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/Immaeatchorizo Nov 17 '23

they're not clones they are all her, she is experience all of them at the same time more like a hivemind

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u/LMkingly Nov 17 '23 edited Nov 17 '23

That makes saying she's equal to thousands of years old still not make sense to me. Time doesn't work like that hivemind or not. Like i get she's trying to count up the different experiences she has with different clones but the logic of "my two clones did two different things today so i'm actually two days older" seems faulty to me.

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u/Immaeatchorizo Nov 17 '23

it doesnt have to do with how times work, but how kate perceive it, imagine she use kate 2 to cook for 1 hr and kate 3 to make a drink for another hour, when she absorve both she has 1 hr of experience cooking and another 1 hour of making drinks.

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u/Wolf6120 Cecil Stedman Nov 20 '23

This brought up an interesting question when she was working out at the gym, actually. I understand that she simultaneously retains all the experience/memories of all her copies, but seemingly that can't be the case with physical progress too, right, otherwise she would die the moment one of her copies does.

Cause it was the number 1 Kate actually lifting the weights while the others just stood around or spotted her, cause I'm guessing that the copies also working out on their own would have no actual benefit for her, physically? But then, like, even Kate Number 1 isn't really "Kate Prime" since we know the Number 1 can die and she just carries on as one of the others, so I guess it's just a matter of having one body work out and then absorbing all the others into that so the next batch of duplicates reap the benefits? Now I'm wondering how that works in terms of things like eating and sleeping, if they all need to or if it's enough for one to do so for all of them.