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/8dev8 Cecil Stedman Nov 17 '23

On the one hand I get Cecil’s issue

On the otherhand.

Mark ignoring orders to save lives really should reassure you.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '23

Honestly, Cecil really bothered me in this episode. I know he's been manipulating Mark all season (and even before), but telling Mark that he's like his father for choosing to go save billions of lives is especially scummy.

Cecil is really smart, but constantly gaslighting a teenager is not a good idea to turn them into a well-adjusted adult. I think at some point Mark is going to realize that Cecil only cares about control.

That's why Cecil's such a great character. He's somewhere between good and evil.

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u/raknor88 Show Fan Nov 17 '23

After the cliffhanger, I want to think that Cecil knew where Mark was going. They may have claimed not to know where Omni-man went, but he very well could've been lying to protect Mark and keep him from flying off for a second fight he wasn't ready for.

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u/Future-Muscle-2214 Nov 17 '23

Or just meet others Viltrumites who manage to convince him to become one of them.

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u/arfelo1 Nov 18 '23

How could they possibly know where Onni Man is? Earth barely has the tech to reach Mars. Much less having intel brom the bug planet

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u/raknor88 Show Fan Nov 18 '23

Publicly Earth barley has the tech to reach Mars. But we've seen that the GDA has tons of advanced tech that the public has no knowledge of. Also, just because we don't have the tech to reach somewhere doesn't mean that we don't have the tech to see/detect what's out there.

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u/tayroarsmash Nov 18 '23

They didn’t know about Viltrumites so I have my doubts about their intergalactic intelligence capabilities.