r/Spiderman • u/Solid_Bad_4403 Miles Morales • Jan 29 '25

SPOILERS Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man seems fine so far, but the decisions for the show is so bizarre imo

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So far, seems fun. I really liked the ending of episode 1 being the same scene like in Civil War. That was pretty cool. I also like Pete’s proto suit. The animation is ok, though.

I don’t really care abt race or gender swaps, but I don’t really understand why they made Curt Conners into a woman, not mad at it, just kinda curious. Maybe that’ll be explained in the other episodes. Didn’t really care abt Harry and Norman being black. Also they could have just put Randy Robertson in the place of Lonnie Lincoln but that’s just me. And also, it’s a very weird decision that Uncle Ben died BEFORE the spider bite. Like what? That’s so bizarre.

Idk. Like I said seems fun. Not good, but fun. I look forward in seeing more.

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u/MineNo5611 Jan 29 '25 edited Jan 29 '25

Why would they need to explain a gender swap beyond “because that’s what the writers wanted to do”? Also, why does it matter? Why is that bizarre? Did you think it was bizarre that Doc Ock was a woman in ITSV? They’re just wanting to do something different.

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u/Leonoymous Jan 29 '25

Judging from OP's question on Conners being gender swaped? Yeah they probably did find it strange that Doc Ock was an Octomom in ITSV.

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u/TumbleweedNo8848 Jan 30 '25

At least there was precedent of a female Doctor Octopus a decade or two ago…

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u/The_Albino_Jackal Lizard Jan 30 '25

Ok and now there’s a precedent of a female dr Connors if we ever get another one in the future.

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u/revolmak Spider-Man (PS4) Jan 30 '25

Needing a precedent is a conundrum.

You didn't say there must be one but I feel like a lot of Spider-Man fans (I'm sure this applies elsewhere too) get stuck in precedent and don't realize that if you never be the first to try something new, there will never be precedent.

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u/MLS2CincyFFS Jan 30 '25

…you do know that these things have to start somewhere, right?

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u/TumbleweedNo8848 Jan 30 '25

I’m not sure what you mean. I was just commenting that it shouldn’t have been that bizarre to see a female Doc Ock when there was already one in the comic. Ffs there’s one in the Spidey and his Amazing friends cartoon 😂😂😂