Yeah honestly, the Donald plot feels very superfluous. Hopefully it goes somewhere interesting but as a comic reader, I can’t really imagine where?

Eve’s storyline has been interesting and she’s one of my favourite characters but… it’s honestly also kind of a bummer and not that compelling.

Ultimately I don’t really feel like we’re missing too much stuff, and I’m glad they’re making room for character-focused storytelling. I just have a feeling they could be doing it in a more compelling way.

Eve can’t manipulate living things due to a mental block, I don’t think she is restricted from creating/rearranging organic matter.* Don’t we see her alter/create plant matter?

One weakness you missed, the toxin from that one flower, is just a chemical compound which is her whole thing. As someone with an innate understanding of chemistry, I don’t think her mental block would prevent her from creating matter as sharp as a Ragnar’s claws or as tough as their hide. I don’t see why she couldn’t create a synthetic form of the scourge virus (though I doubt she would ever do that one) or the flower toxin.

EDIT: *By which I mean, organic matter that isn’t currently living.

Putting back stuff that’s missing isn’t that creative to me. I’m talking more about like creating rare compounds or minerals, utilizing chemical interactions for specific effects, turning rainwater into an anesthetic.

Yeah I remember him saying that and I know this sounds crazy but I disagree. Dude is an incredibly talented writer and my favourite quality of his is creativity. It’s what makes Invincible so good. He thought of all these cool weaknesses for Viltrumites but not a single one that Eve can exploit? Kind of a bummer

I don’t think she needs to be made omnipotent or anything but can we please see some more creative uses of her powers? The possibilities are endless and she’s over here making teeny tiny pink shields. Better than the comics were about it, but still.

Oh I already we assumed we wouldn’t get that, since it was basically transplanted to season one when she went and built the treehouse. I thought it was a pretty savvy update to say that >!if a person wants to help the poor and disenfranchised and they live in America of all places, they don’t have to leave the country to do that.!<

As a big time Nolan-disliker I’m consistently impressed with how much better he is in the show. The way he’s treated this episode gives me a lot of good will for the characters future adaptation.

Debbie also feels a lot better. Both of them are more well-rounded.

I don’t know who I expected Rhea Seehorn to be, but it was not Andressa. Such a treat to hear her in another one of my favourite shows. I hope she gets an elevated role so we can get more Rhea, though I doubt it

Phenomenal episode overall

I think it’s a joke, as the thread is about what the show improved from the comic. The comics voice acting was lackluster imo, no real effort made at all

The Flaxans. As soon as that old lady came apart in my arms I’d be outtie, no thanks

The only problem with Amber in S1 is that they made it a little unclear what was bothering her and people thought she was mad at Mark for saving lives, so they had to whack the audience over the head with it this season.

The narrator joke didn’t work for me. It’s so great in the comic because narration text boxes are a staple of the medium, but it’s jarring to suddenly hear a narrator that was never there before and feels like a poor way to adapt it. The humour in this show is generally a struggle for me. Excellently cast narrator though and great episode over all.

The Amber thing was bad and I hope it doesn’t show up again.

The other thing I really pray they write around is Nolan and Debbie getting back together. It’s utterly horrendous in the comic and completely unbelievable. Kirkman barely even tried to sell Debbie forgiving Nolan let alone coming to trust him again. It’s gross and weird that she goes back to such an awful person after everything he did to her with barely any justification for it. It feels especially rushed because Debbie was happy in a new relationship and that basically ends offscreen in a single panel with no explanation. Just badly written, conceptually wrong and totally unnecessary all around.