I Thought You Were Stronger

To me, this is the second best episode of the series, right behind the season 1 finale. The first third is excellent with finally having to deal with the big baddie. The second third, if you ask me, is equally as excellent with a lot of trauma and it shows that Invincible, similarly to Bojack Horseman is willing to have it's big climatic events come first, with some cooldown coming after. It's genuinely excellent. I'm glad this episode only chooses around three-ish plotlines to bring back. But seriously, what is the mummy plotline from the beginning of season 1 doing here. It's kind of innapropriate in an otherwise AIR TIGHT episode.

Now before I get people arguing they've seen better or they didn't do this or that. I just wanna say this episode was not rush, stuck to the comic story while being its own original thing, and did not need huge power fighting action to be peak.

First paragraph is about season 2 as a whole and the seconds is about just the season 2 finale. It being a spoiler free I will make my statements quick and short.

Season 2 With that out of the way invincible season 2 was admittedly kinda slow at some points or just ok. They tried their best, they give us happy moments, and build up future storylines (if you were watching carefully). For that it being slow or ok was excused for the sense of building up more epic moments.

Season 2 finale Now dear god how can I explain what I watch without spoiler. The amount of actions, @buse, mental breakdown, character development, and Easter eggs were insane. They somehow managed to rap up the Angstrom levy story quickly in the first 20 minutes while still giving everyone (us the audience too) lots of emotional and epic moments. It truly wasn't rush and was funny at sometimes and knew how to switch bad to being serious and intense I just couldn't. Literally some points I felt worried and sad, then excited and happy, to then just end up going right back to being shocked and sad. Also there is a moment where the audience may be mad because he didn't do it and yes I was mad too, but thinking about it now that would've ruined the huge sense of grief and sadness happening. It just wouldn't have mix well and the writers knew this so they changed it and left it as a masterpiece in the end. I know if I talk further about this then I may actually reveal something by mistake so GO WATCH IT NOW.

This episode is objectively an amazing Season Finale, with fantastic animation, cool action, great emotional moments, and amazing writing. I will admit, though, that it did leave me rather unsatisfied. They didn't do nearly as much with the concept of the Multiverse as they could've, it wasn't as jaw-dropping as the finale of Season 1, and didn't feature *that* character that I know a lot of comic fans (myself included) were very excited to see

It is a fantastic episode and sets-up a great Season 3, but there's a lot that could've been done way better!

Here's to hoping that Season 3 is worth the wait!

I get the feeling they tried to do a lot of build up, not only with the season, but especially this episode.

I am still quite torn between a bit underwhelmed of the impact, yet satisfied with what they included andhowit was executed.

There are times it maybe got a bit too meta, but it never got to the pointwhere it felt like exeggarated fanservice or something.

All this let me hope that season 3 will pickup more steam right from the beginning, after giving a resolution to a lot of side character stories this season.

IMO it was really a pity how they handled the release with a mid season break.

I honestly expected much more considering the first season came out 3 years ago. I didn't like the decision of splitting this season into two parts but I feel like they could have just fit everything we got so far into the first four episodes and then give us something that actually moves the story further, something that excites us. Instead what we have is a depressed Mark, just as we left him a season ago, and less and less of Omniman who made me love the show in the first place. Guess I'll just skip to the comics because I'm not planning to wait for another 3 years just to get a cliffhanger season like this. I actually feel sad writing this review but this season killed the hype for me.