Reminder that Invincible is about Invincible. Not Omni-Man. Not the Viltrum Empire. Mark Grayson

I keep seeing people calling E6 filler. I could see where people were coming from calling E5 filler, but this one too? Seriously? With so much character development for Mark and the people directly surrounding and supporting him, I don’t understand how people can say this episode doesn’t go anywhere. The villain is literally someone who was victimized in the main fight of the first season and directly calls Mark out. He’s not some random dude who shows up out of nowhere and starts fucking shit up. He was unstable, but he would not have become a supervillain if not for Omni-Man doing what he did. And his accusations clearly get to Mark during a time when he’s grappling with lots of moral questions. Should he kill? Is his father irredeemable? Is he destined to follow in his father’s footsteps?

The whole memorial situation puts the imminent threat front and center. If someone who wasn’t immediately trying to conquer the planet did THAT just to prove a point, and someone who is supposedly much worse is coming, how can Mark face that? How can he protect the people he loves? If people don’t find these questions posed by the show to be interesting, I don’t know how they enjoy any media at all. These are the big questions of basically the whole story.

I’m sorry that every episode can’t involve Mark fighting Viltrumites. Stories have this thing called set-up and we’re still only in about the first 1/3 of the story. The set-up will be worth it. Just let them cook. Or read the comics and stfu