Why couldn’t Kirkman and the rest of the staff not just keep the original way Amber figured out who Mark was. I’ve been rereading the comic getting ready for season 2, and it just bugs me that they already had a perfect way for her to come off as intelligent but not a manipulative or horrible person. This scene would have been funny within the show as well, Mark jumping out the window and all. Anyway sorry to retread through all this old territory, just had to vent. Excited for Season 2 at least!
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You’re right. Ad nauseum.
i hope it ends up like in the comics ngl
i like the new amber but it bothered me that she was mad at him for noy telling her even tho they are literally impulsive teenage children and not married adults
Please let the season start sooner so y’all can shut the fuck up about amber it’s every other day with this shit
I feel like marks love life is going to be very different in this universe
I really liked the changes the made to Amber’s character up until the reveal.
Gaslighting isn’t a real word dummy
I mean I’m not gonna defend Amber’s pettiness, but it’s pretty fucking annoying when someone lies to your face all the time. Like he had a double life, and tried to date her, and his other life would intrude all the time and he just kept making lame excuses over and over again. Regardless of him being a superhero, it’s irritating.
And what’s worse, he only comes clean to try and get out of a fight he was having with her. Like fuck off, too late dude. That’s the only thing I agree with her on. She shouldn’t put their relationship before saving other people’s lives, but he shouldn’t be dating her at all if he’s not gonna be honest with her and treat her like an idiot.
Yeah I don’t know how the show made a misstep this bad.
Even if it was wrong, at least one scene of her at least putting it together would’ve made all the difference for show character.
Don’t know why, the revelation is the worst part of the show for some reason they wanted to really subvert our expectations and in a non-nuanced way for some reason. Hopefully it’s a one-off.
because comic amber has the depth of a puddle
I’d rather have a puddle of water than a bucket of slop.
A deeper character is not necessarily better. Execution matters.And the one dimensional toy girl that only purpose is to be a love interest and then to get abused so mark can swoop in and save the day is better? She only existed to make mark look good, she was literally abused only to make Mark look like a hero
What depth does show Amber have?
You know, after it rains and there is a puddle on a flat surface of the concrete. It may look deep and interesting because it reflects the light making a mirror. But once the sun hits it or when you step in it, splash and vanish.
I don’t know how they are gonna improve her character, she isn’t written in a good light, and back peddling this mess is not going to cut it.
Tldr: first knuckle deep puddle.
Tbf comic Amber only existed to show why Invincible was never going to be able to make it work with a normal girl. She was just there to highlight how getting his powers is not going to get him everything he wants.
Show Amber does much the same, but imo they spend too much time on the whole relationship portion. They should have subbed some Amber scenes with lectures from a teacher about how he’s “throwing away his future” by letting his grades suffer. Scenes with his mom where she’s like “I know you’re a superhero now, but I’m not cleaning your bathroom for you” and his bathroom is just disgusting because A) he’s a teenage boy superhero and B) he hasn’t had the time/energy to clean it in weeks. A scene where Science Dog’s latest issue was completely sold out and he’ll probably never get one now, because he had to go stop a meteor.
We get this big moment with Eve where he’s like “I don’t wanna be a hero” and the only two examples we’ve been shown are, his grades are bad, and relationships are hard. To top it off because they invested so much screen time into Amber we want her to be this deeper character, but she’s has always and only is, a foil to show how Marks extraordinary life isn’t perfect, and is actually really hard and requires a million daily sacrifices.
Could they have done Amber in such a way that she needed depth? Absolutely, but the role she was cast in isn’t one that allows for it, at least not unless more roles are added to her.
I loved how she assumed he was a drug dealer in the original and it’s a shame we’ll never get that because they wanted to give her a bussy moment.
Yes, bussy.
Bussy.