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

[u/mwthecool]

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/Machizzy]

me every 5 minutes:

YOU GOTTA BE

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FUCKING KIDDING ME

Also i cant wait for more Viltrumite v Viltrumite battles, when Gods go to war the bloodshed is fucking insane! The way Nolan finished Thula was so sick(ening) i loved it. And seeing how OP Mark actually is when he went all out was really suprising actually. I was expecting him to be stronger thsn he had been showing us up until now but to actually be able to go toe to toe with a Viltrumite war veteran like that is wild. our boi might acually be...[INVINCIBLE]

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Also Also did anyone else catch how they made Nolan's sad montage and Debbies sad montage exactly the same including the contemplating suicide bit? cheffs kisserino's my duders

[u/SoundofGlaciers → u/Machizzy]

Yeah I thought Nolan was being an asshole again when he said 'come on Mark, you're holding back!' and Mark was just too weak to compete and Nolan should know by then.

Turns out Nolan was serious lol, and it seemed like even Mark was surprised by how strong he really is.

So far the pacing of the (first half) of the season is crazy, we already have a omni-man and mark reunion, new viltrumites on screen during the fight scene with Allen, plus a mark+omni man team-up vs said viltrumites. What looks like a viltrumite leader or commander too at the end, Krieg. Oh and Mark has a superpowered baby brother too!

[u/Pathogen188 → u/SoundofGlaciers]

So far the pacing of the (first half) of the season is crazy,

Yeah it's a weird side effect of the shuffling Season 1 did relative to the comic. The fight with Battle Beast and the Reanimen issues took place after Nolan left in the comic, whereas in the show they take place before hand.

Nolan kills the Guardians and fights Mark really quickly in the comic and most of episode 7 is show original to further extend the length of that arc, so rather than have a season 1 with crazy fast pacing, it appears that they shifted events to happen earlier in the show to slow down Season 1's pace but that in turn increased the pace of Season 2 because events that would have been adapted after the Season 1 finale have already been adapted and now there's nothing to adapt.

IMO, it's definitely a change for the better, it made the Season 1 finale much more impactful relative to the issues it adapted.

[u/Machizzy → u/Pathogen188]

That’s so interesting, I’m a episode-only Andy (thus far) so this is the first time I’m hearing about this but it just goes to show how much thought went into the adaptation of the comics from day 1 imo. We’re really seeing Bezos money at work here so to speak lol, Netflix could never m. I remember that The Expanse (my all time favorite series/book adaptation) also had a MAJOR improvement when it got picked up by Amazon. Not just in production quality but things like pacing, choosing what to adapt on screen and what to leave behind etc.

Makes me wish I won one of those crazy Spanish power balls so I could drop half a billion euros on invincible or another show adaptation of a favorite IP of mine and see the magic that happens when creators have all the money and time they need

[u/SoundofGlaciers → u/Machizzy]

Imagine paying top notch staff and cast for like 10 years because the movie/show has to be remade a dozen times until it's supposedly worthy of being this 'legitimaly great' product born out of 'infinite time and resources', and then still making a movie that's not widely appreciated or raising the bar of cinema in any way lol.

I'd love to see it happen a few times to see if the result would actually be good or just like any other movie that's forgotten soon enough.

I mean, movies like Avatar raise the bar AND break records, but I have never met a single person that was a major Avatar fan and collected all the stuff and talked about it the way, for example, a Star Wars fan would.