r/Invincible • u/SeacattleMoohawks Séance Mod • Mar 26 '21

Invincible [Comic SPOILERS Discussion] - S01E01-03 - It's About Time, Here Goes Nothing, Who You Calling Ugly? COMIC SPOILERS

This post is for Comic Spoiler Discussion, if you'd like to discuss the new series with comic book context please use this thread. If you don't want to be spoiled use the other thread.

Official Trailer

Episode 1 - It's About Time

When Mark Grayson finally inherits powers from his superhero father, it's a dream come true. But there's more to being a hero than just choosing a name and costume.

Episode 2 - Here Goes Nothing

With his father out of action, Mark struggles to defend the city against an interdimensional invasion, joining forces with a team of teenage superheroes.

Episode 3 - Who You Calling Ugly?

Mark has to cut a study date short to help save Mount Rushmore from a crazed scientist. Robot deals with Action - Comic as he assembles a new team of world-saving superheroes.

Full cast, crew and characters

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u/LeTooniverse Mar 27 '21

I kinda agree, but i feel the change with her character made her more like Eve oddly enough. The whole thing with Amber was how painfully average she was in contrast to Mark's life; I'm interested to see how they're gonna play out their relationship assuming there's more Seasons

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u/HodorsGiantDick Burly Mar 27 '21

I get what you mean but I still think there's plenty of room to explore her normality and insecurities while her boyfriend hangs out with a super hero and give her greater character depth in the meantime.
I also think that by setting this relationship up early and making Amber deep and likeable, the resulting love triangle will give audiences skin in the game on rooting for them to work out.

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u/LeTooniverse Mar 27 '21

Thats a fair point. I'm a huge comics purist when it comes to adaptations so if i had it my way, it'd literally be the comic copied n pasted into animated form; which doesn't make for a great tv show most of the time. I'll definitely have to temper my expectations moving forward, but its a decent start. Hopefully it doesn't go off the rails completely like Walking Dead in the future

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '21

I am often a purist as well, but I like that Kirkman is heavily involved here and has the benefit of a completed run that he solely authored to look back and tighten things up. With hindsight, there's a lot in the series that could better foreshadow things down the line, and moving events around for TV seasons provides better dramatic pacing. 3-4 episodes of milquetoast Omni-Man would've been way too boring.

I also think he's learned from TWD criticism-- he wasn't really involved in the early seasons aside from one or two episodes which were unique to the show. It picked up a lot of steam in seasons 3-5 when it got back on track to the comic. As a whole, more producers seem to realize that faithfully adapting beloved characters and comics is important in 2021 than they did in 2010.

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u/mikethemaster2012 Mar 31 '21

I mean if the change the ending. It something to root for but if not it be a dead horse. Shipping is a werid thing.