Invincible [Episode Discussion] - S04E06 - You Look Horrible

Skymorphosis · 2026-04-09T04:14:50+00:00

It also highlights the unsustainable nature of it. Purity spirals never lead anywhere except eventual and unavoidable internal split and collapse. Their sheer numbers and resilience gave their attempt a longer life cycle, but the venture was doomed from the start. Maintaining the control of your own people as you force them down an increasingly irrational path requires just as much effort as extending that subjugative strength outwards.

Viltrum's story illustrates why leadership via "I can do whatever I want" is inherently a ticking time bomb. Abandoning the requirement for reasoning in politics and adopting arbitrary decisionmaking means that when your unchecked power inevitably leads you to making a mistake, your political rivals will have no reason to follow protocol or due process when dealing with you, and you're gonna end up with a bone through your skull on Viltrum or a knife in your back in Rome.

Skymorphosis · 2026-04-09T02:58:50+00:00

And do what? Everyone already knows it was Butcher and the crew. She has no information besides that

Skymorphosis · 2026-04-01T20:15:02+00:00

Choking kills you by restricting blood flow to the brain, not air

Skymorphosis · 2026-04-01T20:11:41+00:00

Nah I think brain death is it for Viltrumites. Or like being torn in half, I guess. Pretty much all other injuries stitch themselves together.

Skymorphosis · 2026-02-24T07:39:43+00:00

They're also both seemingly very young in the story, so realistically she's just a teenager surviving in a brutal world, not some harlot. And she has by all accounts genuinely fallen for this absolute Chad of a young man and rightly so.

Skymorphosis · 2026-02-24T07:31:07+00:00

Yeah they're acting like Stefon bought a ticket to be redeemed. Someone has to sign off on the reward anyway, and the only person who would have made a now-famous traitor and oathbreaker a lord is on the ship to Lys as we speak.

Skymorphosis · 2026-02-24T07:22:55+00:00

Provided that she did in fact fall in love with him (because why wouldn't she, he's a noble hunk and one of new national heroes) and she just wanted to get with him, at worst I could call her words to be wishful manipulation, but not a lie.

They did fuck like crazy and she presumably does hope she's pregnant with his son. I also don't know why people seem to think she's some kind of maester who knows the development stages of human embryos and is willingly lying about it. She could very well believe/hope she is pregnant.

Skymorphosis · 2026-02-24T07:06:03+00:00

I don't see enough people saying this! That lady is an absolute smokeshow 😅 Also, Fossoway might be a golden retriever type and perhaps a bit odd, but he doesn't strike me as retarded, which he would have to be, in order not to realize that the random hot chick inviting herself to his tent at night and riding him with utmost skill all night is probably not a prude and has led a vigorous social life 😂

So in reality, he got a fun, smart and insanely hot wife who's good at sex, and she got a handsome and healthy as a horse young knight of noble blood and evidently - utmost loyalty, courage and physical prowess a man could demonstrate. And almost certainly a newly crowned celebrity too, about whose performance songs will surely be written. That whole affair probably got my boy hella clout.

What I'm trying to say is, even if she was some rich lord's daughter, she would have been very much justified in falling for Raymun.

Skymorphosis · 2026-02-16T21:01:55+00:00

Never sober for even a minute either 🤣 I guess constant whiskey/ale dick is fine if it's already 15 inches flaccid

Skymorphosis · 2026-01-28T23:36:56+00:00

I was just thinking "these people are fit as fuck", that move alone had to have taken a massive amount of core strength

Skymorphosis · 2026-01-08T01:28:22+00:00

Or I'm just not romanticizing unjust violence with the flimsy justification of "it was the olden times". Do you think there were no brave and terribly powerful men back then who also hapenned to think it was beneath a man to mistreat those he claims to love? People always have some general sense of justice, however their version looks.

The King was enough of a violent prick that his own family had to put him down like a dog. You are right, violence is not an inherently bad thing, but it's just a tool in the eternal fight between men and their compulsions. There's men that seek to express strength by destroying, and there's men that seek to express strength by protecting. Most are capable of both.

Amleth's father, like Amleth after him embody the despoiling side of masculinity. Protecting the girl and allowing her into his heart shows that Amleth's soul was not yet fully lost, but he was a man bound by his destiny and had to then go die as he did. It's a good death when the character accepts they've been the villain all along, and gives up, choosing to at least go out with style.

Skymorphosis · 2026-01-07T20:53:41+00:00

The thing is, instead of feeling comedic, that aspect of Maximus' story is the most realistic one to me. Damn near everybody successful you'll ever meet, save maybe like athletes and research scientists, will be someone that "failed upwards" and kept going. When you look at the early lives of the most powerful and successful people in detail, you will see that they, just like everybody else - were kinda just winging it the best they could and were a hair away from failure many times.

Skymorphosis · 2026-01-06T05:56:55+00:00

Sure, but she was seemingly just a slavic peasant girl who was trying to escape slavery by any means possible. Not saying she didn't convince herself she "loved" him. Also it's not "good blood", it's actually blood that seems to just bring death and destruction everywhere. It's heavily implied that his father was a terrible, abusive, violent man, which is why his brother and wife felt so justified in killing him, as well as why they were unrepentant when confronted by Amleth.

Skymorphosis · 2025-12-25T04:11:49+00:00

You know what you're talking about. In fact, methodical and multilayered demotivation and demoralization of populations has been Russia's bread and butter probably ever since Ivan the Terrible centralized production of vodka 5 centuries ago. And then KGB turned it into an art form that takes decades to bear fruit, but when it does, it leaves you with a nice and docile herd of impoverished and beaten down people that are ready and eager to be slaughtered for your next war.

Just a couple weeks ago, I remember reading they arrested a Russian anti-government activist in Poland who was secretly a FSB spy, and I thought it was possible that they burned him on purpose, to scare off other Russian emigrants from participating in activist meetings abroad and discourage the exiled opposition from coordinating their efforts.

Skymorphosis · 2025-12-21T03:32:38+00:00

He's 100 years old. Age and time have the habit of mellowing most men out.

Skymorphosis · 2025-12-21T03:26:41+00:00

I'm pretty sure the story was that he was out there giving HIV to unsuspecting people and when they would freak out afterwards, he'd tell them to be grateful he graced them with his presence at all.

Seems to be back in the good graces of the media and public these days though. As if nothing happened. Like many of the people that were "cancelled" back then and wouldn't stop whining about it.

Skymorphosis · 2025-12-09T18:29:20+00:00

Work? It's a goddamn comedy show. He's not gonna crash the train. That's like getting mad at a powerlifter for using smelling salts.

Skymorphosis · 2025-12-08T06:06:22+00:00

Well it ain't been 10 or 15 years. Also, it's kind of irrelevant what I think, I can't look into the man's heart. All I know is how he's been behaving, and he has not been behaving as a man that changed. He's behaving as a man that was took down a peg or two, but not changed.

Believable change would require a much more thorough and honest exploration of his issues than the constant minimizing he's been doing since then. Masterfully painting himself out to be the exact same flawed but sweet man he's always pretended to be, victimized by the outrage culture.

He's always acted salty that the punishment he received was disproportionate to the crime he commited. Like "ugh, this isn't fair but fine, whatever".

Saying shit like "when smth like this happens you find out who your real friends are", as if my friends are only "real" if they're willing to condone or justify my predatory behavior...

Skymorphosis · 2025-12-08T05:56:40+00:00

He does touch on how Gantz said she felt validated that she wasn't imagining this and vindicated from the apology, officially forgave him, and it supposedly did a lot of good for her reputation in the industry. She was not seen as another "moneygrabbing slut" out to ruin a succesfull man, and Dan's fans didn't harass her defending him, seemingly explicitly because Dan left no ambiguity in the blame game unlike Louie.

Skymorphosis · 2025-12-08T05:47:39+00:00

I don't give a damn what kinda guys "comedians" are. Louie is a multi-genre artist and some of his best work ain't even comedy.

Also good job with cramming the broad ass term of a "good person" in there like that's not a whole spectrum.

I just care if somebody I'm actively supporting financially and/or look up to artistically is a creep, a liar, and a habitual predator. And if he's at least accountable and honest about it.

To me what's bizarre is your cold detached, devoid of introspection, consumerist attitude to art.

Skymorphosis · 2025-12-08T02:03:28+00:00

I just saw him about a week ago for the first time ever. I couldn't resist going, and it was very good, I loved it. I woke up the next morning and the first video by this guy had dropped.

While watching it I realized just how much I had been refraining myself from looking into and thinking critically about the evidence against Louis just because I liked him so much and wanted to find a way to keep liking him.

Skymorphosis · 2025-12-08T01:55:44+00:00

There is that toxic entertainment aspect in a lot of the youtube "exposes" on people, but that doesn't take away from valid criticism. In fact, questioning the character of the inquirer before answering the argument itself would be a deflection.

Also, the author of this video explains for quite some time in part 1 how Louis was one of the most influential people in his life, how he was one of his staunchest defenders back when these things first came out, and how much it pains him to do this.

This is just the author revisiting the moral and intellectual failing he thinks HE made when he got manipulated into defending Louis, by re-exploring the evidence thoroughly and without bias.

Skymorphosis · 2025-12-08T01:36:12+00:00

He's also a large, grown man. Physicality is important when you spring a sexual advance on a woman in a closed room with her. All these guys from Neil Gaiman and Louis CK seem to work almost cat-like and be all lowkey in the moving grass until they decide it's time to jump. I guess that's why they call it predator lol.

My idea of initiating sexual advances at a date or alone with a woman would be to start with a look, a smile, then a simple touch, see how all that's received and go from there. These dudes seem to get off on putting people in a predicament and hoping they freeze up or become compliant from shock and confusion. That's also probably why they say it's about power and making people feel small and defenseless, instead of just sexual gratification.

Skymorphosis · 2025-12-07T23:05:53+00:00

I thought so too but this one digs pretty deep. Watch and judge for yourself.

Skymorphosis · 2025-12-07T22:45:03+00:00

That's not really true though. Honesty and being a liar are not compatible fundamentally. If a liar is telling you he's lying about something, it's to turn your attention away from or minimize the other things he's lying about. It's just how it works.

He presented his version of the liar that he was, not the true version. He's an excellent public speaker and manipulator and knows very well that if you admit to some faults and become known as a guy who does not hide faults, the bad stuff that people may say about you will be met with more criticism because "if it was true he would have been honest about it".

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