Mark answers the call to save an alien species but it comes with unexpected, personal consequences.Mark answers the call to save an alien species but it comes with unexpected, personal consequences.Mark answers the call to save an alien species but it comes with unexpected, personal consequences.
- Mark Grayson
- (voice)
- …
- Debbie Grayson
- (voice)
- Nolan Grayson
- (voice)
- …
- Amber
- (voice)
- General Kregg
- (voice)
- Thula
- (voice)
- (as Grey DeLisle)
- Donald
- (voice)
- …
- Cecil
- (voice)
- Art
- (voice)
- Eve
- (voice)
- …
- Lucan
- (voice)
- Mauler
- (voice)
- …
- William
- (voice)
- Andressa
- (voice)
- Killcannon
- (voice)
- …
- Additional Voices
- (voice)
- Additional Voices
- (voice)
- (as Robert Kesselman)
- Additional Voices
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaGeneral Kregg is voiced by Clancy Brown who already voiced Damien Darkblood in the first season of Invincible.
- GoofsAtom Eve is seen phasing through a door towards the end of the episode.
- Quotes
Mark Grayson: [softly] Oh no.
[they look at their home destroyed and the Thraxans dead]
Mark Grayson: Dad?
Nolan Grayson: [let's out growling solfty]
Mark Grayson: Dad?
Nolan Grayson: [still growling and grabs Mark by his neck] WHY?
Mark Grayson: [groans in pain]
Nolan Grayson: Why do I CARE about them?
Nolan Grayson: [sternly] They were weak, short-lived, barely a species. They shouldn't matter to me.
Mark Grayson: [weakly] That doesn't mean they should die.
Nolan Grayson: YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO FEEL THIS WAY! HOW IS THIS BETTER?
Mark Grayson: [painfully] This is how you should have felt on Earth.
[he starts groaning in pain, and Nolan was surprised when he left Earth. When two Viltrumites came in to Thraxa]
Vidor: There's the great Nolan.
Nolan Grayson: [growls at them and let's go of Mark, then coughs]
Vidor: Lucan found you first, I see. Glad you haven't gone too soft.
Nolan Grayson: Lucan was weak. Now he's dead.
Thula: Then he deserved his fate.
Vidor: Like these insects. You barely touch them and they die.
Nolan Grayson: [seriously] I'll kill you for what you did to these people.
Vidor: Then DO IT.
[starts attacking Vidor for good]
But the story's outline is just the outline, and when it comes to this episode specifically I found the dialogue abysmal. It honestly feels like someone presented the outline to an AI, which then wrote the episode for them. More than ever in this usually great, character-driven series, the dialogue and actions do not seem to come from the characters themselves. Instead, they all say and do cliché (and sometimes contradicting) things.
Characters say one-liners and aphorisms which sound sound cool or poetic, but don't make any sense for them to say. Characters do one thing (sometimes for a cliché dramatic effect) and then immediately flip back to contradictory behaviour. Mind you, this could work when done organically and thematically, as Invincible has done incredibly well before! But here characters flip-flop their behaviour in a very stilted, moment-to-moment way, which to my ear actively hindered the voice actors' performances.
I really like this series because of its characters and themes. But this episode, characters said and did what an AI might think these characters would say and do. Their emotions were bent in favour of quips and the themes were buried beneath empty word salad.
Some gorgeous imagery though and the fights were cool.
- jennaseehorn
- Nov 23, 2023
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- Runtime47 minutes
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- 16:9 HD