Invincible [Episode Discussion] - S02E07 - I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE

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Episode 7 - I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE

As Mark attempts to salvage his personal life, a new villain arrives, presenting Invincible with his greatest challenge yet. Donald grapples with his past.

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[u/JacP123]

Knowing Mark wouldn't just give up Earth, knowing that his sole fighting chance against Viltrum isn't just going to hand the planet over, even if they were just meaningless lies to stall Viltrum, that's gotta feel relieving as hell if you're Cecil. 

[u/mwcope → u/JacP123]

Yeah. But we already knew that about Mark. I think it's Cecil's reaction specifically that's really interesting. His character up to this point, I would've expected him to at best sigh and leave his acknowledgement that Mark's right hidden. Cecil's been so pragmatic, him admiring Mark outright refusing pragmatism is such an interesting moment for his character.

[u/bokmcdok → u/mwcope]

I think the admiration comes in that Mark managed to read Anissa better than he could. He called her bluff - he knew she wouldn't kill him. If the Viltrumites wanted him dead, he'd be dead a dozen times over by now. Something else is going on.

Cecil's supposed to be the one who reads people. It's in his job description. And Mark just outdid him.

[u/RaZoX144 → u/bokmcdok]

I was thinking that too, they could just send her to kill Mark and take over his mission, but I think they want him for more than Earth, maybe for other planets as well

[u/dragunityag → u/RaZoX144]

Maybe, but Allen did say last episode that Viltrumites are really picky about killing their own.

[u/Zed_Main_btw → u/dragunityag]

They know the potential of a single viltrimite and seem to see Mark and his Dads actions as more of a rebellious phase that they can get over and it would just be a small speck of their life. Better to spend a short time changing their views than waste 100s of years of potential, especially when Mark is still an infant in their eyes

[u/BlamingBuddha → u/dragunityag]

Happy Cake Day! 🎂

[u/bokmcdok → u/RaZoX144]

They could have killed him on the insect planet. Instead they sent him back to prepare Earth for invasion. There's a reason they did that instead of sending another Viltrumite. Mark may have realised this, and that's how he knew Anissa wouldn't kill him. They need/want him alive for some reason.

[u/Kaserbeam → u/[deleted]]

she still didn't say he would kill Mark, just that the planet would pay for his refusal.

[u/Karkava → u/bokmcdok]

Mark knows that Viltrumites love the thrill of battle, and kicking a wounded puppy isn't really satisfying to them. They just get stumped when they can't get another "lesser life form" to submit to them.

Alan seems to have figured out that weakness as well given that he's turning himself in by faking getting knocked out, playing into their thrill seeking bully mindset. They should know something is up when this guy who could get their noses to bleed just suddenly surrenders.

[u/grimsaur → u/RaZoX144]

I think they want to know what it is about Earth that made Nolan change, and his son reject being a Viltrumite altogether. Maybe also how a fairly young, untrained hybrid almost killed a veteran Viltrumite.

[u/Ghoti76 → u/grimsaur]

I Maybe also how a fairly young, untrained hybrid almost killed a veteran Viltrumite.

I don't think they'd know about that, right? Of the only 3 witnesses to that, 2 are dead, and the other is Nolan, and i don't think he's really talking to them?

[u/80SW08 → u/RaZoX144]

But why? I mean he’s definitely got incredibly high potential strength for being able to go toe to toe with Thula and almost win but what is so special about Mark outside of being Nolan’s son?

Viltrumites don’t strike me as sentimental enough to care if he’s special, I thought they would see it as if he’s weak he deserves to die.

[u/RaZoX144 → u/80SW08]

I mean, they are ruthless conquerors, so imagine to them, the great Nolan who conquered many planets and fought hard battles, went to this weak planet for what to them seems like a month or a few, (since they live so long) and came back a weak sentimental traitor, concepts which are foreign to them and never seen before, even Mark is that way, they want to understand, for all they know Earth could be dangerous since it may be able to turn Viltrumites against the empire in mere moments.