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Morrow
Oct 31, 2010
I just really digged this episode's fight scene because it showed the guardians getting manhandled by some nobodies, and it seemed like such a cop out to have them pull off a victory in the end.

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Morrow
Oct 31, 2010
It may not be a rational decision, it may be Robot got pushed over the edge by Monster Girl's comments and resolved to clone a new body for himself where he can experience all the stuff humans do. And, as the base, he picks the most impulsive person he knows whom he's been observing getting his freak on for years as a member of the Teen Team.

Morrow
Oct 31, 2010
Earth is screwed if there's an army of Omni-men level Viltrumites coming for them. Or even, like, three, considering Mark was getting manhandled by just one. The new Guardians of the Globe could probably stall one for a gruesome two minute montage.

Morrow
Oct 31, 2010

Applewhite posted:


Re the events in Chicago: I don't think a train moving at like 25 miles per hour (tops, assuming the train wasn't decelerating as it pulled into the station for a stop) would result in everyone getting splatted by Mark and Nolan standing still and just letting the train's momentum push forward. People would get knocked around and someone sustaining a direct hit could be killed, but they wouldn't explode IMO

The train is a lot of inertia and Mark's face is a very small point that isn't moving at all. There've been some pretty wild collisions between subway cars getting far into each other, and that's with a much bigger point of contact.

Plus, Nolan was definitely accelerating into people.

Morrow
Oct 31, 2010
I think the show has been consistent in showing that Mark was wrong about keeping secrets from her and that there are consequences for doing so.

Where it falls short is she's a side character and is somewhat inconsistent internally. She's mad at Mark for different reasons, until she's not mad at him because she watched him get beat up on TV.

Morrow
Oct 31, 2010
Somewhere I read that the Green Ghost in Season One is supposed to be a successor to the original, who was a man. And that she was relatively inexperienced which explains why she froze up.

Morrow
Oct 31, 2010
It's a plot device to explain why Superman is secretly evil. Don't think about it too hard. From what we've seen, instead of one Viltrumite taking 20 years to conquer Earth, twenty of them could come and do it in a weekend. Occupation is another matter but we don't see any evidence as to what Omni-man and Evilvincible are doing there. Nolan seems too standoffish to have spent those decades building connections with influential figures that could compose a vichy regime.

Morrow
Oct 31, 2010
In Levy's defence, he apparently built multiple with different sets of Mauler twins against multiple universes. And given the power and infrastructure requirements he couldn't pick the post-apocalyptic ones. Instead, among others, he picked the one where Invincible was good, which ultimately didn't work out but was a decent bet.

Morrow
Oct 31, 2010
The show does have a particular hate for controlling husbands: Nolan showed some of that toward Debbie, Eve's dad is the poster child, and the house buying couple triggered Debbie. Eve's dad made one good point this episode only because the universe aligned around it but it really seems more designed to force Eve to grow from being a freelancing samaritan.

Morrow
Oct 31, 2010
If the Coalition of Planets was smart or well-run, Allen would have more than like a day of being back before the Viltrumites swept in after the mole tipped them off. You can't even say they're losing the war with Viltrum because it's not much of a fight.

Morrow
Oct 31, 2010
It seems like either 1) Cecil didn't know the specifics of how the Immortal came back and just went ahead with the funeral when it wasn't immediate or 2) the Immortal wouldn't naturally regenerate from decapitation but the Maulers provided some extra help.

Morrow
Oct 31, 2010

Darko posted:

So the whole thing is based on GT Vegetas moustache?

The original author claims he never saw DragonBall Z.

Thaddeus ripping off his beard and Allen immediately pegging him as a viltrumite because of the mustache left over is the best Clark Kenting moment I've seen in a while.

Morrow
Oct 31, 2010

PostNouveau posted:

It's pretty crazy Dupli-Kate didn't like hold back her "prime" self in, like, a different ZIP code from their mission or something.

I don't know whats real

Morrow fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Mar 22, 2024

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Morrow
Oct 31, 2010
Anissa also seems a cut above most Viltrumites, though we don't really have a baseline. Nolan is apparently exemplary and he was given a task of soloing a planet. They sent three Viltrumites to take him down and pulled off a draw because he had his son to distract one of them. Anissa seems like she's in the same league (or like an inspection officer for the solo conquerors).

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