Television INVINCIBLE (Season 4 Official Trailer, post #962)

[Aegon Spengler]

2nd season felt like a huge waste of time in a bunch of areas.

Mark had already broken up with Amber, every moment they spent together was useless. There was no need to break them up again. Anyone who read the comics already knew where that was going, and pretty much anyone who didn't also could see the writing on the wall, but they spent hours on their relationship. They did a funeral for Kate. Oh but she's fine the next episode. Okay. Spin the wheels more...

Robot and monster girl's storyline is creepy, and it basically went nowhere. Rex was good. Mark whining about every single aspect of his life and getting the shit beat out of him constantly gets old after awhile. He should have some kind of victory, somewhere...

Final episode ended like a wet fart.

First season was fantastic, this one wasn't

 

[shunyata]

Just rewatched Ep4, to remind myself what quality Invincible should be, and then marathoned Ep5, 6, 7, & 8 and....

Holy fuck what an amazing improvement the 2nd half of this season was over the first 3 episodes.

Writing was 10/10, and reminded me of what made the 1st season so amazing.

As for the multi-verse villain showing back up in the finale, I was mostly fine with it because it closed off all the multi-verse bullshit in a meaningful way... building Mark and his mom's characters, their relationship, and displayed what an amazing character his mom is for protecting her husband's bastard son as if she was his own mother. But I wish Mark had learned a harder lesson... after getting nearly killed by three vultrumites he's going to have to learn his own killer instinct to protect the planet from them, but apparently he doesn't agree.

I said I was going to marathon the entire season, but I only had time for 5 episodes rather than 8, so sometime before the 3rd season premieres I'll have to rewatch everything and guage if the first 3 episodes aged better than I remember.

But going off of memory, if the 1st season is 10/10, I'd give the 2nd season a 8.5/10.

Portal fight was brutal and well done.

It seemed purposeful to keep jerking the audience around like Mark between the comedy bits, bizarro Mark, and the horror of what Levy is doing to two innocents.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Second season was something of a mixed bag, IMHO.

- Cecil and Terminator Donald are the joint MVP's.

- Nolan steals every scene he is. He just doesn't get enough of them.

- Way too much focus on Mark and Amber's relationship. You can't live in each other's worlds? Boo fucking hoo. Go punch a monster or super villian in the face, Mark. That's what we're here for, not this CW shit.

- Watching Mark beat Levy's mutated head into a canoe? Awesome. Watching Mark piss and moan about it for the remainder of the episode? Not so much. Oh, and quit being such a pussy and hook up with Atom Eve, you fucking crybaby.

- Lol'd at the Spider-Man/Dock Ock and Batman references. Well played.

- Levy accessing the memories of other Multiverse versions of himself as they are killed by Evil Marks was the highlight of the season for me.

 

[Aegon Spengler]

Second season was something of a mixed bag, IMHO.

- Cecil and Terminator Donald are the joint MVP's.

- Nolan steals every scene he is. He just doesn't get enough of them.

- Way too much focus on Mark and Amber's relationship. You can't live in each other's worlds? Boo fucking hoo. Go punch a monster or super villian in the face, Mark. That's what we're here for, not this CW shit.

- Watching Mark beat Levy's mutated head into a canoe? Awesome. Watching Mark piss and moan about it for the remainder of the episode? Not so much. Oh, and quit being such a pussy and hook up with Atom Eve, you fucking crybaby.

- Lol'd at the Spider-Man/Dock Ock and Batman references. Well played.

- Levy accessing the memories of other Multiverse versions of himself as they are killed by Evil Marks was the highlight of the season for me.

Season 1 also perhaps just couldn’t be replicated in that there was a mystery piece that added tension. People didn’t know if Nolan would get caught for what he did, he was really the star of the show in season 1, like a Walter White kind of character.

He was struggling to keep everything he had done hidden from his family and friends, and there was a reveal waiting about his motives that kind of hung over the whole season and built to the finale which was really shocking, even for people who had read the comics.

That demon detective also added some flavour, and the struggle between Cecil and Nolan meant J K Simmonds and Walton Goggins working together, two extremely charming, talented actors who tend to steal most of their scenes in whatever they happen to be in.

 

[Sirwastealot]

Season 2 was ok, the long break still makes zero sense. These 4 episodes needed to be as good or better than S1 to make up for it, and it wasn't even close. They didn't move the story along all that much.

I'll prob be back for s3, needs more focus on omni man and the viltrumites.

But most of the guardian team are pretty boring. Way too much whining this season from all of them, especially mark. I had to fast forward through a lot of that shit.

 

[Kratos94]

I enjoyed season 2, but obviously had a vertiginous hurdle to overcome to surpass season 1. Mark and Amber got tiresome quickly and should have broken up earlier in the season. I really want to see Mark become as strong as Omni Man as he is clearly the strongest of the Guardians by a country mile and could easily defeat giant Kaijus with such strength. We need to see more of Mark that isn't afraid to be ruthless.

 

[MLarson]

 

[HockeyBjj]

This was funnier last time, before they made us wait 2 years to get 8 episodes where 5 of them felt like filler

At least February is sooner than I expected, and no stupid break. I’d take a drop in quality to get 12-15 episodes and hopefully they focus on the viltrumites and no more dumb multi verse. Multiverse just lowers the stakes and creates so many plot holes because any problem can be solved easily now

 

[GearSolidMetal]

"We also have these things called Viltrumites, you may want to try winning a fight against them sometime."



This teaser is 4-wall breaking comedy that surpasses Deadpool.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

This was funnier last time, before they made us wait 2 years to get 8 episodes where 5 of them felt like filler

At least February is sooner than I expected, and no stupid break. I’d take a drop in quality to get 12-15 episodes and hopefully they focus on the viltrumites and no more dumb multi verse. Multiverse just lowers the stakes and creates so many plot holes because any problem can be solved easily now

+1 to all of this.

I get they're sticking close to the comics, and mostly respect that, but back then multi-verses weren't completely overdone and lame.

Hope Kirkman works with some other writers he respects to rework the original storylines to minimize or completely eliminate the multiverse.

 

[MLarson]

This was funnier last time, before they made us wait 2 years to get 8 episodes where 5 of them felt like filler

At least February is sooner than I expected, and no stupid break. I’d take a drop in quality to get 12-15 episodes and hopefully they focus on the viltrumites and no more dumb multi verse. Multiverse just lowers the stakes and creates so many plot holes because any problem can be solved easily now

I'd like to see them do spin off show with the character who's a combo of Luke Cage, The Thing and King Pin.

 

[MLarson]

 

[HockeyBjj]

Full trailer gives me hope after a flop of season 2

Cecil centric and quotes like “we can either be the good guys or be the guys that save the world, we can’t be both” gives me hope

Oliver as kid Omni man might be a problem. He better only handle street level villains. Him power creeping into Mark territory and being ok against legit enemies would be annoying when mark’s defining feature is getting wrecked by anyone that matters and needing to actually learn how to be a super hero

 

[MLarson]

Full trailer gives me hope after a flop of season 2

Cecil centric and quotes like “we can either be the good guys or be the guys that save the world, we can’t be both” gives me hope

Oliver as kid Omni man might be a problem. He better only handle street level villains. Him power creeping into Mark territory and being ok against legit enemies would be annoying when mark’s defining feature is getting wrecked by anyone that matters and needing to actually learn how to be a super hero

Nice to see Battle beast and the Kingpin type character coming back.

 

[HockeyBjj]

Nice to see Battle beast and the Kingpin type character coming back.

This trailer looks closer to what season 2 should have been

The multi universe stuff was so dumb

 

[sverre054]

Micheal Dorn voices Battle Beast. The creator of Invincible said he based the character on Worf. Pretty cool he gets to voice the character.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

said I was going to marathon the entire season, but I only had time for 5 episodes rather than 8, so sometime before the 3rd season premieres I'll have to rewatch everything and guage if the first 3 episodes aged better than I remember.

I posted this last April, and over the last few days I've rewatched the entirety of the 2nd season.

While I stick to my opinion the first three episodes weren't the best of the series, they're still pretty damn good. Now that I rewatched them I realize why I was so dissatisfied with them at first viewing.

Invincible Season 1 is one of the best first seasons of a series I've ever seen, and after a three year hiatus I was expecting a continuation of the dramatic highs that the 1st season ended on.

That didn't happen.
Everybody was wanting more drama between Mark & Omni-man, no question about that. But the fact is the entire 1st season was building up the drama to a breaking point.
It was simply impossible for an immediate continuation of that for the entirety of the 2nd season.
We did get it in the 4th episode, and that still is the best episode of the 2nd season, but the rest of the season's dramatic quality wasn't too far behind.

I reminded myself that Game of Thrones's best episodes had multiple episodes before it that were building up to something great. Sometimes at first viewing they felt like little happened in the entire episodes and only after rewatching them the audience see the pieces were falling into place.

That is what Invincible S2 is, and in a good way... as opposed to what House of the Dragon S2 is, in a bad way.
Ironically Episode 4 of the 2nd seasons of each show is awesome.... but the rest were unsatisfying at first viewing.

By the way, this dropped a bit ago.
Worth watching.
It confirms S3 takes place only 3 months after S2.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

If you have time to marathon Season2 before watching Season3, I would recommend it.

However if you would rather just have a 19-minute recap of Season2's events, this video dropped by Amazon has you covered.

 

[MLarson]

If you have time to marathon Season2 before watching Season3, I would recommend it.

However if you would rather just have a 19-minute recap of Season2's events, this video dropped by Amazon has you covered.

Can't wait for tomorrow in which I believe the new season starts.

I know there are talks about making a live action movie of it but I hope not because sometimes animation can it do better.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

I know there are talks about making a live action movie of it but I hope not because sometimes animation can it do better.

That sounds horrible.

Some comic storylines can be adapted into movies, but for Invincible it'd be impossible.

The superhero genre for movies have been less and less popular over the last half-decade. Over half have been flops, a some were acceptably successful, and only a few have been huge successes.

So I'm doubting a studio is going to take a risk on Invincible and give big budget to make it successful, they would think, when it would probably underperform.

It'd be like if they tried to turn Game Of Thrones into a movie series.