I wonder if that would work on Omniman?
Who knows, in combat all she did was make force fields and force weapons, kinda like a mix of Psylocke and Sue Storm. But she could make trees/food out of nothing and make complicated structures like working doors. Even if they want to say it doesn’t work on living beings (besides plants) at the very least she could have turned the invading alien guns and tanks into other stuff.
Yes, she reminds me of the Invisible Woman (Sue Storm) in the sense that she doesn’t really understand her own powers yet.
The Invisible Woman’s actual power was energy manipulation & force-fields, not invisibility. It’s just that her first power was a force-field which bent light around her. When she finally learned how to use them she became one of most powerful characters in that universe.
Yes and no. Yes, it should be a near-unstoppable power in combat.
But her character arc after she leaves home, I feel, shows she’s really not that into the combat side of superheroing, so I can understand the “mental blocks” argument as well.
I could be misremembering but I think Atom Eve’s power is limited to Inorganic things. Powerful for sure but still has limitations.
It definitely works on plants. Maybe not animals?
Man the implications of Red Rush’s explanation of how he perceives time with regards to his death just hit me and it makes it so much darker.
Yeah, think about how long it takes you to throw a punch. Maybe only a second or two. But Red Rush landed dozens if not hundreds of punches while he was feeling his head being squeezed into paste and he was pulverizing his hands, knowing that he was being killed.
I enjoyed the Atom Eve origin story they’re running.
New season drops Nov 3.
I’ll have to check out the Atom Eve story (on Prime?). Can’t wait for Season 2.
Yup, Prime.
Finally, a new episode of Invinicible! And it only took a year and a half.
The Atom Eve one-off was OK, but as a prequel it didn’t really advance the main story. RIP Lance Reddick.
It raised more questions than it answered, like “Why would Robot put himself IN the robot body?” He’s spent years controlling it remotely without a problem.
I thought s2e1 was a mixed bag. I liked the stuff in the alternate universe, I liked the stuff with the “real world” super team. But I thought the stuff with the Maulers and the portal guy to be just ludicrous lazy scriptwriting. Of course someone who seems to be brilliant and also a genuine pacifist would end up building a suspicious looking device in a warehouse with two known criminals… known criminals who, I might add, have actually not really killed anyone in a long time now that we have learned more about their skills and their weird relationship. (Although, honestly, what motivates them? And where did they come from? Are they human? Couldn’t they just develop and sell technology and become billionaires?) Just a lazy way to set up a conflict.
To be honest, it just seems like comic book logic to me (which doesn’t particularly bother me in a show based on a comic book).
To be close to his girlfriend, maybe?
None of that bothers me so much as that so far it’s boring.
Critics that I follow have seen all 4 of the eps that will stream before it goes on hiatus again, and claim it really ramps up each episode.
And it’s from the comic book.
I was very disappointed in this episode. I think the show has too many balls in the air.
Things I am interested in:
-Mark and his relationship with his friends and mother
-Eve, and her conflicts
-To a lesser extent, the guardians we’ve already met (Robot, Rex, etc) and Cecil
Things that seem like they are the main plot this season:
-Portal guy
Things that are hanging over the show:
-The presumed eventual return of Omni-Man
Things I am not interested in:
-A martian clumsily disguising himself as a human, reminding us of the dumbest episode last season
-The return of a guy with earthquake machines who should never remotely be a challenge for Mark at all (although he did have by far the funniest line of the episode)
-A throwaway subplot about Atlantis (oh yeah, there’s an entire technologically advanced underwater civilization)
-A throwaway subplot about a city where it’s permanently midnight (but people still live there?)
-The Lizard League
There wasn’t nearly enough of the interesting stuff, and far too much of the uninteresting stuff, and honestly, a lot of it just felt like it was from a different show.
If I was watching Rick And Morty and there was suddenly an entire city that was cursed to be permanently midnight that was never mentioned until now and our main character seemed to have never heard of it, well, that fits into that show. Crazy new stuff happens every episode on that show and then is never mentioned again, and Morty has never heard of any of it.
But, at least in its first season, that wasn’t the kind of show Invincible was. Sure it had superheroes and demon detectives, but the world was basically our world, in an emotionally grounded fashion. And that show was, imho, MUCH better than the show we’re getting so far this season.
I wrote previously that some critics I like gave the impression things would pick up speed after the first episode, and this episode left me thinking “When? There’s only two left!”
The stuff with Debbie was apparently expanded because the producers love Sandra Oh, but I’m not that psyched to see someone that obviously needs counseling slowly come to that realization over time. And I still don’t like Amber.
But I’m not too interested in Shapeshifter subplot, and I’d like someone to explain to Dupli-Kate that the takeaway from the Rex situation was to not sleep with team-mates, period, not just Rex. Her 2000-year old sex partner should know better.