Voice acting, despite its obvious overlap with screen acting, involves a number of different tools, including voice modulation and the use of non-dialogue vocal cues to create a character’s physical and emotional mood.
These character beats ought to be the episode’s most dramatically propulsive moments, but they, unfortunately, reveal the show’s inherent misstep with its all-star casting. Simmons) discuss Mark’s disobedience, Eve (Gillian Jacobs) argues with her parents, Mark and Eve discuss Amber, Mark and Amber discuss their relationship, Mark and William discuss the university trip - and so on. Sadly, this scene is also an accidental indictment of the many lengthy, lifeless dialogue exchanges throughout the rest of the episode. It’s pleasant to watch, and it makes the audience root for them to work things out. The episode’s most potent bit of storytelling comes via a montage, scored by the breezy sounds of SOAK’s “Knock Me Off My Feet,” during which Mark and Amber wander the university grounds and exchange silent glances.
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The lead-up to these decisions and revelations also feels incredibly drawn-out, as the episode lurches through a series of stilted conversations that lack the previous entry’s finesse. However, William hasn’t been much of a presence on the show thus far, the way he was in the comic, so this discovery feels like it’s been hastily folded into Mark and Amber’s story, instead of complicating an existing friendship. The episode does at least feature one new consequence of Mark’s duality: when he shows up as Invincible during the cyborg attack, William recognizes him, and Mark is forced to spill the beans. He chooses the latter pretty easily, which gels poorly with the overarching narrative about the difficulty of juggling his identities and responsibilities. Here, they barely know each other, which robs Mark’s decisions of personal stakes, especially when he needs to choose between tracking down the missing Rick, or going after Amber when she’s upset by his disappearance during a crisis. In the comic, Mark and Rick had been friends for several issues by the time this story reared its head. This subplot is taken straight from the comic, but it’s oddly de-personalized for Mark. Sinclair (Ezra Miller), whose underground experiments involve turning people into mindless cyborgs. William, meanwhile, spends time with his university crush, Rick (Jonathan Groff), who ends up being targeted by the evil kidnapper D.A. When Mark’s best friend William (Andrew Rannells) invites him to tour Upstate University - the site of the prologue kidnapping - Mark decides to invite Amber so he can finally make some kind of decision about their future. Of course, things between Mark and Amber finally look different by the end of Episode 6, though getting there involves a bit of wheel-spinning. Between this, and the episode skipping much of his recovery, the story can’t help but feel like it lacks real consequences for its main character, even after its most physically and emotionally grueling entry. On one hand, it’s the kinder, more humane route, but on the other, it results in the Mark-Amber story jogging in place, after an entire episode dedicated to Mark’s inability to balance his civilian and superhero lives. However, the show soon hits a bit of a reset, at least for Mark, by skipping forward to when he’s back on his feet and back with Amber (Zazie Beetz) who, like in the previous episode, gives him yet another chance, after being told he’d been hit by a bus. Mark (Steven Yeun), Monster Girl (Grey Griffin), and Black Sampson (Khary Payton) are wheeled into the GDA’s hospital wing, and their recoveries seem incredibly difficult.
After a brief prologue involving a kidnapping on a university campus, the show picks up where Episode 5 left off, depicting the blood-soaked aftermath of the Guardians’ battle at Machine Head’s headquarters.
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