r/Invincible • u/mwthecool Omni-Mod • Nov 17 '23

Invincible [Episode Discussion] - S02E03 - This Missive, This Machination! EPISODE DISCUSSION

Episode 3 - This Missive, This Machination!

Mark starts his college career, Debbie struggles with personal trauma, and Allen the Alien returns home to find a new threat facing the Coalition of Planets.

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u/Grilledwaffles Nov 17 '23

Peter Cullens voice is so distinguishable i couldn't get the transformers noises out my head while watching, "AUTO BOTS LETS ROLL OUT EEHRRAHOHOHEHREEHR"

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u/anders_138 Nov 17 '23

For real the dude just SOUNDS like a robot

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u/SalvadorZombie Nov 18 '23

No, robots sound like him because he's been the definitive voice of the "humanoid robot" (along with Frank Welker's Megatron) for 40 years.

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u/justwhalingonthemoon Nov 18 '23

No, no I think previous comment is on to something.

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u/ObamaEatsBabies Nov 17 '23

Exactly lmao I was so distracted

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u/5unnay Nov 17 '23

Holy shit my sides reading that "EEHRRAHOHOHEHREEHR".

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u/Phazushift Nov 20 '23

si optimum pride!

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u/Anjunabeast Nov 17 '23

His toonami ads were so hype

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '23

“He will see the return of his son. Pray for those who took him.” -Promo for DBZ: Dead Zone

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u/Kevomac Nov 17 '23

Gotta imagine him going into the booth and asking;

"So what kind of voice do you want me to do?"

"Just do Optimus"

"I can do others"

"Naaah"

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u/HataToryah Nov 17 '23

All I could hear was, "Have you heard of the hit game among us"

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u/Corazon144 Nov 17 '23

I hear Linkin Park in the background.

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u/Neversoft4long Nov 17 '23

Yeah he’s pretty much always gonna be Optimus in everything he voices lmao.

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u/NottheArkhamKnight Nov 18 '23

I heard more of the old Toonami promo narrator from this performance moreso than Optimus.

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u/Dumbusta Nov 18 '23

Especially when one of his first lines had the word "scourge" in it lmao

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u/SalvadorZombie Nov 18 '23

As someone who grew up watching the G1 show from the 80s, his voice is one of my anchors. It was critical that he was the voice in the movies too, even though the movies are so bad (except for Bumblebee which was really, really great and so of course it's the one that doesn't get a sequel).

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u/YourbestfriendShane Nov 20 '23

Rise of the Beasts was the sequel..

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u/Unicron_Gundam Nov 20 '23

There's a sequel to Bumblebee called Rise of the Beasts https://youtu.be/itnqEauWQZM?t=7s

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u/SalvadorZombie Nov 21 '23

That's a Transformers sequel, not a Bumblebee sequel. Stop being weird.

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u/Unicron_Gundam Nov 21 '23

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u/SalvadorZombie Nov 21 '23

You know what I mean. That's like saying Bumblebee is a direct sequel to the movie before it. The series should have continued under Travis Knight, and instead it's now back in Bay's hands.

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u/Unicron_Gundam Nov 21 '23

You know what I mean. That's like saying Bumblebee is a direct sequel to the movie before it.

Are you thinking that Rise of the Beasts is a sequel to The Last Knight? It's obvious that ROTB is a sequel to Bumblebee since takes place in 1994, versus Bumblebee's 1987. The original pitch for ROTB was to be Bumblebee 2. While the original plan (from 2016) for the seventh TF movie was to be a sequel to the fifth TF movie (2017's Last Knight), they scrapped that in 2019 because Last Knight made Viacom and their investors lose 100 million dollars.

The series should have continued under Travis Knight, and instead it's now back in Bay's hands.

Bay did not direct Rise of the Beasts. He is credited as an associate producer of both it and Bumblebee. All the live-action movies have always been in his hands since he was hired by Spielberg, including Bumblebee.

Travis is a decent director, but most in the business won't like him since he's anti labor unions. He had ILM animate the Optimus scenes using a non-unionized soundalike's recordings, then had Peter Cullen come in for only one session to match the soundalike's cadence because the animations were already done. He seems to be in better spirits working on Rise of the Beasts.

While critical reviews for Steven Cable Jr's movie were less than Knight's (52% to 91%), his ROTB was better received by audiences (91% to 74%) and still had better reception than most of Bay's movies. Like Knight and unlike Bay, Cable is an actual fan of the franchise who drew grew up with Beast Wars and the 1986 animated movie, using them for inspiration while making his movie.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '23

All I could hear was “Goku—the wooooorld’s strongest.”

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u/Peacesquad Cecil Stedman Nov 20 '23

Lmao

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u/Gil_Demoono Nov 20 '23

It's also the cadence. Those little pauses are so Cullen.