"Fuck you Nolan"
"Fuck you Cecil"
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Okay so if anyone wonders if I have a target audience in mind when it comes to Divine Acid, It's be similar to these two.
What about the furries you may ask? Well they're kinda there by default and are appreciated nonetheless.
This isn't a "I WANT THIS AND NOTHING ELSE". As long as the audience I get is right for me, then I'm fine.
WARNING! Spoilers ahead for Invincible, including comic spoilers because I was nosey and saw a few panels. I won't go into a lot of detail in regards to the comic, only some key pointers.
Okay so obviously I am not the only one who sees the parallels, but I do wanna give my own thought process on these two shows and their similarities. Obviously, starting with the main characters themselves!
Mark and Steven, respectivly, are both eerily similar in their experiences, roles, and character development. Most notibly, PSTD and Anxiety as well as both of them having an alien parent along with their human father/mother. Mark and Steven are both victims of their circumstances being born as a hybrid and an heir to their planet's respectrive authority. The only difference here is, and I am quoting @bleeduntildeath on this part, is that instead of the viltrumites needing a Steven, they experienced it for themselves.
Now much like Steven, Mark's "Diamonds" are the high ranking Viltrumites and If I had the opportunity to match these characters according to role and archetypes, it'd be like this:
Omniman obviously being Pink Diamond. Both made decisions that affected their offspring and future circumstances. Only difference here is that Omniman is very much still alive and part of Mark's life.
The high ranking viltrumites here fulfilling the roles of Blue and Yellow Diamond. The ones who have to enforce the narrative set up by the one above them and also the one's caught in the crossfire of their circumstances.
And of couse we have Freddie Mercu- I mean, Thragg, who is the one who is so stuck in their old ways, they refuse to see any other perspective and views every other species as inferior. Very rigid the both of them. Thragg, unlike, White Diamond, is a bit more "reasonable". At least, it seems like it so far from the season 4 finale. Both of them play the role as the one in power and the threat. Now how they go about Thragg being....uh.....redeemed?...is still unkown. Hell he may just stay the bad guy to the end. I haven't skimmed THAT far.
Oh and then we have the human parent that had a baby with the alien spouse. Debbie obviously being the better parent here, let's be for real, raising TWO alien children. Where as Greg, didn't have much involvment in Steven's life. Nonetheless, they both very much cared for their children. Which reminds me.....
Who would the Crystal gems be????
Well it would be none other than Coalition of Planets!
Instead of operating on Earth, they operate on another planet. Both being a group of rebels fighting against the space colonizers. Yes I said fight because let's not pretend Steven and the crystal gems weren't kicking ass when they had to. While, Steven did managed to come to terms with most of his enemies, Mark unfortunately....was not always so lucky.
Anyway That's all I have for this blog, I hope you all enjoyed reading but before I go, I leave you with this gem.
Trigger Warning for gore ahead
Okay so, This episode was rough for me to go through. Mainly because of Mark's Panic attacks. As someone who has had similar thoughts and experiences I can tell you right now that this entire season of Invincible fucked me up
But Anyway! This episode has it's issues. While I did like this episode for setting us up for season five, the pacing was very abrupt and sudden for obvious reasons and every time Mark had a panic attack I kept thinking to myself "I hate this episode". I wanna say that epsiode 4 was worse but it at least didn't induce panic and anxiety every ten minutes while watching because look at this shit..
So let me go ahead and address the elephant in the room, Nolan and Debbies relationship just took a sudden shift from episode 5. There were no hints that Debbie was going to call it off with Paul and in this episode but the next time we see them, they mention that things didn't work out for them which was....okay. I mean I guess i can't really fault them for this because Amazon only gives them eight episodes per season which is a problem I find with these shows. Hazbin Hotel being in a similar boat. They don't have a lot of filler which means they also don't have a lot of time to explorer these dynamics and thinking about this is making me miss when a show had at least 22 episodes per season but I guess good shit has to come to an end.
Anyway back to Invincible, because I will say that I am excited for how they'll handle the Viltrumites living on Earth and I'll be honest I may or may not have gotten curious and uh....saw some comic panels....but even then, they changed so much in the show that anything can happen at this point.
Like....I would NOT want to be Allen. Bro is cooked. But anyway, I see why Thraggs and Nolan had some eerie feelings about Theadus. Theadus was still trying to do genocide just on his own race. Genocide is still genocide and, in my opinion, is never the answer.
Also side note, same expression lol
Okay that's all I have for this episode, until then, I will see you next time
FUCK THEADUS
Okay so before I begin, first of all, SPOILERS AHEAD! Secondly, Trigger warning for blood and gore. Thirdly, I wanna apologize for not making a blog about episode 6 last week. I was going through some shit and I needed some time to get my head together. ALSO, I realized that I made a mistake in the previous blog of Invincible. The title of this blog said Episode 4 when in reality it was episode 5, so my sincerest apologies for that. BUT ANYWAY! Let's get right into it shall we?
Obviously I wanna start with episode 6. This episode starts of with Mark healing after being torn apart with his guts hanging out and what not. So with Mark in a coma, this left Nolan and his son Oliver by themselves stranded on this planet and obviously, both of them are gonna have to open up to each other and reconcille.
For the most part Oliver spends most of his time hating Nolan and being angry at him after what he said about Andressa, Oliver's biological mother. Yeah bro was listening in on that Apology. Fortunately, Nolan did a better job with Oliver due to the fact that he had more time on his hands to apologize and bond. So he validated his sonds feelings instead of trying to defend himself. Whereas with Debbie. He only had a few minutes and one chance which didn't work in his favor.
In this episode we can see that Oliver gets less and less angry at Nolan and Nolan gave him the time and space he needed until Oliver was ready to open up to him and tell him how he felt. Thus rekindling the father and son relationship. Nolan, for the first time was being an actual father and I feel like this was more of a step forward than with his apology to Debbie.
Then Finally, Oliver confronts Nolan about what he said about Andressa. Pointing out that if Andressa was a mistake, then he must be a mistake too. Nolan apologized and while Oliver didn't want Nolan to talk about Adressa at first, he became curious and asked him more about her.After this, both of them spent to rest of their time on this planet, bonding as father and son.
MEANWHILE! Mark grew a beard and as I was watching this with a couple of my friends, we were all freaking out that he looked like my friend Camo who was watching with us.
Once Mark recovered, they all went to Talescria to hash it out with the Viltrumites that tried to kill everyone. The episode ends with them blowing up the ship they came in as the Viltrumites fled to their home planet. This all lead to Thaedus brewing up the idea of him and his team to face Thraggs head on and uh...OH BOY. Then begins the NEXT episoide.
In the begining, we get another glimpse of history. We see it start off with one of the colonized planets attemping to rebel, against the Viltrumites. As we can see here Thaedus is present amongst the other Viltrums during a meeting on what they should do about such actions.
Thaedus being the noble and mercifal man he is, he suggests dailing back on oppression but Emporer Argall, instead suggested that they wipe out 25% of the population as a warning and to show what happens when one tries to rebel. Afterwards, Thaedus went on to kill Emperor Argall.
This all leads to Thraggs ordering the FUCKING PURGE AND DEAR GOD.
AND THE CHILDREN! THE CHILDREN!
If this isn't the saddest and most tragic part about Viltrum and it's species I don't know what it is and not long after they were almost killed to extinction by the scourge virus leaving only 50 of them left. 10 - 15 by the end of this episode and I find it so fucking hilarious that they use the excuse of "It'll only make us stronger" when it comes to their short comings. That is just top tier copium maximum and what's worse, is if you look at Planet Viltrum itself, it's literally a wasteland perfectly described by Nolan as a tomb.
Oh and don't forget about the ring of dead bodies that orbits around the planet to which they deemed as a reminder of their weakness. That is just a *chefs kiss* cherry on top irony.
But it's not all bad because Nolan, Theadus, and Mark all join in to destroy the entire planet after space racer fires the gun straight at it which led to one of the most epic scenes I have ever witnessed. Nolan, Thaedus, and Mark all go through the planet. Going in from one side and out the other THROUGH THE CORE OF MOLTEN LAVA.
With Planet Viltrum finally destroyed, Thraggs immediately decapitates Thaedus and then goes after Mark and Nolan. Now comes the part that fucked me up for life because....holy shit. Holy shit man.
He survived but I still didn't take it well man. Bro went after mark too but as thraggs was gouging his eyes out, he saw behind Mark's head, the reminants of what was left which caused him to stop but I highly doubt it was out of mercy because as Thragss himself put it: There's already too few of us. And so they fled.
A couple weeks later at Talescria, Mark wakes up and talks to Allen about the where abouts of the Viltrumites. Apparently they couldn't figure it out UNTIL Mark realized they were headed to Earth. And I'm sure some of you would guess that if Mark and Nolan destoyred Viltrum they're gonna destroy Earth too! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I promise you it is much worse than that. Them fuckers are gonna try to colinize the entire planet and try to ya know....REPOPULATE. And uh YEAH. I'M SCARED :D
Okay I'm gonna sign off here because writing this blog is already fucking me up more then I already am. BYE.
