Main points:
- the premise of the show came out of nowhere, Scrulls were set up as the good guys in Captain Marvel
- the small rooms and few characters reduced the perceived gravity of the situation
- Giah’s dilemma between her father and Graviks revolution was skipped over
- there was no ‘secret’ to the show, the viewers were
omnipotentomniscient; the plot was rushed and everything that could have been an exciting reveal has been wasted - we learn nothing about the president, his actions make no sense
I feel like MI: Dead Reckoning part 1 actually did what Secret Invasion wanted to do: Set up an enemy that uses your own networks and routines against you such that you can no longer trust your previously reliable means of functioning and have to develop entirely new ways of doing old things
I didn’t see it yet, but now that you mention it: do I have to watch all previous parts of MI to understand this new one? I only saw the first one (with them breaking into the CIA HQ at Langley) and the one where Tom Cruise climbed outside Burj Khalifa
Oh definitely no! This one stands on its own. MI has never tried to make an overarching plot universe that spans multiple movies. They’re all pretty much standalone.
The only one that even comes close is Fallout, which doesn’t “require” prior viewing to understand, but is more impactful, if you’ve previously seen Rogue Nation where the villain first appeared.