. That way it’s something personal and that’s why he’s trying to solve everything himself.

Yes, the proposal is simplistic and stretched, but Secret Invasion, for reasons of budget cuts among others, seems ‘smaller’ than other Marvel content, but it is no less powerful for that. Of course, thanks to Samuel L. Jackson and the ever-perfect Olivia Colman as Sonya Falsworth. She has been Fury’s ally, though no one can really count on her full support. The greatest relevance of Secret Invasion is to contextualize and accelerate the entry of mutants in the franchise, which were outside Marvel due to contractual issues. They are entering little by little and that is why the fight for the DNA of the Avengers is so prominent.

With everything so reduced – plot, episodes – there is nothing to extend. The final episode may surprise, but the fact is that the series is just a link between contents. It will still make more sense.

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