This article contains spoilers For “invincible”.

Three seasons, he is sure to say that “invincible” is one of the best programs on television or streaming. It is visually magnificent, supported by the talents of a distribution of starred voice, and has a strongest part of all the genus series currently broadcast. The show is as good as ever at the end of season 3, and some of the most expensive band adaptations on the block could afford to study “invincible”. The Marvel cinematographic universe, in particular, could learn one or two things from the final of season 3 alone.

After a season composed mainly of episodic scenarios, character construction for Oliver (Christian Convery), Eve (Gillian Jacobs) and Cecil (Walton Goggins) and Mark (Steven Yeun) becoming his own responsibility, the last two episodes are a hard shock for the system. Fans of the comics would have been ready for the “Invincible War” arc, in which A Raised Angstrom sampling (Sterling K. Brown) Attack the earth with a team of invincible evil from all over the multiverse. But if you did not know that they came, the devastation of the assault of Levy and the subsequent appearance of the conquest of Viltrumite Warrior (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) probably eliminated the wind.

It is a brutal finish, both due to the destruction and the unprecedented number of deaths seen on earth and because of the emotional impact on the characters. However, despite his impressive spectacle, “invincible” always leaves the stories of the characters leading the action. Most often, however, the MCU has done things in the opposite, which explains why the Disney franchise has had difficulties in recent years.

Although “invincible” is full of ridiculous characters, brilliant costumes and science fiction / fantastic ideas, he succeeds because he always remains anchored in the emotional life of his characters. Omni-man (JK Simmons) is convincing because of the conflict in him, which leads to a ton of primordial history. The same goes for Mark’s growth and development as a hero, brother and boyfriend-especially in season 3. It is normal that in a season when Mark is constantly confronted with his own relationship with violence, he ends up having to fight hyper-violent versions of himself. Invincible war is as much a thematic highlight as a culmination of action, which is why it strikes so hard.

The same goes for the conquest – a villain so revealing of the greatest threat of viltrumity that he has no real name. Conquest represents everything that Mark fears: a destructive force so powerful that he can do nothing to save those he loves. In the end, the lesson is that he does not to have To do everything himself. Eve revives and ultimately provides the blow that weakens the conquest to the point of defeat.

Now think of The last years of Marvel Studios scenarios. Anthony Mackie is a big actor, but “Captain America: Brave New World” falls flat because he gives him very little equipment. The franchise prospered during the Infinity saga because characters like Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) had long -term arcs coherent around which the larger conflicts were running. Seeing Tony switching from a selfish playboy to his ultimate sacrifice was the heart of these first MCU phases. This is the same reason why the films “Guardians of the Galaxy” were so successful and why people like “Loki”. But what characters lead something to the biggest story McU now?

These are not just individual arcs. The characters exist in relation between them – something “invincible” understands very well. Season 3 contains several romantic arcs, vendettas and other complicated relationships. During The commemorative service for Rex (Jason Mantzoukas) At the end of season 3 “invincible”, several support characters stand up to speak, and they all have distinct feelings about his death because we have seen their own unique relationships with him.

In comparison, one of the falls of the Marvel Star model from Marvel is that he separates the characters from each other. This was particularly true in the Disney +era. It is too expensive and difficult from the planning point of view to bring together several main characters on the screen for more than a few scenes per year. The older films “Avengers” worked because they provided this context for the establishment of relationships, but we have not had one since “endgamous”.

Obviously, “invincible” has the advantage of being a single television program and not a massive franchise. It is tighter, cleaner and animation makes it much easier to keep a large list of talents at the pressure. That said, I can’t help but feel as if this series has more characters that matters to me than the MCU at this stage. Season 3 “Invincible” in particular does a fantastic job to give significant and convincing equipment to most supporting players, from the narrowing of Rae (Gray Griffin) to Titan (Todd Williams). You do not need three films and two rows in streaming so that viewers care about someone, you just need to write intentional – something that the MCU has seriously missed in recent years.

It is impressive to see how many “invincible” disparate history sons remain active at any time. Of course, they may not all be present in each episode, but it is a masterclass in the balance of configurations and gains. Each scenario of the series gives the impression that it is on its own timer, and these timeries are perfectly aligned so that just as we trigger, three other pivotal moments have hit their own. You just have to look at the closing editing of season 3 “invincible”, which brings several dormant threads back while showing different characters finishing seasonal arcs.

At the start of the MCU, even in a movie franchise model that did not allow the fluid television narration, Marvel Studios did a decent job to do the same thing. The overlap of the different sub-franchises, the wicked larger ones like Hydra and Thanos, and the dynamics of the building of the Avengers team have all developed with each other. It was not exactly a high art, but it was enough that when “Infinity War” and “Endgame” came out, directors Anthony and Joe Russo had a deep bag of emotional currency to enjoy the fans.

The current model of Marvel studios seems more interested in keeping the different characters and separate series, which is not necessarily a bad thing. However, the Chamber of Ideas has struggled to balance this division with massive budgets and the objectives of “visualization of events” in the past. If you don’t want everyone to look at everything, you can’t expect an “Avengers” audience. With DC Studios about to launch his new era, Marvel can have a stuffed window to understand things.

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