Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can...

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

Basically, what you've just articulated is the exact opposite of the perspective I have towards what I want from Spider-Man.

I loved Spectacular because it took itself incredibly seriously. Not just from a choreography perspective, though the fight scenes are impeccable. But from a storytelling perspective, everything is just so tight. Like, the way episodes flowed, for one thing, there's just this sense of timing that permeates everything...time's advancing, week by week, in Peter Parker's universe, in an episodic fashion that just feels right. The show hooked me in with these ancillary antagonists and protagonists that the writers made a clear, concerted effort to care about. I actually really liked Gwen Stacy, and Mary Jane, and Aunt May, and Liz Allen, and Flash Thompson, and Sandman and Electro and about fifty zillion other characters that I've never given a damn about in other iterations of the material.

The characters felt alive. The world itself felt alive. Every decision Spider-Man made, I felt invested in. It was the rare kind of animated show Bronies earnestly pretend only Friendship is Magic is -- the kind of show that deliberately appealed to adults as much as children, that was written with intelligent dialogue and crammed with homages to the source material.

Really, if nothing else, I want my Spider-Man to be authentically Spider-Man, not just "Spider-Man goofing off with a bunch of cameo B-tier superheroes." Give me Peter Parker interacting with his high school friends and foes any day, taking pictures for the newspaper and being an awkward teen with a huge secret, that's exactly what I love Spidey for.

In Weismans name, amen.