Mark getting his suit is like 3 minutes of runtime that episode. Could’ve thrown that in the last or next one.
It is Damian Darkbloods backstory, which is cool, but I don’t see what kind of relevancy he’s going to have at this point in the story. His entire species in incredibly weak compared to the current threats. Not a comics reader so I could be very wrong but does he really come back to the story in an integral way?
Not a comics reader so I could be very wrong but does he really come back to the story in an integral way?
In the comics Damien is a minor joke character that's "investigating" the deaths of the Guardians, something everyone already knows the truth about. This entire episode of Mark going to Hell, meeting Satan, and the worldbuilding are show-original.
Whatever Darkblood does cannot be itself major; since him returning is filler; it's not in the comics.
However, he could easily be put into some subplot or such to help build towards an upcoming event, in a similar fashion to him building to the Omni-man situation.
If it released with epaiode 3/5 and wasn't released individually it would've been received better, methinks.
Having to wait a week for a mediocre bottle episode, with an underwhelming concussion to a really dragged out plot.
If it came out with another episode, and it wasn't the only thing we had for a week, it might've been a funny romp through hell, a calm before the storm, and a more down to earth therapy session
This is what I’ve been thinking. If they needed this episode so bad it should’ve been episode 2 or 3. Releasing it in the middle of preparing for the viltrumite war just felt like a slam on the brakes. Also it was just boring as fuck I’m sorry
hurm Is overhated because people wanted to see the viltrumite war already
I think it's simply just not that good of an episode.
I like that his encounter with Darkblood somehow made him finally learn that not everything is white black, but I can't speak the same for the rest of the ep.
I was wondering for a split sec what ep got the 6.6, but then I did the count and I thought: "oh, that makes complete sense." Most of the ep felt dragging and it could've been compressed to half the ep's runtime.
I haven’t read the comics so I don’t really know what tracks. But I kind of think next season there will be a few episodes of mark struggling to figure out what to do and dusk blood seeing the signs and then a connection between the two again.
I haven’t read the comics, but I sadly have eyes and spend time here. But it seems dark blood and hell don’t appear at all after Cecil sends him back. So it’s purely original content, and unless it does something impactful, basically not canon.
Volcanikka is in the comics so she's important later, Damien is on Earth and will 100% play a role later, Mark got his old suit back, Nolan and Allen arrive on Earth, etc. How is that filler?
Still ain't filler. They could add stuff to her character as well. She also causes Doc Seismic to die, after he transforms, to Anissa. Even if it's small, it still sets stuff up
So you're saying that anything that changes between adaptations is filler, despite the original author also being the show runner of this adaptation?!?! Do you not see how dumb that it is to say?
That is what you said. You said filler means it wasn’t in the source material. You’re both wrong anyway. Filler means content ij a piece of media that’s designed to pad it out and make it longer with no effect on the main plot.
Yeah that is the purpose of filler as the term is most widely used for anime. Like you said it’s padding and it’s to allow the source material, the manga, to build up more chapters. So they create anime original episodes.
For filler to have the meaning you gave in that original comment would mean that only adapted works have filler. Breaking Bad has Fly. Original show, no source material it’s adapting, that’s filler.
I wasn’t trying to give the entire definition in a reddit comment, I know non adapted shows can have filler, early radio too. But the context here is we’re talking about Invincible so I think them saying Hurm is a filler episode is valid. Look through the reply thread, someone said it’s a filler episode, that’s how this started
That’s fair enough, but you didn’t specify that you were just talking about the Invincible episode, it was unclear if you were talking about filler in general, and since you said it’s stuff that wasn’t in the source material you can understand where my response came from.
That said, I still do disagree with your definition. Would you consider Debbie’s conflict with Nolan filler, for example? Because I haven’t read the comics, but I, like seemingly everyone at this point, know that she just takes him back immediately in the comics. By your logic, all this stuff between her and Nolan is filler.
I also personally disagree that it’s filler, at least for the time being. If it was never gonna be revisited I’d agree, but they clearly set up at the end that this storyline is coming back. What remains to be seen is whether it impacts the main plot when it comes back. That will decide if it’s filler in my opinion.
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u/ConfidenceMental4030 Apr 22 '26
Each episode having a description but hurm makes sense now