Invincible 2x08 'I Thought You Were Stronger' | First Time Reaction
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- Опубліковано 3 тра 2024
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Join Arianna and Maple for a gripping and intense reaction to "Invincible" Season 2, Episode 8, titled "I Thought You Were Stronger." This episode brings high stakes and emotional turmoil as Mark faces off against Angstrom in a desperate bid to protect his family. The battle takes a brutal turn, hurling Mark across multiple dimensions, showcasing a range of challenging scenarios that test his limits and morality. React alongside Arianna and Maple as they experience the emotional weight of Mark’s return, his harrowing fight, and his moral dilemmas. Witness the dramatic twists as future Guardians make a pivotal appearance, and unresolved feelings between Mark and Eve add another layer of complexity. This episode not only explores the depths of Mark’s strength but also sets the stage for future conflicts and personal growth within the Invincible universe.
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00:00 - Intro
00:10 - Reaction
27:22 - Review - Розваги
In the comics, Agent Spider actually WAS spiderman, but guess they couldn't get the rights from sony 😭
Disney. They own tv animation rights
They didn't even bother asking for permission, actually. Kirkman himself said so. He wanted to avoid the entire headache and just agreed with using a legally-distinct Spider-Man instead of reaching out to Disney.
Was the name actually Agent Spider? In my mind canon, I called him Arachnid Dude LOL
Even if they could it's probably too much of a hastle for such a short cameo.
@@bleepy013character rights are such a joke. I don’t blame them for not even bothering. I’d rather them rip off marvel and dc characters than pay them ridiculous amounts for the rights.
Mark spilled so much chocolate syrup this episode.
And Ecto Cooler
@@benn454 You made Ecto Cooler?
Steven Yeun does an incredible job at voice casting. You can see the anger and despair of Mark when he unleashes his 100% unto Levy.
You can hear it, you mean? 😏
He is truly great
@@Seetiyan yeah, that's right
Debbie was the real super hero of this episode especially when she put Angstrom Levi in his place
Absolutely. She raised the only Mark in the multiverse to be a hero. Also, despite all the horrible things done to her, her 1st and only priority was Oliver.
@@DanielOrtiz-hv9qw damn right, Oliver is her new priority
@@DanielOrtiz-hv9qwNot the only one. Just the only one the audience has been introduced to.
11:32 When Angstrom walks through and just teleports those two random dudes to who knows where had me laughing LOL. I hope he sent them somehere better, but like, they are NEVER getting back to their true home lol
BuT hE's NoT a ViLlAiN
@@benn454Literally who’s saying he’s not a villain?
@@Im.Smaher Levy himself. "I'm not the villian!" *breaks Debbie's arm*
Yeah, everyone I know says the exact same thing about Angstrom when he tosses Oliver. They quote him saying "I have no intention of hurting your brother or your mother." then they comment that he just tosses Oliver aside. But they conveniently leave out the second part of that quote. which is "UNLESS I deem that the only way to harm you is to harm them." So he in fact corrects everyone who calls him a liar.
Still a villain, which he says he's not, so still a liar.
@@benn454 No one is denying he's the villain and no one said he isn't insane and delusional about being the hero. YOU just now said that. What I said was that people call him a liar for saying he wasn't going to hurt Mark's family. He was in fact NOT lying; he didn't have any intention of harming them unless, UNLESS he decided that in order to hurt Mark, he'd need to hurt them. He flat out tells Debbie that. So where's the lie???? Go ahead find it. I'll wait. But don't bother bringing up him saying he's the hero who's saving he world. THAT is irrelevant. What you and people like you need to stop doing is fishing for excuses. I addressed a specific moment. Nothing else but that specific moment is relevant. Him losing his shit, him tossing Oliver; him snapping Debbie's arm; all are irrelevant to her accusing him of lying about harming them. THAT is what's relevant. So again, I challenge you. Find the lie for that specific moment.
@@patrickcromwell7554 WTF are you on about dude. All I said was that he lied when he said he wasn't the villain. Everything else in your diatribe is you reading things into my comment that weren't there.
@@benn454 his mind is so completely shattered that he's convinced he's the hero though. The way I see it, I think that even if he *is* conscious and aware that *this* (our) Mark is "good", his train of thought is likely "oh, he's good... for now" and he's trying to "stop" Invincible before he turns bad. We don't know what kind of relationship these other Angstroms all had with their Mark's, though we do see that at least a few of them know Angstrom personally by name, so these Angstroms might've known those Mark's before they went bad, which makes Angstrom's paranoia make sense in that context since he now has all of those Angstroms' memories of Mark being an utter monster
@@patrickcromwell7554 He also said Debbie wasn't innocent in the other multi verse
So I don't think he would have kept his word
He covered in poopy
hearing Sterling K. Brown as Angstrom Levy makes me want to hear Sterling K. Brown do more voice acting!! knowing his voice acting is AS good as his physical acting makes me appreciate him so much more. ❤️
Yes!!! Sterling was fantastic!!
12:46 Wrong. Levy specifically said that HE is the only one that was born with the ability to access other dimensions.
Yeah so many people missed this point established earlier, that’s why from his memories all of those angstrom survive their encourager with invincible, because our angstrom teleported them at that moment to his universe
@@Enter_Zoneless True but with infinite multiverses there will be another of him with that ability
@@NanoLT no like he just said that version was the only one born with those powers
@@NanoLTsure but that version could die shortly after birth or be trapped in a dimension or lose their powers. Infinite possibilities doesn't mean the same thing happens repeatedly
Im guessing you haven’t read the comics
I don't think people notice how affectionate Oliver was for the entirety of this season from start to finish. From reaching out to Mark when held by Andressa in the cave, "brah brah," holding Debbie when she was unconscious etc.
Good catch! Ya someone hinted at him being way more aware of his surroundings than normal for a kid. Rewatching it I see his facial expressions showing he knows exactly whats happening around him. I am curious who is going to be his young adult voice actor.
God I love the VA work in this ep. Sterling K Brown crushes it as Angstrom, Steven Yeun brings so much emotion to every line, and J.K. Simmons' delivery on that last line is just so so perfect.
S1 & S2 cover the introductory arcs in the comics. S1 ends saying this is not a traditional comic story. S2 is setting the personalities of the characters from the main course, ep1-3 of s2 are about trying to move on and failing, Mark with his friends but he's not training and is constantly looking for new street level threats, Amber has become an enabler, Eve is focusing on rebuilding despite her being so powerful, etc. 4-6 is everybody learning to trust. And 7-8 is confrontation with the future they cannot distract themselves away from what will come. S3 is things getting real.
I'm so excited to see the Conquest, and a certain war fights.
I'm not giving any spoilers, but you need to know, the fun part begins now.
I have read the comics, and the part upto this point is just the plot building. The real story starts now. Season 3 will blow over the internet.
Im super stoked! Ive seen a few cover pages and flashes of a couple comic panels of random issues. Lol people think the red wedding is bad 🤣 The show creators said every episode of season 3 will feel like a finalie.
See, the whole time Alan is talking to Nolan I'm thinking to myself "Alan, DUDE; just TELL Nolan that your Coalition Leader is a Viltrumite. THAT alone will peak Nolan's interest. At least enough to WANT to escape." to hear that a Viltrumite actually opposed his people and lived....that would definitely get my attention.
either that or he will mentioned that to Nolan somewhere in s3
Nolan absolutely is aware of Thaddeus the Great Betrayer. He may see the capture of Thaddeus as a path to redemption in the eyes of the Viltrumites.
i dont think mentioning that in a viltrumite prison is wise xd
@@mhernandez1345wrong. The only people who know of thadeus being a betrayer are grand regent thragg and very few other viltrumites Thragg had thadeus removed from the history books after the virua
@@shadboi8927 You might have had a point IF Alan and Nolan were actually talking. But then you making this statement just shows you weren't paying attention when Alan told Mark how his telepathy works. Alan is the one who's telepathic, not the Viltrumites. They couldn't hear Alan and Nolan if they tried. As far as that entire prison staff is aware, neither of them ever said a word. Now Nolan may have said "I think I miss my wife out loud." But aln was using telepathy the whole time. They weren't actually cell neighbors you know. They were in fact at opposite ends of the hall. Not like they can just talk to each other through the wall.
Yeah using brown for the blood censorship was an amazing choice
I know some show only watchers say this felt like filler, or wasn't as bombastic as season 1. But all this is in the comics, and it's needed for the setup for the show going forward, as many of these things play into it. I also feel like some people are just not getting this show is not about big gory deaths, over the top fights, or shock value like say The Boys. It's about actual character growth.
I love The Boys, the show, not the comic. The comic is horrible imo, but people need to stop thinking Invincible is gonna do what that show does. This has been a almost 1:1 to the comic, and it's glorious to see something adapted so faithfully with only improvements, and slightly changing the order of events to better pace it..
After spending the whole season denying that he’s his father, Mark proved Angstrom right by beating him lifeless (just like Nolan did to him), that Mark is his father’s son. And that’s needed for the fight against Viltrumites
16:52 Eve letting Mark know other Eve has feelings for him while simultaneously giving him an opportunity to see what she’ll look like in 20 years was pretty goated
Just like Mark Eve doesn't use her powers to their full potential. She has the ability to kill hundreds at a time. An example would be say turning the wings and engines of an airborne fully loaded commercial airliner to dust. She gets Mark as she's no killer either. Unlike everyone else except for Debbie she knew that Mark wasn't looking for justifications for his actions. She had been justified in killing her siblings who were trying to kill her. However they., Her and Mark didn't deserve the pain and anger . Eve's probably also aware that in the possible coming war Mark will be in the center of it and will probably have to kill again.
Eve not being able to use her full potential is cause she's got a mental block, Mark is simply not old enough yet, It takes Viltrumites hundreds of years to move at say Anissa or Nolans speed. They have to train their bodies like humans do. No one comes out of the womb deadlifting 350lbs.
As someone who has read the comics it's infuriating to know what each is capable of and hear show only people just say they're not trying hard enough. Marks trying everytime he fights someone, he just usually either A) holds back cause he's not a murderer, or B) legit can not handle them. I hope next season this will stop with the he's not trying crap. Cause now he's actually gonna start training like Cecil asked last episode.
@@kingcaesar3693 True. I wasn't sure if Diegesis had seen the Atom Eve special which also explains the mental lock. The comics had a ton of future stories about her lock which I wasn't sure if the series was going to keep or reimagine so I didn't bring it up.
@@kingcaesar3693 without giving away any specific spoilers can you say if mark was tapping into a special power when he started changing the colors around him in flight during the flashback montage.
@@jarrodkane4176 He was pushing himself out of frustration, something that if Viltrumites do increases their abilites. It can permanently affect him if he does that every day. Like running. You start out slow, but over time you can run a marathon no problem if you train hard enough. You seen a small glimpse of that with that moment. And yes, Mark is special in his own way. You'll see later.
@@kingcaesar3693 Awesome! Thank you for that wonderful explantion. Do you think there will be massive time skips in this show or does most of the story in the comics take place linearly without gaps.
Having read the comics: the future Guardians drop SO MUCH foreshadowing
19:24 the “how do you know the difference” line is deep outside of the context Mark is tripping about but within context? Glad Cecil pointed it out so clearly.
Yes most of time it’s difficult to impossible to make that judgment, in the case of angstrom it was pretty clear
Did you guys catch that was Rex and not Robot? Not sure if it matters but it stood out to me.
Weird how other people didn't clock that
Nolan isn't a bad guy, he's just a product of his environment. We all are, where and how we grew up is what shapes us. At some point it's up to your free will, to see if you can and are willing to change. I grew up in a single mother home and I was bullied, ever since elementary kids would tell me I'd probably end up on the news, my family said I'd end up in jail. I was lucky enough to have people in my life who cared and saved me. 5th grade I was put on probation. I grew up learning to understand others and myself, I now know how to control my emotions and I helped so many people. I now have real friends who have never left my side. I'm happy now, because I'm in my 20's I'm stuck and confused on what I want to do next. The influenced and unfortunate are one in the same.
That’s all great but I’m pretty sure you also didn’t kill thousands of people and are directly responsible for an untold number on different planets. A sudden awareness and change in personality doesn’t absolve him or make him a good person. I hope you understand you shouldn’t be drawing comparisons between yourself and a genocidal superman
He's both. He's a product of his environment, AND he's a bad guy. (Remember that Earth is just a short blip of time to him. He's been elsewhere. He's killed many other people.) Though he's now in the process of shifting and eventually we can stop calling him a bad guy.
You do realize he saw other species as inferior and didn't value their lives at all, and committed genocide likely in multiple occasions, right? "A product of your environment" as a justification for anything is a dangerous rhetoric. I'm not saying you're doing this, but this logic could just as well be used to excuse say, Adolf Hitler.
Lol wtf do you think a bad guy is? Someone who's inherently bad no matter what environment they're put in? Someone who's genetically evil? Is that the only way someone Cam be bad? This is a childish way of defending someone's actions. Every "bad" person ever could be excused due to their environment, upbringing, and coping mechanisms they were taught. Nobody is inherently bad, but that doesn't mean bad people don't exist. It also doesn't mean that bad people are always bad or that they cannot change.
@@pabloc8808Hitler wasn't indoctrinated. His dad was a government official in Austria. He saw what Italy was doing and modified that. He was also on copious amount of drugs. But there's no excuses for what he did. He is a textbook villain. Crazy to think that it was real life and not some fiction novel.
Debbie is such a mom my heart broke just like her hand when she woke up and all she was thinking about was Oliver
Debbie is the absolute MVP of motherhood.
Zombie dimension is explicitly the Walking Dead.
The Walking Dead zombies can’t speak, so it isn’t
They dont talk in the walking dead lol
@@Swifter2020it's for copyright, guys...
@@user-eu5xg4bs7o Which is really stupid considering Robert Kirkman, the creator of Invincible, also created The Walking Dead.
@@user-eu5xg4bs7oit’s not. In the comics, which would have had no problem with copyright, it’s still zombies that say meat.
12:45 big brain man actually mentioned he's the only one who could do that. One of those balances of existence kind of thing. I get the idea that if every variable exists then there should be infinite that exists but maybe there aren't infinite but only a set number. I dunno that's just my theory
Not Arianna laughing at "Parking In Rear" 😭😭
3:50 @diegesis in the Invincible comics Angstrom Levy ( the evil black guy w/ multiverse travel powers) actually sent him to Spider-Man. this scene is part of what played out in that comic, just afterwards peter starts talking to mark to try and figure out what was going on and to meet the Avengers so they could help Mark get home. The portal eventually reappears for mark and right when he was about to leave, peter shot a web to try and join mark but the portal closed before he could make it in time
Lol, Arby's: "It's not cannibalism if you're no longer human".
12:45 yes you are right but also no because this angstrom is the only one with the power to portal to different dimensions. all his other variants are just regular people that had beef with their mark
And the fatal flaw of Multiverse narrative is laid bare.
No matter how "deep" they try and make the plot, not a jot matters
I mean, *can* Mark "do more" with his powers though? His only powers are super speed, super strength, flight and very high durability. Those are pretty average powers I'd say. It's just the level at which they're at that make Mark and other Viltrumites so dangerous. Really the only "different" thing Mark can is punch harder and be more aggressive ("fight like a Viltrumite") which is obviously something he doesn't really wanna embrace.
Except that for Donald it was actually him dying all those times. These flashbacks are NOT the same Angstrom that is in the living room. NONE of those are THIS Angstrom. These re the memories of all the OTHER Angstrom's who's memories he gained from the machine. Now, he's all insane because he thinks it all happened to HIM.
I have a sneaking suspicion that somehow eve eventually discovers she can prevent the lengthening of her teleomeres thus preventing aging and then her and mark can be together for thousands of years. Idk i hope it happens like that.
I looked up some info on the Invincible comics years before the show was even a concept. And you know what? Atom Eve was about the most profiled character from those comics after Mark himself and Omni-Man. So we can expect to see Eve featured _a lot_ more from here on out.
Aside from some of the comics' brutality, I don't remember a whole lot of what I looked up back in the day. I _do_ remember a little of what happens with Eve, however. To even bring _that_ much up, though, might be spoiling. 😉
I love YT restrictions. They bleed red, a problem. They bleed green slime? Well, I see nothing out of ordinary, move along
Its very Alienist
I also really wanted Oliver to power up this episode. Flight when he gets tossed or super strength to punch Angstrom. Something. Maybe next season?
Damn I never thought about how their outfits never change 😂 now I can’t stop noticing it
I love how the Future Guardians has Rex pretending to be Robot and Thor is literally in the group now.
Loved your reactions to season 2 of Invincible Maple and Arianna.😃 Also liked that you changed the blood from chocolate syrup to Reptile's blood.😆
Debbie is clutch MVP. What an amazing mom to back you up.
This is also one of the only times Mark was able to let loose. He killed Levy because he assumed this fight was similar to battling other Viltrumites, such as his dad, or Allen the Alien. There really aren’t a lot of other people who can withstand Mark or any Viltrumite’s full strength - which is why when he let loose he assumed Levy would just be gravely injured like a normal being his power-level after his beatdown.
So who's decision was it to cover them both in poop instead of blood?
the blood editing was a choice, diarrhea brown could've been ANY other colour xD
They won’t flag our video for poooooo 💩
the girl on the left blank clueless expression with the AMAZING spiderman - doc ock - dr strange portals reference its like... wow!
That's kind of a cool concept. Instead of Cate #1 being Cate Prime, she was actually the First Copy. It's obvious and yet somehow not at the same time.
Mark: 🎵It's not that easy being green
Having to spend these days the color of the leaves
When I think it could be so much nicer being red, yellow or gold
Or something much more colorful like that
Lord, it's not easy being green
It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
And people tend to pass you over
Cause you're not standing out like flashes sparkles on the water
And stars in the sky
But green is the color of spring
And green can be cool and friendly-like
Oh, green can be big like an ocean
Or a poodle like a mountain
Or tall like a tree
Warm and whole would bring all green there is to be
Well, it could make you wonder why
Wonder why, wonder why
Wonder I'm green
And it will define cause it's beautiful
And I think it's what I wanna be
You know, green is the color of spring
Yes and green can be cool and friendly-like
Oh, green can be big like an ocean
Or a poodle like a mountain
Or tall like a tree
Yeah, when green is all there is to be
Well, it could make you wonder why
Wonder why, wonder why
Wonder I'm green
And it will do fine cause it's beautiful
And I think it's what I wanna be🎵
Angstrom said that in "most other" realities, Mark joined his father. The exact circumstances in which these events transpired are left ambiguous though, and it gets even more so once we find out some things about these alternate Mark's later on...
The slime color worked perfect with Nolans end scene. xD
12:35 stop telling him to stop fuck angstrom. He’s the main character we both know he ain’t gonna be trapped for long
At the end when Nolan is covered in blood coming from his nose it just looks like cartoon snot because its green
If you look closely at 7:20 when HR comes out of the portal, he hits angstrom with a fortnite sniper rifle. This means fortnite is canon in invincible.
3:38 did mark’s mom ever play football? Cause she’s got legit hands 😂
14:22 Maple has never said a more iconic thing *hahaha*
24:03 I mean he could always just go back to college if he wants 🤷🏼♂️. Plus with the viltrimites coming 🤷🏼♂️
We really need some conclusions in the next season for some other plots. Battle Beast and Titan for example werent even mentioned in this season.
I love how story rich this universe is but I also think they should take more time for the next season.
Feels like they were afraid of losing viewers over the production time or maybe Amazon put pressure on them, but I hope they can take more time this time.
How did you guys change the color of the blood?
using isolated curves in the color page of davinci resolve
Unfortunately, Angstrom's plan boils down to a 'Knightfall with portals' (Knightfall being the infamous Batman arc where Bane wears Batman down with a cavalcade of villains and then breaks his back), but attempting it on Superman 😬
He's not gonna get tired bro...
I think the saddest part of Angstrom is that all his other selves were so terrified of bad Marks (that he probably could have beaten) that he got himself killed by the good Mark 🙃
I get why Mark didn’t say anything to Eve.
“Future you said we should be together.”
I like how they handled this whole love triangle more here, than the comic. Spoiler:
He does tell her right away there. She get's mad at him for thinking he only broke up with Amber cause of that. Course this is after like 40 issues of Eve trying to just seduce Mark away from Amber, and Mark literally dumps Amber cause he thought Eve was more attractive. It's paints both of them in a bad light imo. Eve slutting it up, and Mark just thinking with what he has between his legs. Of course they mature more as the series goes on, but those first 40 issues of this is more like a teenagers wet dream, then really caring about each other.
00:30 it’s called a half cab 😂sorry just had to do it
What he's done is unforgivable and his death was the only way out with Mark's resources but, Levy has thousands of peoples anger/suffering clouding his mind, how do you fight that when there's only one of you without that.
Levy is a tragic character like dude is just confused because of a freak science accident with way too much access to resources.
How did other channels show this regularly with normal blood and not get demonetized
Awesome reaction of my favorite episode of Invincible!!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊
Mark is a good kid but he’s so dumb. It’s frustrating. He got his hands on Sterling like two different times and could’ve stopped him if he wasn’t such a boy scout about it.
Not even saying kill him necessarily but hurt him bad
LOL! Why green!!! It looks like Nolan doesn't know how to blow his nose. 🤧🤮😆😆😆
Love you both so much
"Arby's! You Are The Meats!!!!"
The spider man scene is from comic crossover between invincible and spider man but Amazon didnt have rights to spider man so they made this arachoman
I always hate when people say, "Well there's infinite dimensions so there's just going to be another of him." Just because there are infinite dimensions doesn't mean everything has happened an infinite number of times/ways. You can still have unique people/traits that are not found in any other of those infinite dimensions. There are infinite numbers and yet only 1 will give you the same number multiplied back with itself, for instance.
The only positive from the whole Angstrom stuff is just that now Mark won't hold back as much and start being more serious which is needed when those Viltrumites come.
As a comic book reader, the first two seasons covered the most boring parts of Invincible. Y'all are not ready for season 3😂
W episode W reactors
Just curious what made you guys go so tv show heavy? I can count in one hand how many movie reactions you’ve done the past 6 months, and most of those have included Chad (no offense Chad, but I just appreciate the ladies and their reactions, you normally play the part of movie guide)…
it was a misstep I think.
we are just this week starting back into rotating a weekly movie reaction into the roster.
Never Ending Story with Arianna and Maple coming up this Saturday
Debbie has been my MVP since day 1 ❤
Yall made the blood look like doo doo 😭
i didn't catch that rex was in a robot suit.
now we have to wait... again 🫠
Yeah....season 2 is like a set up season 3 is gonna be wild
18:02 they don't know well i don't think anyone knows😧
Villager News
Why was Rex Robot instead of Rudy?
Watch the atom eve special she was creative there
We did :)
Stick with green blood. That brown filter just makes it look like poop O_O
Hello! this episode is crazy
Well, now that you’re caught up on Invincible I think y’all should start Fallout next in its place.
can we get 2 weekly episodes of peaky blinders 🙏🏻
I like how in the fight with angstrom you can still see some of the red blood mixed with the brown. So it made it look like bloody diarrhea 😂😂😂!
Atom Eve and Mark Grayson Will we see the kids in season 3 or is the comic going too far? Damn, I feel like I gave a spoiler
Angstrom was doing to Mark what Kreeg was doing to Nolan.
His name is spelled Kregg btw
@lucasbroome1048 that explains the Craig comments haha
6:35 Not a majority, mark turns evil in every dimension. The mark we know is the only good one to exist ever.
no
@@limastall9279 I'm not sure why you say no. It's true. I've read the whole comic. People keep saying Levy met other Marks that were good, but like I never seen it in the 144 issues I read. So either you guys are misremembering, or it's a issue I never seen? Which issue was it? Can you refresh my mind?
@kingcaesar3693 maybe it hasn't technically happened, but if there are "infinite" universes than there are an infinite amount of "good marks"
@@limastall9279 So it's still true then. Cause Levy never said he seen all Marks, just that he was evil in all the universes he went into. Which is 1000 total. Only the 1000th was a good version. See this stuff can confuse people. It's hear say, not fact. I've met a few people saying he actually talked to some, which made me scratch my head cause I knew that wasn't true.
@@kingcaesar3693 I cant tell if youre being condescending right now or not🤔
Loved the censoring in this one!
Lol, they managed to make the scene even more gross, it seems like Mark is covered in sh*t
@@olhaohomemdosuco Lol, I meant the funny little animations, not the shit-filter!
So what hurt this season was the several months long gap inbetween the halves. The rollercoaster was forcibly stopped in the middle and it lost a lot of momentum, almost not clearing one of the loops.
And my guess is... because Omni-Man was in Mortal Kombat. They probably timed the release in such way to let people enjoy the character, binge season 1 and then dive straight into season 2 (and buying 2 months of Prime)... except season 2 wasn't ready so they delayed it a bit and shoved out the door only the first half.
Aaaand that hurt the show.
The gap sucked, I agree, but I still love this show, and season 3 won't take nearly as long to be released. Someone should tell them: no more gaps mid-season.
Your comment about direction is really a pacing issue. They have too many stories and they wrap it up too quickly. Sadly if season 2 is an indication of season 3 and the rest of show is going to be, then youll have the same feeling. The story is really reallt good but it is always going to miss that cohesion to push it over to greatness.
I think it was Maple who mentioned that if Levi wanted Mark to learn something then he should have sent him to one of those evil mirror universes to see it for himself.
In the adaptation to video they trimmed away a story arc like that where Mark was trapped on that planet with multiple doppelgangers from those bad dimensions.
SPOILER WARNING
That happens later on, the mark/s he is trapped with are the ones left over from when Angstrom returns to invade Earth with an army of evil invincibles
Except that Angstrom isn't TRYING to teach mark anything. he wants him DEAD. he doesn't care one bit that Mark isn't the villain in this universe. he WANTS to kill him with his own hands. Sending him to a dimension with a villain Invincible would be counter productive; because there would be a very real possibility that EVIL Invincible would kill him. Angstrom is too unhinged to just let Mark die by someone else's hands. He even says so. Why would he want Mark to LEARN anything??
Yeah not only does that happen later, but the show has already proven in these 2 seasons that it’s going to be moving up and down story arcs, such as Rudys and the guardians of the globe, so yeah stop giving spoilers dude. It doesn’t make you special.
Stranger Things..Stranger Things..!!
@22:30 -- maple's not the only one to notice the dearth of variety in amber's (and other characters') wardrobe choices.
Nice
lol the edit makes it look like mark is covered in poop
Poo lover here. Appreciate the edits 🙏