I thought the ive been good line was so weird
It was Doc at his lowest. And gave a great contrast to the weak Otto transforming into the strong Octopus when he owned the megalomaniac persona. But yeah...it was weird, lol.
I recently rewatched the show and fell in love with it again. I have a few gripes with it like Eddie Brock and venom being annoying as hell. Colonel Jupiter I could have also done without. And max's super brief intro felt a little rushed as well. Especially when so many villains are built up to. But I loved, loved, loved Gobby in this though. He was such a fun evil character to watch. The rest of the rogues were also well extremely well done. I'm gonna rewatch it again, I have that itch.
It's an easy show to fall in love with. Venom is annoying period. But at least here they did more with Eddie and Venom than the comics ever really did. I like how they used the idea from Ultimate that Eddie and Peter are childhood friends, their parents knew each other and fathers worked together and their parents died in a plane crash. It gave more weight to the relationship. The reasons for Eddie hating on Peter and owning the Venom persona were also done better. Eddie really was a silent crazy person...he just needed the right trigger to bring it out. His fall was interesting to watch. And Venom actually threatening the people Peter cared most for was an upgrade.
I'm not crazy about the Col Jupiter stuff either but it was good fuel for JJJ and of course had the show continued we would have eventually seen Man-Wolf.
GG is the best. Truly menacing, evil, crazy and scheming. All the villains were really well done imo.
Also, I love the use of Liz in this series. She was actually a pretty sweet girl who seemed like she genuinely cared about Pete towards the end. I usually don't care about the relationship side of things, especially with someone I know Pete will never truly commit too but I still felt sorry for her when she got dumped. Look at me talking about this show like it's a soap opera :b
It was definitely bittersweet to reach the end knowing such a great series never got the closure it deserved. Rip in peace SSM
There's another testament to this show. I've talked about this before but I'll revisit it again cause I really enjoyed how it was done.
So, we all know where Peter and Gwen will end up. We know, from the reading the books, that those two become a couple and we all know how that ends. But what this show did was take 'what we know' and twist it to the point where it made the build-up to those things feel interesting and new, like we are experiencing the story over again for the first time. That's not an easy task, imo.
One of the things that we often will see in a show or a movie is that the writers/director will take the main protagonist and the female lead and get the audience rooting for them. Often we'll see those two share common interests, have a palpable sexual chemistry, etc. To create some tension though, the audience will want these two to be together but the writer will have them be in a relationship with someone else. However, many times what we'll see is the writer will make the main protagonist's girlfriend to be unlikable. She may have an annoying personality or not be supportive of the MP or maybe even treat him like crap. It makes it easy for the audience to want the main characters to be a couple and to root for them. TSSM took a harder route. Even though we know Gwen and Pete are going to be together, that they
should be together because not only of what we know but because they share that chemistry, have things in common, etc. the writers put Liz and Peter together. Liz starts off as unlikable because she seems shallow--the pretty cheerleader who is only interested in being popular and talks down to the commoners. But she changes. Liz morphs into a very sweet girl. She's attracted to Peter, they both share a good chemistry, she's very supportive of Peter and his talents, she is very forgiving--Peter misses several dates due to 'work' and she kisses him and let's him know that she's thankful he even made it to her home at all. Liz is a great match for Peter. So, it's not so easy just to root for Peter and Gwen to end up together because Liz is actually a very likable character and one that is almost too good for Peter.
I've always loved how they took the time to develop her and make it difficult for us, the audience, to watch her be this wonderful girl for Peter and then knowing he's eventually going to break it off with her.
In the end, I think this show was just far too good for it's own good.
Question, what was everyones least favorite episode of the show? Mine was the Molten Man episode.
Hmmm. My least favorite would have to be Probable Cause.
Got'cha both.
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Wish we could've got more from such an underrated show.
