Episode two of Invincible takes a closer look at Cecil and his career at the Global Defense Agency. Like Mark, he also has a strong passion for justice, although they begin to choose to walk different paths toward that same goal. While Mark works out these new complications, Debbie attempts to move on from Nolan and start dating again. Debbie has a romantic dinner with Paul at a restaurant, although she begins to find it challenging to connect. While it could be too soon for her to start dating, she realizes she needs someone to convey with after losing a husband, being captured by Angstrom Levy, and raising Oliver, Nolan’s alien son, from another woman.
While trying to make a connection with Paul, Debbie reveals everything to him, even Mark’s secret Identity. While this made Paul overwhelmed, the two were able to connect and make their relationship more serious.
While Eve continues to take a break from the Global Defense Agency, she’ continues her education at college. Her new endeavors provide her not only with normalcy but also strategy and knowledge in architecture to apply to her powers so that she can better help people.
As the series continues, every character has undergone new developments and growth. Mark begins to grow and mature as he continues to show interest in Eve, and he apologizes for failing at his confession of interest. While upset, Eve understands more than Roxan does, as they both deal with having a responsibility to keep the people of Earth safe. SImialrly, Shrinking Rae and Rex also begin to grow a bond as Rex makes better choices after his near-death experience. At the same time, Dupli-Kate and Immortal are engaged after Duplikate was thought to have died in last season’s previous battle.
While so much has happened, Mark is only nineteen at this point in the series, despite how mature and challenging his situations are. He still has many challenges ahead of him, such as the coming army of Viltrumities, but he must mentor his brother, Oliver, who now has superpowers. Oliver has powers similar to Mark’s, although he is gaining them at a rapid speed, and he is now able to fly while still in adolescence. A young boy with Viltrumite powers is a terrifying thought, though Mark continues to have faith in Oliver as his mother, and he guides him with a gentle hand.
As this season continues, hopefully, audiences can see more emotional development between characters as dynamics change and the characters get older. Mark and Eve’s relationship is expected to progress, though it all feels rushed. While he and his mother test the waters of romance, there is still Oliver who is growing with enormous powers and has the responsibility of those powers on his shoulders without Cecil’s assistance. Hopefully, in the next coming episodes, audiences will witness deeper character arcs, unexpected twists, and the consequences of these evolving relationships and responsibilities.
Rating: 8/10