Invincible's Robert Kirkman shared some story details to expect in the show's third season.

cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/3691609

The Season 3 story details Robert Kirkman revealed to Variety may not surprise fans of the Invincible comics. Much of what he discussed comes specifically from Invincible #50.

      • gusgalarnyk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        173·
        6 months ago

        I don’t know what “really bad” means where you’re from but it surely can’t be used to describe any season of Invincible. Season 2 was as rock solid as season 1, if you liked 1 I would imagine you’d like 2.

        • Pelicanen@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          8·
          6 months ago

          In my opinion, season 2 was by no means bad but it definitely was not as good as season 1. Part of that may be that season 1 was new so they didn’t have to worry about reusing old concepts, but I felt like there wasn’t as much of a cohesive thread throughout the second season like there was through the first one.

          • gusgalarnyk@lemmy.worldEnglish
            10·
            6 months ago

            That’s interesting, I thought the thread was a continuation of the previous season’s thread where Mark wanted to be like his father, but after the ending of the first season we see that desire reversed. We then get a whole season of him realizing whether he likes it or not he is going to have the same problems as his father and each scenario gets him closer to that understanding.

            I would agree that the story beats to follow that thread weren’t as… Episodic or cohesive, felt like we were juggling more balls. But I think the second season was just as focused on its message.

            Either way, I’m hyped for season 3 and I hope they keep up the quality.

        • quindraco@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Season 2 had to tangle with critical plot holes Season 1 did not. Here’s the biggest one.

          !The Atom Eve special established that Atom Eve is a weaker Doc Manhattan - relative to every other character in the show, she’s functionally omnipotent. The only way to have plot survive contact with that is the Doc Manhattan solution, i.e. giving your deity some variant on apathy so they choose not to intervene. Eve has a smidge of this from her willingness to kowtow to her abusive anti-supe father, but not enough - S2 still has her trying and failing to solve problems, which is quite simply no longer believable.!<

          • gusgalarnyk@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            I sorta agree, as far as powers go I’m a little less stringent on how they get used or power scaling. But they show her still upset about what she did in Chicago. I get the sense she’s still hesitant to use her abilities. We also see her struggle to hold a shield for very long both in space and in the ship against the hive mind. I wonder how much of it is she’s just out of the game while she’s upset at herself in Chicago.

            It wasn’t until Rex talked to her that I think we saw her forgive herself and potentially get her head back in the game. I think, although like I said I could go either way with this, that her arc was a bit of a Manhattan empathy pause. Hopefully she gets back to kicking ass soon.