Longtime viewers already used to seeing William Sadler as the President may be surprised to see Dermot Mulroney as the current one - real world term limits combined with the Time Skip of Endgame means that he really shouldn't still be there anyway.
If the rogue Skrulls only assumed Everett Ross's identity after the events of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, it actually works very well in their favor. After all, assuming the identity of an ex-CIA agent in a foreign country makes a lot of sense if he's on the run and/or in hiding somewhere after his espionage-related crimes. And since Ross knows a lot about the inner workings of the U.S government, it would make the infiltration of the country much easier if they manage to retain his memories...
Why was Monica Rambeau so visibly discomforted with Carol's name being mentioned in WandaVision? Well, seeing as though she bonded with G'iah in childhood, it's likely she isn't just miffed with her honorary aunt ignoring her, she's also probably upset that she hasn't upheld her promise to help her friend find a real home, just like how the other Renegade Splinter Faction Skrulls perceive her.
Rhodey seeming to have a reasonably high up position in the U.S. government makes a lot of sense. In the first two Iron Man films he worked as a high-up colonel in the air force, and in Iron Man 2 in particular he was big about Tony potentially starting to work in the government as well and to not go it alone. In Iron Man 3 his role as the Iron Patriot is explicitly mentioned to be a U.S. government thing. In Avengers: Age of Ultron his opening scene has him imply he is still doing the same things as War Machine for the government. In Avengers: Infinity War his first scene has him be the only visible Avenger at the compound communicating with Ross, and while he does appear to be disillusioned, that seems to be more on the Accords which are now defunct than on the government itself. Lastly, Avengers: Endgame shows that he seems to be the only link of the new group conversing with Natasha to the U.S. government as well.
Fury limping when he first lands on Earth, aside from an indication of his age and rust, has another explanation: he's been on a space station for a long time and isn't used to Earth's gravity.
The AI-generated intro sequence was controversial with viewers, but this was almost certainly deliberate. One of the biggest criticisms against AI imagery is that it's getting a little too good at imitating real art and photography, causing viewers to question what's real and what's fake... the exact Paranoia Fuel this show runs on.
The DNA samples that G'iah finds belong to Groot (who can extend its limbs), Cull Obsidian (who has a rock solid skin), a Frost Beast (frost is... clear? Maybe its Jotunheim physiology could make it invisible to heat sensors?), and Extremis (fire). Elements similar to the powers of a certain group of heroes, which will allow the creation of the Super Skrull way before their introduction.
It may seem off-putting that Fury's Skrull wife Priscilla would take a form that is likely his ideal woman rather than being with him as her natural self, but for Skrulls, shapeshifting is an intrinsic part of their biology and culture. Shifting for mating purposes is probably 100% mundane for them, rather than how humans might see it as her giving up her identity for him.
Why haven't Fury and Carol found a new home for the Skrulls yet? There's a myriad of reasons. For starters, there are plenty of uninhabitable planets and space is huge, even for someone as fast as Carol. And even if they find an inhabitable one, it's more likely to already be populated than not. Fury cites Humans Are Bastards as why Skrulls can't live on Earth but as we've already seen from the cosmic side of the MCU, all the other sentient species have the same tendency towards violence and hate, including a species specifically bred to not have those tendencies. And even then, they have to find a planet where the Kree won't just find them and exterminate them.
On another note, the reason why the Skrulls can’t just live on a planet that is safe from the Kree like Xandar is the physical reason why Thanos did what he did: overpopulation. If every inhabited planet is facing overpopulation, than those planets would not be any different. Also, there are not a thousand, but a million Skrull refugees. No one would want to invite a population of a million if there is an overpopulation issue.
Another reason that is more of conjecture since it is never outright said, is that other aliens would be wary about the race of shapeshifting aliens that want to take refuge in their planet.
Fury's story to Talos about segregation before asking about how many Skrulls on Earth is Foreshadowing that Fury doesn't believe that humans and Skrulls can actually live in peace. He genuinely thinks that humanity is not ready to be able to accept them, even as he's sympathetic.
Fury tears into Talos for bringing a million Skrulls to Earth, saying humans won't be able to tolerate another species to share Earth with, while conspicuously leaving out New Asgard. Well, there are several reasons. One, the Asgardians are Human Aliens who are quite attractive, making them more palpable to humans than reptilians. Two, Asgardians can't shapeshift, so humans won't be paranoid about that. Three, Earth already has a good impression of Asgard thanks to Thor and the Asgardians defending Earth during the final battle with Thanos, whereas the Skrulls have done good things for humanity in secret. Four, there are only enough Asgardians for a single town, so humanity doesn't have to worry about them taking over the world compared to the Skrulls who number at least around one million.
The Reveal of the Harvest in episode 5 helps explain majorly why Fury has stuck to having no major superheroes help him out in this adventure. They would be massively pissed at him if they learned what the Harvest was.
There’s an easy way to find out in which installments Rhodey was a Skrull. And the easy way is the installments where he has his cybernetic leg reinforcements. In Civil War, Rhodey got the leg reinforcements. Rhodey was definitely not a Skrull in Civil War, because while he survived his fall, it was catastrophic enough that his Skrull form would have been revealed, like how Talos’ was being revealed when he was shot and dying in episode 4. In Infinity War and Endgame, Rhodey clearly has the reinforcements on, so he is likely not a Skrull in those movies. What makes it more unlikely that Rhodey was a Skrull is that Tony was around during the Decimation and he would have known if his best friend was acting off, if the Skrulls weren’t already using the memory machines to get all the memories of their kidnapped. Also, what can make it easier to ascertain in what installments Rhodey was a Skrull is how long the Skrulls were using the memory machines.
Rhodey being a Skrull puts a new light on asking Captain Marvel where the hell she was during Endgame.
Also when you think about that interaction, he asks Carol, "where has she been?" He doesn't ask her about what her abilities are or what makes her believe that she is the one who can take down Thanos. While one could argue Carol told “Rhodey” and the rest of the Avengers about her abilities off-screen, at that point all Carol has shown was flight, incredible strength, and super speed, all abilities Rhodes has seen before and nothing to make him think that she could do any better than the rest of them did... unless he was already familiar and aware of Carol's powers and abilities.
This also makes his line to Nebula about how "we work with what we got" hit a lot differently.
Fury apparently succumbing to radiation exposure in the Skrull compound is very unrealistic, as is the idea that simply taking iodine pills would prevent the effects of such exposure (iodine pills are used to mitigate the risk of thyroid cancer developing from specific routes of exposure - they do nothing to prevent tissue damage). The Reveal that Fury was actually G'iah all along explains this nicely - as a Skrull who is naturally immune to the effects of radiation exposure, and having grown up mostly surrounded by other Skrulls, she would have no idea what kind of effects radiation actually has on a human body. The same goes for Gravik, explaining why he would taunt Fury for losing his iodine pills as if they granted him some temporary immunity.
G'iah overpowering Gravik in the end, despite having the same powers, is easily explained: the Hulk's DNA. Hulk's power level is equal to his rage, the more enraged he is, the stronger he becomes, meaning G'iah's rage against Gravik for killing her parents overpowers Gravik's childish temper tantrum, making her more powerful than him.
Furthermore, its a matter of how much they actually know about the people they're copying and what their abilities do. In the end, Gravik ultimately just wanted a select few in addition to Captain Marvel's, so he doesn't bother with much else except the typical heavy hitters like Marvel, Hulk, Cull Obsidian and Groot, with his most left-field pick being Ebony Maw. G'iah, meanwhile, uses more creative and secondary powers that you wouldn't expect like Ghost's invisibility, Mantis's mental suggestion and Loki's inherited cryokinesis. They both had the same tools, but G'iah knew enough to utilize more of them.
Unless some super-advanced life-sustaining or stasis technology is at work, the various human captives forcibly held in electrical sedation at the rebel Skrull faction's hideout (seen in the first episode) wouldn't survive more than about three days each without continued hydration, or a few weeks without nutrition. A full Kill and Replace may not be far off for them.
The creepy little girl that Fury spotted while on his walk was led away by her mother. Later, we find out that that girl was Gravik in disguise. The best-case scenario is that the mother was also a Skrull to make Gravik less suspicious. Worst-case, Gravik kidnapped and replaced a little girl with that girl's mother being none the wiser. And on that note, what happened to the mother?
All of those Skrulls that immigrated to Earth are presumably the surviving half of the population of Skrulls that were Snapped. When the Snap was undone, did that mean they came back to find all of their friends and family missing from wherever they'd been in hiding before?
How did the Skrulls seemingly get the drop on Rhodey, a superhero with a highly advanced suit? And how long has Rhodey been replaced? Depending on how far back his replacement was, Raava could have highly classified Avenger-level intel.
This also puts the whole scene with Nebula in Endgame about not always having had their current appearance but working with what they had to, which at that point was seemingly referring to his paralysis, in an entirely different light. For that matter it also might explain his comical but rather unsuperheroic suggestion of just murdering Thanos as a baby.
However, is not that odd that Rhodes wouldn't be too sympathetic to baby Thanos, considering all the death and destruction he bring to the universe.
Fury is understandably concerned about Gravik getting his hands on Carol Danvers' DNA, but there are many other Avengers whose genetic material would be deadly in his hands. Gravik's group is already frightening, sure, but imagine a Skrull with the skills of a super soldier or Black Panther, with the ability to hulk out, or perhaps most disastrously, the functionally limitless powers of the Scarlet Witch.
At the end, Varra reveals that the Kree are willing to make peace with the Skrulls. Meanwhile, the human race is embroiled in a paranoia-fueled vigilante campaign to exterminate the Skrulls based on Gravik's actions. Think about that: the Kree are now the good guys in comparison to humanity.
New Skrullos is radioactive so those kidnapped humans, including agent Ross and Rhodey, are not going to live much longer, not to mention the huge time loss between their capture and freedom.
Ritson has declared all off-world born species as enemy combatants. What does this mean for the Asgardians in Norway? What if one of Peter Quill's old Guardians buddies Mantis, Nebula, Drax, Rocket, or Groot should decided to come over to celebrate Christmas with him and pay him a surprise visit? As shown with Skrull Shirley Sagar and the very human UK Prime Minister Pamela Lawton, just because only the US declared war against aliens does not mean that only the Skrulls and other aliens in America are being hunted.
Imagine Thor's reaction to humans killing his fellow citizens and what he can do with his powers...
Imagine a group of weekend warriors rolling into New Asgard, thinking Thor's their only superhero, and not realizing that, while Thor is an exceptional example of his people, Asgardians are still functionally gods...
G'iah having the combined powers of the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Black Order, Thanos, Captain Marvel and Wanda makes her one of the most powerful mortal beings in the universe. Considering her strong loyalty to her own species and her grey view on humanity, let's just hope that she didn't lose her sanity and pull a Wanda-like rampage...
During his phone call with Fury, Ritson says he should get the Skrulls "off my planet." Not "our planet", "my" planet. Considering how hideously corrupt the rest of the US government has been portrayed post-Blip, with a conflict in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever revolving around the US's attempts to secure vibranium for shady reasons, it seems as though America has sights on world domination. What horrible, horrible irony that the superheroes' greatest upcoming enemy is their own nation.
By Ritson's public broadcast provoking common citizens into murdering any Skrulls they find, humans have been killed in the crossfire. A British Prime Minister has been shot dead due to being mistaken for a Skrull. Who knows what other nations would end up losing their politicians due to an American President's words. This could easily turn into an international crisis in which the rest of the world would hold United States chiefly responsible. Despite Nick Fury's actions throughout the show to avert Nuclear War, it seems like the world is on the brink of World War III anyway.
