Invincible has been good so far and I love the almost scooby doo style animation like what Harley Quinn did. Seems to be going a Boys route with the gore and corrupted "heros" aspect while also having a lot of the regular kid spiderman parts. It's very gory at times but feels less edgy (not that I dislike the edge in the boys)
I like it too, and my favorite part is that I find that it's one of the best uses of gore in anything I've ever seen. I remember feeling like the first episode was kinda lukewarm and just vaguely interesting, until the last scene:
spoiler
The whole episode is, like you said, kind of Scooby Doo-ish, just your typical tepid animated X-Men violence, no blood, low stakes, nobody's really going to die unless it's a very special episode Then Omni-Man arrives and slaughters everyone in excruciating detail, and the show just kind of grabs your attention. This happens very often in later episodes, and the result is that the more extreme violence has a very strong shit just got real feel. Whenever blood starts spraying all over the place, you start paying very close attention, because you know that it's no longer just a superhero sparring match, but true violence. Contrast this with The Boys, which, while certainly a very good show, has the violence turned up to 100% from the very beginning, which kind of dampens the effect in a way.
I don't really know how to explain it in more accurate terms, but I find that the violence in Invincible is simply much more impactful than in most other stuff I watch.
i watched the first episode and 1) the animation kinda threw me off and 2) it was complete run of the mill super hero startup shit. young guy finds his powers.
like at the very least there should be some info in the first episode that things aren't so bland and cut and dry.
like I know things will change, but from an objective story-writing perspective, it was an incredible weak episode imo.
I did like The Boys, so hopefully Invincible picks up.
Invincible has been good so far and I love the almost scooby doo style animation like what Harley Quinn did. Seems to be going a Boys route with the gore and corrupted "heros" aspect while also having a lot of the regular kid spiderman parts. It's very gory at times but feels less edgy (not that I dislike the edge in the boys)
I like it too, and my favorite part is that I find that it's one of the best uses of gore in anything I've ever seen. I remember feeling like the first episode was kinda lukewarm and just vaguely interesting, until the last scene:
spoiler
The whole episode is, like you said, kind of Scooby Doo-ish, just your typical tepid animated X-Men violence, no blood, low stakes, nobody's really going to die unless it's a very special episode Then Omni-Man arrives and slaughters everyone in excruciating detail, and the show just kind of grabs your attention. This happens very often in later episodes, and the result is that the more extreme violence has a very strong shit just got real feel. Whenever blood starts spraying all over the place, you start paying very close attention, because you know that it's no longer just a superhero sparring match, but true violence. Contrast this with The Boys, which, while certainly a very good show, has the violence turned up to 100% from the very beginning, which kind of dampens the effect in a way.
I don't really know how to explain it in more accurate terms, but I find that the violence in Invincible is simply much more impactful than in most other stuff I watch.
i watched the first episode and 1) the animation kinda threw me off and 2) it was complete run of the mill super hero startup shit. young guy finds his powers.
like at the very least there should be some info in the first episode that things aren't so bland and cut and dry.
like I know things will change, but from an objective story-writing perspective, it was an incredible weak episode imo.
I did like The Boys, so hopefully Invincible picks up.