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Spoilers follow for<\/strong> <\/strong>Invincible<\/strong><\/u> Season 4, Episode 7, \u201cDon\u2019t Do Anything Rash,\u201d which is available on Prime Video now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The tragedy of Thragg takes center stage in Invincible\u2019s latest episode, its strongest one to date. The last time the show balanced its key elements so harmoniously \u2014 its gore, its scale, its emotional stakes \u2014 was arguably the Season 1 finale<\/u>, a defining entry that took the series from good to great. \u201cDon\u2019t Do Anything Rash\u201d launches the show into the stratosphere of stellar contemporary television. And while it\u2019s an outlier in this regard, it\u2019s also entirely worth the drudgery of any and all prior middling entries, tackling the story from an unexpected point-of-view that unveils powerful emotional dimensions.<\/p>\n

The Viltrumite War kicked off in earnest last week<\/u>, with a commendable episode whose climax promised further escalations in the form of the Coalition taking the fight to the retreating villains. However, before we resume the fireworks, the show takes us back several centuries to the rule of Emperor Argall, and the ascension of his right-hand regent \u2014 the young, ambitious Thragg \u2014 to the Viltrumite throne. Thaedus, still a Viltrum envoy, reads the tea leaves of brewing revolts and opposes Argall\u2019s cruelty in a brief exchange that finally lays out the true colonial nature of Viltrum, via its use of enslaved aliens to mine precious resources. The planet\u2019s foregrounding of authoritarian might makes perfect sense in this context, as a means to keep the wheels of its empire turning. However, these material origins are obscured by Thragg once Thaedus assassinates Argall from the shadows, forcing a changing of the guard.<\/p>\n

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Once Thragg assumes the throne, he calls for a purging of all weakness and potential betrayal, quickly seeding suspicion among Viltrum\u2019s ranks until the planet engulfs itself in bloodshed. However, despite his nefarious ploy to further harden the planet\u2019s hearts, he is also, himself, deeply hurt by Argall\u2019s death. Dialogue later in the episode reveals that Thragg was raised from birth to be the strongest Viltrumite, and whatever the ulterior motives behind his training, what appears to have stuck most with him is the idea that might is right \u2014 a pure expression of fascist instinct, albeit one that still remains rooted in its leader\u2019s emotional impulses. These flashbacks last only a dozen minutes, but it\u2019s hard not to read into them the idea that Thragg loved Argall like a father figure, and his death has left him broken beyond repair.<\/p>\n

This saga of fathers and sons continues on the Coalition side of things, as Thaedus recaps the plan, and leads the remaining warriors \u2014 Nolan, Mark, Oliver, Allen, Telia, Tech Jacket\/Zoe and Battle Beast \u2014 into outer space so they can strike before Thragg and co. can recover. As they make their way to planet Viltrum, the episode\u2019s travel downtime once again offers the chance to reflect. Per usual, the show employs pre-existing songs to enhance each scene, but rather than ill-fitting pop tracks (as has often been its bane), it instead opts for moving instrumentals this week, by the likes of Brian Eno<\/u> and Phillip Glass<\/u>.<\/p>\n

While the supporting characters all discuss what they\u2019d eat for their last meals \u2014 Zoe and Oliver pick burgers; Battle Beast, hilariously, picks his own blood on the battlefield \u2014 this morose bit of camaraderie is contrasted with a quiet exchange of uncomfortable possibilities as Thaedus and Nolan discuss the plan. Thaedus, who\u2019s long turned against his own people, is dead-set on killing every remaining Viltrumite. Nolan, as a recently reformed soldier and a father of two Viltrumite kids, is perturbed, to say the least. While it may be the only way to truly protect the galaxy, it exists in a grey area even the once-dastardly Omni-Man is afraid to tread.<\/p>\n

Nolan and Mark have rightly spent the season battling the Viltrumite parts of themselves, so what happens next makes for an especially shocking development.\u201c<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

Once Nolan gives his sons one last, fatherly pep talk (scored with a rearrangement of the series\u2019 closing theme), the Coalition, sans Telia, exits the spaceship and flies through Viltrum\u2019s rings, made ceremonially from the bodies of fallen Viltrumites. But before the characters can process this macabre energy, the episode escalates tenfold, as the remaining Viltrumites reveal themselves to have been hiding amongst the corpses. In the distance, hovering above the planet\u2019s atmosphere, is Thragg, appearing chillingly still.<\/p>\n

The ensuing space battle is a nail-biting delight, with violent reversals that incapacitate even important characters, before old allies come to the rescue. It goes back, and forth, and back again before Thragg finally gets involved \u2014 which is to say, before he barely lifts a finger while deflecting the Graysons\u2019 attacks, sending shockwaves even through the emptiness of outer space.<\/p>\n

If the season has had one major flaw en route to this episode, it\u2019s the lack of a discernible relationship between Thragg and Nolan (or really, Thragg and any of the heroes), but \u201cDon\u2019t Do Anything Rash\u201d meaningfully spackles over this problem when the Grand Regent and the fearsome turncoat come crashing down to the planet\u2019s surface. Amid the crumbling remains of the empire, and backed by a thunderstorm, they discuss who they really owe their allegiance to before the battle continues, and Thragg punches Nolan so hard that he burns up on his way back out of Viltrum\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n