The Reel Rejects - INVINCIBLE SEASON 4 EPISODE 6 REVIEW – THAT BATTLE WILL LEAVE THRAGG UNHINGED?!

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Starting point is 00:00:53 We watched the whole thing, and I forgot a couple seconds, and it's really bit us in the butt talks in the comments. Oh, my God. With that in mind, we love that last episode still, and we are excited to watch episode six. I speak for both of us. Are you excited? I am extremely excited.

Starting point is 00:01:07 Yeah, the things I've been waiting for the past two seasons are finally happening. So, yeah, let's freaking get it going. Let's get it going. Comment below and everything else we forget. Let's go. It is time. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we have watched Invincible Season 2 or 4 plus 2 equals 4 is 5, 6. 4 by 6.

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Starting point is 00:02:11 Oliver, he's got some facial hair. Omneman, he grew a beard. The Viltra, Dadius and allies, they were winning until they attacked home. Oliver had a crush on a lobster. Oliver tried to deal with a lobster. We don't know what's going on Amber. Two months have passed. Omneman and Oliver are now the father and son getting along her.

Starting point is 00:02:35 and then we found who the traitor was. Big reveal. You guessed it from the beginning. So, yeah, so much had happened. How did you feel about this episode overall? I liked it. It's a weird thing because I'm like, we're finally into the war and it seemed like some major stuff happened as far as the progression of the war.

Starting point is 00:02:56 But I don't know. It didn't move me or get me excited in the way that I was hoping for. I like the narrative progression of what we were doing, like, in theory. But some of it seemed like it was moving a little fast. I could have used some more dramatic weight there. I like that Oliver and Nolan are on the same page. Something about the progression of how it moved felt a little quick because we were just kind of like jumping at different points. And a lot happened in the course of 50 minutes that kind of moved the overall needle for the,

Starting point is 00:03:33 the narrative, which I thought was cool. But yeah, I think it was more of an episode that I, I just liked and enjoyed as a chapter as part of the large narrative than like, oh my God, this is a great episode. I still think last episode was one of the best of the season. I don't, I don't feel the way I felt about episode four, because this actually was something that felt like very pivotal to the immediacy of the moment. and yeah there's some some stuff with with the betrayer

Starting point is 00:04:07 that feels a little a little dubious you know we had a we had a we had throg that's his name right throg

Starting point is 00:04:15 no drag drag he says something of the effect of they don't then this guy's not who they think he is or whatnot and what his real motive is

Starting point is 00:04:26 his real motive is yeah and I'm like huh that's interesting it's the way he responded after the battle. He's almost like in like the Hunger Games

Starting point is 00:04:35 like President Coyne like he's trying to go off to the bigger evil when he has his own motives in the face of I remember President Coyne Julianne Moore's character Did you want to those?

Starting point is 00:04:46 I remember Julianne Moore was in the Hunger Games was she? Yeah so she was like the district 12 leader but like in the replacement of the regime of the capital

Starting point is 00:04:58 she wants to replace with something that wasn't them, but like herself in power. So I feel like, I never watch these movies. Yeah, yeah, man. Yeah, maybe you can react to him one day with somebody. But I feel like, I feel like this, this guy is not the man we perceive him to be. He is a betrayer.

Starting point is 00:05:19 He can't trust a betrayer. Can't trust a betrayer. He, I feel- Just get stitches. You know what they say, man. He feels just as potentially vicious and as cold. as the vilcher mites do, but, or the opposite end,

Starting point is 00:05:35 which I think is interesting. He is fighting for a different cause, but he still is a vilshamite of heart. Isn't that kind of necessary to win a war? You have to kind of detach yourself from emotions in order to keep proceeding. You have to view a loss like this as a temper as a setback and not as a loss. I guess,

Starting point is 00:05:50 but I feel like there's a line, though. You have to still matter. This is why you wouldn't survive in the battlefield. Not like me. I know. Everyone knows. I'm a tough mother.

Starting point is 00:06:00 her over here. Yeah. Never shed a tear. Yeah, that's not me. I'm not going to cry in more. You're like a bunch of sissies. Sissy shit. How did you feel about the episode?

Starting point is 00:06:16 I was going like, am I just tired today? And then I realize I'm not tired today. And I do feel very similar to how you feel about this episode. It seems like it's one of those things where everything, I kind of said this about four. Yeah, yeah, it varies in the right. what you were saying.

Starting point is 00:06:36 I guys, that is about four. I'm like, everything about this, I should love, but I don't. And nothing here I outright disliked. I liked the episode overall.

Starting point is 00:06:48 Yeah. And the finale battle was rewarding and had a lot of merit and was the most exciting part of the episode. And you feel it would have been more thrilling if everything I think preceding it was strongly emotionally engaging instead of kind of being in flux. Like when they weren't with, like Oliver and Omneman, that was taking me some time to even get super into that, when that should be kind of the easiest cell. There's something about this planet perhaps that's like, it's so barren that that abandonment of atmosphere and landscape kind of makes some,

Starting point is 00:07:36 the experience a little bit flat too. And through the passage of several months, I feel like not much really advanced with them over the course of those months. It seemed like they were kind of going through a lot of stuff very quick. And somehow by going through stuff quick, it made things less interesting and at times a little boring. You know what I mean?

Starting point is 00:08:00 Like sometimes in those conversations, though, they were interesting. Like the context-wise, I did like how, Oliver and Omneman were finding a natural way to have a conversation, the reveal that Oliver was there when he said the thing about his mom, his biological mom, does add weight. And the conflict that they had, this is Oliver's best episode,

Starting point is 00:08:25 I would say. In spite of some of the feelings, I would still say this is Oliver's best episode so far in this season. And the way they found their kinship felt good, but I, it was like, it's, it's one of the things where it's like everything was right there. But through the execution of how we got there, I didn't really feel like I emotionally connected with it as much as I should. And as someone would like my own set of daddy issues, I feel like this kind of, there's a lot of easy sell stuff for me that I wasn't really, uh, I just didn't fully click with. And when we weren't cutting with them, it was, it was, it was something.

Starting point is 00:09:04 Sometimes I was in a little bit conflict with the enjoyment of the episode. This is one of those things where it's like, if we were just watching it as part of my binge, I wouldn't really give a ship of, in terms of like reacting to something and having to review it. I'm going to review it. And part of reviewing it is really assessing the impact of the episode. And the, and sometimes I think that's where the disparaging part between viewer and YouTuber can come into play.

Starting point is 00:09:29 So with the, when we were with Alan and Zoe, like the joke about the video game was, funny, but somehow with that, at the same time, with them never really feeling like they were in danger because they just kept turning to the video game, undercut the tension with a joke. So the, the episode kind of needed action to have tension. Yeah. And I think the show works best when they can have tension, really feel that tension, and the weight

Starting point is 00:09:58 of that without needing, and the action just complements that. So if you look at Alan and Zoe, there's no real tension. with them until Vilta might show up to start punching them, you know, in space. So when they go back to their planet, the dialogue there, and then they're winning, and I understand, I even said while we were watching,

Starting point is 00:10:18 like, yeah, this whole thing is supposed to just kind of sell, but like, oh, they're winning, and it's supposed to mislead us into, like, oh, this is where everything's great, but then something terrible is going to happen. Like, it was obvious, that's what was going to happen. We're giving it a chance. We were like, I felt like we were being pretty respectful to the episode. We weren't just like

Starting point is 00:10:33 interrupting or shitting on it or anything. and somehow, yeah, it just felt like we were missing out on some sizzling into stakes, you know? Yeah. Guys, girls, do you ever feel like your home just can't keep up with your life? Now, I come from a hoarder's home. I mean that literally, not some metaphor. So a mess is quite triggering for a mo. Yet, I'm barely home these days.

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Starting point is 00:12:35 things in the recaps are relevant to who are about to watch. And that kind of was the case in the last episode where it showed the little bit from episode four, but like how the, the fire lady got punched and she wasn't in the episode at all. And in this, you know, pre beginning, it showed Amber with, um, what's Eve with the baby or her being pregnant. So I thought that was going to be in some way part of the episode. And I feel like with the amount of.

Starting point is 00:12:58 things that happen in this episode, compacting with so many things, kind of undercuts the effect of what they're trying to tackle with how large of a scope that it is. Because we went from Mark, thinking that Mark was on the verge of death at the end of last episode, through

Starting point is 00:13:13 all crap, they're in this desert planet with no way to communicate with the main planet to them just showing up in the nick of time and Mark's already better. I was like, okay, I feel like that stuff could have been spread out and maybe if they took more of a, this is a universal approach.

Starting point is 00:13:29 Or like, we're dealing with the war stuff here. We're dealing with the Mark stuff here. We're dealing with the stuff with Amber over here or with Eve over here. Maybe we're dealing with the monster girl stuff. Maybe tackling the effects of the world could have allowed some of the stuff to breathe a little bit more with giving the show the effect of things feeling like they're longer, which in part could have helped us feel like, okay, these guys really are on a planet for months and we are getting to have these scenes where they're growing and connecting.

Starting point is 00:13:58 I don't know, that's just a theory because I feel like with this comic being like what, like something like taking place over the course of 10 years of releasing, you have to truncate a lot of the stuff within the course of eight episodes, which means you have to compact a lot and montage through a lot, which I feel like can undercut the effect of the thing that you're trying to accomplish. Like if we spent more time with with Mark and Omneman and Oliver trying to get back to the planet where the resistance was at and their journey there and them all connecting or maybe we get to see the struggle of some of the war rather than just knowing that they conquered and took out different planets over the course of a montage. I feel like that battle would have felt like it had greater stakes. Yeah. It would have been more devastating. When they're coming to the panel of the leaders, like we lost all these people and like, well, I didn't get a sense. you're like you're telling me that and i think this episode did a lot of information and fulfilling beats of an outline with with having certain moments that would hit like there was a joke about

Starting point is 00:15:04 the video game that i thought did really hit the fight with uh zoe and alan and the viltermites did hit when he when space racer shows up with the space racer yeah when he shows up with the gun that was a cool moment that was a great moment and with all the build up around this guy we finally got a see what the capability was. And they're like, oh, shit. Yeah, this is, this is a worthwhile investment to have gone out to get this dude. So that was good. And there were, there were moments, of course, with Oliver and Omneman that I did enjoy

Starting point is 00:15:34 and were good conversational pieces. And then the final fight was really good, too. And yeah, like, as we were talking, I was like, oh, yeah, it might have been, it might have been a little more effective if they had shown it was, it's not as, it was, there's the struggles were going on or maybe it was like really hard for them and us being aware that like they need Omneman Mark and Oliver. Yeah, they're struggling without them. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:16:02 Whereas like, oh, they don't seem like they're really struggling without them, you know. And so like they came in at the right time. But if they were like really selling the struggle without them and I'm still waiting to get the sense of like we're six episodes in and I still find conquest. remarkably more interesting than Thrag. And people have really hyped up Thrag. And there's a really big deal

Starting point is 00:16:27 that Thrag is going to be here. So there's still two episodes left. And if he carries on past this season, presumably will. Cool. And then we'll really understand why all the hype around Thrag. But I feel like with the two episodes,

Starting point is 00:16:40 with the one episode we got with Conquist in last season has been much more of a fascinating character and scarier and more threatening in almost every aspect, even though he's lost twice down, he's still somehow scarier. I mean,

Starting point is 00:16:53 you know? Yeah, in the show's defense, I feel like sometimes it's, it's a great help. Other times it's a hindrance. The fact of how, I guess,

Starting point is 00:17:02 economic they are with the amount of time they give things, because they are, the show was able to fit a lot of stuff within the course of 50 minutes. I felt like last episode, that was a plus and a positive of how much they were able to fit in. And I felt like this one was a bit of a hindrance. But kind of how you were saying,

Starting point is 00:17:18 the stuff with conquest, we became so endeared to that character and so fascinated by that character of the course of a single episode that I'm not too concerned with the stuff with Thrag, because I feel like in that finale, we could become super endeared to him, but right now we're just kind of teasing him

Starting point is 00:17:34 something like a Thanos. We didn't really care about Thanos until we saw infinity. That's fair. That's fair. That's a good point. I'm not too bothered by it. I feel like by this point, it should be like, suspenseful. I should be on like the edge of my seat

Starting point is 00:17:50 and I'm not like I've invested fucking no we all have all of us here you know and I don't know how many of you guys have done I mean you guys read the comics

Starting point is 00:18:00 and you know and then they're not I've rewatched the show several times so there's been a lot of like investment into getting to this point so by now it should be like this should be this should be like fucking heart racing right every episode should be hitting like a bangor

Starting point is 00:18:13 suspense full tension or exciting you know and right now this was like yeah it's fine after a really exciting episode last week, then we got to a point like, yeah, that was fine. And that big,

Starting point is 00:18:26 big, big finale moment, but I don't want the show to only really thrive at its, like really sore. I don't want to only soar when there's violence going down. I think it should be soaring when it's just drama scenes and shit, you know. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:18:40 Also, the stuff with the mole is kind of underwhelming. I'm like, oh, all right, I guess it's just that guy. Because they keep hyping up like, who's the mole. Yeah, who's taken,

Starting point is 00:18:47 who's very, I was like, oh, all right. If he just got shot in the head and you think he's dead. And then he's just alive. I'm like, oh, what was the point of that? I don't know. I'm surprised like they would go so hot. I mean, there's something kind of funny to me about, like, they would suspect someone

Starting point is 00:19:02 much higher up because there's a mole here that they didn't bother to look at the little guy, but I don't even know if that was like part of the commentary or that was like part of the oversight. Yeah. Yeah, there was no real, no like, oh, shit to it. when there has been a buildup to that. It didn't seem like they're actively looking for the mole either. There's a bowl here.

Starting point is 00:19:23 It's going to come out eventually. Yeah. When you're in war, I feel like they should. That's true. Like when you're in war like that, where it takes one guy to like swipe a button down in order to leave you defenseless. It's that easy.

Starting point is 00:19:37 Like you should definitely be on the lookout for your bowl. Yeah, but I feel like there's so many things happening that they didn't really give, give time to that. Yeah, it's, it's, it's,

Starting point is 00:19:47 it's, it's, it's, where you, where you spend your time in how you were unveiling your information, how your story is unfolding.

Starting point is 00:19:56 Because, yeah, all the things were happening that we wanted to happen, but it just, yeah, didn't feel satisfying in the way that I was hoping for. Yeah. We got two episodes left, so that could still change.

Starting point is 00:20:05 We're about to go to Viltram and, you know, all the, the, the hype and, and fears, well, first admiration and now,

Starting point is 00:20:12 like, fear and dread for Mark. So that could be interesting. where that's going to be headed. Plus, they're farming that virus again, and I'm curious to see how the, I can't remember the actual character's name, but Optimus Prime's character.

Starting point is 00:20:26 That is? That is. Well, if he's going to utilize that bomb, Walmart and Oliver on the planet, well, Omni Man's on the planet, and how that's going to affect things going forward. Yeah, yeah. All right.

Starting point is 00:20:39 Well, yeah. This is, so, it's fucking invincible. So still, you know, great time. still rather be here than not and overall this season is weird like it's got 100% raw tomatoes understandably so if I were to I still recommend this show highly

Starting point is 00:20:55 I would say though it's like from still got two episodes left it's been a little bit more up and down than I expected to yeah like like from up to mid to like one very defining down but it's been a little bit more mid to high than some but yeah

Starting point is 00:21:13 like because some of times it's so great that you forget about the lows. Other times you're like, oh, you know, it's been a little more low sometimes. We're like not as interesting moments, you know. But yeah, I feel like the season overall, how we'll be remembered back will be how it lands its finale. Because I feel like that's kind of what happened. Yeah. That's what happened last season as well.

Starting point is 00:21:33 I love last season. I think last season is my favorite. I remember as we're watching and having some like up and down feelings sort of similar to how we're having now. but I feel like the way that the last two episodes wrapped themselves up made up for the issues I had. So I'm hoping the last two episodes of this will do the same. That's true. Yeah. I think there was not much focus on the Wilhelm stuff.

Starting point is 00:21:54 But the focus that they were giving us was so strong. Like whatever they were executing was strong. Yeah. Like the Powerplex episode is a great exam. I know not every episode could be a Powerplex episode. Of course not. But that's like a great example of being able to do an episode doesn't rely on action to be. very engaging.

Starting point is 00:22:13 No, totally. And right now it's like, I get we're bigger, but sometimes when you go bigger, you lose some of that emotional immediacy that you thrive on. Yeah, you lose the personal with trying to go as big. And like, it was sad seeing Alan's girlfriend kind of seeing all the destruction, but we weren't really connected to that planet like that. So it didn't hold the same way. No, no, no.

Starting point is 00:22:38 But hey, what are you going to do? It's going to be all right. Everything's going to be fine. I'm sure the last two episodes will be amazing. And overall, I'm excited to talk about it. So thank you guys for being here on this journey with us. Thanks to those who still encourage us, just be honest with our thoughts and feelings.

Starting point is 00:22:52 And if you disagree, that's what a keyboard is for. Let us know. Do it. Do it. See you guys. Adios.

The Reel Rejects - INVINCIBLE SEASON 4 EPISODE 6 REVIEW – THAT BATTLE WILL LEAVE THRAGG UNHINGED?!

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