New "Ultimate Spider-Man" Animated Series Coming to Disney XD For Fall 2011? - Part 2

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There is a difference between doing something different and then theres completely ruining Spider-Man with his "power and responsbibility" element. It's like making a cartoon where Batman murders and doesn't care about protecting the world/Gotham.
 
So nowadays different stands for just totally half-assing stories and butchering a character?
 
Taskmaster visually looked pretty damn good...

and MY GOD, Peter ACTUALLY used his brains for ONCE to defeat Taskmaster?!?...

other than those two points, the show still sucks...

on the fast track going nowhere... STILL...
 
When I first seen the show I appreciated the different approach, a visual element to Peter's thoughts is a nice idea...and to a lesser degree, the attempts at humor. But the problem lies in the shows ability to stay coherent and consistent...or lack thereof.
The gags are so juvenile, and are constantly hitting you over the head that is saps all possible enjoyment. BUT EVEN IF YOU REMOVED the gags, there still isn't much to ride home about.
The story telling is attrocious, the characters are annoying and often have nothing to do but be apart of an action scene, lecture, or whine.
There isn't any tension, and the show almost refuses to give you any because as soon as anything gets somewhat interesting here comes the goddamn gags AGAIN....
Unlike everyone here who is praising the animation, I have personally found it to be subpar at best. The designs look good but the movement is gag worthy IMO. The action sequences have few cool moments but continuity in the sequences HORRIBLE. One moment a character is in one place, then in another...its a mess. Its distracting to me

I'm so disappointed. Today's taskmaster episode had the potential to be amazing but it couldn't get off the ground for me with all the gags forced into the situation as if to purposely derail the momentum.
 
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I'm sorry. I had to comment to say that I LOVE that gif. LOVE it.

Back to your everyday scheduled thread.
 
Today's episode was my first to see of this series. I liked it! Looking pretty good so far! Taskmaster was really cool!!

So, Ultimate Spider-Man, The Avengers, Young Justice, and Green Lantern(and Thundercats, to a degree)! Variety of superhero shows on tv hasn't been this good since the mid 90's!!
 
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Case in point this gif you posted. Dude have you even watched Avatar? Aang was a freaking juvenile spaz!

And yet, he's more responsible than this new interpretation of Spider-Man. And he didn't crack a joke every couple seconds or brought the show to a grinding, frikking halt, to talk down to the audience, because we're too stupid to get what's happening. And most importantly, Aang was funny.

The Last Airbender, as a whole, is such leagues above Ultimate Spider-Man, it's not even funny. Even all the other cartoons you listed are better. Even though they share similar elements, they at least manage to balance it. USM is just a jumbled mess.
 
Case in point this gif you posted. Dude have you even watched Avatar? Aang was a freaking juvenile spaz!

He's twelve! Of course he's going to be silly and goofy. The whole point of Aang's character was that he was a fun loving kid that had to live up to literally the greatest responsibility in his world.

But when the time came, Aang knew when to stop joking. When he was battling Ozai, he never stopped, turned to the camera and said, "Is it hot in here or is it just me?"

Yeah, Avatar had it's silly moments, but unlike USM, it didn't bombard you with unfunny gags every minute. And more importantly, Avatar never sacrificed storytelling or character for the sake of a joke.
 
Aang also never even considered seeing school bullies getting hurt.
 
I think this has been the best episode so far. Take that for what it is, but it's the best we've gotten.
 
Avatar: The Last Airbender was critically-acclaimed. USM is getting panned and trashed all over the place.

At least, Marvel got Avengers EMH right.
 
Oh I am not saying there faults are not therel I just trying to keep up the point that they wanted to do a different show then the norm for spidey. Have they bad all the right calls no. But I am still giving the show a chance. As others said the characters could grow in time and the gags could be toned down. So for me there is some stuff I do like about the show, but the faults are not going to make me give up totally. As for today episode haven't seen it yet stiil. Cable was all messed up this morning in my area. But finally fixed before I left for work. So I got evening rerun set.
 
Don't know if anyone caught this, but when Taskmaster said Spider-Man could be "Amazing," and then everyone said it a million times, Pete ends it with this:

"Whatever it is, it's less than Spectacular."

Pretty much says it right there.
 
It's a bit petty, but a point I seem to keep getting to in reviews is character designs. I remember when the character models from Cheeks Galloway started hitting the web before the debut of "SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN", there were a lot of people hating them. I actually know friends of mine online who deliberately never gave "TSSM" a chance because they disliked them. I found them fine, and enjoyed them. After all, they were akin to the "stylized" models often used in Bruce Timm TV productions everyone knows and loves - made to animate fluidly on a TV budget while still being distinct. Yet if you read how some people described them, you'd have thought it was "THE FAIRY ODDPARENTS".

I very much enjoyed the stylized look of Spectacular. As you said, Bruce Timm;s Batman was also stylized.

Now, "ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN" on the whole has some great character models. They're far more "mainstream" and even have some elements of John Romita Sr. in the Spidey suit. They're nowhere near as stylized as those by Galloway were. Yet the show they're in is terrible, or at best below average.

Personally, the design looks blah and I feel it is no where near to John Romita Sr.'s version. The black in the eyes tends to be too thin.


Yes, I said "TSSM" was the best adaptation of Spidey to another medium. It sort of hit me on the commute the other day, but it's true, at least to me. It had more air time than Raimi's films, and to be fair, it had a lot of 20/20 hindsight that Raimi did not have in 2001-2002 when he began his trilogy. And I still think those are solid films - I even don't hate "SPIDER-MAN 3" as much as some people (insane or not, it was never dull). Yet "TSSM" I felt properly mixed the drama with the humor, the action with the soap opera, and had both fluid animation and great directors and story board artists to make it dazzle. Had it continued it would have been the 21st century's "BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES" and even at 26 episodes it remains a historic work to me. I know there's another "TSSM" tribute thread and I may repeat myself there in a long winded tribute post there eventually, so see this as a sample.

Dude, it just hit you? You hadn't noticed my posts screaming this or my signature? :oldrazz:

Just kidding around, it just struck me funny that you "just realized" Spectacular was the best adaptation to another medium. I do enjoy reading your thoughful reviews!
 
Oh, and those that enjoy this show only for finally seeing Iron Fist & Luke Cage should check out The Avengers (yes, yes, I know odds are if you are watching this you're also watching Avengers). I believe that is how you handle those characters.
 
Taskmaster visually looked pretty damn good...

and MY GOD, Peter ACTUALLY used his brains for ONCE to defeat Taskmaster?!?...

other than those two points, the show still sucks...

on the fast track going nowhere... STILL...
Ditto. I'm back to being done with this show. It'd be great if someone who watches sends me a PM the next time Taskmaster's gonna be on it
 
Oh come on you really pushing there for them trying to diss tssm they are always playing off the variouus nicknames of spidey, and a more emphise on titling him ultimate.
 
I don't like this show and i'm not gonna watch it any more.
 
I thought this Taskmaster episode was pretty great. And Peter actually used his head and worked with his colleague.

And Clancy Brown as Taskmaster was badass.
 
Don't know if anyone caught this, but when Taskmaster said Spider-Man could be "Amazing," and then everyone said it a million times, Pete ends it with this:

"Whatever it is, it's less than Spectacular."

Pretty much says it right there.
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Best way to express disappointment

Oh TSSM, where art though?
 
OMG. You guys should just go on Greg Weisman's fan forums and kiss up to him a little more. I think he needs it now that fans are giving him a hard time over his disappointing season debut of Young Justice.
 
He's twelve! Of course he's going to be silly and goofy. The whole point of Aang's character was that he was a fun loving kid that had to live up to literally the greatest responsibility in his world.

But when the time came, Aang knew when to stop joking. When he was battling Ozai, he never stopped, turned to the camera and said, "Is it hot in here or is it just me?"

Yeah, Avatar had it's silly moments, but unlike USM, it didn't bombard you with unfunny gags every minute. And more importantly, Avatar never sacrificed storytelling or character for the sake of a joke.
Spider-Man is like 16. What is your point Sparky Sparky Boom Man?

Sozin's Comet invasion? Oh I'm just going to spend the whole time fighting Azula and botch the whole thing.
 
OMG. You guys should just go on Greg Weisman's fan forums and kiss up to him a little more. I think he needs it now that fans are giving him a hard time over his disappointing season debut of Young Justice.
Kiss? All I really care about of his work is the brilliant TSSM animated, and Gargoyles

I didn't watch the 6th episode yet, and that description is disconcerting. But if my view of it gives less rating like the decline I displayed with the past 3 episodes (you might be familiar with how I rated them), I'll wish for improvements
 
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