the cgi doesn't hold up and the laser guns and no hitting kinda take away from the show. when you compare it to batman TAS that had hitting, real guns, and blood. also the art and animation was way better. and these to shows were out at the same time.
The thing it had over BTAS was the fact it had an ongoing story from s2 onwards. BTAS had follow up eps, with direct ref to previous stories, like with Clayface and Ras Al Ghul, but it's a shame they focused on self contained stories for the most part.
I guess that was more along the lines of the comics that preceded the shows actually, SM always had that ongoing soap opera thing.
I transferred all my vhs recordings from the early90s onto dvd, but my tapes of s1 were worn out, I thought s2 was best though, as it had the Neogenic Nightmare ongoing arc, with all the guest appearances from the X-Men, Blade, the Punisher....and my friend and I used to always get a right good laugh out of Morbius, all i have to do is think of him saying 'Plaaasssmaaaa!!!I neeeed Plaasssmmaaa!!!' and I get a smile on my face. My friend actually wrote asong that we got onto record called 'Plasma' in tribute to that, lol, we just played his tune, stopped, and then he would scream 'Plaaasssmaaa!!!' through one of those plastic toy microphones with the big echo.
The six armed Spider-man story was superior to the one in the comics I thought, that was just a riot, as hokey as that is somewhat conceptually, man, it was so good in the toon, I would not mind seeing that story tackled in a film someday.
The adaptation of 'Turning Point' was quite remarkable I thought, incorporating a couple of Goblin stories, the animation was top notch for that one too, they came up with a great way of circumventing the tv rules by coming up with that dimension hopping device.
I need to see s1 again, but it was more stand alone eps I seem to recall, and I could not stand the Spider-Slayers, lol, if there is anything that puts me off a sh cartoon it is having the hero fight big robots, hell, even in live action, I don't like it much.
I was good to see the Fantastic Four done in a decent cartoon form on this show as well, even if Secert Wars was not up to scratch. They wanted more X-Men for that arc, but it turned out the one voice cast member they could get ahold of was the woman who played Storm.
It was good to see the Iron-Man crossover, and Black -Cat was well adapted I thought, holy moses she was built well.
I thought the ending was fantastic though, even if it was unresolved, and they planned another season, the story with all the Spider-men from alternate dimensions was a joy to see onscreen, all of them arguing, seeing all the different costumes onscreen, the rich, arrogant Stark like one was particularly amusing to see, considering Pete never had money in our reality.
edit: oh, and i forgot about the 3 part symbiote story in s1, I mean, that improved on the comics, and brought in the aspect of it altering his personality. Much better than the books(although the issue when the FF remove the suit is a classic), and the movie adaptation.
