My Rewrite of Secret Invasion
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If you watched my Why I stopped making One Small Change videos video, you'll know that as a treat I decided to make on last Rewrite video. So here it is. My take on Marvel's Secret Invasion.
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dont stop the rewrites! it sounds like you're stopping bc you feel they come off as disrespectful to the writers but they are such cool though experiments it would be a huge loss if you stopped doing them!
Yeah these are easily your best work and the sole reason I subscribed. Just do one once in a while if the spirit moves you!
If the writers feel disrespected, maybe they should reach out and offer this man a job. Nando needs to write for Marvel officially!
i agree, it was this exact kind of content that brought me into his channel, he's great at it. You can tell it comes from a place of love for the characters and storytelling.
If Nando really feel uncomfortable with the idea of "rewriting" , maybe he can change his approach to "what if I could write X without studio's constraints." So to not imply that he's better than the show writers, and merely a thought experiment on what one could write without outside influences.
Please don’t stop! I haven’t checked that video about why you intend to, but this series is literally my favorite thing on TH-cam, it’s why I subscribed and I love every episode
Personally I think the rewrites are better than just raw criticism. It’s at least constructive and fun and I don’t see how it is worse than a critical review.
The most remarkable thing about the show for me was that in a show entirely about whether or not aliens could live peacefully on Earth, they did not even say the word 'Asgard' at any point. You'd think they would talk about the one successful and peaceful alien colony on Earth, if only to say why the Skrulls couldn't do the same. It felt like the showrunners must not have known about the end of Thor: Ragnorok, which is kinda wild given the film came out in 2017. Secret Invasion ends with the US declaring war on Asgard, and it seems like it was entirely accidental. I bet we never hear about that again.
O snap thanks for the Dimension 20 timestamps! And yea I don't see how they could sustain the anti-Asgardian plot point, just based on the tone set in Th4r. Especially given how they went so deep into the idea of Asgardians as gods i.e. Omnipotence City, as opposed to aliens like Skrulls and Kree
White aliens are always ok
But in definition they are alien . Beings from outside of earth . Just not Norma biological beings. They are powerful but marvel chooses to call them gods ….. they aren’t gods just very powerful beings . And everyone in the multiverse experiences an afterlife. Asguardians specifically go to Val hala . It’s explained in moonkight
To be fair, they didn't confirm Asgardians settled on Earth until 2019 during Endgame. They might have been developing by then, but delayed by COVID. Then again ... that's still more than enough time to rewrite it.
It's more than possible a New Asgard cameo was dropped during the massive reshoot process. Heck, one of the shots from the trailer shows Nick Fury walking in a park while being stalked by a pair of ravens. I was SO sure New Asgard was going to play a part in this show from that shot alone. Imagine, Fury contacting an Agent of Asgard for information or an alliance in case of all-out war!
Nando please keep doing the rewrites or “without studio constraints” as someone else commented. Genuinely among the best essay-esq videos on the platform
I think this was a pretty strong, respectful way to do a rewrite. Pick only the media that massively failed for a variety of unexpected circumstances and it still feels respectful
It was never disrespectful to begin with imo. He was never "This is bad, trash movie, I'm here to correct it... yadda yadda." It was always, "I like/appreciate the movie, but there's this part that I did not like and here's why it doesn't work for me..."
@@casualpotato44 My comment was more a response to Nando's reluctance to do more rewrites, not this one in particular. It's not that Nando is being disrespectful at all -he's always been great. It's more about that, because art is subjective (we assume everyone is making the best art they can), any rewrites are inherently "disrespectful" in big quotes (by implying the artist's best subjective opinion is a bad one, at least to the re-writer).
Point being Nando can and should do more rewrites without feeling like he's disrespecting original writers as long as he focuses on movies whose failures are beyond the writers' control.
One thing I'd add is that for the title credits sequence, instead of the gawd awful Ai mess they used, have newspaper clippings and news segments conveying exposition about important story stuff: ross getting elected, thanos , the snap, the blip, the avengers.. But have them slowly change as the series goes on, adding news reports that are in the show.
Also (and more importantly) changing news articles to reveal skrulls in photographs that (in earlier episodes) just had humans in, maybe even having news anchors in the news clips delivering their stories in later episodes *as skrulls*. This way, as the show is revealing the secret invasion the credits are slowly getting invaded (and displaying that they've always been here)
that would be SO COOL!!!
This is why Marvel should hire people that actually are creative
Nando: "I'm not going to do any more one change/rewrites."
*Secret Invasion gets released*
Nando: (Plays opening sequence of Spider-Verse) "Alright. Let's do this one last time."
Yessss
I love how you include small jokes and callbacks to other comics and movies, it shows that you really know all the source materials and wanted the tv show to succeed. 51:34 really got a chuckle out of me
Kingsley Ben-Adair going from a serial killer to a Ken doll in the span of EXACTLY a month is so iconic (Secret Invasion was June 21st, and Barbie was July 21st)
I know! I was so taken aback by that in the theater. I could not suspend my disbelief, lol.
I legit couldnt believe it was the same human. As far as highlights for a bad series go he is definitely near the top of the list.
I was giggling in the theaters
Can we talk about how dumb it is that it's now canon that all you need to replicate a superhero's power is their DNA? The implications of this are a serious oversight IMO.
Yeah lol imagine is the final fight Giah used Ironman armor lol
@@RobertDownySeniorif marvel ever gets that ridiculous, I’d probably get invested in it again. The sheer absurdity would be some great brain dead fun
@@richyc.6465 lol
@@richyc.6465 anime vibes
It's even worse that most MCU characters don't have powers related to their DNA, Probably only Hulk and Spiderman
I loved the "you looking for this" line 😆
It was an awesome payback to Age of Ultron 🎉
I love how your pitches/rewrites are so in-depth and the quality of the editing. it always feels as if I'm watch the movie or show as it unfolds. great work as always!
I'm sad there won't be any more rewrites. I enjoy these in the same manner I enjoy fanfiction and comic alternate universes. It's not a disservice to the writers if you enjoy envisioning different scenarios for beloved characters and fandoms.
Rhodes and Riri actually seems like a fun dynamic, they better get that right in armor wars.
Nando every time: im not a writer and im not claiming to be better or smarter than the writers who worked on this
Also Nando: writes a better story
Trueeee
It's much easier to improve on a weak story than to create one from scratch.
@@garyconstanza3120 true...truuuueeee. hindsight is 2020
@@garyconstanza3120 let's not forget secret invasion had an inspiring/promising source material, they (Feige and crew) decided to start from scratch by pure dumbness
Nothing in the MCU is "from scratch"
Don't stop the one small changes or rewrites! Just retitle them to movie or episode Variants where you discuss what could've been if x, y, z
This is a fun solution!
I meaaaaaan... we just call it the Nando timeline. You've already got plenty of content for a rich & fulfilled timeline that is technically canon or possible without disrespecting what the studio heads/writers establish.
@@AlMoSiCe210 I don't want the constraint that they all have to fit in together. That would be insane.
You can’t stop doing this! These are creative af and you are blocking your own creative flow, who cares what a multibillion dollar conglomerate thinks, it’s honestly their loss for not working with they’re more creative fans. This isn’t about comparing this is about learning to make a better story. Even their movies are in some ways recycled from the original medium. Do not take other’s negativity onto your shoulders because you want to tell a story on TH-cam. I cherish your videos and can not wait to show them to my kid and talk about them later in life.
The double twist of his wife playing multiple characters to help him… advancing his character development, realizing he was wrong, wanting to reconcile…
they’ve never done writing this beautiful, please don’t stop
This should’ve been an avengers movie. I hope this helps engagement metrics. Love your videos Nando!
Secret invasion honestly is a topic that needs more run time than your average movie. Ideally it would have been a series of movies or threaded through multiple projects.
The version Nando outlined was solid. There is little more that could be asked for in story designed to be told in less than 4 hours of content. By how large the cast he would want to use is I honestly do not think it could every have been run as a show budget wise but it was certainly would not have been enough to carry a movie.
They had the perfect setup for Secret Invasion in Far From Home. Literal Skrulls acting as Fury/Hill
What if the real Rhodie is alive/paralyzed, helping the skulls. "This way, I still get to be a hero." "He's not really you." "He's got my face. He's got my memories. He's got my suit. Some days I think he's more me then this version stuck in a bed."
i like this better, bc it feels so cheap Rhodey didn’t get to see iron man’s funeral
I really like how this makes Gravik more sympathetic and also more menacing.
“You looking for this?” No effing way 😭😭😭😭 I got chills. Dude thank you for writing this. So awesome
Please dont stop the rewrites! I love them so much. You can do these rewrites respectfully, kinda like making fanfiction almost, you know?
I don’t know why you are stopping the rewrites, but this 50 plus video helped me be entertained while putting my 2 month old daughter to sleep at 5 am. So thank you and please, don’t stop the rewrites !
I like how the channel has evolved over the years - I watch more Nando Cuts then the hard-work videos like these, but man... this reminded me how much I loved these from you. The Pitches scratch a lot of the same itch, but having the footage on hand like you do for these really makes them shine. Love it
the first marvel show i actively avoided because i knew it was going to be disappointing. i’m excited to see how you make this work, nando >:)
I skipped a bunch of Marvel shows.. been trying to watch Loki S2 but I don’t see the hype
@@firstlast9846me either. especially since the teaser was at the end of ANT MAN 3. i rolled my eyes in the theatre
I avoided it because I was never interested in Nick Fury, but I'm glad I dodged this bullet.
how exactly did you know?
But what about She-Hulk???
These rewrites help me realize what I found unsatisfying about a show and how much better it could have been
I personally think this show should have been called "Fury: Agents of Sword" and been all about Nick and whole bunch of Agent characters doing spy missions, with the overall arc being the Skrull's invading. The show would eventually lead into a Secret Invasion movie. They could have shown more scenes up in Saber as well, with Monica, Agent Brand, etc.
Since WandaVision, SWORD has fallen off the face of the Earth. Maybe it was established that it was going away? I can't remember. But it seems odd. I'm sure there are a tonne of characters, old and new that could have shown up in this show, with Talos of course and how he's been doing down on Earth. Eventually, they'd uncover a conspiracy that an outlying faction of Skrulls are trying to invade Earth entirely too make it their own, and perhaps Fury does try to contact Captain Marvel, or other heroes by the time he finds out, but he gets captured or stopped somehow.
There's so many ways this show could have been better, and more fun, it's such a shame we ended up with what we got. Truly one of the worst MCU projects.
"That's my superpower. I don't trust anyone."
That's very well written.
As always, our boy comes out swinging with another W. It hurts we didn't get the show this way.
This is awesome!! I love these rewrites! Helps me think through how to be intentional with themes and character arcs in my own writing! Thanks for the inspiration!!
Me too! Losing the rewrites feels like such a loss
This would honestly be the best marvel show. Please dont stop the rewrites
The “boom, you looking for this” reference would’ve been the best mcu moment since endgame
It's the end of an era 😭
Thank you for making so many clever rewrites Nando.
(special shout-out to the Bizzaro Solution, my personal favorite).
I've been half-hoping, half-waiting for this video ever since the series' finale aired, knowing you could do a much better job. Thank you for the upload!
I like the Sonya twist from a writing perspective but I also feel like producers would want to get their moneys worth with Olivia Colman
Secret Invasion should have drawn inspiration from films like John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), They Live (1988), or The Faculty (1998). Instead, we got a plot suitable for a Saturday morning cartoon.
And if you watch Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes you'll see the saturday morning cartoon doing it better
Or The Hidden (1987). But why stop on creature movies? Should've gone with Cold War movies too while we're at it.
What we got is actually a boring story for 5 hours and at the end a Saturday morning cartoon special for the finale
right
I wish Marvel movies would draw inspiration from movies as loving homages while making it their own thing instead of cheap nods to movies/shows.
nando i know you already made your decision but just for what its worth, your rewrites are brilliant and i hope you keep finding a way to suggest alternate paths things couldve gone and work thru what butterfly effects they couldve caused
"I don't think I'm a better writer than the people who actually wrote Secret Invasion." - No worries, Nando. We all do.
That’s not nice
I'm sad this this is the last rewrite, but will admit that you truly saved the best one for last. Thanks for these Nando. Always looking forward to what you have going on next.
Your re-writes are always thought provoking and entertaining. Hard to believe someone hasn't signed you by now. Question: is it easier for you to come up with a better storyline once a show has aired or have these ideas been in your head from the beginning. Regardless, you're doing a great job. Keep up the amazing content!
I'm not someone who hates marvel or enjoys seeing them in a rough patch or even hope they fail forever, however this show really was a failure to me sadly, I love this rewrite and I love that you did this
Please Nando don't stop the rewrites/1 small change videos. They are some of my favorite. I start watching because of them.
I know you have the benefit of hindsight and the knowledge of the final outcome and the perception of it when you make these, but I'm nevertheless always so impressed with how thorough and well-thought your rewrites are - Great job with this one! I get why you stopped making these types of videos but man I'm gonna miss them because you're great at it and I think I would have loved this version of Secret Invasion!
Rewatching this now and just realized Fury knowing "a guy who can tell everything about someone just by their scent" is setting up Wolverine. Subtle!
I love this pitch. I think it's a wonderful way to learn about writing. And it's delivered in a great, friendly way. Gonna miss these videos. Thanks, Nando!
I still am not a fan of Rhodey being a Skroll since Civil War but the way you did it is definitely better than what the show did.
This pitch is great. Every beat works. I hope you continue with these because you are very talented and these are super entertaining.
51:32 I LOVE this throwback line, “You lookin’ for this?” would be so fun to see come back
Dude you connecting the one guy from black widow is so old MCU I love it. Your rewrites are becoming my head canon lol
I appreciate that you didn’t change your voice for any characters except Harrison Ford’s
I love the way you set things up subtley, mentioning trask or shi'ar without it being significant yet. Also im sad armor wars isnt your rhodey now
This rewrite is so captivating. I just finished the series and something just felt wrong. I wasn’t hooked or really moved by much in it as a lot felt flat. I’m thirty minutes in here and I really feel this pacing would have made the series shine!
This is phenomenal, these usually are. It's very different to write these retrospectively, but still. ❤
Gravik inheriting the Extremis' explosion weakness was such a clever way to beat him!
Rewrites are the best nando videos plz don't stop it. 🙏
Your rewrite is literally perfect, I am going to miss these videos. Thank you for everything you do!
"This should be an avengers movie because it helps engagement metrics or something"
These are my favourite content you make and the level of detail and quality of ideas is absolutely unparalleled online. PLEASE DON'T STOP DOING THEM!!!!!
The Nick fury lines were spot on and hilarious you gotta keep these up bro
They need to hire you. Your story is way more entertaining than what they produced.
On y2K as a programmer, we spent literal billions of dollars industry wide to take the needed steps to keep the digital world running smoothly, because at the heart, most of our calender systems could not track centuries, and thus everything interacting even remotely with dates, including but not limited to operating systems, and dependency management systems (how programmers reuse code from other projects) had to be reworked, and then everything using those systems had to be reworked. preparations started as much as 20 years before Y2K at some companies.
Not relevant to the topic of this video.
@@EclipsingTNT video blows it off like it was all a hoax.
Keep doing the rewrites. As long as Marvel aren't putting the work in to get full scripts before filming, I dont think anyone owes them any grace.
Your rewrites are the best.
"Lookin for THIS?" Was the best friggin part. U write for the plucky marvel movie tide turn at the end of a battle so dang well it was perfect bruh 😂
38:47 Y2K was actually for real a problem -- it just got massively sensationalized AND it actually got solved, and between those two things, everyone who remembers it assumes it wasn't a big deal. But it *was actually a problem*! Ok, nitpick over.
This was really cool. Your analysis of why the tv show's premise fell apart was really helpful, and (among other things) you did a really effective job at editing together the discussion between Gravik and Talos -- the visuals you used for it were very effective.
I cannot believe you made a use of the "Boom, you lookin' for this?" line :DD That's actually genius.
51:34 “Boom, you looking for this?”
This is dope! Your dialogue is super solid and fun
I love that little "Boom! You lookin for this?" 😂
Does anyone know the name of the music playing when Nick and Maria were talking and he said he took a chance on her? It’s absolutely beautiful
I love when you do these. Please don’t stop.
This is a great re write - I wish the studio would pay more attention to posts like yours!
I love the idea of making secret invasion a pseudo avengers type crossover with the shows, with rambo from wandavision, powerbroker from tfatws, a cameo of the new avengers in ep 1, she hulk references, etc. It gives the tv shows a bit more connective tissue to both the movies and other tv shows.
"Which meeeeans..."
"😞 Yeah, I'm gonna go down there and punch him."
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Please don't stop one small change! That's the main reason I subscribed/watch this channel. I love the reimagining of the work. It's such a cool exercise and demonstration of versatility. I even got my partner and comic friends to watch. I look forward to these.
Please keep doing these.
It’s amazing. You are amazing.
This is light years away from the source material and thank you. This is what this series was supposed to be.
Loved this! Great work. It's amazing that they couldn't pull off anything close to this. You intertwined the themes and made it work perfectly for this day and age. Furys speech at the end telling his enemy that he is worth defending, was beautiful. Having both Ross and Gravek be the antagonists - the authority and the terrorist, with both terrans and skrulls in the crossfire and the only solution is understanding and trust. And in the end it works. Perdect. You did callbacks to everything from Civil War to Thor Ragnarok to Captain Marvel and Falcon and the Winter Soldier, making it feel like a full aand coherent world and not like just random cameos. Please keep doing rewrite videos!
Another excellent rewrite. I'm definitely in the "just make this Avengers 5" camp (especially with the next Avengers film still years away), but this is an excellent re-working within the 6-episode streaming show framework, and showing the team in action at the beginning is a nice touch, plus the inclusions of Bolivar Trask and Sharon Carter. Picking up Sharon's thread really helps this feel like a vital middle chapter like CIVIL WAR, rather than the optional side-story it feels like now.
Also, you really nailed Harrison Ford's vibe with the President Ross scenes, it's enough to make me forget that we haven't seen him in the role yet.
That was perfect Nando don't stop doing these
This completely pulls in the old feel of the MCU while still feeling fresh, as well as the complexity of the comics and how there are constant overlapping settings and characters at times. I watched the entirety of Secret Invasion for some reason and hearing you rewrite it makes me think the writers just sit in a void or something.
Please keep doing the re-writes. they are what made me subscribe cause they just so interesting to watch and imagine else worlds. In a perfect world, someone would animate your re-waits and we actually get to watch them as shows
This was great. Keep doing these. They’re great.
Well done. Your rewrite is brilliant and very true to the MCU we knew and loved. You make all the choices seem so natural, the reveals, the payoffs, and the ways it ties in with MCU past and present. Very satisfying show that should have been.
Another fantastic rewrite! I hope you do more in the future
Yay! I love the rewrites!
Absolutely love the rewrites. Also wish you kept doing them but I understand! Thank you for the awesome video and awesome thoughts!
...the fact that you Incorporated "looking for this?" into the mix as organically as you did is testament to your skill. And I wasn't ready!
Someone in Marvel should hire you. Seriously. I was more invested in your rewrite just by listening to it than watching actual Secret Invasion.
Don't stop the rewrites man , I need my headcanon
Man. This is the best video I’ve watched in weeks. After just binge watching this show…this rewrite hits different fam. Wow well done
loved this!
echoing the call to please not stop the rewrites, theyre some of your favourite work of mine
I enjoy your videos so much and I’m genuinely sad to see you pivot away; but I’m excited for future movie pitches, I can’t wait to see what you come up with next.
This is amazing.
The only issue is Rhodes death. It still downplays him not being there for Tony's death.
Dear lords, this is so much better. The little bits to reference the greater universe, the explanation for the lack of involvement of powered characters which has become part and parcel of the MCU because we suspend less disbelief as we do in comics, consideration of future installments like the Rhodey and Riri part (and Maria Hill), the Andrew Garfield in No Way Home style redemption for Sam and Rhodes. And probably my favorite, the Wolverine can smell Skrulls easter egg.
I would love for you to keep doing rewrites. It’s the very thing that allowed me to find your channel.
Love the rewrites... please keep them coming!❤
You have an incredible understanding of the two most important parts of screenwriting - character motivations and how to ratchet up tension. This is an incredible story. Thank you for sharing it.
PS - I laughed out loud at least three times in this video with just your placeholder dialogue alone.
Keep the rewrites going man. They are how I first found your channel. They don't come off as ill-willed at all. It's very smart and entertaining.
Secret Invasion(the show D+ gave) is telegraphing how bad the MCU X Men will be. Disney has shown, time and time again, how it is afraid to touch any possibly polarizing subject with any semblance of reality/authenticity. X Men stories can't be told via focus group written scripts. Secret Invasion and FATWS both lacked authenticity bc Disney is scared to be 'controversial.'
There's a call for a genocide at the end of the show but sure, Marvel fears getting controversial.
Ironically, Nando's rewrite loses all the edge of the orginal show.
I missed these videos sooooo much!