From a storytelling standpoint, Carol should have been absolutely crushed when she discovered the truth about the Skrulls and the Kree; it should have been a character-building, learning moment for her. However, she continues to act in the way that she does after the huge revelation. Her reaction to the truth was basically a non-reaction, really. She was like "Well okay, let me beat up the bad guys now." The only lesson that she really learns is that she is even "more awesome" than she already knew. She goes from unknowingly committing genocide against innocents to crashing through multiple ships full of Kree members who were brainwashed just like her (as the movie establishes that the Kree builds their armies on brainwashing others). She even yells "WOOOO!" while she's killing those thousands of people, clearly enjoying herself like a psychopath. This is hardly a HERo. She behaves like a villain throughout the entire movie.
It should have been the midway point of the movie, and confused her as to what was real or not.
The Skrulls transform, so their main weapon is deception. She already knows they can read minds and immediately assumes they may implanted something in her brain that fucked her up.At no point after the revelation does she keep these things in mind, presumably because main Skrull whose name I can't recall pinky swore he was being forealsies. Why? Why would she just roll with it. Rambeau and Fury didn't know it was true any more than she did, so it's not like they could have handwaved it as them assuring her it was the truth.
My version? The same thing happens, but way earlierr. Her breakdown is a legitimate breakdown, she freaks the fuck out and as she's melting down, she Super Sayains and it fucks up her weird cripple-chip they put in her, allowing her to fly again. This fucks her up
more, and she just yeets the fuck off the planet for a while. Plot plot plot, Jude Law character finds her and realizes the chip is fucked up and she can cuck him at any given time, but mentally she's still a mess and is still halfway erring on the side of trusting him and manipulates that. More plot happens and it seems like she assumes the Skrulls were full of shit and is going to kill them, THEN the "refugee ship" twist and she starts second guessing herself again. THEN Jude Law and Co assume the brainwashing has faded and she's turned on them and try to kill her. Because the cripple-chip has fucked up by this point, nothing they do does kill her, but the attempt makes it apparent that they were indeed the villains all along, so then she turns on them and then the rest plays out as normal.
All of that is only like 3 or 4 key scenes, and then essentially the same movie. I have the opposite conclusion, they have a lot they could do with the character, and could very easily have done it, and chose not too. Like I said in my initial rundown when I saw it, they were determined to make it a quirky, Whedon-influenced comedy, and (barring the Brie/SLJ shit which I legit liked), all of it was cringeinducingly bad.
That, however, was shit they added, and with my (again, very limited) knowledge of the character, I think what I just shat out would have not only flowed better for that narrative, but made that a much more interesting character going forward.
