The Reel Rejects - INVINCIBLE Season 4 Episodes 1, 2, & 3 REVIEW - THAT VILTRUM BACKSTORY IS A SHOCKER! Omni Man

Episode Date: March 18, 2026

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You ready to begin, Guy? Guy. I was rock. Aaron and Guy. All right, let's guy again. Damn. that was nuts yeah crazy ending it's a great three episodes yeah crazy ending with the the shock of her the revelation makes sense and you know

we've got this crime organization about to have big things happen make some money but i feel like out of all the things that are happening that might be like the least of the interesting things but you know that was the most interesting definitely more interesting that whatever is going on. It feels true. Oh, like, okay. What's the end game with that? But yeah, I enjoyed every episode that we had here today.

It builds the narrative up. And then it also kind of helps this new chapter of Mark's story along kind of, you know, first season was him looking up to his dad. Second was I'm not going to be like my dad. And the third ones I have to make up for the sins of how the world. sees me arguably being worse than my dad. Yeah. Also, the full reaction

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you can support the channel as well. It will buy going to Reject Nationshop.com. Get yourself some RR apparel. We lost some one-piece teas. You had these class. classic make earth great again invincible inspired shirts now erin was saying stuff yes erin you said stuff i did say some things this was but you liked episode two the most from what i take oh i liked episode one and two i think episode two was definitely a bit of a departure as far as what we're accustomed to to the main themes and story of the show because it was very much a space adventure

you know, almost buddy cop sort of thing. And then obviously, poking in fun at Star Trek in the midst of that. But, yeah, I always enjoy to spend a time with Alan and then seeing the complex place that no one's at and how his arc is sort of paralleling or contrasting with where Mark is at right now.

I found it to be very fascinating. I think this is a great addition thus far and it makes sense narratively, at least for the most part, about everything that's happening. Yeah, I thoroughly enjoyed it. How are you feeling? I thought it was okay

It was fine No it was good man It was good It's always interesting to see like the The different character themes That they're focusing on And as we sort of discussed a little bit during it Is like if you look at episode one

You had the one character who showed up Who like wants to take all the electricity And they have a little moment of Hey it doesn't make sense for you to try to rob everyone's life here in order to save another life. It's an order to save the lives of your people. And then you got the sequins, which are all about dominance

and again threatening the extinction of humanity. You got the episode of the Viltrums, which are dealing with their extinction of their humanity. And even down to like episode three, now that's like birth of new life as well, you know? and what and Mark is dealing with the

generational trauma of what it means to be the son of Nolan and a vilter mite as well and what new kind of life would you have you know is he going to repeat the same sins if he's starting to become a killer so so many of these themes about about extinction about what does life mean

when is there is there a time to kill is there a time to kill that is actually justified And then it's also a lot of themes about atonement, forgiveness. So much of Nolan's episode was about facing the sins of his past as well. And even Tadius is dealing with the sins of his past, his guilt. Mark is, that's all he's really trying to contend with at this time. So I love how strong, it's like when you look at these three episodes on paper, I don't, I feel like plot wise.

It's like, oh, this is kind of a weird trio to put together. But thematically, there's a lot of very similar themes between all three that kind of just resonate. And they seem to kind of be like the through line for the remainder of the season. Even with someone like Conquest, who's all about the shame that he's carrying from his own failures, you know, and a lot of this is about how you overcome your own failures as well. So I thought these were really strong. They're very different. Each episode was so different from one another.

Definitely. like the last season's premiere three-parter were they were kind of like thematically the same when it was like Csill versus Mark and this one had like three very different plot lines they were contending with there's a here similarity between one and three given that they're both having an alien invasion happen yeah and Mark is like kind of there in the center of it granted he didn't have to make oh yeah that's another part about the yeah again again about the extinction yeah yeah he didn't have to make an ultimate sacrifice play or a hard choice in this one. That was more, I guess Rudy didn't know he was making a sacrifice play in Monster Girl, but still they ended up having to have a choice there that they were advised against taking. We'll have to see what the consequences of those actions are. But yeah, there is this element of sacrifice and choice and guilt that we're wrestling

with, you know, and even Mark having to, yeah, make that choice to, you know, to, you know, to take that guy out and the fact that he is in a state of overcorrecting because of how the world views him for what happened at the end of last season. And that no one's kind of in that similar place of trying to rectify things, but also conflicted because he is in a place where he doesn't want the villasurer minds to continue what they're doing. But he also doesn't want to kill them as well. So he's kind of kind of in that middle zone. So I'm very curious to see where those two characters kind of intersect again from these two different places. where they're at, you know, trying to rectify the sins of the past. Well, even Mark is faced with this opportunity to forgive Sinclair.

Sinclair is asking for forgiveness at this moment, too. And there's also a lot of themes about enslavement, weirdly enough, you know? Like this up, like there's genocide, there's oppression, and then they have like stuff about it. All three dealt with being with enslavement and conquering, you know. If there was one like universal theme happening here, I would feel like that would probably be it, you know? Yeah, totally. But beyond the themes, still like,

beyond thematic conversation, I think everything was very, with Mark was character rich. I think the adventure of Nolan and Alan was a great advancement. Because, like, they're, I remember in last season, we were kind of wondering,

like, when the payoffs with the Vilthrum stuff would start kicking in a little bit more. I was like, I feel like not enough attention is kind of going to this. And now that the point. Yeah, now they're doing so much attention to it. They gave a whole dedicated episode just about it so early on. And oftentimes when they have these cliffhangers, I notice these cliffhangers don't start

getting their narrative payoffs still like a little bit closer to the middle of the season. And this time they they bring in Titan in the first trilogy of episodes, the sec quids they bring in right away as well. Nolan and Allen they pay off like a right away as well, you know. So there's there's just so many great things. But the Vilcher Mide episode was probably my favorite of the three so far because of just like I was so impressed with the backstory that they gave and the reveal of, you know, the great betrayer and how he was the one responsible for it. And how it did manage to have this pathos to feeling bad for the Wilter Mites in a weird way just because it's like, oh, man, genocide on any matters is not pleasant to watch even when it's the bad guys, you know. Let me start with something honest. I'm not the most hardcore sports person in the world, believe it or not.

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But then you realize, oh, no, this is just the young Nolan. The fact that he looks like a spinning image of his dad was a very cool design choice. And I wonder if this was something that was added for the show, if this was something that was in the narrative the entire time, getting to know what has happened and his experience with what it was like to grow up on Viltrum. And the fact that we even got that at all, which kind of recontextualizes some things. Those things that we knew, but the fact that, you know, they're even willing to kill children during training. That's not something that Nolan was ever opposed to. And he was even viewed by him, by weak, by his own mom. And it's implied that that was his mom in season two.

And you're one who pointed that out. But yeah, I think it's funny that if that's not his mom, why the character designs are so similar. But, yeah, I thought it was great. I mean, we didn't see her die, right? I don't know. What was the? I don't remember. Viltramite

Woman Season 2 Not Anisa No The old lady This chick Who's this chick Does kind of look like her, huh? Yeah, totally

I just wanted If I do the Google image thing They might tell me who this character is Come on Tell me Thula Thula Now is Thule

Dula Invincible. I mean, trying to see if there's any, like, data that would not also ruin the show. You know, you're going to a very fin line on here. Maybe we're just, like, chalking up today. They look like or is the mom.

I don't know. I don't want to look it up. Thula, let's just type Nolan's mom. Is Thula? That is one of the questions. Is Dula Nolan's mom? I guess there's no confirmation of it. Maybe there might be a little detail they added like for the show.

Yeah. And there's still some things from season two. That is interesting. It's one of the top searches. So that must mean it's from the comic fans who are actually questioning that too. So maybe they don't actually confirm it. But they do like they do look similar. Yeah, man.

Let's just take one last look at her on the actual show. I love how Mark's face turns into Nolan. face. How does that work exactly? Nolan's patrons are. How does that? How does that? Yeah, like the Mark face evolve into looking like a no one.

Because Nolan's dad looks like Nolan. Yeah. Our young Nolan looks like Mark and eventually looks like his dad. I don't know. They don't look one to one the same, but she would be older. I don't know. Whatever. Yeah.

Whatever. Regardless, it was a really like, um, fucking awesome ass episode. And yeah, the Star Trek parodies are really funny. It was like watching the books come to life of what Nolan was, um, writes on the stories of before. It was cool to see Taddeus and Nolan actually interact this time. I feel like the secuids should,

that storyline should end. I'm kind of over it now. Yeah. We've done it every season thus far. Let's, let's wrap that up. Yeah, because it's starting to feel that, I mean, that was, if there's one little, slight criticism I would Harold towards the three,

that these, uh, episode one and three is like, All right, big cities, high-scale invasion. Because, like, if you look at what happened at the end of season three, it was like, all right, Mark invasion in the city. All right, now conquest is here in the city. Now then we got the sequins here in the city. And then now we have the aliens back in the city. And so after a certain point, it's like, okay.

Yeah. Big global scale invasion keep happening right here in the middle of the city, you know? Yeah, another we're talking about it. I feel like, yeah, season episode two definitely was. the best of this season thus far. Yeah, because I felt like the other two episodes were sort of the end of episode one, kind of propelled more marks arc a little bit more, but the end of episode three,

I don't know, it sort of felt like it's something they're bringing back that maybe it's going to pay off later, of course, because we left them in there. The order and stuff. Oh, yeah, them getting left on the planet. Yeah.

They're getting off the planet. But it was like, we need an action scene in this episode. And that's going to be our big set piece action scene of them. fighting them again. So yeah, I feel like it did more of a, an action scene thing than trying to propel, you know, our characters and narrative forward. But granted, it ultimately paid off to something that we'll, we'll get resolution for later in the season or next season because the show was notorious for that, setting stuff up in, in seasons and then going back to it, you know,

seasons later. Yeah, I mean, they set up Darkblood at the end of last season. And like, that's not an early payoff that we've had yet. The order, it seems like they, I feel like the order probably wouldn't even have hit off until the next season. Like everything with the Orator tied in seems like it's just one episode at a time per season. So I imagine this was their one episode. So I'm guessing, I guess the thing that I'm pondering now is will four through eight be a lot more focused.

Whereas like structurally with the invincible seasons, they kind of pop around storylines. And it seems like they got a lot of these other storylines out of the way, sequids, the order, the alien invasion. And then maybe we'll be a lot more focused on the, incoming threat of the vilter mites yeah and keep that focus for four through eight it feels like that's probably what's going to happen because with our last two um villains of season two and season three in the finale's we didn't really meet them till the end of their respective seasons

yeah to be conquest until the very end and then this until the very end so the fact they're setting up this new guy very early second episode implies we're probably going to spend a lot more time with him and seeing what he's all about yeah the latter half of the story. show. Yeah. I really like Cecil trying to appeal the mark a lot. I mean, I thought that Thrag thing was I mean, uh, not Thrag. I'm excited for Thrag, but conquest is like they had the whole

clifengar with the quick. So dog, then he's just like, it's free right away. Like, oh my God, you guys, you're fucking stupid. Seesle's ego will be the death of that man. And then Mark still I believe Mark still doesn't know about the the reanimators of his bodies. Yeah, exactly. And I'm like,

oh, he might be, I don't know which one he's going to be more mad about because they're both very risky games you try to play and clearly one of them didn't pay off very well. We had a giant army. I really loved all the Oliver exploration in last season and teen Oliver is a fun concept. I don't really feel like anything has happened yet that I've particularly found very interesting with him. Yeah, because I feel like the last season implied that they're going to tow that line between

his own, his morality compared to Mark's morality. But it seems like it's like, oh no, I'm just on the straight narrow now. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly. And I don't feel like there's like, where's the complex layers to him that they, I don't want them to just drop the ball on that. It seemed like at first they're doing for this thing of like he's tired and like apathetic. He's like, oh, let other people take care of it. I don't want to do this right now. But then I was like, oh, maybe that's just him being a teenager because Mark is overworked. So he doesn't want to go out there. Plus, it's not as strong as Mark.

Yeah. And I guess the thing with the invasions is like as as as the episodes are, I'd never really feel like the world is really at serious threat. when this stuff's happening like sequeds and these alien invasions and stuff so that's why i'm kind of glad that we got them out of the way so early on in the season yeah how did you feel about the uh the dino at the beginning of the season premiere again like we're talking that that i think it's a great thematic setup you know because we're talking about extinction and as we all know dinosaurs were like the species before humans that were like to be completely extinguished right so that's why like and then it's like for him to evolve into a human feels very like thematic and And I so because of that, I think they, it's a good setup for it.

So far, none of the fights themselves have been like the most standout of the, of the series. Yeah. It's still early on in the season. Usually the great fights happen midpoint to late to the end, uh, with the invincible season. So there's not, it's not really a complaint. Like I'm just talking just saying something. Uh, but I'm waiting for. I mean, I like the dinosaur for, for the thematic purposes.

Did you like the dinosaur? Yeah. No. I thought it was great for thematic purposes. is kind of a reference to Hulk slash lizard. The fact that, you know, I'm not in control. He's the one who's, you know, with those thoughts and those feelings, I just got here. And then that kind of preludes the thing at the end with Mark not having a choice but to kill the guy.

So it's like, yeah, what is justice? You know, do we save everybody, you know, and try to be, like, be restorative? Or do we take out the people we can to save as many people as we can? We save off the small threat to kind of help us later down the line. Right, right. Overall, big stuff. Great stuff. Good time.

Good time for the three prior premiere. And I'm excited to see what episode four has in store. Yeah, baby. As much as I like the three episode premieres, I generally prefer one episode at a time. Yeah, it gives us time to digest a little bit more, for sure. Yeah. I mean, I like the market. Amazon tends to do that.

And I think that plan is smart because it forced, it naturally gets the audience to, like, yeah, let's watch an excellent. It's binge it. So it gets them invested. Yeah. And like, oh, I got to continue this. It's a smart marketing plan for all their shows. I understand the concept of three episodes and then one a week versus Netflix is just

all binge at once. And so this is a great way to keep your week to week by doing a three episode at a time because you commit enough as an audience member to be like, well, now I got to finish it. Yeah. Usually for shows it takes three people, three episodes for people to get invested. So that's like the perfect amount to be like, oh, I should know how to continue. Yeah, yeah. But I feel like for these three episodes, they all would have been good as one at a time. Yeah. You know. I agree with that. But anyway, guys, that's it for us today. Keep a look at next week as we continue this show. Thanks for being on this journey with us yet again. We'll see you guys soon, Rejects.