The Reel Rejects - SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN Season 1, Episodes 3 & 4 REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:00:57 Visit your local Sierra store today. This week's video is sponsored by Rocket Money, a personal finance app that I've been using for about a year and a half now before we ever partnered up with them after the reaction. And I'll tell you why I love them so much and what they are onto the video, Rejectation. Going smooth. We're going to do great. All right, now without further ado, episodes three and four in three, two, spectacular. All right, so that was episode three and four of spectacular Spider-Man. I get why it's revered.

Starting point is 00:01:29 What did you think? I had a blast and a half with these, man. Like, yeah, these, it's always funny when we watch a show two episodes at a time because every now and again, like, thematic pairings will arise. And I definitely felt like this was the, for us, the week of, two weeks of, if I guess you watched these in real time, of yeah, as you've been referring to it, Parker Look. And I love, I love the way that they've been doing that from the more obvious aspects, like with the money to, you know, even little moment, like, you know, obviously he debates taking the

Starting point is 00:02:04 gene cleanser. But even just like you pointed out, that moment where he walks by it as he's having this crisis. Yeah, the more subtle. And then they were like, we're all the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And like, it was really hitting me, especially in that first episode when he has to leave when he's like, I'm just going to, I'm just going to get home. You know, like that's such a, you really do feel like the weight and the pain of the choices that Peter always has to make where it's like, it makes you look like an uncaring sort of spineless person to do this and to maintain the secret. And you really, I think it just really naturally creates that tension of like, man, you just

Starting point is 00:02:40 want to tell the couple important people, but you can't. And you're literally like alienating everyone in your life. Like secret identities aren't like, it's always like, why wouldn't they say anything? But you know the danger of it. But they do a really good job showing why secret identity be hard. Yeah. And just, you know, the way and they continue to balance things. that are certainly, you know,

Starting point is 00:03:00 sci-fi and action-heavy, but with, yeah, character beats and things that are endearing just on a personal scale, to me, you know, in my limited vantage point, feels very quintessential of a Spider-Man piece. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:03:12 And so, yeah, it's like you have things here that are definitely fun and imaginative and enjoyable, but also, like, that first episode, you know, you had all that monster movie shadow and lighting and, like, you know,

Starting point is 00:03:23 all these gray color palettes and, you know, the way that they kind of tweak the style, you know, that I thought was really fun and yeah the tragedy of somebody like Dr. Connors and and you know I don't know exactly if we're done with that or if that's gonna you know come back down the line but you know I enjoyed that that got to be an episode where it's like we do some not in the same direct focal way that like in a no way home they did some science to solve the problem right but the problem was ultimately like yeah there's a fight but we need to solve this with yeah some kind of antidote that is related to this whole scientific process in general. So while it's not necessarily focused on Peter as scientific mind, it is still a techie, science-y,

Starting point is 00:04:05 and that's the character. Yeah, and that's a way to make it more than just always having to punch, you know, some like, you know, kind of villainy guy. And then, you know, you go to Shocker, who is more of that just like, I do this because I'm good at it and it's my duty to do it. I got a promotion. Yeah,

Starting point is 00:04:21 exactly. And I'm curious about how that mantle is going to, you know, move around maybe. And what they're building with the bigger. Like, I really enjoy how they've split the difference between the episodic and the serial. I like the Keith's David Big Man's tell has been revealed that I'm assuming his kingpin. But I do like that it's been, you know, kept as this ominous figure. Sure, absolutely.

Starting point is 00:04:41 And one of the reasons I like talk about a lot, how Andrew Garfield's my favorite is the tech, the science. Like, I feel like he got to do a lot more science. Toby had the webs automatically, like they were organic. And then like Tom gets handed the suit. And like he does obviously get like some moments of little stark stuff in the second. second one and everything else but like the third tom holland film feels the most like he is a scientist and he does have technology like all those things come to a head and that's why it's my favorite spider man movie but i do feel like andrew garfield played with the science he you know designing

Starting point is 00:05:11 the web shooters and the second one like the battery and like Gwen stacey helping him with science and all that stuff and this show's doing a good job showing he's as intelligent as he is heroic that he is you know a genius 16 year old and like i do love the parker moments of debating the camera or not, and they pay it off that he didn't at the end. Like, that was cute and clever. Like, I don't know. They're doing a really good job, like, getting the heart of Spider-Man,

Starting point is 00:05:35 but still being quippy. Obviously, that's part of the heart, but they're still being quippy in a modern sense. I was a little afraid the comedy would be of the time, whenever this was, and not the 60s or today. Like, it would just feel like a 2000.

Starting point is 00:05:48 It would be stuck in the 2000s. Yeah. So this really works. I'm really impressed with the villain choices. I don't personally love Montana as shocker, but that's just me because I'm dedicated to the character. Love shocker. But even like that was a really fun little like subverting of no one but me cares about the shocker.

Starting point is 00:06:04 So that's a fun little way to subvert canon in a way that doesn't affect it negatively. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And too, just like all the little details. Like I was sitting here drinking in, like especially every time they cut to the daily bugle, like the there are like a couple of that and like inside, you know, there are a couple times where I think it's in two different places. And it might just be one of those animation things. We're just like, oh, reuse part of this. But, like, there are a couple different papers framed on the wall of, like, Jameson buys the bugle.

Starting point is 00:06:32 Oh, that's great. And there's one for the moon landing, which is, like, right next to that. So it's, you know, like, just little fun deets. And, and, and, yeah. I also like that they're playing with, like, old canon. Like, all these characters are from, like, this bugle feels like the 60s in its own way. Sure. But a little modernized.

Starting point is 00:06:48 And, like, these are Ditko and Lee villains. Like, the Enforcers was issue five, I think. Like, it was really early on. So, like, Spider-Man was introduced in 601. I think they would have been like 62. Like, these are old villains. So it's kind of cool to see people that you probably wouldn't know if you're not a comic fan. Yeah, I mean, that that as a consortium is on the newer side to me or is a detail that I think doesn't rise quite as high in the cultural osmosis as like the individual villain characters.

Starting point is 00:07:14 But I love that too because I feel like especially in movies, it's easy to forget about the fact that you would just have like mid-level or lower-level criminal organizations. And I love that we see Flint. And the other guy... I missed his name. And I actually was wondering if it was meant to be Hydraman if I was just assuming. Sure, yeah. It was like, oh, something.

Starting point is 00:07:33 But having those two, just always being out here, always, you know, doing crook stuff. Yeah. And then they're not, you know, powered up yet. And then we get that teaser of Norman Oswald. I know, the shirt. Yeah, like just having all...

Starting point is 00:07:46 It feels like a world. Yeah, like the hammerhead dealing with Norman Wall and Foote and King Fend. That's very, like, layered villainy. Yeah. Like, there's a lot going on. I do want to talk about the lizard episode because I feel like I don't want

Starting point is 00:07:56 just focus on the most recent, but I love that the family dynamic of the Connors was the focus. Because I do feel like a lot of people know the lizard from the Dylan O'Brien, I think is his name. No, that's that modern actor. Dylan Baker.

Starting point is 00:08:12 A justice for Dylan Baker, lizard. I was waiting. I love him. I feel like that's such a, like, that's why we know about him, but like, I don't think of his family in those Sam Ramee movies. And then Risa Fons didn't have a family. Yeah. So, like, the Connors are, deeply. They've been

Starting point is 00:08:27 the long time. But I feel like the Connors are as important to me as Kurt. Like, I really love Billy. He gets kidnapped a lot. He gets turned into a lizard at least twice. He gets blackmailed basically like, you know, from other villains. Like, Billy is a fixture of trauma. And they're actually

Starting point is 00:08:44 go through a storyline where like Billy is like dealing with the trauma of his father and he's your eyeline for an issue. Oh, wow. This actually made me feel like it was an investment in Billy. Like that moment with him and Eddie on the skateboard. Like they're like, they're giving him moments. So I really enjoyed that like Martha and Billy felt like characters.

Starting point is 00:09:00 And Martha was the one to deliver the line of like, I'm not mad, I'm disappointed and you're fired. Not Kurt. A lesser show would have just been like, Kirk Conner's angry. Wow, Lizard. They made it a dynamic, which I dugs. Reject Nation,

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Starting point is 00:13:33 some way by just conveying this message it has helped you out too thank you re-eject nation yeah and he recuses himself he's like yeah i can't point fingers yeah i just turn to the fucking lizard yeah you know i yeah and i brought that up on myself yeah yeah and then having even that like the the the shift it's like as of that episode Gwen and then you have the thing in the gym later With the ball, it seems like, classic spidey. Yeah, and it's like you start out with this trio of Peter, Gwen, and Harry, and then, you know, it seems like, and you kind of got Eddie kind of floating over here. Which I did the slow burn Eddie. I do too.

Starting point is 00:14:06 We've got a slow burn blizzard payoff. Now we've got the Eddie that can pay off later. We've also got slow burn Mary Jane first mentioned even episode four. Like, I love when they take the time to do stuff like, and when you know that you're not going to get like canceled any minute. Yeah. You can spread out and do that kind of stuff because, yeah, like, you know, the different times. in which we encounter him in the city and things like that and the way just that kind of stuff feels a bit lived in and the little moments where he's zipping around and yeah it's the middle of a fight but oh there's kids in the subway you know yeah just those little moments that help to flesh the world out and yeah like they're doing such a nice job of leading with the supporting characters in a way or at least enhancing making you care via the supporting characters which is so much of like the stakes of especially a spider man but so many superheroes is really like the people close to me ah you know some of them are falling down the wrong path some of them are just in the path of danger

Starting point is 00:14:58 some of them are just students that i see only in that setting some are more than that yeah yeah it feels like new york like the subway the day to day people it's i don't know this is really solid i get the appeal i get why people have loved it uh i really love the 90s animated series but i haven't rewatched it so it is nice to experience something as an adult new as opposed to just i my knee jerk reaction was like we should just rewatch the 90 show because i haven't seen it since but it's nice to have brand new not knowing what's coming, not knowing like Herman Schultz

Starting point is 00:15:26 gonna be Montana like those things are cool but now I'm thinking we should also rewatch the 90 show because like that is so formative like that would be so guys

Starting point is 00:15:33 I haven't seen since I was a child yeah I don't think I've rewatched more than an episode because I was like looking at a character adaptation reference but it would have been like that 20 minutes

Starting point is 00:15:43 I don't think I've rewatched any of those since it went off the air and I would have been like seven so like that would be as a Spider-Man fan that rediscovered a way to get people to

Starting point is 00:15:55 in... Like I was reading the comics then I learned to read with them but I remember I'd hook people with Spider-Man and that was the first show that I actually remember when my parents

Starting point is 00:16:03 were going out of town no, it was when my little brother was being born so I was nine was the only time I re-watched it and it's because I used to tape them on VHS's and I would edit out the commercials

Starting point is 00:16:17 so I would watch it and I'd stop and I'd record and I remember like being so upset if I missed the first 30 seconds because I was like wrapped up And, like, that's how I watched it again. So I probably missed many episodes.

Starting point is 00:16:27 So, like, I would love to go back as an adult having read them all. So call to action, Reject Nation, leave a comment below, share this video, like it. And if this gets enough, we'll watch maybe the 90s one. But obviously, we're loving the hell of this one, too. It's just, it's a hell of a thing that it reminds me of one of my favorite adaptations in a good way. So having a blast. Much love to this. Thank you all for encouraging us to watch it.

Starting point is 00:16:51 Like, share, subscribe. Hit buttons, thwip buttons, swing all over the web. Okay, I'm tired. We're going to go. Much love, Reject Nation. We'll see you soon for episodes five and six. Thank you for telling us to watch this. It's delightful.

Starting point is 00:17:06 Much love. Bye. Andrew Hayes. Andy Hayes. You know, it's funny as we could just be silent for a minute. See if he notices. Thank you. He doesn't realize he's still pledged to us.

Starting point is 00:18:05 We technically did do the shout-out. I mean, yeah, we dedicated time. We said his name, man. There's a time slot here, dedicated and recorded. We made files. So, um, technically this is, we're, technically the shout-out's done. Yeah. There's no agreed upon content.

Starting point is 00:18:24 Really, we just need to say his name. And then we did the job. Andrew Hayes. And we did it twice now. A few times, actually. You say it three times and he comes back to life. Oh, no. Careful.

Starting point is 00:18:43 All right. Okay, I think if we just sneak out of here, we're good. Okay. I don't know.

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The Reel Rejects - SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN Season 1, Episodes 3 & 4 REVIEW!!

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