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Episode One: Resurrection
- When Nick Fury descends upon Earth from the Sabre for the first time in three years, he's immediately picked up by Maria Hill and the two share a warm hug. No matter how much time passes, she's got him.
- Talos and Nick greet each other as the close friends and brothers-in-arms they've always been and he tells the former how sorry he is for the loss of Soren. Talos assures him he's alright now and reminds him how much Soren loved Nick and his planet, something Talos wants to uphold for her sake.
- Talos also happily shows Nick that a plant unique to Skrullos has now evolved to thrive on Earth soil, which he always believed would happen. For him, it's more proof that the Skrulls and humans can co-exist in peace.
- While making fun of the fact that he's not quite the man he used to be, Sonya Falsworth tells Fury - not as a colleague but as a friend - that he should go back to the space station, because she's worried this is one fight he's just not ready for.
- Despite how ruthless Gravik is, the community he's built does seem to be a happy one. G'iah even welcomes a new recruit Bito and surprises him with food from Skrullos, which they grow on the base for their people. G'iah herself, despite how angry and bitter she is towards her father, also does genuinely seem to want to improve the lives of her fellow Skrulls and is delighted to make (what she thinks to be) a positive impact.
- G'iah visiting her father Talos to warn him of Gravik's plans. While she's still angry with him, it's clear the two still love each other and thankfully he seems to have convinced her to abandon Gravik's cause.
- As tragic as her sudden death is, Maria Hill died doing a job she was damn good at; protecting people and trying to stop a dangerous threat from getting any worse. She was a hero right until the bitter end.
Episode Two: Promises
- After years away from home, Fury reunites with Varra, his Skrull wife.
Episode Three: Betrayed
- Talos is nothing but kind to Fairbanks' son, Zachary, as he gently reassures the boy that his father will be okay despite the otherwise tense situation.
Episode Four: Beloved
- Varra/Priscilla revealing the circumstances of how she gained her human identity. A Dr. Priscilla Davis was dying of a heart defect, and had decided not to tell her family to spare them the pain of watching her slow death. While initially just scouting her as a human identity who could grow closer to Fury, Varra became a good friend to Davis, and eventually revealed her true nature when it became clear that the doctor only had hours left to live, asking if Davis would let her assume her identity for a chance to fall in love. Davis agreed, on three conditions; that Varra would bury her at sea, that she would continue to be a daughter to Davis' parents, and that she would never do anything to hurt Nick.
- Fury and Priscilla's confrontation culminates in the two of them simultaneously grabbing their guns and firing... only for both of them to intentionally miss because neither of them can bring themselves to harm the person they love. Judging by their reactions afterwards, it seems there's hope for them to heal the divide that's grown between them.Fury: I don't know if this means we should get divorced, or we should renew our vows.
Episode Five: Harvest
- Talos' funeral. It's a quiet and sombre occasion and there are only two Skrulls in attendance (and not even Nick was able to attend because of everything going on), with his daughter being one of them. She sombrely gives her father a prayer in the Skrull language, even noting he was a respected and loved general and family man and deserved a far more venerated funeral than the barren and crude one he was given. The only possible consolation is that Talos is with Soren again.
- G'iah says she doesn't know the proper Skrull funeral prayer, but Varra says she does, then recites it for Talos. It's tragic — G'iah, like many diaspora or refugee people, has lost pieces of her culture as she's focused on just surviving. But it's also beautiful — Varra has this missing piece, and if, one day, enough Skrulls can come together in peace, they can restore what's slipping away from them.
- Fury acknowledging at the end that while he may be the only one who can stop Gravik now, there's a very high chance he will indeed die in the battle to come, but he's going to fight anyway because this was his mess to clean up and he will not rest until it's done. Even Sonya, who's usually quite Stiff Upper Lip (befitting a British Proper Lady), is visibly upset.
- Despite only meeting very briefly, Varra and G'iah have seemingly developed a strong bond, with the former staying by her at Talos' funeral and taking the latter's hand in a motherly manner to assure her that things will be alright.
- A solemn example, but Varra is very quick to silence G'iah on the matter of her marriage to Nick. Despite everything, she has no regrets for the life they spent together and whether or having to remain in human form did nothing to change that.
Episode Six: Home
- Fury kissing his wife, Varra, in her true Skrull form, showing that it is indeed her he loves and not — as she had long feared — merely her human form.
- The alliance between G’iah and Sonya can be seen as this in a certain light. Is the deal essentially mutual admittance of using each other to get what the other wants? Yes. Is it still a sign that humans and Skrulls can eventually find some sort of common ground in the future? Absolutely. After all, a foundation has to start somewhere. Talos and Fury’s dream may not be dead after all.
- Fury telling Varra that the Kree have said they are willing to share their planet with the Skrulls. Yes, the Kree. Varra is understandably cynical, but as other shows and films have shown, the Snap and the Blip have brought out the best in people, not just the worst.
