Invincible S02 E02 Full Length Reaction

Elisa, I’m the same way! I really enjoy rewatching seasons before I sit down to react to something again. I think it helps get me in the mood for that specific show when I remember where we left off and why I loved that show so much in the first place. LOL Listen, I’m actually with you on the Sprig front. I miss our bb boy every day 😭 And I ABSOLUTELY quote “Well, not now of course” in every day life. There’s so many quotes from the shows we watch that I’ll throw into my conversations… especially the ones I have with myself 🤣 Oh my gosh I do say “whenever” a lot 🤣 I think it’s funny that you’ve been having this reaction all this time and I never knew. I’ll have to try and catch myself next time and give you a shout- out hahaha The Debbie scene definitely did hit me hard. Life is good these days so no need to worry about me! But I’ve been there. To see that level of raw emotion acted out in such a human way (and Sandra Oh is just incredible, too), got me. Another example of every department coming together to make a moment land. I really like your interpretation of Debbie using Mark as a touchstone. That’s beautiful and a fresh take on the scene that I haven’t heard yet. I LOVE TALKING WITH YOU GUYS ABOUT THIS STUFF!!! I feel so lucky to have a community that wants to dig as deep as I do on these things. It makes my watches so much more special.

OMG ALSO HAPPY 1000 MY DUDE!!!!🎉🍻🔥 This was your 1000th post on Patreon I believe, which is crazy, big congrats mate!!✨✨✨

Jordan

I interpreted the “push away” as Debby being overwhelmed by Mark seeing her breakdown in that moment. I immediately thought back to when she saw him in the hospital for the first time, just after the incident and wouldn’t allow herself to cry in front of him, that was such a poignant moment for me, so I think that clouded any other interpretations I had. I really like your other point though that it could be because she’s reminded of Nolan. More so, imagine knowing and lovinggg someone for 20 years and believing they felt the same exact same way! Then one day they just drop the act and admit they never really gave a rats ass about you, but not only that, they view you as a lower species and your life is meaningless in the grand scheme of things. I don’t know if I could ever trust anyone ever again after something like that. I can’t imagine confiding in ANYONE would be easy after that. I’m just saying, I don’t blame her if it even crossed her mind for a second, despite the fact that Mark’s her son and she obviously loves him so much!!! Debby’s the absolute bestttt man, I fucking love her character so much!! After the amazing special episode we got this season I was sure Eve was my favourite character, but idk anymore, Debby is such a G and I want the world for her❤️😭 I missed the premiere last week which I’m super bummed about, but I’M HERE, I’m Amazon Primed upppp, and I got a little two-for-one deal with reactions THIS week, so every cloud✨ I can’t not talk about the way this season opened like HOLY SHIT💀 You should’ve seen my face dude I bet it was priceless🤣 The way they did that whole first sequence was so brilliant with each new reveal, I’m like: “oh, why’s Mark fighting Immortal?” “OH SHIT NOLANS BACK?!” “Flash forward?!?” “WTF MARKS HELPINGGG NOLAN TAKE OVER EARTH?!?!?💀” Mate, if you wouldn’t have brought up the idea of parallel universes in your reaction I would’ve been convinced that we time-jumped there, and that was a very scary thought😂 Either way I was in complete shock! Seeing Mark be so sociopathic, like that tone of voice he had, so unbothered as he spoke and acted exactly like Nolan, geeenuinely terrifying. I’ll never get that imagine out of my head of him paralysing Eve with a completely neutral look on his face. That part actually messed me up, like I knew something was off about the whole situation and maybe this wasn’t actually real, but that was so shocking and fucked up to watch honestly. My biggest wonder is, what circumstances were different in all those other universes for Mark to see Nolan’s side of things and completely turn on humanity?? Nolan did say to Mark after he finally told the truth that this wasn’t how he wanted to do this. I just can’t imagine a scenario where Nolan is able to sell Mark all that bullshit, even with all the time and preparation and all the right words in the world. Maybe there would be some level of manipulation from Nolan if he got to explain things in his own desired way? It feels strange that our version of Mark, resenting his father for wanting to conquer the entire universe is a rare outcome amongst parallel universes! It does play into this seasons theme of “how close IS Mark to becoming his dad?” super well either way!!🔥 I thought the way they introduced our main villain for the season was amazing, because I reallyyyy liked this guy and I feel so bad for him now. He just wanted to use his power for the betterment of all life. He sacrificed his entire plan and everything he’d worked towards because he didn’t want invincible to die, I can see why he hates Mark so much after that, but some blame has to be taken by him too! “He made me a freak”, like you kinda did that to yourself bro, why in the hell would you take off that helmet my man, they literally told you it would be catastrophic if you did it mid-procedure!! He can totally be angry at Mark for showing up and trying to stop his machine without looking for any context, but Mark wasn’t the sole cause for that situation escalating the way it did, imo. I love his little music theme thingy, cue?? we have for him now, in his new villain era, it’s really spooky I love it!🔥👌 Okay the REAL villain of this season was that dude buying the house with his girlfriend, like WHAT was that guy’s problem?? We need to get our girl a new bf on the double! She seemed SO sweet too that actually pissed me off, like the dragging to the next room and shit…. gtfoh bro❌ Final thoughts. I was really confused about Donald too! Could Cecil possibly have a variant of our inter-dimensional friend (whose name I’m completely blanking on sorry) which he uses to solve his “unsolvable” problems? Maybe Donald just got plucked from another reality, brought here and is none the wiser about it?? Also Cecil being able to teleport in such an awesome way is something I’ve totally glossed over in my mind up until now, they haven’t explained how he does that right? Satellite maybe? Is it a projection of him every time he leaves HQ or is he physically going there? I know it’s not the craziest part of this world, but it’s a very efficient mode of transport that I would also like to have please and thank you😂 sorry this was a big one, this version you’re reading has been insanely cut down because I just had wayyy to many thoughts on this LOL✨ Hope you’re having a great week though mate!

Jordan

Alright, alright, I think I'm back in now 😝 I think maybe I made a mistake not watching season 1 again before I started season 2 and just wasn't in the Invincible headspace last week. It's something I generally ALWAYS do almost to a fault because if something has 10 seasons I will usually watch ALL of them in anticipation of a new release. HOWEVER to be totally honest I didn't really have any anticipation of season 2 so I didn't want to invest the time and emotional bandwidth last week to rewatch season 1 again beforehand. I mainly watched last week's episode because I wanted to see you Alycia and not really the show. 😊 And maybe I also had a little bit of resentment because Invincible took my sweet baby boy Sprig from me each week haha. Btw, anyone else mumble "Well, not NOW of course" in their best Sprig impression to themselves under their breath whenever something goes wrong in their life? 🤣 Somehow that line and delivery got stuck in my head and it's just my go to now haha. Speaking of whenever...god damnit I probably shouldn't even bring this up lol because it's a "me" problem but WHENEVER you say whenever instead of when I get irrationally annoyed...not like for real and I catch myself at how silly it is but since I just shouted "GOD DAMNIT Alycia I love you but it's when not whenever" at my screen today I thought I'd share. 🤣 Hopefully you can find the humor in my overreaction without feeling self-conscious about it or whatever obviously I don't expect you to change that or anything I just thought it was funny that this pet peeve of mine just made me shout at you through my screen lol. I just get really pissy about words and language for some reason no idea why. 😝 Another big one is WHENEVER (😘) somebody says jealous instead of envious it drives me nuts...I know it's fucking stupid and also language evolves and stuff but I like my nuance hehe. If you really want to see me go dead behind the eyes, watch me have a conversation with someone who then pronounces jaguar "Jagwire" or nuclear "nucular" they go from a 10 to a 4 REAL quick lol. I know, I know it's pointless but I'm working on it ok. 😝 Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. 🤣 Alright now to the juicy bit about Debbie's breakdown. It made me really emotional because I've been there and I saw it actually hit you a little bit before it hit me, it looked like you were actually actively trying to keep it together and it just made me want to give you a hug. But maybe I'm just projecting, that's how I was reading your face anyway. My initial interpretation of the scene when Debbie put her hand on Mark's chest was her trying to push him away because he reminds her too much of Nolan and it hit me even harder because I'd dread to think this will come between them. But it changed pretty quick, now I kind of think that she was so overcome with emotion that she couldn't really move her body and putting her hand on his chest was kind of a gesture of using him as an emotional lightning rod of sorts and putting her hand there was the biggest gesture she could muster shy of actually moving to invite something positive into the situation by touching someone she loves as like a touchstone. The vulnerability in front of her son might also play a role and quite possibly it's actually a combination of all three. But it was a very touching scene by any interpretation. THAT's how you do emotion...not this fabricated Unity bullshit hehe. Looking forward to watching the new Rick & Morty though when it's back up since you said it's good. I usually avoid reading your little episode description until after the episode because I didn't want to be biased one way or the other but after last week's debacle I wanted to know what I'm in for. 🙂