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Invincible has weirdly slow pacing and I don’t get why. It’s relatively faithful to the comic but everything drags on longer than it should. There’s no energy to it. The old superhero cartoons like Batman and Justice League managed to do it all in 23 minutes. Invincible episodes often push past 40 minutes and there’s less happening.

Think part of it is trying to have “natural” dialogue. Reading the comic, a dialogue heavy scene is a page of speech bubbles. You can read through it in seconds. The show adapts it as a five to ten minute scene of slow talking with pauses. Holding on blank expressions of cartoon characters.

Cobra Kai

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Agreed on the CGI, but also had a problem with that mini arc all together. They were creating drama to pad out episodes and I could feel it. But the payoff at the end made me shrug off the issues of the first half.

Kreese can't be dead because Cobra Kai never dies. 

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saw a headline that Kreese’s actor filmed a scene where he lived and is shown reading a magazine about the victory.  

Think they even saw it as too ridiculous.