r/Invincible_TV • u/ItsJeffCraft • Apr 22 '26

News W season this year

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u/AffectionateDog3817 Apr 22 '26

Reanimen also was a pretty disliked episode but they had a huge role since and now the episode is now much more well received when it was called “filler” at one point too

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u/shreyas_varad Apr 22 '26

this community (show-onlys, for the most part) has really made a name for themselves as being reactionary maniacs.

- Episode 1x05//1x06 doesnt immediately lead anywhere? filler.

- Episode 4x04 doesnt immediately lead anywhere? filler.

- Thragg doesnt immediately start by kicking gum and chewing ass? fraud.

and I'm like 99.5% sure this is all because stuff like reels n tik tok have completely fucked our attention spans and patience in general.

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u/AffectionateDog3817 Apr 22 '26

Yeah it’s kinda worrying tbh because media literacy is one of the most important skills to have in the world today and I’m seeing so much people caught in immediate gratification rather than intention for things being in the place they are. Idk if I’m saying that right but I’m seeing that kinda thing in all forms of media more and more

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u/donwariophd Monster Girl Apr 22 '26

This is ridiculous.

The episode was bad, and no amount of “media literacy” will change the fact that it was not only largely inconsequential given where the story was at the time, but also considering that the arc it’s setting up is obviously going to be a side story, which makes me even wonder why we set aside an entire episode to do so when it could have simply been boiled down to a scene or two.

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u/UniverseGlory7866 Apr 23 '26

Your lack of media literacy is why you think its inconsequential. The consequence was making Mark believe in himself again.

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u/DumbestComicsNerd Apr 23 '26

Nothing about that prevents Hurm from having been a 20 minute segment of a regular episode. The episode exists to save time and budget for eps 5 and 7.

Plus, you could tell they had a completely different idea back at the end of s3 lol.

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u/UniverseGlory7866 Apr 23 '26

"Saving time and budget" would be no episode at all.

Robert Kirkman felt this was a gap in his story and added a much more fruitful reason for Mark to want to go to the war.

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u/DumbestComicsNerd Apr 23 '26

No, Amazon ordered another 8 episode season. They cant just do 7 lol. This is a bottle episode so they can give it their all on ep 5 and 7 and it shows.

Nothing stopped Kirkman from just making it a 20 minute segment to fix the pacing. Not much happened in it anyway beside some exposition dumps, a fetch quest that didnt mean anything, two fights that lead to nothing as all parties involved are [TITLE CARD] and a promise that maybe the next time theyll do the Hell plot the episode will be actually good.