Marvel Animation

[Dr. Insomniac]

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So... Magneto/Rogue seems to be a thing they're hinting at. That's really weird. And yeah, I saw they've had a fling in the comics, but everyone's had a fling among the X-Men.

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[Dr. Insomniac]

So that's why the X-Men '97 guy got fired. Lmao.

[Dr. Insomniac]

So... weird choice to emulate the MTV Spider-Man cartoon's animation.

[Avaitor]

At least it's not woke or whatever.

[Daxdiv]

I tried watching it earlier and the animation style is a bit of a turn off. It really does feel like animated cut scene from a video game like TellTale Games, but on an even lower budget than those games.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

I'm also not keen on the animation style. That aside, I watched the first two episodes with zero expectations. On the plus side, it was pretty decent as far as animated Spider-Man shows go, so far (I still have no idea if this is supposed to be the MCU Spider-Man or not). On the negative side, it just makes me wish I was watching TSSM instead which was just a better version if what this show's trying to be.

[Dr. Insomniac]

For what it's worth, it didn't actively annoy me like Ultimate Spider-Man, nor was it dull like the 2017 show. Unlike those two, there's something here that feels more than just padding to fill in Disney XD schedules. And I like this show's Norman, even if Norman's a pretty easy character to not fuck up. But some of the adaptation changes confused me like Nico Minoru and Amadeus Cho being part of Peter's circle, or him being friends with Tombstone. Or when Doctor Strange showed up in this version of the origin story and his voice was so grating and out of step with everyone else.

(I still have no idea if this is supposed to be the MCU Spider-Man or not).

I assume it isn't since Ned's not here and it'd seem pretty weird to introduce a whole new cast if continuity means Peter will leave most of them behind in a year at most. I imagine it's like how that MTV Spider-Man cartoon was meant to be a sequel to the first Raimi movie, but contradicted so much stuff and it was obvious Raimi didn't watch an episode that nobody seriously acknowledges the connection.

And yeah, as far as Spider-Man cartoon shows go, it's at least above the usual curve. Poor Peter's had a pretty uneven track record of animated series. One really good show that ended before its time, the very cheesy and over-the-top 90s series that I still like and occasionally rewatch nonetheless, the bizarre and poorly animated 60s show that's carried mostly by memes and Bakshi insanity, and that's about it in terms of the good ones. I guess Amazing Friends was decent enough. Everything else though, Christ. At least Unlimited had a cool opening?

At least it's not woke or whatever.

Genuinely curious what he meant by that or if he watched his own show, because there was a whole montage of Tombstone getting racially profiled by cops and onlookers when he was walking home from school.

[Daxdiv]

Genuinely curious what he meant by that or if he watched his own show, because there was a whole montage of Tombstone getting racially profiled by cops and onlookers when he was walking home from school.

I saw someone mentioned that Peter's VA meant that there wasn't things like a Trump stand-in or some long rant about White Supremacy or the Patriarchy. Like, I need to find a source for that, but as far as I can tell, I didn't see anything like that in the 2 episodes that premiered and I do think with how diverse the cast is, it sort of tracks for me. All I know is that the director/showrunner had to defend Peter's VA by saying that he misspoke.

[Daikun]

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur's final episodes are all up on DisneyNOW.

https://disneynow.com/show/f31300a4-1a25-47c0-8f4f-ec2c85a81680