Some days, the Marvel news train delivers some positive parcels that make you excited for the future of superhero media, but other times it’ll just dump a load of disappointment on your doorstep. Unfortunately, the latter is what’s on the docket today as Secret Invasion hits a new low of critical revulsion as one of its stars goes and confirms what we all desperately didn’t want to be the case. Meanwhile, the comic book movie darling of the year, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, suffers from some shocking whistle-blowing.
Across the Spider-Verse and Quantumania having the exact same problem proves the superhero movie industry needs to change
We didn’t previously imagine that there was much at all to connect the beloved Spider-Verse sequel with Marvel’s infamous Phase Five opener, but it turns out that they were both plagued by grueling working conditions for their animators/visual effects team. Mirroring similar revelations that came out after Quantumania‘s release, those who worked on the Sony animated film have hit back at the high-pressure, endlessly elongated working environment they had to endure. What with these two examples and The Flash, it definitely seems like Hollywood needs to take a good, hard look at how it treats its animators and VFX artists.
Secret Invasion plummets to Thor: Love and Thunder levels of critical revulsion after one very controversial episode
Secret Invasion already opened to the weakest Rotten Tomatoes score of any Marvel Disney Plus series bar none, but now it’s sunk even further on the review-aggregate site to match the low score touted by Thor: Love and Thunder, the much-maligned 2022 effort from Taika Waititi. Given the wildly different tones of these two MCU projects, it’s somewhat ironic that they are sitting at the exact same rating on RT. Presumably, the tumbling critics’ score is a result of Secret Invasion‘s controversial opening episode, and by the looks of things, that controversy’s only going to continue…
Cobie Smulders confirms the evidence of our own eyes, but fans still don’t know who we can trust
We all assumed the tragic twist at the end of Secret Invasion episode one was a big fakeout, but according to what seem to be genuine and honest comments from star Cobie Smulders, that thing that happened to Maria Hill appears to have really happened. Although, of course, fans know all too well that Marvel actors kind of have to lie sometimes to keep the studio’s secrets — Andrew Garfield, I’m looking at you — so it’s easy to suspect that this is all still part of some big con. Especially when we have factual evidence pointing to that conclusion. But we’ll just have to keep watching Secret Invasion and see.
