Invasion What The President Finally Using [SPOILER] Means For The Show

Invasion: What The President Finally Using [SPOILER] Means For The Show

It took five episodes to get there, but the President’s admission of an alien takeover opens up numerous narrative doors for Apple TV+’s Invasion.

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Invasion What The President Finally Using [SPOILER] Means For The Show

Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Apple TV+’s Invasion.

The president’s long-overdue admission of an alien threat in Invasion ushers in some much-needed narrative development for the show. Invasion chronicles the lives of several disparate groups around the globe as they contend with a looming extraterrestrial threat in Apple TV+’s new flagship series. While Invasion has certainly delivered ample servings of drama and tension to date, the actual word “alien” has been unquestionably taboo across the first five episodes of the Apple TV+ original.

This silence is finally broken at the end of episode 5, “A Holy Place,” in two scenes, however, as the President of the United States addresses the world through a broadcast in over 100 languages. Trevante (Shamier Anderson), Aneesha (Golshifteh Farahani), and various other key characters listen or watch in horror as the President confirms that Earth is indeed under attack, before stating humans “are not alone in the universe” and are subject to “an alien arrival.” Simultaneously, Akira Hashimoto (Shingo Usami) confirms to Mitsuki (Shioli Kutsuna) that the sounds the JASA shuttle has recorded are, in, fact, alien.

Yet of these two examples, it is the President’s use of the word alien that finally forces new narratives to unfold in the show. Up to this point, the pacing of Simon Kinberg’s Invasion has been quagmired in attempts to portray the human toll of the alien presence at hand while repeatedly shying away from introducing the extraterrestrials themselves. The president’s admission of a worldwide alien threat will allow Invasion’s narrative to pick up speed while also increasing the series’ level of drama as its human characters deal with concrete proof of an alien attack.

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Invasion What The President Finally Using [SPOILER] Means For The Show

While the JASA scientists had previously alluded to an otherwordly attack on their shuttle, the President’s speech is the first time Invasion decidedly confirms humanity’s knowledge of the aliens lingering above the planet. This is a shocking fact when looked at in context, as the Apple TV+ Invasion series has taken half of its first season (five episodes) to definitively introduce an alien conflict despite the show itself being marketed as the story of an attempted alien subjugation of Earth. While this prior lack of character clarity has undoubtedly allowed ample room for each group’s stories and motivations to be developed, Invasion is fast developing a sense of inertia that undoubtedly needed to be halted.

Yet, the President finally using the word alien can completely galvanize Invasion’s story and narrative pace for the series’ remaining five episodes. Invasion making its global population aware of the alien threat rather than attributing the global disasters to random acts means the Apple TV+ original can begin to introduce tantalizing storylines such as governments launching offensives against the aliens or civilians attempting to combat the threat themselves. To date, Invasion’s major characters have acted with gross naivety regarding the bizarre events unfolding around them, with the only exception being Sheriff Tyson (Sam Neill), whose overt willingness to “believe” seemingly gets him killed in Invasion’s inaugural episode. As a result, Invasion’s alien word has arrived not a minute too soon for the Apple TV series, which can use this nexus scene as a springboard for a faster-paced and gripping narrative to close its first season.

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