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I just watched the second episode and definitely think this series is a winner. The animation is so good and Drake Bell is really growing on me. Keaton is still the best Peter/Spidey, but Drake is really in step with the tone of this series. The show has a musicality all it's own and they are definitely walking a fine line with all the gags. I just hope we get more quiet/Shield-less Spidey moments.
 
Ok im not saying im gonna forget about SSM but this looks like a winner. A combination of teen titans, anime, old school spiderman, drama and comedy. I like it. I love the silly side of spidey.
 
Saw it, and I hate it. Spectacular Spider-Man was just better. This show is like a superhero Family Guy...too much randomness, and it doesn't work. Was hoping we'd get a great show since we lost another great Spider-Man show, and I am certainly disappointed. The animation is very good, but everything else...bleh. Think I will just tune into Avengers every week and avoid this crap.

I don't think that's a fair comparison. Family Guy was funny when it first came out.
 
can someone post a DIRECT link to episode 2? clicking on episode 2 hasn't worked for me so far.

and I'd give episode 1 a score of around 8.5 to 9 out of 10. Sure it's not as serious as past Spidey shows but i think it has a decent balance of action, humor and breaking the fourth wall.

I like how thier idea of him breaking the fourth wall is more so using what's already in the comics and expanding on that for a tv show:

in the comics Spidey is constantly talking/thinking, and when we read his though bubbles when he talks about whatever is going on, is like he is talking directly to us, this new cartoon only expands on that by ACTUALLY having him break the fourth wall and also using visual elements to give us a better idea of what goes on in his mind.

I kinda like that.

Again I've only seen the first episode. haven't gotten episode 2 to work yet
That's exactly what it is and I absolutely love that. Spider-man in the comics uses narration to great effect. That's a big part of the fun of reading him in the books that's usually missing from adaptions. Spider-man and Wolverine are characters who are usually better with narration. Other characters can do without it.

I'd love to see a Wolverine show with Sin City/Frank Miller style narration.
 
The road to the next Spider-Man animated series has been quite a long one. The previous one was produced by Sony, back when they retained the sole license to Spider-Man from Marvel and before the Disney purchase of Marvel became official. It debuted on Kid's WB in the twilight hours of that network as a Saturday Morning cartoon block for kids. It was fresh after "SPIDER-MAN 3" had faded from theaters and managed to reinvent the web-slinger for audiences young and old, age 8 to 80 across two glorious seasons. However, by the time the second season arose, Disney had purchased Marvel and essentially managed to wrest the TV rights to Spidey from Sony (in exchange for Sony keeping the more lucrative film rights). I imagine Disney COULD have found a way to continue that Greg Weisman produced masterpiece had they truly desired so - there is nothing money and lawyers cannot wrest on this planet. However, and perhaps in fairness, Disney decided they wanted their own Spidey show without the hassle of retaining stuff from a Sony jam. So "TSSM" was moved to DISNEY XD where the second season debuted, it soon faded from syndication and no second season box set was ever released on DVD. That show would forever end with episode 26, with Norman Osborn having fled to Florida, Peter finally realizing he loves Gwen only for both to have to humor the manipulative Harry Osborn, and about an ocean of untapped potential left on the table. Weisman cleared out his office at Sony around early 2009 or so and landed on his feet; we would later learn Warner Brothers grabbed him up not long after to begin work on "YOUNG JUSTICE", which debuted Nov. 2010. Disney got what they wanted - their crack at a Spider-Man cartoon show which was 100% theirs to show on their new animation network alongside "AVENGERS: EARTH'S MIGHTIEST HEROES". They assigned the "Man Of Action" writers behind "BEN 10" and "GENERATOR REX" along with Paul Dini ("BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES", DETECTIVE COMICS, ZATANNA), Jeph Loeb as TV czar, and Brian M. Bendis as writer/producer on the series and went with an idea Sony initially drafted but ditched back in 2002; "ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN". Animation and images for the series had been teased for what seemed like two years and finally today, April Fool's day 2012, viewers were treated to not one but TWO episodes of the show.

A while ago I thought the idea of debuting ANYTHING on April Fool's Day is a rookie public relations disaster. The jokes are obvious and the impression less than professional. But maybe it's fitting that this uneven and absolute mess of a cartoon show debuted on this day. It's a sign of things to come. I am going to lump a review of both episodes here, which seems appropriate as they share continuity and are two parts of one story anyway. The best thing I can say about "ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN" is that it is SPIDER-MAN AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS 2.0. The major caveat being this is 2012, not 1982. However, there is certainly an audience that wouldn't mind another crack at Amazing Friends 2.0, and for them this show may be a blast. It probably plays well to very small children. It does make "BATMAN: BRAVE AND THE BOLD" look incredibly mature and clever.

It is difficult for me to get into the things I dislike or feel don't work in this show in any coherent manner, but I will try. The best way to put it is that this show is trying to do everything it ever thought was cool in other shows, and is doing it wrong because it is trying so hard. It wants the serialization and high school fare of "SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN", the insipid "chibi anime comedy antics" of "TEEN TITANS", the hero team-up appeal of "BATMAN: BRAVE AND THE BOLD", while trying to lift some designs and dynamics from the long running comic book series it is named after. It throws these things all together into a blender along with that annoying "MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE" trend where the hero pauses to narrate to the audience, and even THAT doesn't cover it. It panders to children with annoying catch phrases, goofy sound effects ripped right from LOONEY TUNES, deformed character antics mindlessly imitated from anime without understanding when and how to use them, and above all the need to EXPLAIN everything that is happening on screen to them every five minutes. It reminds me of many modern video games where I can't just play the game and be expected to be smart enough to learn through trial and error, or clever game design. Instead the game needs a pop-up or a cinematic to explain the friggin' obvious to me over and over and over and over as if I am incapable of forming any coherent thought. It is this sort of blunt manner that the show chooses to introduce things to you. Instead of using dialogue or pacing or storyboards to inform us who Trapster is, Spider-Man has to stop the episode dead in it's tracks to explain him to us with the aid of pictures and letter grades. Instead of assuming Nick Fury and SHIELD can speak for themselves, we get another lecture. Instead of assuming kids KNOW WHO THE **** MJ AND HARRY OSBORN ARE AFTER 3 GOD DAMNED MOVIES, we get more of the same. If kids today are seriously this stupid and attention lacking that this is what it takes to appeal to them, then I hope the Mayan apocalypse comes sooner rather than later.

"GREAT POWER" is the pilot in which we're introduced to our cast. Drake Bell is Spider-Man, and I must say he's the most annoying voice actor to play the character on TV in a very, VERY long time. He's been the web-slinger for a year and he's still got a lot to learn. When he takes down Trapster but causes a lot of collateral damage, Nick Fury beams down from SHIELD to recruit him for official training. Spidey accepts his gift of a hi-tech web-shooter but blows him off, retreating to his high school escapades with MJ, Harry, and Flash Thompson. MJ is, strangely, the one who is an aspiring photographer and journalist who wants to work for J.J. (J.K. Simmons, who basically gets to scream anti-Spidey rants a lot). Flash Thompson is a simple bully who gets punked at the end of every episode. Harry is the poor little rich kid. Norman Osborn (Steven Weber) schemes in the background to duplicate Spider-Man's powers to create an army of super-soldiers, and isn't thrilled at the idea of SHIELD taking him in. He attempts to play the evil scheming villain, but after the Osborn of "TSSM", he's just a cheap knock off of a schemer. All he's missing is metal gloves and Madcat. When Trapster's teammates Wizard, Thundra, and Klaw arrive to avenge him and track Spidey to Midtown High, Peter gets the student body to start a food fight to distract the baddies until he can change. It works surprisingly well until Harry is blasted by one of Klaw's blasts and gets hospitalized. Managing to drive the villains off, Spidey decides to accept Fury's offer and joins up with SHIELD. "GREAT RESPONSIBILITY" picks up right from that as Spidey gets a walking tour through SHIELD with Fury. We have Clark Gregg take his mugging for the camera as Agent Coulson into another medium as he pops up here; if you want all the REAL SHIELD agents, go watch "AVENGERS: EARTH'S MIGHTIEST HEROES". Turns out Fury is leading his own research into duplicating Spider-Man's powers with technology, although why this is somehow better than Osborn wanting to do the same is never explained. Curt Conners is a SHIELD scientist here, and for some odd reason he has both arms; the one-armed expectation is used for a cheap joke. The highlight of this episode is the introduction of Spidey's new Amazing Friends - Iron Fist, Luke Cage/Power Man, Nova, and White Tiger. I'll be honest; as a fan of Iron Fist and Luke Cage, their appearance in this series constitutes at least 65% of why I bothered to watch these episodes, and at this point they'll be 90% of why I bother with more. That isn't to say they're pitch perfect or awesome - they struggle with the same banal pandering and lame jokes that Spidey does. But with an extended cast, the viewer is distracted better. Greg Cripes - best known as Beast Boy in "TEEN TITANS" - voices Iron Fist/Danny Rand with an appropriate calm. Logan Miller ("I'M IN THE BAND") voices Nova, who is Jeph Loeb's new creation from POINT ONE, Sam Washington (and not Richard Rider, the Nova everyone cares about). Power Man/Luke Cage is voiced by Ogie Banks, while White Tiger is voiced by relative newcomer Caitlyn Talor Love. They initially see Spidey as a rookie who won't last at SHIELD, but when he's attacked by the 3/4ths of the Frightful Four, they're needed to bail Spidey out - and Spidey needs to show them the ropes about real battles outside the Helicarrier. Faster than you can say "X-MEN EVOLUTION", we learn that all of these heroes will be accompanying Peter at Midtown High during off periods, with Coulson as principal. All we need now is for them to all move into Aunt May's townhouse with Ms. Lions in tow.

Positives? The animation quality is pretty good for TV standards. The character designs aren't bad, on the most part. I can't stand Peter's hairdo and at times he looks too much like Harry. But Spidey himself looks great, and some of the other costumed characters look fine. The action is decent enough; neither the best nor worst you'll see from TV animation or Marvel Animation. Things pick up once the other heroes come in to bounce dialogue off of. Not to say this is a perfect team in harmony; it's just less bad than the first episode without them. At least 1 out of every 10 cheap, shameless jokes or visual gags is actually funny, at least to someone as old as I am. And, uh, at the very least this series isn't based on Counter-Earth where Spidey has to fight animal-men every episode like in 1999's "SPIDER-MAN UNLIMITED". As an Iron Fist fan, I did enjoy seeing him utilize his trademark power against Klaw in episode two. The episodes are only 20 minutes long without credits. Is it obvious I am reaching now?

Negatives? Blue blazes, if I listed everything that made me wince, groan, or roll my eyes about these two episodes, it would circle Jupiter at least once. The tone of this show is horribly uneven and counter-productive. This is a show which wants to have animated Spider-Angels and Spider-Devils yell on Spidey's shoulders one minute while expecting us to take Harry's injury seriously in another. If the show wanted to be a sheer comedy it might work a little better, but it also wants to play certain moments dead straight which clash against it like a ballerina at a death metal rave. The idea of SHIELD being able to duplicate and improve upon Peter's web-shooters takes a lot of the mystique and intelligence out of him - which may be the point as Spider-Man is often insipid and annoying. Much like the show, he tries so very hard to be funny and more often than not it falls flat. There is nothing this show won't try to use to pander to it's audience with; from ripping off anime without any finesse to trying to throw in "achievements" from video games ("K.O.!"), this show reeks very much of men in their 40's or older trying desperately to be hip by merely and mindlessly copying things they think are "hip" around them. If the show was genuinely funny it would work, but the humor is obnoxious and desperate. Everyone from the villains to Aunt May herself is trucked out for a cheap laugh, and then the show will attempt to eat it's cake too by once in a while trying to get a serious beat out of it. This is a very, very difficult thing to pull off. "BATMAN: BRAVE AND THE BOLD" pulled it off more often than it should have - this show pales in comparison. I am sure in the halls of Jeph Loeb's office, someone there thinks it is a brilliant idea to start off a Spider-Man show and have the FRIGHTFUL FOUR as the main villains for TWO STRAIGHT EPISODES, but that person may only be Loeb himself. We are expected to be disturbed by the idea of Norman Osborn tracking down our hero, keeping tabs and trying to duplicate and mass produce his powers for military gain - yet embrace Nick Fury and SHIELD when they do THE EXACT SAME THING. Heck, replacing the principal of a school with a SHIELD agent who likely knows nothing about handling kids or education for the sole purpose of keeping tabs on Peter Parker is creepier than finding out your date's father is Killer Moth. The underlying moral is to accept a military juggernaut when it moves itself into your life because they offer cool gadgets. And then there are the small stupid moments, of which there are too many to list. MJ tripping Thundra with jello, the Wizard being treated as almost as much of a clueless mook as Bebop & Rocksteady used to be, the predictable manner in which Flash Thompson is stuck in a locker to end two episodes on the exact same note.

To repeat: the BEST thing you can say about this show is it is trying very hard to be a 1980's cartoon. The problem is that the 1980's ended in 1989, and when a character has had as many shows as Spidey has, a new incarnation has to offer more than hot air, cheap jokes and all the focus of a manic depressive on a sugar high. Even comparing this to a 1980's show is insulting as many shows of the era (not all, but many) attempted to make up for their cheap expectations with imagination or ambition. This show's ambition is to turn Spider-Man into a fart joke at the same time it wants us to feel sorry for him every time Uncle Ben is mentioned. The fact that this is the show that will replace "SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN" on Disney XD's schedule as well as in the hearts and minds of kids with short attention spans is perhaps the greatest tragedy of all. The fact that otherwise great characters like Iron Fist, Luke Cage and even White Tiger have to make their animation debuts as regular members of a show in a show like this is additional bitter repulsion. It will be for them that I keep watching, not for the web-slinger himself. Which is akin to watching "SPIDER-MAN AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS" for Iceman and/or Firestar.

But, in the end I am glad I watched these episodes, because at this point I think I was in need of some perspective. For quite some time I have been endlessly nitpicking the flaws and imperfections that are within "YOUNG JUSTICE". But after watching a show like THIS, I can truly appreciate that even "YJ" at it's worst has more heart, more intelligence, more imagination and more flair than this show may have at it's best. The sad thing is that there may have been something to a MARVEL TEAM-UP style show; a shame that it has to be executed this crudely and ineffectively.
 
Drake, your reviews are always a treat to read, even if I don't always feel the same way you do.

This show feels very disjointed. To honor the structure of the show, my review will be a disjointed list of reactions.

-No theme song? A show this zany and stylized doesn't get a theme song? Not to mention the graphic is transfixed on a solid black background. It kills the mood a little, and it's bland.

-Tom Kenny doesn't sound bad as Doc Ock. I was concerned about that casting choice.

-I prefer Norman Osborn's motivations being more opaque, like in TSSM. I didn't like that he spilled his plan out in the very first episode.

-Gotta love the Wizard of Oz reference. I'm a huge fan of The Wizard of Oz.

-I like that Aunt May is an actual human being. Sure, I didn't like that they had to TELL me that straight out, but I like the approach to the character. I felt like Aunt May in TSSM was sort of heading in that direction, but was still kinda stuck with the doting aunt characteristics. She seemed more in the middle of classic and modern Aunt May. I like that this show goes all the way with a more modern approach to her character. Hopefully they SHOW me more of her, and tell me less about her, which leads me to-

-There's too much telling, and not enough showing. Seriously, everything is explained way more than it needs to be. The "conflict" surrounding Uncle Ben is ridiculous. The part where Peter forgets the birthday cake actually made me laugh out loud for two reasons:
1) We're not given any real reason to care about Uncle Ben. Or even to care about Peter caring about Uncle Ben.

2) Drake Bell's already silly delivery is given in the midst of all this humor and camp. The pacing is so jarring. Also, I don't want Peter to tell me how great of a friend Harry is. I have to see it, or else why am I going to care if he's in the hospital? It seems like Harry's injury was supposed to be dramatic, but it was quick and clearly inconsequential, so what was the point? I guess I'm supposed to care because Peter says Harry is a great guy, but I wasn't feeling that.

-Why, oh, why am I watching Spidey teaming up with this random assortment of heroes? I don't mind that this show is trying to separate itself from previous incarnations, but teaming up with these particular heroes just feels random. Of course the creators have their justification for picking these heroes, but I'm not convinced of their decision. Why is a Spidey team-up show going to be better than a show with Spidey swinging solo? These five were never a team in the comics. It doesn't feel like there are any real grounds for this decision. I hope they convince me otherwise in later episodes.

-I laughed at the bit where Spidey talks to MJ (in his imagination), and she sees right through his disguise.

-I really, really miss Flash from TSSM. This Flash isn't even fun to watch. Flash in TSSM is mean to Peter (in the first season, anyway), but he's still likable. I did laugh at Spidey's antics with the locker at the end of the first episode, but that's it.

-Why the heck do I have to watch Spidey speeding across Manhattan on a bike for what feels like half the episode? I can buy Spidey teaming up with other heroes, but why does he need tech? To sell toys? I'm not buying it. I'm sure the show will get better, but the "New tech!" stuff is strictly garbage, and cheap garbage at that.

-Drake Bell is decent as Spidey. He's funny sometimes, and trying way too hard at others. (And no, it's not about the actual writing. I am just talking about his delivery)

-Overall, it feels really cluttered. The narrative doesn't take two seconds to sit back and breathe. I find that I actually like the first episode, but the second one is a big "meh". I can't see this going anywhere but up, so I am somewhat excited for future episodes.
 
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can someone post a DIRECT link to episode 2? clicking on episode 2 hasn't worked for me so far.

and I'd give episode 1 a score of around 8.5 to 9 out of 10. Sure it's not as serious as past Spidey shows but i think it has a decent balance of action, humor and breaking the fourth wall.

I like how thier idea of him breaking the fourth wall is more so using what's already in the comics and expanding on that for a tv show:

in the comics Spidey is constantly talking/thinking, and when we read his though bubbles when he talks about whatever is going on, is like he is talking directly to us
, this new cartoon only expands on that by ACTUALLY having him break the fourth wall and also using visual elements to give us a better idea of what goes on in his mind.

I kinda like that.

Again I've only seen the first episode. haven't gotten episode 2 to work yet

Oh my gosh, I was gonna post this just now LOL!
People said they hated the 4th wall breakage (I liked it, but do feel it was unnecessary at times), but HE DID IT IN THE COMICS!

I mean, for goodness sake, when he develops the webshooters, he's in the room on his own, but yet he's saying how they work - so is h talking to himself? No, it's common sense that he's talking to the reader. He's breaking the 4th wall there too, but the comics make it more subtle.

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It has always been one of Spidey's character traits.
Sure, he doesn't break the 4th wall like Deadpool and She-hulk do, but it is there
 
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Just watched both episodes. I was really looking forward to this show, but I found myself mentally tuning out. There's too much silly cuts ; some are funny and some are not. They need to tone down on this aspect and keep what works bests. I felt like I was watching a toned Deadpool in a Spider-Man cartoon.

The animation was very nice and the voice acting is well done. There's enough there to keep me interested as a Spider-Man fan, but it needs better pacing. One moment it can be serious and all of a sudden it's ruined by a gag that doesn't fit into the tone of the scene.

If this show fails, I'll be disappointed because it's only a matter for time before ANOTHER Spider-Man show is made and once again we're introduced to MJ, Harry, Aunt May etc I'm tired of these constant re-introductions to the Spider-Man world. I want a show that can last for a number of years, a show that can deliver enough episodes where characters and story-lines an evolve.
 
I've never felt so old then I had watching this show. I felt like I hadn't eaten enough sugar. I definitely felt "wow, I guess I'm just too old for this stuff."

Then Avengers came on, and I remembered that animation doesn't have to be either grim 'n gritty or ADD-addled nonsense. It can be great storytelling for all ages.

Ultimate Spider-Man: D-

Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: A
 
I've never felt so old then I had watching this show. I felt like I hadn't eaten enough sugar. I definitely felt "wow, I guess I'm just too old for this stuff."

Then Avengers came on, and I remembered that animation doesn't have to be either grim 'n gritty or ADD-addled nonsense. It can be great storytelling for all ages.

Ultimate Spider-Man: D-

Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: A

I'd go Ultimate Spider-Man: F--

Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: A+
 
I've only watched the first part of the season premier and I have to agree with what a lot of people are saying, this is just not a good showing for Spidey. The show does not really engage the viewer, everything is spoon-fed so there is really no reason to become invested. I tried not to, but I was inadvertantly comparing USM with TSSM while watching and really that makes me even more disappointed with what they've given us. I wish that if they really wanted a Marvel team up show that they would've retro-fitted TSSM into something along those lines making a season 3. I don't know how much I am going to be able to stick with this one as the site gags are so graiting and overbearing.
 
Tone down the humour and 4th wall stuff

Reduce the SHIELD/Avengers/other non-Spidey villains and heroes to cameos and I think this show could be great.
 
It's legally streamed on Marvel Kids if anyone cares to watch it and didn't have the chance
I've never felt so old then I had watching this show. I felt like I hadn't eaten enough sugar. I definitely felt "wow, I guess I'm just too old for this stuff."

Then Avengers came on, and I remembered that animation doesn't have to be either grim 'n gritty or AD
Somehow the quote ended here, and the post reply page didn't display Spider-Fan quote, something must be off from where I'm using it now

I love the Avengers show, but the starting arc felt confusing at first
 
So far so good! I'm really enjoying the comedy that this show brings. Breaking the fourth wall was good, but sometime I felt it was overdone. However, I think I can get used to it.
 
Watched the episodes 3 times now.
I really like this show, honestly I do.
If people don't like it, fair enough, I respect their opinions.
I'm sure it'll get better with time though.
I wasn't a fan of Superman: TAS or Wolverine & The X-Men after the first few episodes, but they got better.
Different strokes for different folks and all that
 
the 4th wall frozen in time monologues is very Saved by the Bell.... i'm not impressed by this show at all. the animation style is a bit of a let down
 
Really? It's better than TSSM's.
i liked TSSM's. more cartoony in its character designs. I think USM is trying too hard with too many styles.

the cutaways get pretty annoying, it's like they tried to put as many gimmicks into the episodes as possible

Then again that's just my opinion
 
Yeah, the cutaways get annoying.

But I think the primary animation style is miles better than TSSM's.
 
I'll start off by saying I LOVED sPectacular sPider-Man (*wink) and I was sPoiled by how good it was. I saw their panel at SDCC and have a poster signed by the cast in my room. So it's not really possible for me to have an unbiased opinion about this new cartoon considering how SSM was cancelled after 2 seasons and on a cliffhanger so that Marvel could replace it with Ultimate.

It should come as no surprise with that intro THAT I HATE THIS CARTOON. And it's not even a sour grapes thing, I literally groaned every 3 minutes or so watching the premiere. It's like Marvel suddenly forgot how to tell stories and just decided to put out half hour commercials marketing themselves.

First off, there's the narrative. 90% of the first episode was a bunch of exposition told with Zack Morris/Malcolm in the Middle style of Peter Parker breaking the 4th wall and having cartoony cutaways in the style of Teen Titans & Family Guy. <= References to 4 different shows in that sentence. Classically, sPidey narrates via inner monologue and that feels organic to the story. I don't blame them for trying to mix things up with this new style that poorly rips off other shows but when it's not taking away from the story, it feels insultingly patronizing.

Two examples are --SPOILER ALERT-- when he explains what his sPidey-sense is to the audience while he's...not having one. He sees Trapster looking behind him in fear and rather than TURNING THE F**K AROUND TO HAVE A LOOK sPidey wastes half a minute explaining something everybody already knows--and if they don't, could have been explained way better. Another groan-inducer was him cutting away from his concerned Aunt May to tell us he knows what we're thinking; how lame it is that sPider-Man lives alone with his old aunt. Yeah, because everyone in the audience was judging how lame this 15 year old is for living with a relative. He doesn't come from a 2-parent household? How uncool!

Next, there's the world he lives in. Even though SSM had some futuristic tech, it was used pretty sParingly and contributed to the story. Ultimate sPider-Man lives in an Orwellian nightmare. The first thing we hear is JJJ's voice booming from a televised billboard across Manhattan because everybody is forced to listen to his opinions. There is no peace from this man's voice. Even if everybody in NY agreed with him & loved his voice (yeah right) you can see how this is unsettling.

Second, there's a gigantic hovercraft floating over a post-9/11 NY. If I didn't already hate how technology from the year 2075 is just a casual part of the "real world" Marvel supposedly takes place in, the glaringly obvious safety hazard of this government run sPy-base being on and in the air 24/7 makes my brain scream NONONONONONONO--!!! until the commercial break.

World Famous Super sPy Nick Fury (wait, doesn't that just make him a terrible sPy?) has a very public conversation with sPidey, out in the street and calls him Peter Parker. It's not like public bystanders would pay attention to something like this. And he got this information by being a super sPy *coughBigBrotherIsWatchingYouchough* During this conversation he gives sPidey a NEEDLESSLY HIGH TECH web shooter with holographic crosshairs and invisible chameleon mode and probably batteries made of uranium because why the hell not? Screw practicing his webshooting, now there's an app for that.

Also, sPider-Man now has a motorcycle because it's faster then he is. Really SHIELD? Why not a jet pack or teleporter? Oh, because the sPidercycle will sell more toys? Okeydokey.

So the world's worst sPy offers to give sPider-Man government grade training which he turns down--not because of Fury's unprofessionalism or distrust of an ever invasive military industrial complex--but because he's a snarky jackass.

The next day, the Frightful 4--sorry, 3--blow up a wall at Pete's high school and threaten to harm the students if sPidey doesn't reveal himself. They know he goes to this school because the Trapster hid a tracer on a blob of goo he previously shot at him and sPidey admits he doesn't wash his costume. sPidey fights them until police sirens are heard.

=__=;

So...in a New York where there's a gigantic flying sPybase hovering over the city surveilling everybody and there's robots and security lasers and Cap & Thor & Iron Man...3 brightly colored supervillains can blow up part of a public high school full of children and the first law enforcers to arrive after several minutes are cops.

Can I stop here?
 
looks like we Spidey fans here on the Hype are pretty much split. seems like we have always been split about stuff in the past: the movies, the comics, the games, and now of course animated series lol
 
It was really fun watching the episodes with my brother, and I like how we were both reminded of the Weekenders by the greay still backgrounds and Spider-Man talking to the audience

"Locker Knocker Time" for the win
the 4th wall frozen in time monologues is very Saved by the Bell.... i'm not impressed by this show at all. the animation style is a bit of a let down

Really? It's better than TSSM's.
Don't you guys mean 'the art style'

looks like we Spidey fans here on the Hype are pretty much split. seems like we have always been split about stuff in the past: the movies, the comics, the games, and now of course animated series lol
Definitely
 
I think the show is fine but too much randomness. When Spidey explains things he goes into too much detail.
What bothers me is how "Ultimate" was slapped on to the title, the show hardly resembles the Ultimate Spider-Man comics.
Also, the whole "SHIELD tech" stuff is a bit meh. Probably added to sell toys.

Other than that I like it.
 
It was really fun watching the episodes with my brother, and I like how we were both reminded of the Weekenders by the greay still backgrounds and Spider-Man talking to the audience

Holy crap! It does! :woot:
 
I think the show is fine but too much randomness. When Spidey explains things he goes into too much detail.
What bothers me is how "Ultimate" was slapped on to the title, the show hardly resembles the Ultimate Spider-Man comics.
Also, the whole "SHIELD tech" stuff is a bit meh. Probably added to sell toys.

Other than that I like it.

That's funny. I think it very much resembles the Ultimate universe with a hint of regular Marvel thrown in. Especially when it comes to Peter Parker's home life and S.H.I.E.L.D. His villains I'll have to wait and see, though. The Frightful Four were pure regular Marvel.
 
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