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/Negativety101 Nov 17 '23

So thousands of years old people can't ever date?

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u/raknor88 Show Fan Nov 17 '23

The age thing doesn't bother me since he's older than pretty much anyone on the planet. But a boss openly dating a subordinate should be an issue.

But in a way I almost understand why he would start dating in the 20s range. He's looking at who know how many hundreds to thousands of years more to his life. If you're looking for a partner, start the relationship early so then you have more time with them.

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u/ikarikh Nov 17 '23

Honestly, if you lived thousands of years, you'd have spent only the past 100 years or less dealing with age being a social stigma for dating.

On top of that, even if you started your thousand years off worrying about social stigma, by the time you're 1,000 you honestly wouldn't give a shit anymore because you've already been alive for hundreds of years before the person you're screwing was ever born. Why would you feel weird about a perceived 20-30 year age gap visually?

At his age, all he is honestly going to care about is screwing a hot person in their sexual prime.

Dating a 60 year old would still be just as weird as a 20 year old, considering he's still 900+ years older than both. So physical beauty and sexual peak would be the thing he cared about. Aka screwing 20 year olds.

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u/Cloudhwk Nov 17 '23

Maturity is a big thing, people in their 20’s are usually still developing their brains

Honestly immortal is engaging in lowkey grooming behaviour here

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u/ikarikh Nov 17 '23

Again, you're seeing it from a social view as a person in the current gen or society.

To a guy who is 1000 years old, a 60 year old woman is as much a baby to him as a 20 year old.

The great majority of the first 900 years of his life, there was no social stigma on age. There wasn't even age of consent.

And most people didn't even live passed 30 or 40 if they were lucky.

All the stigma you're judging him on was only brought about over the past millenia which is a mere fraction of his existence.

To him, all he is interested in is screwing a hot girl in her prime. The age is irrelevant to a 1000 year old guy. Because part of the stigma is about someone being 20-30 years older than someone and them not being equally mature to each other.

Immortal is literally 900+ years older than ANY woman he gets with. There isn't a single woman who matches his collective maturity from dozens of LIFETIMES of experience.

Do you think he really cares at this point if someone thinks he's too "old" to fuck kate?

She's "legal" and consenting. That's about all he cares about. There's zero reason for him to care to aim for a 30+ girl. To him, they aren't any different than the 20 year old. They're all still "young" to him.

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u/Tesser4ct Nov 18 '23

Yeah he likes hot babes like any straight guy. It's pretty simple lol.

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u/raknor88 Show Fan Nov 17 '23

What you're forgetting to take into account is that she is much more mature than a regular person of her age. She's a superhero that's been in many many fights the last few years and since her only super power is to clone herself her clones have a high dependency to die. So there's a decent chance that she feels herself die dozens of times throughout a fight. That sort of thing tends to mature someone real fast.

She's seen a lot of ugly shit and knows just what she's getting herslef into.

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u/Cloudhwk Nov 17 '23

Dating a dude who can’t die screams PTSD

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '23

First you accused Immortal of grooming her.

Now she went for him because she has PTSD.

I wonder what you will say next to defend current day's stigma.

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u/Cloudhwk Nov 17 '23

Both can be happening and truthful at once, it’s called nuance

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '23

Yes, they can. But you only mentioned one because your argument about the other didn't hold.

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u/downvotetheboy Nov 17 '23

grooming in what way ?

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u/Cloudhwk Nov 17 '23

He is significantly older and in a position of power to her, I have no idea how you can’t see the grooming here

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u/downvotetheboy Nov 17 '23 edited Nov 17 '23

yeah but you’re looking at it from a real world POV. he’s significantly older than everyone, so you’re essentially saying he’s grooming anyone he dates.

he is in a position of power, but i wouldn’t say it’s grooming, but rather an abuse of power.

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u/2-2Distracted Nov 17 '23

This is reddit dude, people love to ignore what grooming is unless it fits the textbook definition to the absolute T.

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u/downvotetheboy Nov 17 '23

it’s a superpower tv show. applying real world logic doesn’t make sense…

her age is ambiguous, but it seems like she’s an adult.

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u/Cloudhwk Nov 17 '23

I also suspect it’s cause he is hot and basically having implied orgies with Kate

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u/GameConsideration Nov 17 '23

Grooming would be if he met her while she was underage, took a position of trust, and guided her towards doing sexual favors later in life. That is what makes grooming so heinous.

He met her as an adult. Chill.