Invincible Season Four Review | The K.B. Radio Network

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The fourth season of the American adult animated superhero series Invincible, based on the comic book series of the same name, was created for television by comic book writer Robert Kirkman who also wrote the comics.

The season's overall plot shifts towards Nolan's past by providing deeper insights into Viltrumite society and highlighting Nolan's role in the Viltrum Empire's thirst for conquest. Furthermore, it presents a new perspective on the Empire that was absent from the original comics. The season introduces new cast members Danai Guriraand Lee Pace, the latter of whom debuts as the voice of Grand Regent Thragg, leader of the Empire and the series' overall main antagonist.

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Hello everyone and welcome to the concession stand here on the KB Radio Network. I am your host Kevin Reed and this is the review of season 4 to Prime Video's adult animated superhero series Invincible based on a comic book series of the same name created by Robert Kirkman who also wrote the comics as well. this show has been a favorite of mine all the way back from when it debuted uh season one i think that was what 2021 that it debuted i could be off on that or maybe 2022 uh but regardless i've loved this show not because i'm an animation fan which i am not because i read the comic books because i didn't and not because it's a superhero show which i absolutely love I love this show because it blended all of those factors along with real drama, real emotion. I mean, it's a unique show. And on top of that, you have superheroes flying around and doing superhero things. And it's so well put together. It's one of these shows that when you watch it, you have to sit back and like, what? what am i watching is this a is this a real thing you know it's it's it's so odd to see this on television and to say it's adult animation is in its adult because of the subject matter and the violence and the uh sexual nature of some of the episodes and things of that nature and some adult themes that go out throughout this show but it's not adult because of the gratuitous nudity and violence and all this here even though it has its fair share of both but it's because of the subject matter it's it's it's real subject matters is is dealing with real emotions in this fantastical world and so season four comes along and and this season we start off we're focused on the aftermath of the invincible war that took place in season three uh mark he fights conquest uh album. powerful vitrimite and he would be a final boss in any saga of comic books that's the final boss that's how bad con uh conquest is but we learned in this season conquest was nothing compared to the real threat that uh lurks in um invincibles uh distant future i should say and so you have nolan returning to earth for the first time since he killed thousands if not millions but thousands of people uh in that fight with mark and and just laid waste uh now he's seeking redemption you have oliver he is coming into his own as a superhero as well uh you have the core correlation of planets who are preparing for war with the vitramites so this season was jam-packed of pure excitement this review i'm just going to go over some little notes i'm not going to go through every single episode i'm just going to go through a couple of main plot points that went throughout the season and and talk on them there you know the ones that really hit me whether they were good or bad uh it is not too many bads well spoiler alert there aren't any bads to be honest which this this was a an amazing season of invincible this was an amazing season of television period i don't care any show this was fantastic uh well no i do have one negative and we'll get to that but let's go through the plot points that stuck out with me this season if you want to hear me break down the first three episodes I have that up on my feed on my channel you can check that review out but since then since then we found out that Eve is pregnant her and Mark are going to have a baby but Eve doesn't want to tell Mark she's scared to tell Mark and We later find out that she had an abortion when Mark went off with Nolan and fought in that war when he was gone. A good bit. They were gone a while and it tore up to tell her, tell him. But the reaction was so beautiful that the response from Mark was great. I mean, the perfect response. It wasn't a yay or nay or how could you do that or, oh, I'm glad you did that. No, it was, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I put you in that position. I'm sorry I left you here alone. It tore me up. It tore me up for that moment because it was so sincere. You know, it wasn't a matter of, well, you could have had faith. He didn't jump on her. You should have had faith that I was going to come back and, you know, you weren't. you weren't alone and all this here and this that and the third no he respected eve enough to accept it you know and i thought that was probably the strongest thing he's done on this show you know but that's counting his superhero abilities that's fighting conquest blowing up a planet and everything else that was the strongest thing i ever saw mark do beautiful moment uh i think that's how it played out in the comics i could be wrong probably a little differently but she did have the abortion in the comics but i think it played out a little differently the reveal and whatnot nolan and debbie that now this was this was an epic moment two epic moments to be honest with you when they meet up this season the first time uh debbie lays eyes on Nolan since. sense that brutal beat down of mark and destroying uh destroying half the planet uh when they fought but this was their first interaction and debbie just unleashed on them you know now this this i do know for a fact that played out differently than the comics in the comics she was more accepting of nolan actually in the comics she really blamed mark for nolan leaving it's so debbie's character is vastly different from the comics than what we see on the uh prime video show and i like this version better i don't need a bad debbie i like the debbie that we have but uh her unleashing on nolan and really just just I don't know, verbally beating him down worse than any fight Nolan has ever been in. And she's really the only one that can do that because he does love her. He loves her to death. He really do love it. He told her that even though during that fight in season one he had with Mark, he told Mark that I just used your mother. She's nothing to me and blah, She was just a breeding vessel and all this other stuff. but he didn't mean it. You know, he probably meant it at the time, but, you know, we all think back on things we said when we were younger and wish we could take it back. We don't feel that way now. We probably felt that way then, but when you know better, you do better. And Nolan, he's changed. He's a changed man, and he's trying to express that to her. And I felt Nolan in this. I felt Nolan. in this scene in particular because even though this is animation uh jk simmons does a great job emoting through his voice acting here how sincere he was talking to debbie but debbie didn't want to hear it and is understandable on both ends that's why i sympathize with him because you know we all have especially men we all feel that we can tell a woman look i'm sorry and then that'd be the end of it but any man who's in a relationship with a woman can tell you that's not the end of it that's not gonna do it uh actions speak louder than words and that's basically what debbie uh is telling nolan in this uh just paraphrasing it you know she doesn't want to hear that and i felt that was a powerful moment in this season and for debbie And Sandra, oh, man, beautiful, beautiful. And then the second meeting in the final episode of this season. That was a good scene between those two. And J.K. Simmons as Nolan being a little more forceful, but not forceful. Not Omni-Man. He was Nolan. And trying to express to Debbie how he truly feels and what his intentions are. And it broke through. It was a little crack, but it was enough. It was enough to the point where when they left Oliver and we're going to get to that point in the sake when he left Oliver on a different planet so he can be treated from having his arm ripped off. She chose to go off with him to be by Oliver's side. So that will be exciting to see going into next season, because in the comics, she her and Nolan. on the way to that planet they they they hook back up they get back together uh so it we'll see if it plays out like it played out in the comics coming in season five uh speaking of oliver oliver was a character in season three that i wasn't too excited about to be honest with you i didn't hate it i didn't hate his character but i wasn't like all right oliver's oliver's in the show you know what i'm saying i wasn't i wasn't an oliver guy but i grew to like him this season when we started off i didn't too much care for him i still had that hangover from season three i found them annoying but i got the character i just found him annoying and he started off a little annoying in this season but as the season progressed the character grew on and i loved it especially when they were uh they being nolan oliver and uh mark were traveling to link up with the coalition of planets to fight this war and nolan sees oliver for the first time you got to keep in mind he hasn't met olive well he saw him when he was a baby but not uh after that he hadn't seen him growing up and everything and oliver idolized omni-man he idolized nolan That's his dad. He loved his dad. Even though he knew what his dad did, he still loved him. And, you know, that's family. That's understandable. And that's a child. It's understandable. And so when he did meet up with him, of course, Nolan was upset because he came along. And that kind of spoiled the little relationship there, you know, if there was going to be one. And Nolan, once again. had to redeem himself and we saw that happen over a couple of episodes this season where he tried to break through to oliver that was the one person that loved him that was willing to forgive him for all the shenanigans that he did all of his past crimes that he committed he in spite of all that he still loved him worshipped him wanted to be his son and when he spoiled that it is even Worse because it's fresh and now you got a kind of course correct here and it still didn't quite get there but by the time we got to episode seven or eight no seven it it started to heal a little bit more and it was good to see that relationship grow and that's one thing about this show especially this season it stuck out the most to me was the fact that they took time they took time with the relationships. They took time with the story. They didn't just blaze through storylines throughout. You know, it wasn't an episode villain of the week type deal. This was a through line. And if it took two or three episodes to get a resolution, they made sure it took two or three episodes. And it was earned when we finally got to the resolution, whether it was good or bad. And That's what made this season so special to me. The one thing about this season, before I get to the meat and potatoes and my favorite part of this season, which I would assume is everybody's favorite part. But before I get to that, let's get the one negative out of the way. And that was episode four of this season entitled Hum. And that was the episode when Mark goes to hell. And I'm not saying he died and went to hell. I mean, he was summoned to hell by dark blood to help him and Satan, who Satan isn't the Satan that we all learned about in Sunday school. And that but this is a different kind of hell, because in this comic book universe, there is a hell, but there is no heaven, which is backwards to me. It doesn't don't make sense, but whatever. and well i'm gonna go with it and i just didn't like the episode with all that being said i just didn't like that it it it didn't fit this season in the grand scheme of it all it just felt so out of place was it a bad episode no it wasn't bad but it was it just felt out of place and it kind of broke the flow now it immediately picked back up in episode five but it was like a dead stop there because the episode mainly focused on dark blood it mark was in he wasn't in it long you know uh our main characters were not featured in this episode it was more of a dark blood which all right that's fine but you know who cares about this story right now we got a more interesting story going on in the main storyline you know and it just kind of broke the flow of the season now like i said it wasn't a bad episode and it did pick right back up in season five because uh i mean episode five uh it got immediately back on track it was just like a little a little rest stop but that was my only flaw the only flaw of this season so let's get to the biggie of it all let's get to the part of this season that was absolutely amazing we learn about the vitrimites we learn about their history throughout the season uh how they operate you know how their culture is and you know uh they're just they're nazis they're super super being nazi and that's scary and pretty much no pun intended invincible man And you can't. kill these things these are the if they were invade earth which we learned later if they were to take over they didn't need that many people they only needed what's left 37 i think uh uh thrag said is only 37 vitrimites left and they can still take this planet at ease it's they're that powerful really don't need that many that's overkill there drag by himself can do it but uh we'll talk about him later but um we learned about the history and whatnot the coalition of planets they decide okay we gotta bring a fight to them we gotta stop them before they annihilate us it all picks up in episode seven when the war begins and uh drag he he attempts to uh convince nolan to join back with the vitrimites again see a thrag is he's all about his people preserving the future of his people that's his thing that's all that's all he can he's concerned with he really don't care about taking over the universe and all this other foolishness that's not his goal his goal is to bring back his people you know because they were mighty at one point until they were betrayed and the virus this virus that was created wiped out the majority of their people and so he took power after this happened and his goal his singular goal was to build his people back up and that's why nolan went off they sent others off to procreate you know this this what they called it in superman uh the harem to go and just breed with other beings to try to build the vitramite people back up and so that's all he cares about and nolan who is on his redemption tour he he declines the offer he's like no no i'm not gonna do that i'm i'm you're wrong you know at what cost are you willing to pay You know, as far as the sake of the universe, to build back up your people, you willing to genocide everybody else. just to preserve your people you know it's the sympathetic villain thing it's the you understand where drag is coming from you know you don't want to see your people right out but at this cost you know it's a weird thing but i love drag drag is one of the greatest villains i have ever laid eyes on. I grew up, I'm thinking... Thanos, Joker, I'm thinking Darkseid, you know, the mainstream comics. That's what I grew up on, reading these type of villains who are just insane. You can go outside of comic books, Darth Vader, the Emperor, and all that other good stuff. Yeah, those are just cold-blooded villains. But the best type of villain in any medium. comic book movies television whatever it may be the best kind of villain is the villain who thinks he's the hero in his story and that's what Thrag is and he is voiced perfectly by Lee Pace if if you don't know who Lee Pace is I'm pretty sure you've heard him and you've seen him too if you watch Guardians of the Galaxy the first one volume one he is Ronan D. Destroyer Or Ronan the Accuser, I'm sorry. Ronan the Accuser, that's who Lee Pace is. His voice is amazing. And him voicing Thrag, oh my God. It just adds an extra level of sophistication, intimidation, sympathy, all wrapped up. He has the perfect voice for this character. And this character just... is a beast he is unbeatable he he is unbeatable it's one thing for invincible invincible is on b mark i'm talking about mark here he's unbeatable but you can uh you know incapacitate him you can tear him up and beat him up and and all his other stuff you can't do nothing with drag absolute you can't hit him you can't blow him up you can't slice his head it's nothing you can dude that's why he's so soft-spoken he doesn't have to get loud for what there's no reason that dude is cold calculated just my god what a villain um they go to war they start to fight now you have mark nolan and oliver trying to go at drag it's sometimes individually sometimes uh together and it doesn't do anything uh oliver as i mentioned before uh he gets his arm severed by thrag you know just for trying to hit him he didn't even hit him just for trying to hit him uh that is who is a vitrimite but works with the coalition of planets he gets his head ripped Dolph. uh nolan he gets oh my god poor nolan nolan i thought he was gonna die i really thought he was gonna die uh i think didn't drag punch through his stomach or something and poor mark mark was about to get his eyes just caved in until drag realized like man we don't have an we're almost depleted as a people. Why would I kill a Vitramite? Half Vitramite, but a Vitramite nonetheless. So he doesn't do it, but he could have easily popped his head open. So he leaves him beat. Bruh, Thrag is a beast. In the scene when they blew up Vitram and Thrag tears apart a piece of that planet and is staring a hole through Mark, Thaddeus, and Nolan. And he's... Ryan, oh my, my heart dropped into my stomach because wait, y'all done pissed this man off. He was doing what he was doing. Just, just like he was doing pushups, you know, like it's a normal day. Like he was making, making a sandwich in the kitchen. It was Lottie die whistling while you work. Now you pissed him off, bro. When he shot off. and grabbed thaddeus and dating he he did it so quick mark and um nolan didn't even realize it He had already decapitated Thaddeus at that point and then squashed his head between his bare hands. Bruh, bruh. It was brutal. That was an awesome, awesome scene, awesome episode. That whole war, that battle. And by the end of it, I was like, man, we still got an episode left? Because that felt season finalious. You know, that felt like that was the end of this season. But no, we had another episode left. But before I get to that, I skipped over one note accidentally. And I apologize. I wanted to talk about conquest. I wanted to talk about how conquest was about to kill Oliver. And Mark went and saved him and choked, started choking conquest out. Now, remember, they fought. in the first season not first but last season and it almost killed mark you know he still has ptsd to that and he he told uh conquest like you're never gonna breathe again i mean he latched on like a baby that got food you you know when a baby latch on to a piece of food that you didn't want to have and you're trying to pry it out of their hands it's like the death grip and you not getting it out. And Mark has this death grip around his neck and just flying him through mountains and through the ground. And now they're on the ground and he's punching Mark, trying to get him to release his neck. And he's suffocating. So at this point, Conquest starts tearing into Mark's stomach, tearing into his stomach and pulling out. his intestines but mark is so much of a beast he still held that grip and conquest is slowly losing it and he's still yanking out yanking out intestines and i'm like bro this has got to be the greatest thing i ever saw in my life i have never seen anything like this in my life uh i think this was episode five if i'm not mistaken And so he is pulling all of this out. And finally, he succumbs. He chokes him out, kills him. He suffocates him. And Mark just collapses on the side. Intestines just spread all over the place. And that's how the episode ends. And you're like, they just killed Mark in episode five? Who does that? But he's a ventromite. Nolan was able to bandage him up and allow his body to heal because that's the ability that they do have that was all episode 6 basically and this is the episode where we get this relationship building with Nolan and Oliver but I wanted to mention that because that was some moment in this season but we get to the final episode of this season uh episode eight and now mark nolan and uh zoe they all rush back to earth because they all figured out that uh drag and his people they're going to come and invade earth and so they rush him back to earth they finally get to earth and uh they're not there drag hasn't made it there yet So Mark, he goes to see his family. And, He's having flashbacks. He's having, not flashbacks, but flash-forwards of visions of Thrag and the Vitramites destroying Earth, laying waste to Earth. And he just can't shake it. He sees Thrag kill Debbie, kill Eve, kill his best friend. I mean, he's having this moment, you know? These moments, really. And this was cool because you have to think, bro, it's like a soldier returning from war. You've been through all this crap over there, wherever you was fighting this war, seeing things that no human being should see with their eyes. And you come home to regular old home. Suburban wherever, USA, and try to live a normal life? That's not going to play out like you think. And that's why some of these veterans, they struggle when they come home. Man, you don't know what they've seen and what they're dealing with. And that's basically what Mark is going through now, having experienced what he experienced fighting his war with the Vitramite. So I like that element they added to it and how it. it wasn't just a one thing a one moment type thing like oh he's going through this no he goes through it the entire episode and so this is when we get the reveal of adam eve telling mark that she was pregnant and she had an abortion and it was a nice swerve by the show that when he came back you noticed she put on some weight and so immediately you're assuming that okay she's pretty far along about now. Or she didn't have the baby by now. You know, she put on a little weight. But, no, it's really more of her, she's emotional. You know, she's emotionally eating and she's putting on weight because she went through this abortion. She's felt alone. She's been alone all this time. And she had to come up with this decision on her own. And it took a toll on her, you know, because it was stripping away her powers with this. pregnancy but now she has a powers bag and she still doesn't use them and it i guess for guilt reasons and stuff like it is just very very cool the way they did it i i tip my hat to all of the writers and the showrunners of invincible for this this this was powerful very very powerful and so we end off this season with not one but two cliffhangers one being you Thrag did arrive on Earth. Mark immediately tries to attack them. And Thrag was like, stop. No, I want to talk. You know, I could have been took over. We've been here. I could have been destroyed this planet. But I wanted to talk to you. I want to give you a proposition. We're going to come here. We're going to live amongst your people. And we're going to breed with your people. and help build up the vitramites again, you know, or the other option is that we lay waste to it. And I love this line and it sticks with me because I thought it was the coldest line ever. And the way Lee Pace delivered it was even colder. You don't have a choice in this matter, but sadly, you're in a position you're going to have to make. I was like, oh man, that is gangster. That is a gangster choice. And really, when you sit back and think, what would you do? Look at the options. Look at your options here. Let your planet be a breeding ground for these people, for these alien beings that can take over Earth. Or just say, forget it. And let them destroy everybody. Let them kill everybody. Billions of people. What's your choice? What do you choose? Because you can't fight them. You just proved that. You just was shown that. Live and in living color. That you can't beat these people. And so it's a hard choice to make. But Mark makes the choice. To allow them to come. To earth and breathe. And that's how it left off. Then we get a cliffhanger or a mid credit scene where Alan, who is now the leader of the Coalition of Planets after Thaddeus unceremoniously was murdered. He's the leader and Thaddeus left him a postmortem message and instructed him to use the surge virus or the scourge virus, whatever it's called, that can wipe out the vitrimites. but But the caveat, the caveat to it, it can also wipe out human beings. And so now Alan is tasked with the decision himself. Do I use this and just wipe out everybody on planet Earth, you know, just to save the universe? And that ended season four. I'm telling you, man, best. best season of invincible and probably one of the best uh shows that i've watched season wise in three to four years loved everything even the episode i didn't like i can i can find things to like in that episode and so i have no complaints about invincible season four that's why i'm giving it a letter grade of an a yeah invisible season four is must watch TV absolute cinema as they say I I highly highly recommend it if you haven't watched season four if you haven't watched any episodes of invincible please ma'am please sir go check out invincible on prime video all four seasons I would like to know what did you think of invincible season four did you like it and what do you think will take place in season five with these vitrimites now on planet earth living among us let me know email the show kbradiopodcast at gmail.com you can also search for the show on all social media platforms just search for the kb radio network also don't forget about youtube subscribe to the kb radio network channel and like this video if you don't mind don't forget about the five stars the reviews and sharing this show if you're listening on apple podcast spotify our heart radio wherever you are currently listening to the concession stand here on the KEB Radio Network. Everybody, thank you for joining me for this review of Season 4 to Invincible, currently on Prime Video. Want you all to know that I love you, continue to love everyone, and until we speak again, you all be blessed.

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Hello everyone and welcome to the concession stand here on the KB Radio Network. I am your host Kevin Reed and this is the review of season 4 to Prime Video's adult animated superhero series Invincible based on a comic book series of the same name created by Robert Kirkman who also wrote the comics as well. this show has been a favorite of mine all the way back from when it debuted uh season one i think that was what 2021 that it debuted i could be off on that or maybe 2022 uh but regardless i've loved this show not because i'm an animation fan which i am not because i read the comic books because i didn't and not because it's a superhero show which i absolutely love I love this show because it blended all of those factors along with real drama, real emotion. I mean, it's a unique show. And on top of that, you have superheroes flying around and doing superhero things. And it's so well put together. It's one of these shows that when you watch it, you have to sit back and like, what? what am i watching is this a is this a real thing you know it's it's it's so odd to see this on television and to say it's adult animation is in its adult because of the subject matter and the violence and the uh sexual nature of some of the episodes and things of that nature and some adult themes that go out throughout this show but it's not adult because of the gratuitous nudity and violence and all this here even though it has its fair share of both but it's because of the subject matter it's it's it's real subject matters is is dealing with real emotions in this fantastical world and so season four comes along and and this season we start off we're focused on the aftermath of the invincible war that took place in season three uh mark he fights conquest uh album. powerful vitrimite and he would be a final boss in any saga of comic books that's the final boss that's how bad con uh conquest is but we learned in this season conquest was nothing compared to the real threat that uh lurks in um invincibles uh distant future i should say and so you have nolan returning to earth for the first time since he killed thousands if not millions but thousands of people uh in that fight with mark and and just laid waste uh now he's seeking redemption you have oliver he is coming into his own as a superhero as well uh you have the core correlation of planets who are preparing for war with the vitramites so this season was jam-packed of pure excitement this review i'm just going to go over some little notes i'm not going to go through every single episode i'm just going to go through a couple of main plot points that went throughout the season and and talk on them there you know the ones that really hit me whether they were good or bad uh it is not too many bads well spoiler alert there aren't any bads to be honest which this this was a an amazing season of invincible this was an amazing season of television period i don't care any show this was fantastic uh well no i do have one negative and we'll get to that but let's go through the plot points that stuck out with me this season if you want to hear me break down the first three episodes I have that up on my feed on my channel you can check that review out but since then since then we found out that Eve is pregnant her and Mark are going to have a baby but Eve doesn't want to tell Mark she's scared to tell Mark and We later find out that she had an abortion when Mark went off with Nolan and fought in that war when he was gone. A good bit. They were gone a while and it tore up to tell her, tell him. But the reaction was so beautiful that the response from Mark was great. I mean, the perfect response. It wasn't a yay or nay or how could you do that or, oh, I'm glad you did that. No, it was, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I put you in that position. I'm sorry I left you here alone. It tore me up. It tore me up for that moment because it was so sincere. You know, it wasn't a matter of, well, you could have had faith. He didn't jump on her. You should have had faith that I was going to come back and, you know, you weren't. you weren't alone and all this here and this that and the third no he respected eve enough to accept it you know and i thought that was probably the strongest thing he's done on this show you know but that's counting his superhero abilities that's fighting conquest blowing up a planet and everything else that was the strongest thing i ever saw mark do beautiful moment uh i think that's how it played out in the comics i could be wrong probably a little differently but she did have the abortion in the comics but i think it played out a little differently the reveal and whatnot nolan and debbie that now this was this was an epic moment two epic moments to be honest with you when they meet up this season the first time uh debbie lays eyes on Nolan since. sense that brutal beat down of mark and destroying uh destroying half the planet uh when they fought but this was their first interaction and debbie just unleashed on them you know now this this i do know for a fact that played out differently than the comics in the comics she was more accepting of nolan actually in the comics she really blamed mark for nolan leaving it's so debbie's character is vastly different from the comics than what we see on the uh prime video show and i like this version better i don't need a bad debbie i like the debbie that we have but uh her unleashing on nolan and really just just I don't know, verbally beating him down worse than any fight Nolan has ever been in. And she's really the only one that can do that because he does love her. He loves her to death. He really do love it. He told her that even though during that fight in season one he had with Mark, he told Mark that I just used your mother. She's nothing to me and blah, She was just a breeding vessel and all this other stuff. but he didn't mean it. You know, he probably meant it at the time, but, you know, we all think back on things we said when we were younger and wish we could take it back. We don't feel that way now. We probably felt that way then, but when you know better, you do better. And Nolan, he's changed. He's a changed man, and he's trying to express that to her. And I felt Nolan in this. I felt Nolan. in this scene in particular because even though this is animation uh jk simmons does a great job emoting through his voice acting here how sincere he was talking to debbie but debbie didn't want to hear it and is understandable on both ends that's why i sympathize with him because you know we all have especially men we all feel that we can tell a woman look i'm sorry and then that'd be the end of it but any man who's in a relationship with a woman can tell you that's not the end of it that's not gonna do it uh actions speak louder than words and that's basically what debbie uh is telling nolan in this uh just paraphrasing it you know she doesn't want to hear that and i felt that was a powerful moment in this season and for debbie And Sandra, oh, man, beautiful, beautiful. And then the second meeting in the final episode of this season. That was a good scene between those two. And J.K. Simmons as Nolan being a little more forceful, but not forceful. Not Omni-Man. He was Nolan. And trying to express to Debbie how he truly feels and what his intentions are. And it broke through. It was a little crack, but it was enough. It was enough to the point where when they left Oliver and we're going to get to that point in the sake when he left Oliver on a different planet so he can be treated from having his arm ripped off. She chose to go off with him to be by Oliver's side. So that will be exciting to see going into next season, because in the comics, she her and Nolan. on the way to that planet they they they hook back up they get back together uh so it we'll see if it plays out like it played out in the comics coming in season five uh speaking of oliver oliver was a character in season three that i wasn't too excited about to be honest with you i didn't hate it i didn't hate his character but i wasn't like all right oliver's oliver's in the show you know what i'm saying i wasn't i wasn't an oliver guy but i grew to like him this season when we started off i didn't too much care for him i still had that hangover from season three i found them annoying but i got the character i just found him annoying and he started off a little annoying in this season but as the season progressed the character grew on and i loved it especially when they were uh they being nolan oliver and uh mark were traveling to link up with the coalition of planets to fight this war and nolan sees oliver for the first time you got to keep in mind he hasn't met olive well he saw him when he was a baby but not uh after that he hadn't seen him growing up and everything and oliver idolized omni-man he idolized nolan That's his dad. He loved his dad. Even though he knew what his dad did, he still loved him. And, you know, that's family. That's understandable. And that's a child. It's understandable. And so when he did meet up with him, of course, Nolan was upset because he came along. And that kind of spoiled the little relationship there, you know, if there was going to be one. And Nolan, once again. had to redeem himself and we saw that happen over a couple of episodes this season where he tried to break through to oliver that was the one person that loved him that was willing to forgive him for all the shenanigans that he did all of his past crimes that he committed he in spite of all that he still loved him worshipped him wanted to be his son and when he spoiled that it is even Worse because it's fresh and now you got a kind of course correct here and it still didn't quite get there but by the time we got to episode seven or eight no seven it it started to heal a little bit more and it was good to see that relationship grow and that's one thing about this show especially this season it stuck out the most to me was the fact that they took time they took time with the relationships. They took time with the story. They didn't just blaze through storylines throughout. You know, it wasn't an episode villain of the week type deal. This was a through line. And if it took two or three episodes to get a resolution, they made sure it took two or three episodes. And it was earned when we finally got to the resolution, whether it was good or bad. And That's what made this season so special to me. The one thing about this season, before I get to the meat and potatoes and my favorite part of this season, which I would assume is everybody's favorite part. But before I get to that, let's get the one negative out of the way. And that was episode four of this season entitled Hum. And that was the episode when Mark goes to hell. And I'm not saying he died and went to hell. I mean, he was summoned to hell by dark blood to help him and Satan, who Satan isn't the Satan that we all learned about in Sunday school. And that but this is a different kind of hell, because in this comic book universe, there is a hell, but there is no heaven, which is backwards to me. It doesn't don't make sense, but whatever. and well i'm gonna go with it and i just didn't like the episode with all that being said i just didn't like that it it it didn't fit this season in the grand scheme of it all it just felt so out of place was it a bad episode no it wasn't bad but it was it just felt out of place and it kind of broke the flow now it immediately picked back up in episode five but it was like a dead stop there because the episode mainly focused on dark blood it mark was in he wasn't in it long you know uh our main characters were not featured in this episode it was more of a dark blood which all right that's fine but you know who cares about this story right now we got a more interesting story going on in the main storyline you know and it just kind of broke the flow of the season now like i said it wasn't a bad episode and it did pick right back up in season five because uh i mean episode five uh it got immediately back on track it was just like a little a little rest stop but that was my only flaw the only flaw of this season so let's get to the biggie of it all let's get to the part of this season that was absolutely amazing we learn about the vitrimites we learn about their history throughout the season uh how they operate you know how their culture is and you know uh they're just they're nazis they're super super being nazi and that's scary and pretty much no pun intended invincible man And you can't. kill these things these are the if they were invade earth which we learned later if they were to take over they didn't need that many people they only needed what's left 37 i think uh uh thrag said is only 37 vitrimites left and they can still take this planet at ease it's they're that powerful really don't need that many that's overkill there drag by himself can do it but uh we'll talk about him later but um we learned about the history and whatnot the coalition of planets they decide okay we gotta bring a fight to them we gotta stop them before they annihilate us it all picks up in episode seven when the war begins and uh drag he he attempts to uh convince nolan to join back with the vitrimites again see a thrag is he's all about his people preserving the future of his people that's his thing that's all that's all he can he's concerned with he really don't care about taking over the universe and all this other foolishness that's not his goal his goal is to bring back his people you know because they were mighty at one point until they were betrayed and the virus this virus that was created wiped out the majority of their people and so he took power after this happened and his goal his singular goal was to build his people back up and that's why nolan went off they sent others off to procreate you know this this what they called it in superman uh the harem to go and just breed with other beings to try to build the vitramite people back up and so that's all he cares about and nolan who is on his redemption tour he he declines the offer he's like no no i'm not gonna do that i'm i'm you're wrong you know at what cost are you willing to pay You know, as far as the sake of the universe, to build back up your people, you willing to genocide everybody else. just to preserve your people you know it's the sympathetic villain thing it's the you understand where drag is coming from you know you don't want to see your people right out but at this cost you know it's a weird thing but i love drag drag is one of the greatest villains i have ever laid eyes on. I grew up, I'm thinking... Thanos, Joker, I'm thinking Darkseid, you know, the mainstream comics. That's what I grew up on, reading these type of villains who are just insane. You can go outside of comic books, Darth Vader, the Emperor, and all that other good stuff. Yeah, those are just cold-blooded villains. But the best type of villain in any medium. comic book movies television whatever it may be the best kind of villain is the villain who thinks he's the hero in his story and that's what Thrag is and he is voiced perfectly by Lee Pace if if you don't know who Lee Pace is I'm pretty sure you've heard him and you've seen him too if you watch Guardians of the Galaxy the first one volume one he is Ronan D. Destroyer Or Ronan the Accuser, I'm sorry. Ronan the Accuser, that's who Lee Pace is. His voice is amazing. And him voicing Thrag, oh my God. It just adds an extra level of sophistication, intimidation, sympathy, all wrapped up. He has the perfect voice for this character. And this character just... is a beast he is unbeatable he he is unbeatable it's one thing for invincible invincible is on b mark i'm talking about mark here he's unbeatable but you can uh you know incapacitate him you can tear him up and beat him up and and all his other stuff you can't do nothing with drag absolute you can't hit him you can't blow him up you can't slice his head it's nothing you can dude that's why he's so soft-spoken he doesn't have to get loud for what there's no reason that dude is cold calculated just my god what a villain um they go to war they start to fight now you have mark nolan and oliver trying to go at drag it's sometimes individually sometimes uh together and it doesn't do anything uh oliver as i mentioned before uh he gets his arm severed by thrag you know just for trying to hit him he didn't even hit him just for trying to hit him uh that is who is a vitrimite but works with the coalition of planets he gets his head ripped Dolph. uh nolan he gets oh my god poor nolan nolan i thought he was gonna die i really thought he was gonna die uh i think didn't drag punch through his stomach or something and poor mark mark was about to get his eyes just caved in until drag realized like man we don't have an we're almost depleted as a people. Why would I kill a Vitramite? Half Vitramite, but a Vitramite nonetheless. So he doesn't do it, but he could have easily popped his head open. So he leaves him beat. Bruh, Thrag is a beast. In the scene when they blew up Vitram and Thrag tears apart a piece of that planet and is staring a hole through Mark, Thaddeus, and Nolan. And he's... Ryan, oh my, my heart dropped into my stomach because wait, y'all done pissed this man off. He was doing what he was doing. Just, just like he was doing pushups, you know, like it's a normal day. Like he was making, making a sandwich in the kitchen. It was Lottie die whistling while you work. Now you pissed him off, bro. When he shot off. and grabbed thaddeus and dating he he did it so quick mark and um nolan didn't even realize it He had already decapitated Thaddeus at that point and then squashed his head between his bare hands. Bruh, bruh. It was brutal. That was an awesome, awesome scene, awesome episode. That whole war, that battle. And by the end of it, I was like, man, we still got an episode left? Because that felt season finalious. You know, that felt like that was the end of this season. But no, we had another episode left. But before I get to that, I skipped over one note accidentally. And I apologize. I wanted to talk about conquest. I wanted to talk about how conquest was about to kill Oliver. And Mark went and saved him and choked, started choking conquest out. Now, remember, they fought. in the first season not first but last season and it almost killed mark you know he still has ptsd to that and he he told uh conquest like you're never gonna breathe again i mean he latched on like a baby that got food you you know when a baby latch on to a piece of food that you didn't want to have and you're trying to pry it out of their hands it's like the death grip and you not getting it out. And Mark has this death grip around his neck and just flying him through mountains and through the ground. And now they're on the ground and he's punching Mark, trying to get him to release his neck. And he's suffocating. So at this point, Conquest starts tearing into Mark's stomach, tearing into his stomach and pulling out. his intestines but mark is so much of a beast he still held that grip and conquest is slowly losing it and he's still yanking out yanking out intestines and i'm like bro this has got to be the greatest thing i ever saw in my life i have never seen anything like this in my life uh i think this was episode five if i'm not mistaken And so he is pulling all of this out. And finally, he succumbs. He chokes him out, kills him. He suffocates him. And Mark just collapses on the side. Intestines just spread all over the place. And that's how the episode ends. And you're like, they just killed Mark in episode five? Who does that? But he's a ventromite. Nolan was able to bandage him up and allow his body to heal because that's the ability that they do have that was all episode 6 basically and this is the episode where we get this relationship building with Nolan and Oliver but I wanted to mention that because that was some moment in this season but we get to the final episode of this season uh episode eight and now mark nolan and uh zoe they all rush back to earth because they all figured out that uh drag and his people they're going to come and invade earth and so they rush him back to earth they finally get to earth and uh they're not there drag hasn't made it there yet So Mark, he goes to see his family. And, He's having flashbacks. He's having, not flashbacks, but flash-forwards of visions of Thrag and the Vitramites destroying Earth, laying waste to Earth. And he just can't shake it. He sees Thrag kill Debbie, kill Eve, kill his best friend. I mean, he's having this moment, you know? These moments, really. And this was cool because you have to think, bro, it's like a soldier returning from war. You've been through all this crap over there, wherever you was fighting this war, seeing things that no human being should see with their eyes. And you come home to regular old home. Suburban wherever, USA, and try to live a normal life? That's not going to play out like you think. And that's why some of these veterans, they struggle when they come home. Man, you don't know what they've seen and what they're dealing with. And that's basically what Mark is going through now, having experienced what he experienced fighting his war with the Vitramite. So I like that element they added to it and how it. it wasn't just a one thing a one moment type thing like oh he's going through this no he goes through it the entire episode and so this is when we get the reveal of adam eve telling mark that she was pregnant and she had an abortion and it was a nice swerve by the show that when he came back you noticed she put on some weight and so immediately you're assuming that okay she's pretty far along about now. Or she didn't have the baby by now. You know, she put on a little weight. But, no, it's really more of her, she's emotional. You know, she's emotionally eating and she's putting on weight because she went through this abortion. She's felt alone. She's been alone all this time. And she had to come up with this decision on her own. And it took a toll on her, you know, because it was stripping away her powers with this. pregnancy but now she has a powers bag and she still doesn't use them and it i guess for guilt reasons and stuff like it is just very very cool the way they did it i i tip my hat to all of the writers and the showrunners of invincible for this this this was powerful very very powerful and so we end off this season with not one but two cliffhangers one being you Thrag did arrive on Earth. Mark immediately tries to attack them. And Thrag was like, stop. No, I want to talk. You know, I could have been took over. We've been here. I could have been destroyed this planet. But I wanted to talk to you. I want to give you a proposition. We're going to come here. We're going to live amongst your people. And we're going to breed with your people. and help build up the vitramites again, you know, or the other option is that we lay waste to it. And I love this line and it sticks with me because I thought it was the coldest line ever. And the way Lee Pace delivered it was even colder. You don't have a choice in this matter, but sadly, you're in a position you're going to have to make. I was like, oh man, that is gangster. That is a gangster choice. And really, when you sit back and think, what would you do? Look at the options. Look at your options here. Let your planet be a breeding ground for these people, for these alien beings that can take over Earth. Or just say, forget it. And let them destroy everybody. Let them kill everybody. Billions of people. What's your choice? What do you choose? Because you can't fight them. You just proved that. You just was shown that. Live and in living color. That you can't beat these people. And so it's a hard choice to make. But Mark makes the choice. To allow them to come. To earth and breathe. And that's how it left off. Then we get a cliffhanger or a mid credit scene where Alan, who is now the leader of the Coalition of Planets after Thaddeus unceremoniously was murdered. He's the leader and Thaddeus left him a postmortem message and instructed him to use the surge virus or the scourge virus, whatever it's called, that can wipe out the vitrimites. but But the caveat, the caveat to it, it can also wipe out human beings. And so now Alan is tasked with the decision himself. Do I use this and just wipe out everybody on planet Earth, you know, just to save the universe? And that ended season four. I'm telling you, man, best. best season of invincible and probably one of the best uh shows that i've watched season wise in three to four years loved everything even the episode i didn't like i can i can find things to like in that episode and so i have no complaints about invincible season four that's why i'm giving it a letter grade of an a yeah invisible season four is must watch TV absolute cinema as they say I I highly highly recommend it if you haven't watched season four if you haven't watched any episodes of invincible please ma'am please sir go check out invincible on prime video all four seasons I would like to know what did you think of invincible season four did you like it and what do you think will take place in season five with these vitrimites now on planet earth living among us let me know email the show kbradiopodcast at gmail.com you can also search for the show on all social media platforms just search for the kb radio network also don't forget about youtube subscribe to the kb radio network channel and like this video if you don't mind don't forget about the five stars the reviews and sharing this show if you're listening on apple podcast spotify our heart radio wherever you are currently listening to the concession stand here on the KEB Radio Network. Everybody, thank you for joining me for this review of Season 4 to Invincible, currently on Prime Video. Want you all to know that I love you, continue to love everyone, and until we speak again, you all be blessed.

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