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/Mindless_Bad_1591 Shapesmith Apr 17 '24 edited Apr 17 '24

Instead of just telling him she knew she wanted him to tell her to prove he trusted her and when he kept not telling her it made her angrier and angrier

I get this. I understand this motivation. However, like I said in my other reply, there just wasn't enough dialogue given to give us a clear perspective of where she was coming from. These deductions are made on assumptions, where they should have fleshed out her feelings more in season 1 to give us more of an understanding. The product we received gives us very contradictory perspectives and feelings of the character, leaving the audience to fill in the gaps when this is one of those times you should not be doing that.

Also your point of it being a dumb high school drama relationship is valid, but that doesn't make it any less frustrating to watch.

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u/Nobody5464 Apr 18 '24

I mean it literally takes one step of emotional consideration to reach this fact. As long as you stop to think for even 1 second you should come to this conclusion. Having characters always say everything their feeling doesn’t work you have to make it natural. Amber is incredibly pissed in their breakup scene she’s not gonna randomly say “oh by the way I was yelling at you to convince you to tell me the truth” in the middle of their breakup fight. You should be able to figure that out they shouldn’t need to hand hold you through every emotional beat.