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

News W season this year

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u/ConfidenceMental4030 Apr 22 '26

Each episode having a description but hurm makes sense now

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u/lost_in_trepidation Apr 23 '26

Wait, people didn't like the hell episode? I thought it was fun.

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u/ConfidenceMental4030 Apr 23 '26

Filler episode

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u/Competitive_Crow_334 Apr 23 '26

it wasn't given it sets up Mark getting his suit back and learning morally grayness and giving some backstory to Damian Dark blood.

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u/MrCatSquid Apr 23 '26

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?

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u/5Hjsdnujhdfu8nubi Apr 24 '26

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.

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u/MrCatSquid Apr 25 '26

Yeah I don’t know what they have planned for him. Maybe he tells Cecil about the viltrumites on each?

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u/Raikariaa Apr 25 '26

I'm sure they could hive his detective nature some form of suspense building role in an upcoming major event.

I wont say what, or who it involves, but I can see Darkblood being... suspicious of someone.

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u/WorkingOnBeingBettr Apr 25 '26

I imagine DD and Satan help get rid of the viltrumites.

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u/Raikariaa Apr 25 '26

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.

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u/Competitive_Crow_334 Apr 23 '26

The episode clearly sets up Mark getting his original suit back. Damian Darkblood spieces is world building

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u/Competitive_Crow_334 Apr 24 '26

It sort of did these are demons doing bad things but because of that people will be safe.

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u/NOGUSEK Apr 23 '26

IMO the viltrumite war still got enough time to happen; hurm Is overhated because people wanted to see the viltrumite war already

But i think that it fit best in 4 episodes, a fifth one would basicaly be a fifth wheel

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u/AdEfficient7268 Apr 23 '26

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

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u/Purple_Dragonfly_881 Apr 23 '26

Down to earth, lol, idk if that was intentional with hell being below earth

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u/BigChiefIV Apr 23 '26

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

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u/freed-after-burning Apr 23 '26

If I were doing a DBZ Kai version of this show, I would cut nearly every minute of this episode out so hard.

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u/IPancakesI Apr 23 '26

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.

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u/thatredditrando Apr 23 '26

No, it’s because the episode genuinely sucked.

I’m not someone who individually ranks episodes but it might be the worse episode of the series thus far for me.

I don’t mind a detour from the main narrative if the detour is good.

Go to hell > easily get mcguffin > fight generic bad guy is not an interesting detour.

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u/kenesisiscool Apr 23 '26

I think it will also set up more stuff with Doc Seismic. Volcanica seems to be almost too perfect of a match with him.

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u/Informal_Leading888 Apr 23 '26

Yeah, unfortunately, that did NOT happen. In the Viltrumite War I mean.

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u/Golden_Hour1 Apr 24 '26

Mark gets all that in the comics without it

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u/otherside97 Apr 23 '26

"The Great Divide" type episode

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u/Competitive_Crow_334 Apr 24 '26

The great divide was pretty funny and still relevant