Dark Goblin was pretty normal.
I was distracted by how much he looks like Grimsnarl from Pokemon.
The connections to the spider team was a huge surprise, especially with Swarm. I'm sure that was a new thing for the show and not a comics thing. Chameleon was great since the sister came out of nowhere.
Yeah, the series ending Kinda makes the Swarm reveal kinda weird imo, since it comes out of nowhere and we get no build-up or anything. Which is why I agree about Tarantulas really being Chameleon since the whole time I was thinking "where the hug is all this sudden drama coming from?" Maybe if season 3 has been a full 26 episodes they could have explored any of this better.
The WEB collective was a good note to end on but other students coming in would have been nice. We didn't even see how smart Alexei Rhino was. Plus Cho and Riri would be great at WEB, though I don't know how old they are. Plus Anna Marie.
Grady was great but he should have been Otto. Kinda sad that he was really dead dead. Otto was only 19! Poor guy. Maybe he could have returned if it continued. Also love Scott Menville's voice for Otto. For some reason, I didn't connect it to Grady's voice. Didn't hear the tinge of Robin Titans there until you mentioned it was Scott M, haha.
I knew it was him immediatly because to me Grady sounds and looks like "poor man's Otto" in this show. Which is further why I agree that Otto shouldn't have died. Grady just feels weird the whole season, and then he's suddenly there at WEB with the others, being the only one not in the loop. And yeah, I also Kinda hate that we didn't get even ONE episode showing Anna Marie. Even showing her as like one of May's survivors with no VA would have been better then the nothing she got. Otto's Death just adds nothing to show.
Also too bad a Season 4 never happened, they could have renamed the series WEB of Spider-Man.
Nothing happened with Sandgirl and her killing her dad. So odd.
Ollie Steel Spider and Clash and Shocker disappeared, darn! They would have been great classmates.
Oh yeah, during the mob Superior stuff, Big Wheel was mentioned as being taken down. But we never saw him.
This is sorta my biggest complain with the series, that it feels like a lot of the "smaller details" get lost in the series. There's just stuff that comes and goes never to be mentioned again.
Miles was named Spy-D in one ep. Subtitles called him Kid Arachnid. Was there any official name for him? Even the kids CGI show Spidey and Amazing Friends named him Spin.
Yeah, the Marvel Wiki uses Spy-D for this version. I can't believe they found a worse name then Ultimate's Kid Arachnid. Really guys, Arach-Kid right there, much snappier imo. And yeah, least both are better then Amazing Friends' Spin, but not by much. This is the other side of the coin to my "Not liking Miles being called Spider-Man in universes where he and Peter are both active heroes at the same time" with the Comics being the one exception to that since that's Miles literally getting transplanted to the main universe. I feel him also being Spider-Man in those universes kinda robs him some of his identity. The Flip side seems to be, No one can come up with a good Alternative hero name for him. I like Miles, I like him as a legacy character. I just feel there are issues in adaptions when he and Pete are both heroes at the same time.
Since I wasn't reading the reactions and stuff, how was 2017 Spider-Man received? Because I kinda love it. I know everybody totes Spectacular Spider-Man as peak Spider-Man but 2017 is actually really good! For comic fans, especially. I hope people liked it. I think Ultimate Spider-Man was sorta putdown for the faux anime comedy stuff.
A lot of people hate the first season, and I think wrote the show off very quickly. Largely they hated the animation and art direction. For me, I'm with you. I think this show is one of the better Spider-Man cartoons. For me it would probably go 90's, Spec, This. Though I'm also one of the extreme few that also liked Spider-Man Unlimited. I don't dislike Ultimate Spider-Man, but as I said I feel like this is a direct response to it since its so much of a "back to basics" type series, while still being fresh and new thanks to Slot's influences. I mean, a lot of that was gonna happen anyways, but to me it's kinda just how much focus they seem to put on him being a Solo here. And if you like this series, there is an Avengers and GOTG series that takes place in the same Universe. Marvel Animation was kinda trying to make its own shared Universe.