The Reel Rejects - INVINCIBLE SEASON 2 Episode 2x4 Breakdown & Review

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Starting point is 00:02:30 It's not real. I mean, by now, they should know. Ah, damn, dude. That was a gnarly, gnarly episode. That was really good. I think it's the most action we've seen, though, all season two. Probably. Trying to see if we see the other cast members.

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Starting point is 00:05:24 the most controversial part the most exciting part no um some episode was great some episode was really good we got a lot of stuff with Omneman which was unexpected to see the complexity

Starting point is 00:05:39 of where he's been since we started this the season yeah man I was I was really enthralled why everything happening on that front because especially with you know him

Starting point is 00:05:51 finding being the species that is made of bugs and the dichotomy, I guess, or the difference in the fact that he viewed his wife as a pet, someone that was of human descent, was something that he could mix with, have intercourse with, sexual relations, but these bug people have a shorter span of life. So the fact that he's able to find humanity. What happens is trying to sound smart?

Starting point is 00:06:22 I'm formulating my thoughts damn it we're getting from here to here so anyway so he was yeah he's able to find humanity in something that was that has such a short lifespan

Starting point is 00:06:38 which I feel like really shows the fact that he's grown because you know you see flies like normal house flies and we know that they have such a short lifespan in themselves so the fact that he's able to do that kind of is like a representation of how much he's grown because yeah plus he has a son um yeah

Starting point is 00:06:59 there's a lot of really good stuff in here from donald realizing that he's not entirely human to al adam eve kind of realizing that or i guess backtracking because she is listening to the voice for parents at least that's the implication of it because she has doubts about herself and her abilities because her dad implanted that thing that she's dangerous and our power she can't be trusted which is kind of a sad like her mental kryptonite to the fact that you know she's essentially god but she has all these internalized beliefs from her her abusive parents that she can't fully come into her own as a powerful being now we got some stuff with what because we had a little bit of the stuff with the mark's friends but that wasn't really much of the story but yeah

Starting point is 00:07:47 I like the episode a lot. I think we have a really big cast this season. So we have to like really spread out everything. Like Adam, he wasn't even in the last episode. None of the people from the main team were part of this episode either. So I don't know. We got half of a season worth of stuff. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:08:12 It's a great midseason finale. It's a great midseason finale. It makes you want to come back and see what unfolds. Yeah. Definitely. The stakes are high. Stakes are high. High stakes. High stakes. High stakes value.

Starting point is 00:08:22 High stakes. High stakes. Rare stakes. But yeah, I liked it a lot. I think one of the hardest parts about writing is truly knowing how to embrace the gray of a situation. It's really easy to acknowledge the gray. But more often than not, I think a writer often makes a choice of not sitting there and ultimately choosing a path between somewhere between

Starting point is 00:08:47 the lanes a little more black and white. I think that's one of the hardest parts when you're working with screen time versus real life. That's where the hard part can come in. That's one thing I'm really respecting about this season in particular is they truly let you sit with the gray. You know, even right from every

Starting point is 00:09:06 debate and argument that was acknowledged, I think they would really explore the arena and the vast array of of the thoughts and emotions that would, you know, rise to the surface on such a unique, unique problem. Like, would Mark of, he hugs his dad? And it's like, no, go F yourself. And why do you want me? No, this, like that, that ping pong battle in between. And then even seeing, like, the kid and like, why should I care? But it's not her fault. You know, like, the constant back and forth, even with Adam Eve, I think, like, I think it might be a little bit more layered in the sense of there's so much wrong about the way her parents treat her.

Starting point is 00:09:56 She knows that there's so many psychologically abusive sides, especially on the side of her dad. However, there might be a layer there where you might be a little bit right about, hey, you are not God. You are not someone who has all the answers. and maybe if you don't keep acting like you know everything, you might create a better sense of awareness on when you're handling certain situations because she has made mistakes from thinking she knows best. You know, and that's part of what I mean by that gray of it

Starting point is 00:10:29 is there can be the acknowledgement, like, he is a messed up guy. He does treat her bad. There's also this one quality, though, that he might be right about. You know, like there can be these multiple layers. like one of my favorite moments is like mark saying mark just telling the bug mom um i i know none of this is not is your fault none of this is your fault but it still hurts and that's what i mean i think that is probably the perfect encapsulation of what i mean by the gray you know and it was full i just love that about what they're doing here uh from debby

Starting point is 00:11:05 debby's a great example of that too of the of the crib like i hate you so much you so much you did all this wrong why do i miss you though you know what you can have both you can have these coexisting feelings and this show lets those those colors coexist together versus just choosing one side eventually a character has to choose a path that's what we do in life we we we feel out everything but we have to make a choice regardless and we have to move on ahead uh whether that be something that's bad for us or good for us we make a choice and that's what they're doing with their characters like they just let them see all this and i like there i think there's it's really hard to find a show that does that or a movie like it's way harder with a movie a movie is such a shorter

Starting point is 00:11:53 runtime it tells a lot more you know a more specific time frame and for a show like this is this is true this true character exploration it's true character-driven narrative while giving you like awesome visuals and great fight scenes and you know like superhero complexities and stuff but this is so much more human than a lot of shows that are about just human beings. And I think this is this is probably my favorite just because of that front and willingness it is probably my favorite superhero show.

Starting point is 00:12:26 I think we've seen all year. Yeah, I'd have to do that. Yeah. No, yeah, to build off what you were saying about the gray, the fact that... Dr. Nolan, too. Yeah, because he's like choked his son. He's like, crying.

Starting point is 00:12:41 Yeah, because he feels things. He's like, why do I feel things? And yeah, it's, no, man, it's just, it's, it's really interesting because we, you know, we're in this age of, of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, right? And everything. God, you're so sexist. Jesus. No, in the, we're the age of Marvel, right?

Starting point is 00:13:02 And I feel like there is such an apprehension towards having people that are in emotional gray areas because they want to make things as likable. possible. But I think by not trying to make something that's widely appealing and showing something that's gray, showing something that's more human and more complicated, I think that endears us to the characters we're watching more. Because we see elements of ourselves within that because humans are complicated. You know, humans do have multifaceted, sometimes conflicting desires. And I think it's important that we're having that represented in the show. And I like the fact that this is something that is not only complex, but it's also authentic. authentically comic booky as well because we're seeing weird alien stuff we're seeing clones we're seeing demons you know but it's very much rooted in that human conflict and all the performances really show up to play as well you know we don't it doesn't come off as like this heightened version of what acting is you know it feels very much in spite of the fact that it's animated like these performers are giving their all yeah showing that nuance within those performances

Starting point is 00:14:09 which i think is is great yeah i firmly agree that this is one of the the best shows not only comic book shows but shows that have been on this year yeah and i i think they take advantage of the fact that it's an animated medium and in all the right ways i think uh i really love this this series a lot and i think i think the way they've amplified this season with that's it's so strange they got a lot going on but i'm like i don't know what i feel like they're not in a rush to wrap it all even when it comes back to finish off season two they're not in a rush to like end it down season two you know like i'm like yeah let's stick around for the long haul because this exploration is is great because this is more than just

Starting point is 00:14:53 world building which they do you know they they've opened the multiverse and stuff and and and and i love how they're not bogged down by excitement like it is so melancholic yeah it's so sad it's sad but it's also going to be funny the great and uh I think they really, it surprises me that of how this show continues to surprise me in that regard. Because this season especially has doubled down on existentialism, consciousness, all these different things that you cannot really spew about while you're in the middle of a reaction. So you make some stupid joke more often the dumb thoughts that pop into our heads. We're not trying to be dumb. We're just dumb in the moment.

Starting point is 00:15:37 But then we think about it after. You know what? process you know yeah our complex thoughts um but i mean to get some of the main things out of the way like uh um yeah omniman has has been a a nice surprise like i believe again like they didn't just try slingshot in him until like he's a hero now you know i got love when he choked mark and he's and it's just he's watching the devastation and any other show would just have you tease with the rage but the last thing you're going to do is have him choke his own kid like the fight of of feeling hurt you know the pain of the loss of love that like the compassion weighing against your heart and you're fighting it literally the most physical representation of finding against it by your own flesh and blood uh was was a powerful moment i was like damn this is heartbreaking and uh even is pleading at the end and to get these other viltramites where wow we've got

Starting point is 00:16:39 Like, we thought Omni Man was bad. Right. What the hell do we have on our hands now? The whole planet of people that are survival of the fittest. And, like, we are the top race. And also the fact at the end that, you know, Mark has been wrestling all season long with, am I like my dad? Like, no, I need to prove I'm not like my dad.

Starting point is 00:16:59 And this overwhelming guilt that he needs to be the best hero that he can be. But that need to be hero is originally inspired by the fact that he looked up to his dad. like to such a great degree and now he's threatened by his dad's heritage to be the thing that he fears most to be the thing that he's most insecure about

Starting point is 00:17:20 and yeah I'm really wondering how that's going to come into play because yeah if he doesn't they're going to come they're going to he has to fill his dad's role so maybe he's going to find a way to beat the village rights I don't know I don't know me because

Starting point is 00:17:37 that scene with Alan hasn't happened yet as far as this show has shown us. I mean, I hope Allen Heels, because from the last episode it looks like he's going to die because the officers primes the mole. So who knows? I don't know. That whole plot, too.

Starting point is 00:17:52 The whole plot. There's a lot of plots. A lot of plots happening. Yeah, it's like a big expansive universe, but damn, they keep it like whenever you cut to something, you're not thinking about what's going on over here. Right. Like you're just in the moment.

Starting point is 00:18:06 You're just in the moment of what's happening, you know. yeah and it's not about like theories and all this other shit like you're just watching like like even like i didn't really i like i liked donald last season but i wasn't care about him i wasn't like oh like oh i look at a bummer he died because he was like a likable personality right but what they're doing here which is just all mainly tone based it's like yeah this is compelling what you're watching this guy go through like what is he who is this donald is this is the same donald is he resurrected is he a robot what and what does this say about again like the existential themes that this seems like they like

Starting point is 00:18:44 the last episode dealt a lot with characters who experience death over and over again you know yeah and and i and i and i so i really i really love what they're doing there and know what they're doing with omni man i think is really compelling stuff you can't kill him off even if he gets killed off in the comics you can't kill him off he's the thing that brings in the dollars he's the breadwinner here i have him back yeah to see where his his mental state is that now and what have how is mark going to save him if is he going to save him like what's going to happen to i i know and like who would who would band with him right who would risk their neck to save on yeah who would believe who believe mark that he's changed if he's the person leading

Starting point is 00:19:25 that charge to save him like that and to call the show invincible he has to go through like the most insane insurmountable obstacles in the most isolating types of scenarios in order to gain that that that image of invincibility you know in order to truly gain that that title and the most apt way so i i i'm so fascinated by what direction we're going and so i think for a midseason finale it does feel like there's so much that's been set up and so much has been done that even though yeah i do feel like we didn't watch eight episodes i still feel like i got like a full meal yeah yeah yeah normally sometimes he's mid-experience yeah normally sometimes he's mid-season finale. It was like,

Starting point is 00:20:09 oh, it seems like we were just kind of like, what's happening? Oh, okay, now we've got a good cliffhanger. I'm like, no, but they still told like a solid package. Oh, yeah. And this part one. Yeah. I loved it. I really loved it a lot.

Starting point is 00:20:21 And, and, yeah, what they did with Debbie's growth is great. And then, like, even art, like, again, it's about quality and versus quantity. Art shows up for one scene. Just be like, yo, I got some troops that dropped to you. And I'm like, goddamn right. Yeah. But there'd be more dead people if it wasn't for Debbie and still, like, some good. him yeah yeah she was she's the heart you know she yeah she held him at bay until mark

Starting point is 00:20:45 was able to she to find the strength within showing like no i do have actual strength yeah and it's true she does uh and just took the oldest whitest guy this little yeah this old soul patch over here phenomenal stuff phenomenal stuff all around great voice work and uh good violence again missed the violence yeah first two episodes were good but i think these last episodes are great yeah yeah the first the first two were good and i really appreciate what they were doing um but no you have to kind of sit it through like you can't you can't have the last two without the first two yeah yeah yeah natural buildup progressive yeah yeah oh wow guys well what did you think about these two man i thought i i thought there's these are excellent and again it's just

Starting point is 00:21:33 solidifies this depending on whenever this show ends which I imagine wouldn't be for a while this could go down as like the best superhero show oh yeah totally I know some people can't just give it to that only because it's animated and not live action but fuck the writing

Starting point is 00:21:49 is so much better than so many superhero shows yeah I mean the boys is great too but I think that this really there's a sense of cynicism to the boys that's kind of like making fun of comic book tropes and like in media but I think this is very sincere in its love of comic books will also

Starting point is 00:22:06 having a self-awareness that it's a comic book yeah yeah couldn't say it better myself yeah well we completed each other's send which is honestly don't remember what the rest of that sentence was we did it you have a cough going on nope

Starting point is 00:22:29 nope I'm healthy you got the you got the run no you're sure we do a test on camera play it out in real time let's do it you know terrible of a human being you would look you want to stick out my nose that we'd make out after yep full tongue just like omnipand the bug

Starting point is 00:22:50 that's how we run the rejects around here would you dip me or would I dip you for like our on-screen kiss is that how that would work oh I dip you of course a thousand percent dip you I have longer hair, so, you know, just like, like that. Just look at our physical stature. It makes more sense that I dip you.

Starting point is 00:23:09 Exactly. You look like manlier because I'm like, I'm larger than you. So you're just like, oh. Yeah. So it makes sense that I'd be the one to dip you. Exactly. We're breaking stereotypes here. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:23:24 Anyway. After a very serious conversation. And the classic style. Aaron, happy to be covering this with you. If my friend, was this the first show we covered? Or was it an umbrella cat? I think it was Umbrella Academy. The First Academy's first one we did.

Starting point is 00:23:40 Yeah, and then we did this one after. Yeah. Was it this one after? Yeah, because I think we did Umbrella Academy in 2020. This is 2021. Yep. Yeah. That's how times.

Starting point is 00:23:49 We've changed. We've changed. Times have changed. That's growth. Thank you.

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The Reel Rejects - INVINCIBLE SEASON 2 Episode 2x4 Breakdown & Review

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