Well, that I'm afraid is just pure speculation. Just because we didn't see him with other friends doesn't mean he didn't have any. And I really don't want to break into a debate over something that was never shown or even hinted at.
I maintain what I said, a child playing in his very own garden and falling into that well could have happened in any number of scenarios. Not just with another kid.
Yeah, Peter told MJ he intends to move into the city after he graduates. He doesn't mention Harry, but since Harry walks up to him at graduation and tells him everything is all set with the apartment, it's safe to assume they'd been planning it for a long time.
Again, he wouldn't have been there doing it if not for MJ. You keep telling me the reprecussions, but it's not changing the cause, the reason why he was there. The person who he was infatuated with so much that he went there to fight greasy wrestlers in a ludicrous costume in order to win two grand to buy a car to impress her.
Anything that happens after that is just a consequence of him being there in the first place. What drove him to be there and place himself in that situation.
Also, off topic point, but I never liked how revenge on the manager who cheated him was the reason he let the crook run by, instead of his own hubris like in the comics.
No, the manager who cheated him out of his money for his car did that. But again, this was all just a dominos effect of something Peter was doing for MJ.
But that goes back to my point that MJ is involved in practically everything pivotal in Peter's life. MJ should have no part in Harry's hatred of Peter. MJ should not have been the reason why he decided to go to the wrestling arena.
Or he's just emphasising his theme of it being all about the girl. You know, like he said the story was about from the get-go.
But she wasn't his gf. Not until SM-3. And she certainly was not known as Spider-Man's friend. They used lazy writing and had Green Goblin learn that Peter loves MJ, and uses her as a damsel in distress for a third time in the movie. And Doc Ock decides to accost Peter when he's in a public place with *drum roll*......MJ. Why not go to Peter's home? Why didn't he accost him when Peter was with Aunt May?
I'll tell you why, because it had to be MJ. Peter's turmoil just had revolve around her.
I'm sure he didn't like it, of course. But he never showed any agony or conflict over it. Especially when he saw the relationship was a sham. MJ couldn't even kiss Harry. Peter was getting kisses with MJ in the rain as Spidey. When MJ was telling him it's not working with Harry. When MJ is telling him she's in love with Spider-Man.
Why would that conflict him? He knows she doesn't love Harry. It's not going to last. But she showed affection for John. She had no qualms about kissing him. And she got engaged to him. She showed no signs to Peter that she wasn't serious about her feelings for John.
No, because it was his decision. He chose to do that. He felt it was the right thing to do. He didn't leave MJ in the arms of another man.
Why should he totally lose them right after she dumps him? He retained his powers for several days after he learned MJ was seeing John. He only completely lost them when she announced her engagment.
"If you keep something as complicated as love stored up inside, it can make you sick". I don't like repeating myself, but I feel like I'm bashing my head against a brick wall, even when I'm quoting quotes from the movie which tell you in the simplest terms why Peter's powers went screwy.
Why? Harry was standing right there watching the whole thing.
And I'm right. But we didn't see him suit up as Spidey right after that incident, did we? No, he didn't suit up until that night, after he learned of Harry's betrayl.
And by then, he was consumed with anger and rage, not heartbreak. That's why he went to the symbiote. We see him sitting in his apartment after seeing Harry, and he looks pissed off.
But as mentioned above, it took several days for him totally lose his powers in SM-2. And you're also forgetting that the symbiote made Peter feel good about himself. Why would he lose his powers if he felt good?
Not really, when his employers and teachers are saying they're getting sick of his lateness, or being late with rent, or steadily slipping grades etc. That indicates it's been going on for quite while.
The other stuff is an after thought, and often used in a slapstick manner, like the whole thing with the rent with his landlord. We certainly never see Peter agonising over it.
It is natural if it's all about the girl. Oh wait....
Because the last time he and MJ spoke, she chewed his ass out, and told him he was nothing to her now but an empty seat. He was obviously giving her a cooling off period before he faced her again and trying to convince her that he'd changed.
But Harry doesn't get a look in. Because it's all about the girl.
How can you compare being late delivering pizzas, or the comedy with the Landlord wanting his rent, to the emotional crap he goes thru with MJ?
Peter hardly bats an eyelid with the other stuff. But he hits rock bottom with the MJ stuff.
The cause is just as important as the effect. Why was Peter at the arena in such an outlandish costume trying to win two grand? Why did he tell Uncle Ben he was quitting Spider-Man because he's in love with Mary Jane?
The source is every bit as important as the reprecussions of it.
I don't mind MJ being the 2nd main character. I do mind her infiltrating practically every level of the story in some way.
But Peter being at the Bugle, or class etc are hardly monumentally big story elements. Of course he makes simple decisions like that without MJ in mind. LOL! Nobody said otherwise.
We're talking the pivotal elements of the story. The big plot elements of Peter's story.
Who said you'd have to see that? If Aunt May was kidnapped as bait for Spidey, you think they'd have her on the side of a building with her brolly in tow?
Ock only snatched her on the spur of the moment to keep the Cops at bay while he escaped. "Don't follow me".
) It seems natural to me.
Good god, Marvel...anything to sell a book...how about write a good story...
