The Reel Rejects - OH MY GOD!! INVINCIBLE 3x07 Breakdown & Review!

Episode Date: March 6, 2025

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Starting point is 00:01:08 Not even us. What's up? Message privately with everyone. What is going on there? Citizens of the Reject Nation. We are back for one of the best comic book series of all time. Invincible Season 3, Episode 7. That last episode was a banger.
Starting point is 00:01:25 Enough of that. Let's get to. wow wow well people if you watch these reaction highlights you have to thank the editing team over at prepper for a and now these highlights unsung heroes of youtube videos the editors and especially here we love to sing their praises so thank you prepper for a and out these highlights if you're listening us on apple and spotify we just watched invincible season three episode seven boy oh boy oh boy so much happened in this one episode so much so much so much Aaron please how you feeling a lot a lot happened I'm feeling
Starting point is 00:02:11 I'm feeling like that the years keep coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming that's uh that was this episode sure in a nutshell um I feel dread I feel bad for Mark in the world and everything that's just happened and the show is so smart and the way it's written because the entire crux of the season the kind of the thing that I've been saying for most of the what preceding six episodes which was like okay like we're getting character development but like nothing major has happened yet and then Robert Kirkman's like hold on I got you and Loan sure enough had me he did uh yeah some of
Starting point is 00:02:58 it was great. This is a phenomenal episode. The rest of the show has been great so far as well. It was just slower than I thought, but you needed all of that development, all of that more, I don't even say traditional, but lower stakes stuff as building blocks to establish Mark's emotional state going into this episode. And it's wild that it plays into the themes of what we've seen so far because a lot of this has been, um, backlash and confirmation bias of his not even confirmation bias the the living of his own fears of his potential in his relationship with killing and wanted to be a mentor for his brother and having literal other versions of himself be the monster tenfold over of what he was trying to avoid in replicating his
Starting point is 00:03:51 dad is just so devastating for him as a character and for the world at large and all the other people that are involved in this and you know we're setting up all of these arcs for these different characters like with donald and with ray and with um rex and with monster girl and with rudy and it's like yeah that's all great but the large threat is here and we don't care what you got going on because we got to address the immediacy of all of this this is all I don't want to say like a red herring but it felt like we were doing things in traditional sense of building our characters in a certain way just for this large threat to kind of be like an unexpected storm to kind of take us off course from the events that is a traditional show would be building towards and I think
Starting point is 00:04:41 that it did a great job of of doing that also bringing back angstrom levy to be this threat that's even more harrowing and more menacing than he was the first time I think this is is a great elevation of stakes i think this is an exercise in not only how we affect the world in a in a i don't want to say grounded way because doesn't feel right i guess a emotionally honest way that um still honors the characters and the things we've experienced i thought this was phenomenal um yeah man how did you think what did you feel i i think it's a great episode i thought was exhilarating. It was an exhilarating episode. It was fun and simultaneously bleak as shit combined, which just makes for a terrifyingly good time. I think what both what this show does
Starting point is 00:05:39 really well is while you might get these chapter, every episode being a chapter, I think what they do a really good job at is thematic tie-ins. So that way episodes that you might be like, I'm not sure what the point of this episode was ultimately does thematically tie in. Because the only episode where I particularly was like, oh, wasn't this huge of a fan of that episode? It seems like the general audience was a bigger fan of it than we weren't as part of the general audience on that one. What's the episode with Immortal? In the Future. Yeah. And then Omneman and Alan breaking out. And thematically, looking back at it, it's like, bad, if Mark had actually just chosen the path of being a viltramite and being a conqueror, a ruler of earth, they wouldn't be in this situation right now.
Starting point is 00:06:38 And it seems like no matter what path, that's just another form of destruction and harming humanity. and in a lot of ways it just seems like no matter the path invincible takes somehow his existence equals destruction his existence equals harm unto others and when you have a lot of superhero storylines dealing with i don't deserve human connection i don't deserve love i don't deserve people i just need to stick to the job and be by myself i don't think any story makes an argument for that better than the show invincible because it seems like no matter which path this guy takes no matter how good and altruistic he tries to be somehow it comes back to bite him in the ass of just being alive yeah there's no winning with him there's never any real winning with him it's like it does get to a point where
Starting point is 00:07:35 if i was invincible i don't know what the point of me being around is because it just seems like I'm here to constantly clean up mess that somehow my existence is the cause of this happening. It's weird. It's like it's not his fault. Yet I totally get how it seems like to him it is because it's usually in the face of Mark Grayson of what's happening. Like everything I look like having Anxstrom Levy, like he was just trying to save the day. And then a hodgepodge of multiversal, invincible memories created this ultimate enemy of, angstrom levy and now
Starting point is 00:08:13 with trying to do the right thing and save the day he comes back with the vengeance with all these invincible like damn this poor guy and then for the for the conquest character to show I feel like I've seen this image of this character before same I have no context for him but I just know that apparently he's bad
Starting point is 00:08:33 I didn't even know but I recognize him vaguely I didn't even know he had like a missing eye I just like oh yes I vaguely I've seen image of a bald guy the large bald white vulture bite yeah yeah yeah he looked very familiar and i feel like there's been probably for invincible fans of the comic must be super excited to see him coming to existence but i think contextually wise for just the television show all season we've erin and i've been here being like why aren't we really talking about preparing for the viltramite war why haven't we really been talking
Starting point is 00:09:03 about that and then this guy shows up that's the first thing he says it's like you're getting prepare shit this entire time and on top of that does it when Mark's at his lowest point, when Earth is at its lowest, not just Mark, but Earth is at its lowest point. And when some type of dictator powerhouse shows up being like, we can make Earth great again, when we can show up and write this like, I don't know where it's going to go. But I imagine like there could be a semblance of humanity even being like, hey, if they can fix this to let them, you know, because look, look at what happened. Like, the world was, was attacked.
Starting point is 00:09:44 Yeah. But beyond, like, theorizing for the future, this episode, I think my favorite episode of the season would still probably be the Power Plex-centric episode. But even that thematically, obviously, ties in, you know, everything that he's warning about suddenly his army of invincibles show up. but the the way this episode handled tension the way they handled awesome camera work with their fight scenes and nuance and choreography even right down to when he's fighting angstrom levy and the amount like the way they took these uh what were those those balls orbs orbs yeah those orbs and did that thing that was that you've seen like sci-fi projects where a lot come at you and they kind of look like some type of creature when they're when they're attacking you and in such large quantity. But then they tease another set of villains
Starting point is 00:10:40 and the set of the technicians and whatever the hell they're going to want now. It's a weird show because I wanted to be like 10 seasons long. I want this to be a show that just lasts a very long time because it's so good and they're building so much that I want to see
Starting point is 00:10:58 it pay off and I don't want it to just be some five season truncated thing by the time you get to the final season because there's so much. They've built. up and it they all eventually become very hyper engaging and to me that what they did here like the in terms of like physical stakes i don't feel like since omneman and mark went toe to toe at the end of season one that the physical stakes of people on earth and the surroundings and the heroes has never felt more dangerous than what this episode delivered no like this was scary you know
Starting point is 00:11:33 anyone could die at any moment and as sad as is that rex dies i hope they stick to that because that it will undercut at a certain point of characters do keep coming back i i do but part of me feels like he's not going to stay dead because we saw that alternate version of him in the future we had the mont the robot suit on remember right but how we were questioned this while we were watching it when i said well we know the future of immoral and kate how much is timeline changed though with Mark's awareness of the future and um also it's like it's everything that we're watching now supposed to happen to lead to that timeline is what I'm getting at or has the timeline been tampered with and that means it is a different future now I'm assuming the timeline
Starting point is 00:12:21 has been tampered with because I would imagine there'd be no um what's it called recognition of the fact that all of these marks came to earth I feel like What's his name? The king would have mentioned that. Immortal? Immortal. Yeah, King immortal would have mentioned like, oh yeah, a bunch of ewes came. And that would have, that kind of changed the course of the history of Earth.
Starting point is 00:12:44 But I feel like because that didn't happen in whatever timeline that that immortal lives in, this has now changed the course of where Earth is headed. He might not have just mentioned it. He didn't really explain a lot. Fair. But I can't imagine that's part of the uninterrupted timeline of, of the natural course of how things are supposed to go down. I can't imagine that's always been in this earth's destiny
Starting point is 00:13:08 to have multiversal versions of a guy come through. I just think it sucks for Mark, you know, in the face of him trying to be a superhero and defend his family, you know, that comes back and bites him. And in him denouncing his supposed legacy and being to conquer of earth, that also comes back to bite him. I think it kind of goes into what you were saying about.
Starting point is 00:13:31 He can't really win. win on either side no i believe just has to leave earth or go to another dimension at this point because yeah with with everybody now being suspicious of him and echoing power plex's sentiments i imagine it's not a safe place for him or his family and it's just the guilt he was already feeling is just tenfold on top of that yeah i mean i had this conversation with john the other day about when if there's like a a famous bad celebrity like i don't know if p ditty has a brother i don't know if he does right i don't know either but let's say he has a brother he could be the greatest guy in the world but if you find out
Starting point is 00:14:15 he's p ditty's brother there's a part of you that a lot of people will be like but is he kind of messed up guy was he robbing all that just because he's his brother you know right so with that this conversation happening just fresh off that for me yesterday to see this i'm like oh no I could like just because invincible is not these other invincibles even I like as a person might be like can we really trust this guy I mean
Starting point is 00:14:42 there's like every version of him is kind of an asshole right so how do we know he's not that it's like of course I know as an audience and we're like no that's not Mark racing that we watch and they they seem to have a bit of a of a little nugget to say that
Starting point is 00:14:58 he was like stronger or better and we were talking a little bit during the reaction that that could come in the form because he chose a good path so we had to build up his training he had to get better uh whereas when you're just in conquer mode you're that's all you're doing is conquering you're not challenged yeah yeah and then you're and then you're not really but he's like preparing to fight viltramites and stuff as opposed to finding to forming an alliance with them right you know so he has up his skill set so to get to this point I think it's a cool way to elevate our our invincible um and I
Starting point is 00:15:32 loved all the stuff with uh self acceptance like with donald's character and then um what's william's um william's boyfriend i don't know his name yeah if you guys know i don't remember cyborg underneath guy yep uh but yeah even him having the last season having the shame like both him and donald had the shame of what they are and having to come to acceptance in terms with that And in this episode, they fully embrace that. And they're able to save and be heroes. So I think that's cool. And I like the nuance of the stuff with Donald
Starting point is 00:16:14 because the reanimators clearly work. The reanimators clearly were able to take on some invincibles. And the depth to their conversations of how Mark is not just giving in and being like, you're right, we're on the same side. Steve and Tony let's put our differences aside by Thanos you know but to edit on him going but thanks like when he walks away that's the part of the good and mark that you see coming through in that final moment where he doesn't agree he's like your last person I want to talk to but he can still see Cecil's trying yeah and the good and Cecil is still trying and at the end of the day Cecil is even though the paths he takes are messed up and nefarious at the end of the day he still is for people winning and the good coming out on top yeah mark mark is trying to be the good guy cecil's trying to be the guy who saves the world and that was the delineation he made when we got his background in that episode yeah yeah i want to talk about that moment with
Starting point is 00:17:17 angstrom levy in mark's hand with the mark's brother behind him so that in and of itself it's a powerful moment because you know uh kid omni or oliver doesn't have this same moral high ground of not wanting to kill while mark has crossed that line but trying to be that example for his brother and then him being in the middle of the choice of do i cross this line or do i be a role model for his brother hesitates in killing and taking out yeah engstrom levy so i thought that was just an interesting moment and i wonder if we'll get a reprisal or or that moment again but mark makes a different choice and it's it's messed up because that's that decision from last season caused him so much pain and self-doubt throughout the entirety of this season,
Starting point is 00:18:07 but then for him to come back and realize, like, no, that was the right thing to do and having it switch in his brain, like, no, I should have killed him. Now he is becoming a comfortable with the idea of killing. It kind of goes back to that idea of, it's funny we're having this conversation while we're watching Daredeau Born again because, you know, the difference between Punisher and Matt is like that line like, what is justice? What is justice? What is killing you know and i think we're approaching a point where mark's idea of that is changing his his perception of of justice and right is changing in the face of him wanting to do the right thing versus doing the necessary thing and i think that's going to evolve as we kind of go
Starting point is 00:18:51 forward yeah he did choose in that moment he said he said you left me no choice he was going to kill him yeah um but did him i like i like that uh i agree i like the debate bait of that because in the moment i'm i'm going please mark don't not kill him like kill him don't do it because you feel bad about oliver being here um but then when i calm down going if he does kill him after all these other invincibles killed and then all this stuff with Omniquid killing the Mueller twins, it wouldn't be the best thing because you are instilling into this child to kill.
Starting point is 00:19:37 Yeah. But I like that there's no real answers to what you do in a moment like that. Yeah, because then you're being a hypocrite and your brother. You're like, do as I say it out as I do. That's a struggle. It's a struggle right there. And I got to give credit.
Starting point is 00:19:52 We got, I mean, we're pointing out, Stephen Young, he did a great job here because the invincibles don't really get like a lot of crazy depth to them. They're mainly being used for the threat level and the strength. But I think he provided like enough little variations in his voice for a lot of these different invincibles and delivery patterns and such. And I like how they actually mix it up with that one invincible guy who's fully in the black mask saying, you know, like, I just want my mom back. And we're all this like he seems like what who's like, I'm not really a bad guy. I just want my mom back, you know.
Starting point is 00:20:25 Yeah. Even the limited screen time they did get, they added layers or at least some semblance of dimension to them. Yeah. Yeah, because the one that was in the variation of the Omni Man suit, it was Stephen Young doing like this more commanding lower register voice. And he had one that had like that kind of southern accent. You had one that had like the higher pitch more youthful voice. So I think that it was a cool experiment for Stephen Young as an actor and as an audience member to see how he would represent. marks throughout the multiverse.
Starting point is 00:20:57 Sure. And hopefully we get to see more of that because, yeah, I think he's a great actor. And I like these, both visually the different presentations of how we get someone like Invincible, but also what kind of things we bring to alternate versions. I want to see that one that looks like Spider-Man again, the one who wants to take his mom. Because you think if this were a different story, you would want to see him have that moment with his mom, you know, because I feel like we've seen that. Like, oh, yeah, I'm here.
Starting point is 00:21:24 I lost my mom. take this other mom but obviously within the comics that we're watching it we're like no we don't want that to happen but yeah it's all about perspective i think it's great yeah guys what'd you think about this episode i give it i give it like a solid 9.90 i got it was 10 i give her 10 i love it no no no it's a 9.98 what's that what's that what's that point too that i subjectively still prefer the performer episode even though this episode is way more exciting and scary it was more emotionally resonant i can give you that but i think this gave me the stakes that i was looking for so that's why it's 10 for me yeah that was great ending fucking
Starting point is 00:22:11 rarely see robert kirpin like the actual writer like for on the on the show written by robert kirkman it's rare yeah it was actually cool to see his name there um he's like oh i care about this one. I'm going to show up. That's cool. Yeah. All right, guys. Thanks for being here. We'll see you for the finale, baby. Alexandria, if I were to ever want to conquer this
Starting point is 00:22:39 great planet Earth, like the Viltrum, John gets the reference, like the Viltram I am. Love Viltramites. You would be in such a surprise that I would choose you to be my Spock to this planet
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Starting point is 00:23:08 Oh my God Alexander On our first day of conquering You know what we're gonna do We are gonna get debase Debeze Love Debeze Love Debeze ariana debays over here i'll admit sometimes i order bernays thinking i'm saying debay and i ordered debase
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