The story is at its best when it’s in discovery mode, like the psychedelic moment when Samantha first uses her powers to change the molecular composition of an atom, turning her textbook to glass.
This could be an intentional way of emotionally distancing the audience from the parents, like Samantha, but it makes those relationships less interesting. The Grayson family dynamic is very well defined - we get a cute flashback of them at the end of the episode - but the Wilkins dynamic is more basic. Samantha’s father’s antagonism toward his daughter doesn’t get enough development, and understanding why he is so threatened by Samantha’s “weirdness” would give the domestic plot a stronger emotional foundation. They send her to a special school, and Samantha makes a friend across the street, but the upswing is reversed when she realizes what she can really do. Her ability to see the atomic structure of the world makes her zone out from the people around her, but eventually her parents learn that their daughter’s behavior signals great genius and preternatural understanding of chemical elements. The episode follows Samantha from early childhood to adolescence, a time that is largely defined by the alienation she feels due to her emerging superpowers. Elias Brandyworth (Stephen Root) was the scientist responsible, but he had a crisis of conscience and rescued the woman before she could give birth to Samantha. government, one of a small batch of superpowered children grown in a homeless woman’s womb. Samantha isn’t the birth daughter of Adam and Betsy Wilkins, but a genetically engineered creation of the U.S.
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Written by Invincible co-creator and co-showrunner Robert Kirkman and Helen Leigh, a writer on Kirkman’s Outcast series for Cinemax, Invincible: Atom Eve is a very faithful adaptation of Atom Eve’s comic-book origin, elevated by the incredible action storytelling of the show’s animation team.
In typical Invincible fashion, there is deep familial tragedy at the core of Samantha Eve Wilkins’s character, building on the show’s core theme of toxic parental expectations disintegrating the family unit - quite literally in the case of Samantha’s siblings. Just in time for the most atomic-pink weekend in entertainment history, Prime Video released a surprise special episode of Invincible for San Diego Comic-Con, revealing the origin of the show’s pink-clad matter manipulator, Atom Eve.
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