Great show. I’m loving everything about it except Amber.
I can’t wait until the next episode when father and son finally talk.
I don’t think it was even that. I think that was just a covert observation team. At that point, they thought Omniman couldn’t detect them in their stealth suits. They were wrong.
Omniman was angry and frustrated, and then noticed the stealth team, and took out his frustration on them. He attacked first. The team only opened fire, in self-defense, after he had killed one of them. Which didn’t do any good. I suppose it was more or less instinct at that point. And at that point they didn’t really have any good options. One of them tried to run, and Omniman killed them anyway.
My current Omniman theory (I’ve not read the source material):
Omniman’s race sends out a single individual to conquer each planet like the Saiyans did from Dragonball Z. Omniman fell in love with a local shortly after arriving and so he decided to delay conquering the Earth until later. Perhaps until after his wife had died of old age? Omniman knows if his planet discovers his deception he’ll need to conquer Earth immediately or they’ll send a replacement; if they do that they may kill the people he cares about. For this reason he must always be the most powerful entity on the planet.
With this in mind he killed the guardians because they were almost as powerful as he was. After seeing them defeat the Clone Bros without his help he realized they may eventually become strong enough to defeat him (as a group).
Side note: The Immortal is pretty badass. I hope they manage to revive him again.
I concur about The Immortal , he was pretty damn cool.
Also have not read source material.
He has a responsibility to his home world that he thinks of as absolute but I think he’s more advance team. Take out any potential likely defenses. He wasn’t supposed to fall in love and have a child who might have conflicting loyalties though, and his kid growing up as a normal human, not getting powered early, identifying as human, not as a superior being, made it more complicated.
His love for his wife and son is real. His loyalty to his people and their destiny to rule the universe is real. The conflict between the two will tear him apart.
I think.
Anyone who knows don’t mock my guess!
Can we make fun of it if we don’t know if its right?
Well, if those of us who have not read the source material are going to throw in theories, I wondered if the Guardians were in some way a threat to Omni-Man’s son once his powers were acquired. Like, once there are two of these dudes from a distant planet, maybe we have to kill them.
I don’t know. My favorite outcome of all possibilities that he actually just turns out to be a bad guy with pseudo-philosophical intentions, like Thanos.
Actually, I take that back, my favorite would be if he just turned out to be going bugshit crazy, & was about to wreak destruction everywhere.
Yes. 
I did not really set a hard and fast rule here. Just try not to spoil anything from the books. Even if someone did, I would not report it.
Have fun here is the only “rule” I want.
Yes!!!
As someone who has NOT read the comics:
I was at the comics store today to buy BRZRKR #2 cuz it’s supposed to be out today but it’s not because the Universe hates happiness. (My shop just said they hadn’t put out their new stock so check back later.)
So I decided to go look for the Invincible TPB’s and see if the first couple where out and maybe I would get the first couple of them and saw that they had the first 24!!!
So I looked at some of the covers. Pretty neat stuff. I ain’t rich though so I’ll just stick to the show.
The comic is good shit. It’s been a while since I read them, but so far, the show’s been super accurate to what I remember.
Yes and no. The characters are the same and exactly as in the comic. They’re not following the original plot very closely at all, from what I remember.
What I miss is Cecil’s second-in-command complaining to him about teleporting everywhere, because it cost the government $5 million every time he does it, but Cecil just can’t bring himself to travel the slow way anymore. Very relatable.
Cecil’s assistant looks just like The Ventriloquist.
If we’re throwing theories out there, I thought it was too much of a coincidence that Omni-man decided to kill the Guardians just after finding out his son has powers. Presumably he’s spent a few decades on Earth without going on rampages. He also seemed oddly unhappy about finding out about the powers, and both of them have shown some signs of going into some sort of rage at times.
Perhaps the reason there’s only supposed to be one Viltrumite per planet, is that they go into uncontrolled territorial rages if they have to share the planet with another powered Viltrumite. Presumably the home planet would be exempt for some reason, but Mark is not growing up on Viltrum.
Omni-man knows one of them needs to leave the planet, but doesn’t think his son is ready, and doesn’t want or can’t leave Earth himself. He’s willing to make some sacrifices in order to train his son and spend more time with his family until Mark is ready to leave for his own planet.
One nice thing- they put the big battle out in the middle of nowhere rather than destroying NYC again.
I’d agree that, and his sudden irritability when it happened, has to mean something.
In the first episode Omniman has a strange reaction to the guardians defeating the clone bros without his help. This peaked my interest; my guess is he started planning to kill them right then.
I think he was irritated at his son getting powers because his son could become his equal and stop him from conquering the earth. If that happens everyone he cares about will probably die, including his wife and son. Actually, those two are the only people he cares about.
See post 87…
I really enjoyed the series, although I’m not a big fan of the one episode per week release schedule; NBC’s Thursday Must-See-TV and ABC’s TGIF can stay in the past, as far as I’m concerned.
I thought it was a good idea to not chop it into half-hour episodes, too.
Alright, I’m gonna spoiler this, in case anybody who’s not seen the last episode scrolls through the thread—
Omni-Man’s motivation didn’t really make a whole lot of sense to me. So he’s just a supremacist tyrant, and that’s it? Then why go through the whole save-the-Earth-start-a-family routine? Seems pointless; if he wanted to conquer the Earth, why not just do so? How is this a ‘better, more efficient method’?
But holy shit, they did not pull any punches with the violence and killing. Hard to imagine how Mark isn’t curled into a ball in the corner traumatized now.