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.
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.