The Reel Rejects - INVINCIBLE SEASON 3x4 Breakdown & Review

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Starting point is 00:01:07 thank you to acorns and liquid IV for sponsoring this video more on them in just a bit ladies and gentlemen all the kids all right ladies and gentlemen we just watched Invincible Season 3 epizolo Zolo he played drop kick oh no way and fight master he played both of them cool yeah they're twins that makes

Starting point is 00:01:35 sense oh j farrell's bulletproof i didn't know that yeah yeah all right well we just watch the show oh we just watched joel abraduette is invincible we just watched uh uh the episode television which was two episodes for the price of one and uh i think there's a bit one on on feeling i think we're feelings are feeling empathetic towards one another here i think there's a bit of like a mixed bag here you know yeah yeah so it's definitely i think the weakest episode of the season thus far possibly of the entire show but i think they're still fun to be had and i think largely it felt um maybe inconsequential it didn't it didn't propel us further a whole time like we already know where mark's struggles are

Starting point is 00:02:28 to his feelings about him being a hero and killing and we really kind of got a sense that him and eve were going in the direction and they understood each other and a lot of the recap stuff with with omni man and alan we kind of already got the sense that yeah he was trying to get him to be on his side and then so the only real development that happened is that no one's with the cause now and maybe the stuff with the drop kick and firemaster will come back because it's just maybe like it's like a setup thing for something later down the line but it's got to be only this yeah this felt largely like set up rather than a consequential chapter in furthering the story yeah i don't know i might be a little bit more on the

Starting point is 00:03:15 like i'm definitely like i i like the episode i actually did but i it's fun action's good i have i have my disappointments with impact is what i would say i think usually the the the episode This show is like so impactful emotionally, especially after the highs of episodes two and three. And then to have the, and I did notice that once we got to the big breakout moment of the Villtermite prison and stuff, I was like, I really feel like I should be feeling more, especially with this development in the, in the plot of the show that I wish I was more like emotionally swinging with it. They did this motif last season, right? were i mean they went to the allen story earlier so you were able to spend more time in the allen story and it just kind of felt a little bit like they're making fun of the fact that it's a recap but a lot of it is just kind of a recap and repetitive and then it goes through kind of

Starting point is 00:04:10 the perfunctory beat we expected to go through for your like action adventure story and um like don't get me wrong like those last few minutes i thought were really exciting i like the the plot information too of um about the viltramites and how there's only 50 pure bloods left because you're under the impression that it's it's like a kingdom of so many of them way more than 50 but 50 seems like a number you can work with in some capacity and i was actually into the time travel plot when it first presented itself yeah it was it was interesting at first like the setup was interesting i think the consequences of what that means and the immediacy of it don't ring like it furthered marks development i think it just speaks of the overall. Didn't feel fresh. No, it didn't feel fresh and it's weird because this is episode

Starting point is 00:05:04 4. So yeah, we're also watching Spider-Man at the same time and it's weird that Spider-Rand's episodes are shorter but they feel more like impactful and this one kind of felt like it breezed by even though it's longer. This is exactly what I was worried about 40 film. Really? That's why I said in the intro.

Starting point is 00:05:21 I was like not because I think like my mindset was primed for watching spider-man and but invincible normally feels full though when we're watching it yeah yeah yeah i don't know the way the sentence you just said made it sound like that's your general sentiment of invincible that's that's why yeah not just this episode that's why i was saying that um no yeah i i normally don't feel this i think invincible is is it like it's one of my favorite shows of all time so yeah when it when it got to when it did get to the the stuff with immortal i was like okay interesting maybe we like part of me is wondering if we did um with our own but i feel like the show wanted you to

Starting point is 00:06:00 theorize that it's a viltramite i feel i feel like the show wanted you to to uh make you go is it is it um my god so sorry guys is it is it is it marg is it is it is it Oliver i think this show was intentionally doing that like is it a viltramite they're keeping him obscured like the way they were setting up these lines of dialogues like messing with audiences expectations and There's this thing with Immortal where I'm not even fully there with him, like, in terms of feeling truly connected with the character immortal. I like Immortal. But sometimes it does feel like there's this extra emphasis placed on him where I always feel like with this show, I'm just getting to know Immortal. I feel like I'm always just getting to know Immortal, and I'm never quite there.

Starting point is 00:06:51 So to do this leap where I felt like we were going to get something very competitive. telling um it it was it was shrouded in a lot of vagary so with this moment that was supposed to be this big consequential thing the bakery might have been it sounds weird because the last thing i want to be like is be more expositional it might have been a little too vague where i'm like i think it a little bit more so i can so i can connect to the moment here of all this violence and tell me now it's like the his um the the voice the voice of a mortal sound of very it was this like one note of like

Starting point is 00:07:28 the whole time and a little whiny yeah a little whiny cry and I'm like every time I'm and that's the it was the continuation of the almost there with the mortal the whole time I'm like uh huh uh huh I wish I could really connect

Starting point is 00:07:48 to this moment and that was the thing is I think the again idea world violence but then it did is oh i'll touch on that a little bit later but uh yeah i i wish i wish there was a little bit more just something so i could latch onto it to have a wait to like the killing of immortal and perhaps the looming threat of what might come because there was like these little douses of sentences and that's the other part with invincible the show is they've set up a lot of things over the last three seasons you know so to me i'm like how much weight to

Starting point is 00:08:24 do I really place on this right now with my heart? Because I kind of feel like this show often sets up a lot of things that we don't really get back to until way later. And I think I kind of had that sentiment in the last episode where we're recording is that

Starting point is 00:08:39 you know, a lot of stuff is being set up and with a comic book it's structured differently. But with this show we only have eight episodes of season. So it feels like we should be like cramming a lot more plot into what's happening. while balancing it with character

Starting point is 00:08:55 and I felt like this episode specifically didn't have that that balance like we loved last episode I really really enjoyed the plot mixed with the character complications last one but I think from an emotional point of view it felt a little repetitive because

Starting point is 00:09:11 it didn't feel like we added a lot to that conversation now kind of to add to what you were saying when we do get the reveal of invincible the show is playing on our expectations that they are hiding who this is is knowing that we've set up stuff about Mark and his own internal fear about being like his father

Starting point is 00:09:31 and then his brother being like his father. So then when we get the reveal of a mortal, it feels a little underwhelming, coupled with the fact that there are being vague about the future of what's happening. It's like, I don't know, it felt like we were expecting a big bag as like a character revolution

Starting point is 00:09:47 or something to reveal something more about the character, but it felt like when we get there, It's a substitute teacher. I'm like, oh, okay. I mean, we know immortal doesn't die. We know that, you know, he's had lots of wives and stuff. So it's like, okay, we're just going to kill him again because we've seen him die like three or four times. All right, I'll admit it.

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Starting point is 00:13:46 Review important disclosure is acorns. Thank you again, Acorns for sponsoring this video. I might pose this, though, as a little bit of a question. It might have been, because I really trust these writers, right? So I'm wondering if perhaps they were setting all that up to pose the question of, is there a necessity for some type of viltramite king for the future? Because we don't know the specifics of what went down of why someone had to be in place. Well, what we do know from last season is that the viltramites,

Starting point is 00:14:19 spared Mark because they're like, okay, we want you to prep Earth for being conquered. Yeah. And what it seems like is that he did conquer, but then he left a mortal to keep that title. So that's interesting. That made me think of, okay, what is Future Mark's relationship with a Vilthrum Empire if he did eventually become King of Earth like the Vilthrum, like the Viltrams wanted him to do in the first place? And in the present where he's attacking like the Pentagon going headstrong first in

Starting point is 00:14:49 and doing these actions that terrifies Cecil, the stuff he was scared of Omni Man about. So I think there are components there. But just I think it might take a while. I mean, just for our subjective view, I'm not going to speak for all we know, there's thousands of you watch this and you're just like, we don't agree with you at all.

Starting point is 00:15:07 And I've been there many times. So, yeah, like, that's totally fine. If you don't, that's just like the initial impression. I will say what I really did like, though, is I, By Amber and Mark already having been in love. I keep on her, Eve, Amber, I do. She just, and I did that in my...

Starting point is 00:15:27 It's his name. I know. I would do that in my own end when I'm watching the show by myself. She looks like an Amber to me. I get it. She does. She looks like an Amber. Eve and Mark. Samantha. Eve.

Starting point is 00:15:43 Wilcox. What's her last name? I think so. I don't remember. But Eve and Mark. them falling in love, or at least confess into that. I buy you see in the last season with Amber and Mark when they are together of how he can't confide in her.

Starting point is 00:16:01 She can't, he has no one to really identify with the isolation to the kickoff with this of them getting together and showing that like he can go through the craziest out of world experience that no one can possibly identify on them with or or sympathize with them on. but now he's actually got that where he can go through something terrible and then through the love with her he can feel like it's going to be okay so sense of safety there yeah yeah like i like i'd like that component um a lot actually that's kind of my that's probably my favorite aspect of of this episode when they are breaking out of the viltramite though it was the first time in invincible though where i'm watching a lot of violence and i'm like yeah it's really goring everything with this feels a little empty I think what would have helped with that is if because that entire part was from the VOP the voiceover perspective of um what's his name Alan right but I feel like if it was more balanced and we got to see more of Omneman's perspective and his pain and his shame going into that coupled with Alan trying to pull him out of that I wish we just like it would have been more rich I think

Starting point is 00:17:11 it would have helped is if we actually spent any time with them beyond like a post credit scene yeah uh throughout this because then you are just kind of rehashing shit we already heard before and it seems like there's a lack of depth to it it's like we spent time in prison together but i'm like i didn't really feel i didn't get the the time this i didn't get any sense or even in the passage of time i didn't feel like there was any developments of their friendship really yeah because i don't think we've seen them since the beginning of the season not they need to be best friends or something but clearly it was enough to move on you know no i mean don't get me wrong i When I say that this feels like the, I feel like worse has a strong negative connotation.

Starting point is 00:17:54 But that being said, even when the show is so strong, even when it's on its weaker episodes, it's still entertaining. Like, I wasn't bored. I wasn't like not like shitting on the episode. I think that. This should have been a huge moment, though. It should have been a big moment. I think this should be like a big like, okay, we definitely know Omni Man's allegiance to now. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:18:14 Yeah. And I don't feel excited. It feels like, because we only have eight episodes, each episode should feel like a chapter, and this felt like set up, which, and because of that, because of that, I'm like, okay, well, I know that the next episode, the rest of the season is going to be interesting. I'm excited for that, but just this particular episode, and I was like, okay, we're, we're, we're just, we're stepping slightly forward in with information we already knew or stuff we felt like was already going to happen, rather than being, um, had our perspective. broadened by new information or new steps. Like Oliver killing the Mueller twins, that was huge. In contrast with what Mark was trying to do, I thought last episode was brilliant.

Starting point is 00:19:00 So to go into this episode and feel largely like it's kind of talking at us in the same points we've already explored, feels like it's not really moving the needle all that much further, even though it kind of is from like a relationship standpoint. We got the stuff from the beginning with, with Rex and with shrinking ray. That's like, okay, we're getting a little bit more of their relationship. And then we're getting stuff with the new teen team

Starting point is 00:19:26 or whatever their new name is going to be, like briefly. And then a lot of it's just the time travel stuff and the Omneman and the Allen stuff. So like you said, it's setting up. It's moving the needle, but I'm like, we have so much to explore. We didn't even really get a development on the Oliver stuff. We didn't really get development on the who the hell is spying on Mark's stuff. I'm like, bro, we got, I guess we got four more episodes.

Starting point is 00:19:49 So we got a whole half of season to explore the rest of this stuff. I just wish that this one was a little bit more full rather than spending a lot of time rehashing things we already felt. Yeah, that's pretty much it. Interesting, yeah. Yeah, I didn't feel like I needed to cut to any of those storylines, though. Is that you're saying? I want to understand that. I mean, because we got the, we did the stuff with, I just wish what they told was stronger.

Starting point is 00:20:15 I wish what they told was stronger But last episode We got the confirmation of even Mark And we got to see his guilt And where he was going Granted I think that's still Important because I feel like That's been a lot of their relationship

Starting point is 00:20:31 And him being able to talk about The immediacy of him going To the other plan To the future And I'm like okay this is nice Okay they're saying they love you to each other Okay cool But then all the I wish

Starting point is 00:20:45 rather than recapping, we would have just thrown us in. Or, so we wouldn't have to do that big recap. I feel like that's just kind of wasting a lot of time. We could plant those seeds of building up to the breakup moment in episodes two and three. So that way by the time we

Starting point is 00:21:01 get here, we do have more time to revel in that victory of Omni Man kind of switching sides. I think it's like a huge deal that he like, he didn't just like go to another planet, you know? Like something solely separate that he could ignore yeah he went to the future like time traveled to the future i know he's been to like other universes and shit and been lost in time so he's gone through some big things but

Starting point is 00:21:24 this is his earth and his timeline and when he gets back he's like yeah he seems like bummed but we don't really get a gestated i think there'd be more concern or it would feel more impactful if it really seemed like mark was beyond like really disturbed and worried of truly like there's something feels grave about the future head you know what it also was it felt like a softer version of mark going to the end of season two yeah yeah that's what i mean so yeah so i'm like okay it feels also him going to the future seeing what it could become it felt kind of inconsequential it felt like another day at the office that's what i mean it was that's exactly what i'm trying to say is that it feels like

Starting point is 00:22:05 his response to it afterwards was not as heavy but weighty but also the way the show treats it yeah it feels like just because when it first happened i'm like okay this feels very for a comic bookie like something that would happen in an issue of a comic but the result of but because this show has trained us to be a lot more deeper a lot more elevated than just the traditional run-of-the-mill type of storyline it felt like not that it was bad but it went down to the level of what you'd expect from just like an issue of a comic rather than a chapter of a tv show adapting a comic yeah oh well i'm sure the rest of the season will pick up yeah yeah I've heard apparently the season like we were fortunate enough to watch like the first four before reviews came out, this one.

Starting point is 00:22:51 But as today I saw early social media at the time filmed this, we saw early social media talk about the season being great. So I trust that. And I'm sure it's another. I mean, after the quality of episodes two and three, I'm like, I'd be very surprised if it just like falls off. Stay like this. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure I'm sure it'll pick back up.

Starting point is 00:23:12 I'm sure the setup will be worth it in the end. definitely yeah like like i said i still enjoy the show i like these characters a lot um yeah i was just hoping for for more um enriching experience but yeah i'm i am excited to see what happens next we'll find out find out tune in next week to see if greg and aaron now like the show leave a like on this video on your way out if you can or not comment your hate doesn't matter to us it's all engagement baby see you Thank you.

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The Reel Rejects - INVINCIBLE SEASON 3x4 Breakdown & Review

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