r/Invincible • u/mwthecool Omni-Mod • Jul 22 '23

Invincible [Episode Discussion] - Atom Eve Special EPISODE DISCUSSION

Invincible: Atom Eve

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u/FrugFred Allen the Alien Nov 10 '23

Just watched this and am very confused about a lot of things.

I liked the character development, but almost all the dialogue felt badly written and unnatural.

Along with that it seems weird that she fought with shields etc, when she can just capture anyone instantly and ruin their weapons. Why fight someone with a gun, if you can turn the gun into a rope that's captured them? Or their clothes into a rock that goes into the ground?

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u/_Tony_Swan_ Nov 11 '23

I just finished watching this, and by far the my biggest complaint is the writing. I can ignore contrivance and cliches, but not when it's this clunky.

I've only watched this episode of Invincible, so I can't speak for how they treat this character in the base series, but her powers do seem so wasted. Her ability to manipulate matter is a very cool premise, bad-ass even. However, most of the time, they just have her creating these hard-light shapes (which presumably wouldn't be matter?). Just seems odd that if you have a character that can make whatever creative thing they want to fly around with or use as a shield, they choose translucent pink circle, and smaller translucent pink circle. Maybe the donor father we never get to hear about was a Pink Lantern.

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u/ILoveRegenHealth Nov 27 '23

I've only watched this episode of Invincible, so I can't speak for how they treat this character in the base series, but her powers do seem so wasted. Her ability to manipulate matter is a very cool premise, bad-ass even. However, most of the time, they just have her creating these hard-light shapes (which presumably wouldn't be matter?). Just seems odd that if you have a character that can make whatever creative thing they want to fly around with or use as a shield, they choose translucent pink circle, and smaller translucent pink circle. Maybe the donor father we never get to hear about was a Pink Lantern.

And I'd give it a pass if they explained that making very complex, brand new objects takes more concentration and effort, and making simple pink shapes or glassy-shields is easier on the fly. But they don't establish that. She makes a cheeseburger and new clothes and rocks on bad guy's feet with relative ease too. I wish Kirkman and others put a little thought into the details and maybe thought of a limit to her powers. The more complicated stuff she needs extra time to conjure, for instance.

Because in the climactic scene, it makes absolutely no sense why Eve just doesn't change that villain's gun into anything else (even a toy gun). In a way, she let that scientist friend die.