Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks; sometimes, it just sucks and nothing quite feels right or goes right, you know? Therefore, let us talk about the new ‘YFNSM’ show instead.
The show’s premiere – a double feature – started strong
enough; we got to see Peter Parker in becoming the titular character and in
action as the titular character; we saw some of his classmates, including
Loomie Lincoln, who’s probably going to become a villain named Tombstone soon
enough, and Nico Minoru, who is usually one of the Runaways instead, (remember
the live-action series? They were not bad, especially the first two seasons,
but that is unimportant); and more importantly, we met the Osborns – Norman,
and his son Harry. They are important, because both would wear the mantle of
the Green Goblin, Spider-Man’s archenemy, in this universe. Pause.
All of this is delivered/depicted in a style that
feels like a vintage comic book series, which is also impressive, but, the fact
is, that ‘YFNSM’ is yet another reset of the Spider-Man universe; everything is
new in it – new faces, new redesigns for the old faces – and yet nothing stands
out: Spider-Man has so many TV cartoon shows under his belt that so far this
feels just one more face in the crowd.
The 2024 movie ‘Kraven’ about the titular foe of
Spider-Man, on the other hand, was something new – so far, until 2024, Kraven
never had a movie of his own, and was, indeed, often passed over in favor of
other Spider-Man foes, such as the Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus. In the 2024
film, meanwhile, we saw Kraven, as well as other characters like the Rhino and
Chameleon, and, well, meet them. Pause.
Kraven wasn’t a good movie; one of its’ problems was
the mishandling of the plot. It was supposed to be a ‘hero’s journey’ sort of
plot, such as it was in the other SUMC movies, and all of them have their own
problems; in Kraven’s case, it was the timeskip – one moment we see the titular
character in his youth just gaining his metaphorical footing, the next he is an
adult and is already established himself in his world – but we don’t see it, and therefore we cannot relate to him, or
accept his progress, because it isn’t there. Team Sony would have done better
in making ‘Kraven’ a two-parter: first part is Kraven’s youth, and the second –
his adulthood and dealing with the Rhino, (for example). Instead, team Sony
compressed those two films into one, and failure was the result.
And yet, with ‘Kraven’ team Sony tried to do something
fresh and new, while the ‘YFNSM’ TV series just give us another ‘life and times
of Spider-Man’ package. There was a Spider-Man cartoon show on TV since the
second half of the 20th century, so up to now ‘YFNSM’ is not making
any breakthroughs for Marvel™ - but maybe Marvel™ doesn’t need them right now? ‘Kraven’
was flawed, and AAA… well, we’ve discussed AAA at length during the 2024, and let
us not start now – it’s done for the moment, hopefully…
In fact, for the moment, we are done, as the new Spider-Man show does not offer too much to
discuss for the moment. (Proportionally, it is already better than AAA was). Therefore,
for now, this is it. See you all soon.
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