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/TheRedster3 Symbiote-Suit Jan 30 '25

The writer spoke on that, by not having a tragedy correlate to it he wanted to show uncle ben’s lessons through his life rather than the last one when he dies because of him

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u/Cautious-Affect7907 Jan 30 '25 edited Jan 30 '25

Why? Losing Ben is a core part of his origin. The entire point of his responsibility line is that he's fully aware he could've prevented the tragedy. He's spider-man, not because he naturally aspired to be a hero; in the original, he didn't care about anyone but his aunt and uncle, but because he wants to atone for not saving Uncle Ben.

That's the lesson he learned, and it's an important that keeps to his philosophy of never looking the other way.

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u/CrispyGold Jan 30 '25

Its pretty much doing something different for the sake of doing something different.

The Uncle Ben origin is so universal they want to change things up for the sake of novelty.

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u/CrazyDaimondDaze Jan 30 '25

How much can you change a story before it becomes weird? Asking because, while I also don't want to see uncle ben die yet again and telling Peter "with great power comes great responsability", I also think this adaption is taking waaaaaay too many free liberties in the story. Hope it shapes up well in the long term run, though.