r/Invincible • u/mwthecool Omni-Mod • Nov 24 '23

Invincible [Episode Discussion] - S02E04 - It's Been a While EPISODE DISCUSSION

Episode 4 - It's Been a While!

Mark answers the call to save an alien species, but the mission has unexpected personal consequences.

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u/Treyman1115 Nov 24 '23

I wonder if he figured that Donald will figure it out eventually on his own. He didn't really try that hard to keep from finding out

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u/Laggingduck Nov 24 '23

“Am I a.. a robot?”

“yeah donald no shit, anyway there’s not any time for that we have a situation like I said earlier”

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u/Osmodius Nov 24 '23

"I thought it was obvious. Quit wasting time".

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u/legit-posts_1 Machine Head Nov 24 '23

God that's so Cecil that I read it in his damn voice in my head!

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u/Original-Ad4399 Nov 24 '23

Reminds me of Rick Sanchez 🤣

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u/soka__22 Invincible May 18 '24

i read this in cecil's voice and it made it 10× funnier

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u/Laggingduck May 18 '24

After seeing what actually happened I kinda wish this was real, poor Donald

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u/soka__22 Invincible May 19 '24

no spoilers pls

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u/Laggingduck May 19 '24

oh shit my bad, but you can imagine that him being a robot isn’t a happy thing no matter what

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '23

Is there a reason Donald knew Cecils password? Like, you'd think Cecil would be smart enough to know to make a password no one could guess no matter how well they knew him. And if it's that he wanted him to find out, then why classify those files for Donald at all?

First he lets the Martian join the Guardians of the Globe, now he uses a password that another employee can guess on the first try? Cecils been getting dumber and dumber, and I hope they end up explaining it instead of just making him dumb for plot convenience.

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u/GayDHD23 Nov 24 '23

i think it's less so an example of Cecil being dumb than it is an example of Donald being smarter than Cecil, at least this time. It's a good reminder why Donald is so important to his entire operation that Cecil felt the need to clone/reconstruct him rather than hire anyone else.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '23

That doesn't make sense though. Why did Cecil secure his files with just a password that a coworker could guess on the first try? Cecil not securing his top secret files doesn't make Donald look smart at all, it just makes him look dumb. Especially as the head of a top secret organization.

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u/theCroc Nov 24 '23

That's the point. Donald didn't guess it. He knows it. There is a reason he is Cecil's right hand man. He is smart and no doubt figured out Cecil's passwords a long time ago.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '23

So Cecil is too dumb to use two-factor authentication? And so dumb he allows someone else to figure out his password? Not having your password stolen is incredibly easy.

Even if Donald already knew it, that doesn't make Cecil look any better here.

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u/chalks777 Nov 26 '23

being in that building at all is like 10 factor authentication.

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u/Rafael502 Dec 12 '23

Should've gone with the 11th factor then.

Many comoanies nowadays require an employee to insert their badge into the computer before they can even attempt the password.

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u/theCroc Nov 24 '23

Well evidently by what we saw on screen....

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u/xRyozuo Jan 10 '24

my guess to save this situation is cecil knows, doland finding out by himself that he is a robot and how he died is just a part of reincorporation. Who knows if this is even the first time its happened. Seeing how cecil isnt above using the inventions of the people he captures (like the robot soldiers), im surprised he didnt clone him. Which makes me think donalds always been a robot. The show was missing its westworld homage!

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u/Petersaber Nov 26 '23

I think it's more of a case that Donald is so damn important for Cecil's operation. He didn't "guess" the password, he most likely knew it. Cecil trusted him with it, probably.

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u/xRyozuo Jan 10 '24

but then whats the point of having user restricted access? lol

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u/Petersaber Jan 10 '24

For other people that aren't Donald?

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u/xRyozuo Jan 10 '24

He has his own username. And for him the video was restricted

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u/mismatched7 Nov 24 '23

I took him acting irrationally as showing that in his own way he loved Donald and was willing to do something dumb to bring him back