Cinepals - INVINCIBLE 3x7 "What Have I Done?" Reaction & Review! | Steven Yeun | Sandra Oh | J.K. Simmons

Episode Date: March 6, 2025

In Invincible Season 3, Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead, Minari, Okja) returns as Mark Grayson/Invincible, joined by J.K. Simmons (Whiplash, Spider-Man, Juno) as Nolan Grayson/Omni-Man, and Sandra Oh (Grey's Anatomy, Killing Eve, The Chair) as Debbie Grayson. New additions to the cast include Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad, BoJack Horseman, El Camino) as Powerplex, Simu Liu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Kim's Convenience, Barbie) as Multi-Paul, and Kate Mara (House of Cards, Fantastic Four, The Martian) as Becky Duvall. The season continues to explore Mark's journey as a superhero, delving into complex relationships and introducing formidable new adversaries. Join us on YouTube at https://www.YouTube.com/@Cinepals for the cutdown reaction or becoming a Patron at www.cinejump.com and get access to the uncut reaction for this movie as well as many other movies and shows! SOCIAL MEDIA ~CINEPALS~ YouTube: @CinePals Insta: https://instagram.com/TheCinePals Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCinePals

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We give you a 3-1 countdown sync, and it's like you're watching with two of your favorite pals from the internet. All right, here we go. Let's jump into this. I am conquest and I am your last chance to fulfill your duty. Wow. All this, this is my fault. So the only thing I want to do right now is hit something as hard as I can. Okay.

I mean... Good. You can try. This guy is huge. I mean, you thought the place was leveled. Yeah. And then it was like, oh, yeah, you're trying to rebuild after a devastation. Hey, guess what? Here comes another one.

I guess it didn't matter who was under that rubble. It's just more people. Right, right. You know, more. More fuel for his rage. It was almost like too much for my heart. Like. Emotionally or, okay, do you mean emotionally?

Emotionally and just like the level of violence. and gore, I guess, that was going on. It was just a lot. I think with the amount of violence we've seen in the show up to now, I feel like I've been primed enough for the gore that we see here. So it didn't really phase me quite as much as I guess. You know, I've had instances in the past where I'm like, ugh, there's a lot.

The most I felt that here today was with the beginning, with looking at the Brainiac guy. Oh, yeah. Angstrom, Levy. Engstrom, yeah. Like, that was a lot. with a little tongue. Yeah, yeah, that was so, so gross.

But yeah, just watching the level of destruction that all of the invincibles were bringing to the planet and to the people and to the heroes. It was just like, oh my God, I mean, of course, that makes sense. You've got a bunch of superpowered people who are also psychotic and love to kill. They went really balls to the wall in this episode in terms of just the amount of action and destruction

I would imagine that of all the episodes, this was hands down one of the most expensive to produce, just the constant momentum and constant movement. You know, there's like the thing that the show kind of made fun of itself about where it has those instances of it's kind of on a moment that's still and you just have audio going, like voiceover going to sort of cover up budgetary constraints or whatever or trying to save money in time. None of that was here for the most part,

except for one moment that I can recall where it's towards the end when Invincible, Mark is in the hallway just sort of standing their arms out in somberness, right? That was the only time I saw it. Up until then, I'm like, it was constantly doing stuff and constantly insane. The show had me for a split second with Powerplex because I thought, oh, so he's on side. And no sooner that we thought that, he goes right after Invincible. And I kind of get where he's coming from, even though I disagree with all of his actions in the

previous episode. his rage towards Invincible, it's like, from his crazy perspective, I get it, you know? Yeah, he hasn't, he hasn't let go of the fact that it's like, yes, perhaps Invincible is the catalyst for all of these things happening, but it's not all his fault, you know, it's not. Well, he's blaming himself, though, so. Yeah, he's blaming himself as well. Like, it's not his fault that his dad was a psycho. It's not his fault that he was fighting his dad.

I mean, yes, maybe they could have tried to take the fight somewhere else where there weren't so many civilians and all of that. It's not his fault that a bunch of crazy invincibles came and Anxtram Levy, like, brought them. Yes, like, Angstrom Levy has a vendetta against him, but it's like, ah, it's a whole confluence of things. But I do understand Powerplex's sadness and, like, grief and rage all rolled up into one. It makes it difficult for him to see past, like, everything that's in front of him and just be like, maybe we can work together. Because you're right, he was seeming to, you know, be helping with the rebuilding effort. When Rex was saying goodbye, I suspected that that was the final goodbye. Yeah.

Like, I just, there was something about that moment that just felt like his last cigarette. I don't know why. It just had that vibe to it of, oh, it's all peachy and cute. That's usually when the show introduces something horrible. Yes. We can't have good things. It's kind of a weird, borders on manipulative sort of thing because you're made to feel like it might be okay for just a hair of a second before it completely strips it from you. It's like it might work out for him, you know.

Things are going well. He's really happy. His relationship is going well. he's less of a dick now we love him and then it's like no he's going to go and not only did he go he went in such

a heroic way yeah it was like so honorable the way he went because he literally he gave everything he exploded his skeleton in order to get rid of that invincible and it was like God I was just I was so sad

well it wasn't in vain because he did rid of him, it seemed. They managed to, you know, stand up and take out 10 of the 18. It was 18, right? Yeah, there was 18. They took out 10, so that's more than half, which is no mean feat because each invincible is super powerful, even if they're not as powerful as our invincible. It's interesting because after they got rid of Engstrom, or at least after Engstrom

escaped, there's this sense of he's going to come back and he's going to come back with a menacing force that's even bigger, right? is going to come back with the vengeance even stronger. He doesn't know that on the other side of that portal, he's already subdued by the people that helped rebuild him. Right. But there is something else coming. That's going to be even meaner.

That's worse, potentially. It's just not Angstrom. Yeah, it's not Angstrom. It's the Wilhelmite Empire. Yeah. So that was interesting, though, that those three technicians, I guess, what Angstrom called them. Like, I'm just curious, because I was.

always want to know it's like okay well what did he promise them you know like what are they it's the same kind of promises like he gave the invincibles their promise of of dimensions that they were going to be able to conquer and rule over and he didn't give it to them he was never going to keep his promises okay he always he always thought that like I mean maybe he was going to on some level maybe in his mind he could have but I think that to him he's just so much smarter than everybody he's so superior yeah yeah he doesn't need to keep his promises he just has to say enough to manipulate them emotionally and mentally so he can get his way and unleash the destruction that he wants.

You know, it's like all that matters is his plot. No one else is. Right. And that just goes to show like if you're going to collaborate, you should always hold up your end of the bargain. Otherwise people are going to get pissed at you. And like, honestly, I'm not upset that those

three guys who put him back together were like, no. Sure. You know? Not just because Angstrom is the bad guy, but also just because because he was being such a dick, you know? Yeah. He's treating people so badly.

They answered my question pretty quickly because I was like, how do you maintain an alliance like this where they're all basically evil? It was always a fragile alliance, you know, hanging on a thread. Right. It was like, I have this thing I can give you. You just have to do what I want. And they're like, all right, cool. And they thought they finished it.

And he's like, okay, give me what I want. And then Anstrom's like, no, no, he's still more to. Right. He's always like, what is it called, pushing the goalpost or something? Yeah, yeah, moving the goalpost. So the bit with Engstrom and those locust camera things, that was not how I expected that to ever be used. I thought that was actually really, really clever execution

and one of my favorite moments in the show because of all the action sequences I've seen so far, that one was the one that kind of had me like not sure where it was going next and how they were going to, it's been built up to because Invincible had all of his training in the beginning. And he's had all of his experience leading up to this season. And so it was him summoning all of his skill and prowess and, you know, experience for this moment here. Yeah.

To be able to, because we remember his fight last time with Angstrom, right? He kept getting sucked into portals. So now he's better and smarter and faster. And he's able to anticipate what's about to happen and stop himself from being sucked into a portal. And I thought that was a really cool thing where now that's the fight. You know, it almost brings me back to sort of a Jackie Chan kind of fight where it's like, okay, what is the thing that is the sort of Mcuffin of the fight, right? And the Mcuffin here is sort of just trying not to get stuck in there, you know,

stuck into a portal. And then he's being bombarded with what I'm calling locust cameras because you're expecting, you know, just a handful of those things. You're like, okay. And they set you up. They go, dosh, dosh, it's like, oh, that hurts him. That's not, that doesn't just break on impact. Then there's more of them.

and then there's way more of them. And it's like a huge plethora of these things that just don't stop coming. And he has to withstand all of that until he's almost exhausted all of his supply. You're right? Because he doesn't have an infinite amount. That's when he's able to get him by the neck.

And I did wonder if his little brother didn't show up if he would have been able to take out angstrom. Because it seemed like that was his emotional trajectory anyway. And it wasn't until his little brother showed up Oliver. But that's when he stopped. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder as well, because, you know, he's trying so hard to not be that guy,

to not be the guy that just kills willy-nilly. Yeah. Because it's a lot easier to just kill someone and be like, well, I've gotten rid of the problem than to show compassion and mercy, right? But I think, yeah, definitely having Oliver there gave him pause. So he was like, wait, I'm supposed to be a good example for my little brother who's out here saying the stuff that you agree with, which is like, this guy's a problem.

Yeah. We need to get rid of him, like, today, now, Mark, now. And then he's like, no. Yeah. The bigger man. But what do you do with a guy like that? I mean, it's such a conundrum, right? That's the question in my mind.

I suppose, like, the right thing to do is to put him in prison. I don't know, man. That, to me, is taking a chance of more people dying. It's like, what you're weighing it, right? What is the moral thing to do? To execute this person and burn his ashes. burn him until he's ashes, to ensure that he doesn't hurt anyone else

or to put him in prison and take a 1% chance that he's going to get out and hurt more people just like this. Right. I don't know, like, to me, the former is the sensible move. Even if that's not the moral thing to do, like, it is the moral thing to do because you're preventing way more destruction.

I would take up baby Hitler, I'm sorry. Like, or I'm just like, if there's no way around that path, yes, absolutely. Absolutely. But it's like if you can re-guide him, I just walk myself into a hole. So I'm saying if you can re-guide Hitler,

yes, I'll save him. But you can't, this guy, you can't save. There's no reform. Yeah, at this point, who knows, right? I do. There's no reform. The thing is we don't know. We don't know.

There's no reform. But there probably isn't. He's had so much time to think. There's no reform. The only thing he's thought about is revenge. So you put him in a prison. All he's going to do is think about more revenge. Yeah.

And then eventually he'll die. Yeah. Yeah. There was this a feeling I had while watching Arcane Season 2, where as it led up to the war, it was telegraphing that there was a war kind of coming. But when it happened, it felt like we were just kind of thrown into the middle of it. And there wasn't a lot of build up to the action going on. And it made, it left me feeling just slightly disconnected.

That's not exactly what happened here, but it did feel very abrupt. Like all of a sudden, we're in this. and there wasn't a lot of buildup towards it. You had the cameras that are spying on Invincible. You didn't know who that was. You knew it wasn't Cecil. Off of just watching the show in general, you maybe have a clue. I had no idea who it was.

Right. I didn't think Angstrom was still alive. Then you find out it's him at the end of the last episode. And then all of a sudden, it's insane and people are dying. And then we catch up with Cecil and, like, he's wrecked. And what's his name is wrecked? Like the whole Pentagon's messed up. We don't even see that happening.

It's just we're in the middle of it. and there's already been a whole bunch of destruction. I wondered if that was more of a budgetary thing or that's just more effective storytelling because you can assume that things have been happening. I personally kind of want to see all that unfold. You know what I mean? And so I'm trying to just go,

maybe that's just budgetary-wise. This is the best possible thing we could have gotten, right? And I accept that. I can accept that. Right. But there is a part of me that goes, oh, I kind of would have wanted to see more least. lead up to this and more lead up in the individual things or as opposed to just being in the

middle of it. Like even with immortal and all that stuff, we were just thrown into the middle of the battle. Even if it's a surprise thing that happens abruptly, we didn't get any of the first half of that battle. We came in in the second half. Right. You know, that's the only thing where I go, oh, okay, that's fine, I guess. I just, that's fine.

You know what I mean? I don't love that. Right. I would have liked to have seen more going. into it, but it still impacted us. So I think that's the important part, is irrespective of whatever I would have preferred to have seen, it still had an impact emotionally, and Rex going had an impact. So they gave us, I guess, what they needed to have, to elicit a feeling in us.

Yeah, I mean, we've only got, what, eight episodes in this season. So, yeah, I guess they had to try and cover things as quickly and efficiently. as possible. For this one, I felt like it was okay because they'd been setting up this stuff along the way. Like the reveal that Angstrom Levy is still alive, you know, that he has been planning this stuff, the reveal of all of the Invincibles last episode.

It's like, okay, yeah, something big is going to happen. It's going to be massive. It's going to be scary. And it was. I mean, they definitely delivered. Yeah. You know? I am just left wondering, like, where do you go from here?

is this the climax of the season and almost like a Game of Thrones episode 9? You know what I mean? Remember like how they set up? Yeah, the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones was always like the big action one and then the last episode was like kind of the come down and the denouement.

Yeah, the dinemar. Yeah. So I'm left wondering is episode 8 the denouement and this was the climax? No. Is this like... Hello, did you not see? We had like the freaking viltermite guy

with the iron arm. No, I caught that, but it very easily, the next episode could be he died. Right? Like, I have no. I doubt it. I don't know. I mean, he might. He will probably die in the next episode.

No, I know. But we've got like the rest of the, the Viltramite Empire coming. And then we've still, we've still got Nolan. I get it. Seth Rogen coming. I get it. I understand. I'm just, yeah, I'm just left wondering where this goes from here.

Because the reason I'm saying all that out loud is because I'm like, okay, so this is where we're starting. And, like, this feels huge. It does. But then, like, the next one is if we expect the next one to be even bigger? It's like, how do you get bigger than leveling the world? Well, they're leveled parts of the world. But sure.

It was pretty bad. It was really bad. Yeah. Like, I think also the reason why it was so disturbing to me was, like, my brain started imagining, like, what would it be like if this was? real life like if this really happened and you see the big cities around the world like London, New York, Moscow, Tokyo, just all leveled and decimated like yeah I mean the amount of shock and terror and sadness sure sure I have to be careful how I respond to that just because

YouTube will come after our video if we speak too too much on real things right okay yeah um Just an imagination exercise. Right, but like you can use events from history that humans have done to other humans and extrapolate from that like if that destruction was even worse. And we've seen, there's been some real bad stuff throughout history. Yeah. And so, yeah, it doesn't take too much of an imagination to fathom this kind of thing actually happening just because of what we've already seen us due to us.

You know what I mean? And so, yeah. It's awful Yeah And so I think The older you get The more you can appreciate The damage you see in a show

Like this It goes beyond the scope of just Being entertainment And you kind of take away from it Like what if this was real And feeling awful when you see it Yeah I mean yeah

The loss of life And the The amount of Rebuilding That has to happen It seems like in these Animation worlds With superheroes

like things are always happening you know like buildings are constantly being broken down at this point you probably have contractors on speed dial where you're like hey so you know like the last battle between Invincible and Omneman when you came and like fixed up all those buildings yeah can you can you do that again because oh yeah I forgot that you could have superheroes helping out with rebuilding because I get in my mind I was just thinking about just contractors, just normal people, you know, like you call up a company. Like Eve has the ability to rebuild quite quickly, and she's got a better understanding having studied architecture and all that.

Yeah, but she's out for the count right now. She'll be back. Yeah, I know. I thought that she just broke her leg, but I guess she got pretty concussed or whatever. When you were talking about the contractors and whatever, I was thinking to myself about Shogun and the whole philosophy of why they build their houses the way they do because of the volume of earthquakes. Yeah.

And how it's like, they just have to rebuild again, so it's just quicker. Yeah. It's just like wooden paper. Yeah. The fact that you have any kind of like massive skyscrapers

standing in a world like this where there's superheroes and supervillains, it's remarkable. It's like, how do you... How else are you going to house the population, though, in a city like New York? Sure.

That's fair. But not on a skyscraper. People live in very, very, very, tall apartment buildings. Yeah, those are apartment buildings, though. They're not skyscrapers. Fair. Yeah.

That was a pretty crazy, thrilling episode. Yeah. A lot happened. And the stakes were pretty high. Mark was, you know, really taken to task on this one. He was really challenged. Because it's like, what would be worse than fighting someone who is capable of what you were capable of?

And you were at peak. Yeah. Like fighting 18 of them. Yeah. Well, he wasn't fighting 18 at once, but yes. No, but like all the other heroes really stepped up. You know, I can't imagine what it must be like being a hero, hearing that there's 18 invincibles out there in the world. And then you're like, get out there.

And I think it was really brought home in that scene where they were all being transported in that machine. And then the guy was like, and if you die, let me know. So then I can send you a replacement. You know, they're going there to die because it would take so many of them to even take out one invincible. And even then they would maybe fail. Not to stir up trouble again. Oh, God. But this episode highlights exactly why I agreed with Cecil put in that chip in Mark's head.

It's like, man, it takes one invincible to level everything. You know, they only had 18 of them and the world was struggling to deal. Right. You know? And so, you know, allegedly, this invincible is stronger than the 18 invincibles that showed up. And so I'm like, okay. If Mark just, you know, I don't know, had a really, really bad day for some reason and decided, you know what, I'm not a good guy anymore. I'm going to hurt everybody in sight.

Having a little chip in Mark's head, that's a good, you know, insurance. Right, but it's not fair if he didn't consent to having that chip in his head. Consent is important, Jabby. No, it's not. Not when you're dealing with something like that, that could kill millions of people. Right, but isn't there a sort of love? of respect when you're working with someone? A level of trust? Nope. Okay. Not if you're Cecil. No. Yeah. Like, Cecil's all about preservation. No, and I get that. And I respect, I respect Cecil and

especially now more than ever. You know, I feel like the way that he's been approaching everything is very, yeah, he is. He's like, to me, he's like that pragmatic adult in your life, the pragmatic uncle who's like look this is the way it is and this is what you should do in this situation and then you as a young person you're like I'm feeling emotional

and like I don't want to do that and then he's like no no here's what you have to do he says it in like a really calm way and I appreciate that but right now Invincible isn't really there yet to be like listening to him

fully there was a seed of something positive there was a seed of like maybe a little bit of respect or understanding but he's still not like fully there yet and it was it was interesting having to see him face with these choices and I was honestly surprised that he chose to stay with Eve because you know Cecil was saying like look the world needs you right now like yes Eve needs you and there is a possibility

that the other invincibles know where this place is and they might come for her to try and hurt you, but the world needs you. Your brother needs you. Your mother needs you. And he's still like, nah, I'm going to stay here with Eve. Yeah. A little bit disappointed in him, to be fair.

I don't know. I get it. I get both sides. Sure. No, I mean, I get it. I get it. But I think as difficult as it is, if I were him, I would have been like, okay.

Yeah, no. I'm coming out there. Yeah. But keep me on speed dial. Yeah. You let me know. soon as anything happens. I'm right here. It's tricky. You know, well, it's kind of like I said early in the episode when Rex was hugging his girl. I'm like, bro, every second you are standing there,

people are dying. You can see what's happening. You've got to go. There's no time for smooch-smucci. You got to bounce. There was always time because it might be your last smoochie. Sure, that's fair. In which case it was his last smoochie. Yes, that's fair. Yeah. That's fair. I just can't help but think about like every second you're standing there people are dying. No, it's true. You know? And so likewise invincible every second he's in that in that, you know, medical room with Eve, people are getting

hurt, people are dying. Yeah, people and also heroes. You know, people who could potentially help in a future situation. Hey, heroes are people too. Yes, you're right. You're right. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have distinguished. Anyway, this has been fun, you guys. Thanks so much for hanging out. I'm Jabby Koeh. This is... Acharakou.

Peace out.