She’s helped more people in three days than she did in three years with the Teen Team, and now that she’s realized her potential, she expects Mark to step up and do the same. Will points out that Mark was a bad boyfriend and got what he deserved, and Eve sees a self-involved superhero who is sulking when he could be saving lives. Mark goes to Will and Eve for comfort, but they don’t have a lot of sympathy for him. Given that Amber was introduced as someone who takes no shit, it feels right that she would kick Mark to the curb after being disrespected. She’s not impressed by Mark telling her he’s Invincible because that doesn’t erase the months of lies. Mark was scared of taking that step, but all Amber saw was someone unwilling to open up about this incredibly important part of his life that has a direct impact on their relationship. It’s a violation of trust with potentially apocalyptic ramifications, and Debbie is dealing with the heartbreak of losing her husband as well as the fear of knowing what he could do if he didn’t have a hero’s intentions.Īmber’s situation isn’t nearly as fraught she just wishes her boyfriend would have talked to her about being a superhero instead of thinking she was an idiot that couldn’t see through his extremely obvious attempts to cover up his costumed life. Debbie is willing to hear an explanation for why her husband killed the most powerful people on the planet - who were also their friends - but he’s not willing to give her one. For both Debbie and Amber, it comes down to trust being broken. “Neil Armstrong, Eat Your Heart Out” showed the two couples’ different versions of a first date, and this week’s episode puts their breakups side by side. I really enjoy how this show contrasts Mark and Amber’s relationship with the Grayson parents’. He finally realizes that telling Amber about his secret identity is the only way to repair the damage, but it’s too late. Mark has no idea what’s going on with his dad in this episode, because his phone is broken and he’s caught up in the end of his relationship with Amber. That would heighten the tension of Debbie’s story line, given that she lived with her suspicions about her husband for over half a year, and Mark’s romance with Amber would have greater stakes because of just how long he lied to her. It’s surprising to hear that it’s been eight months since the Guardians’ murders the passage of time could have been clearer over the course of the season. Simmons’s voice acting brings out the sensitive side of the character during the scene where he rehearses how he’s going to tell his son he’s a mass murderer.
Omni-Man in battle is a huge contrast from Nolan on his own, and J.K. The voice work is very strong this week, and the performances from Sandra Oh and Walton Goggins capture the sense of betrayal felt by Debbie and Cecil, as they realize the extent of Nolan’s monstrosity. It’s a very public display that things have gone wrong, prompting Cecil and the GDA to retrieve Debbie and come clean about what they’ve been doing. The main plot of this episode has a lot of momentum, starting with a blowout fight between Debbie and Nolan that ends with him flying through the roof after she tells him to get out of her house. Many skulls are smashed, and at one point he halves a person on the edge of the kitchen island in an especially visceral bit of violence. The most gruesome deaths happen in the Grayson home, when Omni-Man is ambushed by GDA agents that are basically walking, talking blood balloons waiting to be burst. Sinclair’s cyborgs, a gigantic tentacle-faced monster, and a revived Immortal, all of which fail to stop him. “We Need to Talk” has some important conversations, sure, but this episode puts us back in action-extravaganza mode as Omni-Man reveals his true self to the world and obliterates his domestic human life. There’s no more reason for Nolan to hide after Debbie confronts him about killing a bunch of people, so it’s time for Cecil and the GDA to take him out, before they find out what he really has planned for this planet. Once Debbie learns the truth, it’s all over - the Grayson marriage, but also the charade put on by Nolan and the military organization secretly tracking his every move.
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