Their fighting style is like how I play Smash Bros, no blocking, all power moves.

That was 100% necessary. People were taken aback because they didn’t see it in Mark to do that at that point. That whole sequence is Even and Mark kicking ass and saving the world.

!I assume this is going to be in season 3. You will see that Mark did in fact learn something about himself and what he can do from his dad, and he lets a little bit of his Viltrumite out for the greater good. Eve is able to save everyone with her shield and more than pulls her weight after she is doubted. Later in the fight Mark single handedly destroys a Martian ship that is tailing them. Meanwhile on earth the left over guardians are struggling mightily against the Lizard League with Shrinking Ray dying Kate thought to be dead and Rex left for dead barely alive. This is a great juxtaposition triumph vs. failure. The show is setting all this up really well and more explicitly than the comic I think. !<

I just think the comic implies and the show implies that Mark has an untapped gear he can occasionally put himself into but just simply doesn’t think he is capable of doing what he ends up doing. He doesn’t realize how powerful he is.

It’s a parallel with Eve.

It’s also probably good to not think too deeply about any of this power level stuff, it’s not consistent. It just isn’t.

Omni-Man can barely take out the guardians(maybe he let himself get beat up?) But he can also take direct hits from missiles and destroy entire planets single handedly.

Come to think of it, it’s mostly a show issue. The comic is more consistent. Although probably not perfectly so.

They could do it differently. It’s kind of necessary because certain events require a time skip to occur properly.

It is I think at its core an interesting concept, it’s just so randomly executed. The tentacle thing seems malevolent, but it’s never explicitly addressed.

The writers of the show have shown they are good at spinning and changing things a bit usually for the better. So hopefully they make this part maybe a little better.

Yes literally as I read the comic I never once blamed her from anything.

It became ridiculous. Mark would insist on doing something, Eve would tell him not to, he would do it anyway and something terrible would happen.

I mean the show already has probably hundreds of on screen deaths.

! Mark gets raped by a woman Viltrumite, doesn’t immediately tell anyone, when he does it causes him more problems and the perpetrator never faced any consequences for the action. This was clearly commentary. I think it’s good to include it. It’s not actually trivialized in the comic and it wouldn’t be in the show. !<

I do understand that. My understanding was that a human lifetime is so short to a Viltrumite he figured if Mark didn’t get his powers he could just live his life until Mark and Debbie died then conquer Earth. I just don’t know why he wouldn’t have several children so there was a larger sample size to work from.

You know Omni-Man’s mission was supposedly besides conquering Earth determining if Human and Viltrumites could breed. All he managed to do was have one single child. Why would he have not had more children for a larger sample size?

Debbie and Nolan only had one kid? Did they try for more? What was going on there?

Best episode of season 2 so far. Maybe the second best episode of the show so far.

Immortal also may have lived a really long life but he has forgotten most of it. His memories don’t last forever.

Yeah my wife who did not read the comics seemed kind of lost and asked me questions. I was just excited the whole time and liked how they changed some stuff up.

The Atlantis comic was fantastic, I loved that comic and it’s better than what they did with Atlantis in this episode…however Atlantis in the show actually tied back to the main storyline in a clever way I did appreciate.

Didn’t she meet a guy in season 1 that had the same name as the abuser guy?

Really liked this episode. A lot of stuff is being set up. It’s actually more tightly written than the comic. The comic has so many loose threads remaining loose for many many issues.

I might prefer the comics version of Atlantis just for pure entertainment value but in this episode they actually made it connect to Mark’s character development and the theme of the season.

It was actually jarring in the comic when Mark seemed to just bounce back from nearly dying at the hands of his own father and just go on a bunch of entertaining one off adventures. However those adventures were all pretty entertaining.

Japanese Anime generally has a lower frame rate and also have you noticed how little happens in many episodes? They have a bunch of build up, also a lot of monologues and such all of that reduces in some way the workload.

Over time he is becoming more emotionally unstable due to the sheer amount of trauma and loss he endures. He is horribly depressed and wants to die, but he can’t.

Of course they already have the one Mauler half burned from the explosion why wouldn’t they continue on that minor storyline?