In my opinion that is
Most will still thoroughly enjoy it as it is the most eventful episode yet, but as someone who holds the comic very dearly I can’t stop feeling there were plenty issues and missed oportunities
- Nowl-Ahn
Pretty minor, but damn it’s a missed opportunity. This was discussed on another post, it would’ve been so cool if they kept this detail and the viltrumites refered to him with this pronunciation throughtout the whole series, this kind of stuff adds to the world-building and strengthens it and it’s a shame they didn’t take full advantage of the audio-visual medium they’re now on
- The pacing
I didn’t have a problem at all with this with the first 3 episodes, but on this one I got borderline irritated. The developments on Debbie’s grief, Eve’s self-discovernment journey and Donald’s “mystery”(which is exclusive to the show) are important, but I don’t think they had much place in this episode. They’re very slow paced scenes and with a mood that doesn’t really quite mesh well with an all-out brawl in another galaxy for the fate of the planet, with those stakes I couldn’t really bother with Killcannon of all people suddenly getting the spotlight. All things considered, the whole Thraxa could’ve filled the entire episode just fine, but if they weren’t going to do that then it would’ve better to break it off with the Lizard League/Sequids simultaneous attack(which now I bet it’s gonna happen next episode, alongside Mark’s return), and that’s why so many people were theorizing about that, because it made so much more sense. An action packed episode featuring all our current heroes barely coming out on top of their respective conflicts would’ve been a great way to end the mid-season
- The many great interactions we missed
Mark getting a cheap shot on Lucan and running away was pretty amusing
Another great line we missed in the show
Finally this, man Nolan’s one-liner game was on point during this
Sorry if some of this stuff seems very trivial, but that’s just how I feel as someone very passionate about this comic, perhaps you could change my mind
My only truly important complaint about this episode was the animation. It was good, for invincible standards, but it’s been YEARS since season 1 I was expecting some significantly more fluid and visually appealing animation than what we got
Also episodes 1-3 had frankly terrible animation, so I was expecting that to be because they were focusing more on this fight, which would have made it acceptable, but now it just seems like poor animation is all we are going to get.
Yeah same, the atom eve special had the best fight animation so far imo. I was hoping that would be the whole season or at least the fights. Hopefully they spent too much of the budget on whatever fights happen the last episode or two.
I kept thinking “man if they’re cutting this many corners we must be getting a full episode of just pure mayhem on Thraxa” but nope it’s basically just what should be the preview of the fight.
This season feels extremely rushed animation wise, I’d be perfectly happy with one season every 2 years instead of one. You can only adapt Invincible for the first time once 🤷♂️