The Reel Rejects - SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN Season 2, Episodes 7 & 8 REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:01:06 Seriously, I love them. More on them after the reaction. I got nothing else to say to the people except... Oh. Let's watch in three, two, one, Spider-Man. I like that there's a credit for just the voice of OzCorp. It wasn't like a... like the voiceover of the tech company? I guess it must be.

Starting point is 00:01:26 I missed it. Like, where would that have been? Either way. Either way. Uh... gang war episode gang war is very common in spider man uh it's something i've won i feel like sony at the level of like making the movies writing the scripts and like especially the PR side gets and love spider man i feel like whoever runs the very tippity top of spider man doesn't want a gang war movie but the rest of us do yeah and that was a great example yeah um two episodes very different and i really like that the we've often had the two episodes kind of parallel this

Starting point is 00:01:55 was the opposite where they couldn't have been more different uh but that shows spider man like the difference between like a singular villain like Venom and a full-on gang war in one episode that juggled so many villains, so many different tones, also moved the plot along, as did the Venom episode. Those were great. Yeah, absolutely. I love the dual hot potatoes of like Spider-Man's identity being probed, potentially revealed, then going to the next episode, a physical, just like MacGuffin challenge, basically. And then to have it end up that it's, yeah, not even the real one. I thought it was, yeah, really fun. And, yeah, it adds to the whole, like, greater, like, ooh, grand master scheme, adding to the villainy of Norman Osborne that's been long just stating across the show. And, yeah, like, to go from one super personal, very sort of vendetta-oriented episode to just, like, a big old kind of free-for-all. I mean, it does narrow down to a few specific players, Sable and Hammerhead, namely, and then Rhino comes in. But, like, still, you know, it does feel like a big, sort of broad, all-encompassing or broadly encompassing situation.

Starting point is 00:03:00 And I like this sort of shadowy, you know, auction scenario, kind of... Doc Ock playing off sides. Osborne, shown to be still a villain. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's the thing. It's like there's so much in the second episode, especially so much whiz-bang and so much action and stuff like that. But they did take time for those little details.

Starting point is 00:03:17 And that first episode, that's some of the best action I've seen in a Spider-Man cartoon. Like that first, the Venom episodes in my top, like three episodes of the series so far. I think they really made a new Venom story playing with a lot of the Venom lore. Like he's always in the shadows, but then can throw down. He's always trying to like break him psychologically. The vendetta is between both Eddie and Peter and Venom and Spider-Man. And they really did a good job making the hate be what fuels them while also being so manipulative. It felt very much like two specific Venom arcs.

Starting point is 00:03:48 It felt like the ultimate Venom, but also felt very specifically like Todd McFarlane's venom. Because he always made Venom so like, he like stalks Mary Jane to get it. Peter Parker, like, he, like, makes her terrified to the dark and, like, literally makes her psychologically traumatized to show Peter that he can. And that felt very, like, McFarlane's venom. And then ultimate venom, obviously,

Starting point is 00:04:09 being the Eddie Brock growing up together with Peter Parker. Like, they did a really good job blending those, but I really liked that they use the gene cleanser to make it, like, a separation, because it kind of makes sense that if your genes themselves were affected by the symbiate, the bond, you could separate the two.

Starting point is 00:04:23 So I liked that use of that kind of, you know, Chekhov's McGuffin from earlier season one. So that first fight, all that cinematography was dope. I was really impressed with the overall style. I love the interstitials of you know, the Peter Parker is. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:04:38 interviewing everybody to try and figure out who he is or if he is Peter. The Flash, again, that's a Steve Dickko, Stan Lee era story where Flash is kidnapped and Spider-Man. Like they did so much in that episode. And then the next episode, like Gang War, there's a few iconic

Starting point is 00:04:54 gang war stories, but one's a full-on. arc that takes place in I want to say 73 to 75 and it's like across the pages of Peter Parker Spider-Man and Amazing Spider-Man and it's like a full-on event and they captured a lot of that tone

Starting point is 00:05:10 here making it feel large in life making it feel like more than one episode felt like a full mini series like they really between these two episodes showed the different worlds of Spide yeah no it's like and we've had so many great like because we watch these mostly impairs

Starting point is 00:05:26 we've had so many good complimentary ones and I thought this one had a nice contrast between the two because the one is so personal and they both have a lot of action in them but yeah one is so heavily predicated on like the foundational aspects of Peter and Spider-Man and all that stuff and then the rest is sort

Starting point is 00:05:42 of the surrounding world at large you know and I think that's a really fun combination just for the luck of our draw and then to have even all these little details about like you know George Captain Stacy kind of revealing

Starting point is 00:05:57 subtly, but not subtly at all that he's like... My students! My students in criminology class would learn a thing or two for a situation like this one. I realize if someone knew his identity that he would be in danger.

Starting point is 00:06:10 Yeah, and everybody he knows. Like, but it's so... Why was Peter a class alone? I know. And under the guy, like, I guess it's smart. Again, it just shows how good of a detective Stacy

Starting point is 00:06:23 is so that he's not dropping the facade. He's still just, He's still just treating it like, oh, stay after class. Stay after him and have a little bit of an extra lecture for you. And then he lets him know without directly letting him know. Do not talk to my daughter. Yeah, pretty much. And that stuff too.

Starting point is 00:06:39 Like, they even found time to have him. They had that whole thing where he was having to save Gwen. And then they wind up in the little heart thing together. And then Liz is the best. He's going to break Liz's heart. I was very torn because Liz Allen in the beginning in the comics, they like, will, they won't they. She ends up with Harry. But Liz Allen is.

Starting point is 00:06:55 is the popular girl that kind of, like, uses Peter in that first season. And then we see that evolution of her, like, growing out of that popular girl, kind of crappy personality into this lovely girl. And I was like, is it a trick? Do I? And then, like, when she's the best ever, because that's way more heartbreaking. And who's this new girl? Her patience. Oh, my God.

Starting point is 00:07:18 Her getting Peter Parker as Spider-Man, but not knowing. And this little cuteness. And then MJ's new guy. Who's that? Yeah. Who's that guy? So many threats to the romantic... So many romance.

Starting point is 00:07:28 Yeah. And I mean, I love... I don't know. We've talked about this much before. I'm always delighted when people can work a romance into something or multiple romances, multiple will, they's, won't they's. And make it feel totally natural and totally of the spirit. And like, these were such, again, sort of momentous and action-oriented episodes. They were big.

Starting point is 00:07:52 And yeah, like, especially that first one, we're, like, at school. for half of it. So, like, you still feel the rest of the trappings of life. 22 minutes. It does, like, it's like, he had sonics. He had fire. He took him out with a different, like, mechanism. Yeah, figuring out, like, how to, how to, yeah, disrupt the symbiosis.

Starting point is 00:08:10 We had an hour-long fight also in 22 minutes. We had, like, we had all this interpersonal stuff and the interstitials. Yeah. To this in a movie. Do it in a movie. Do it in a movie. And I love, like, they keep doing this thing with the helicopter and I'm suspending it between buildings, which is always going to remind me of that teaser.

Starting point is 00:08:28 We were going to get five seasons of this in a movie. I am hard. It hurts. We only have five episodes left. It hurts my soul. We've only got one more pair and then a three year. And then a triple. Yeah, I know.

Starting point is 00:08:37 I am two more shoots. Are we going to see Flash's bottom in a midsummer night's dream? The finale is just a midsummer night's dream. We just seen the play of Midsever Night's Dream. One, two, because you've had to Harry Osborne with the more obvious, like, addiction struggle arc. But here I like that with Eddie Brock and Venom, like it does I think there's sort of like a

Starting point is 00:09:00 abusive relationship commentary happening as well, but it is a little bit like a junkie thing too where he's just like being reeled out and he's yeah he's addicted to he's like 28 days later. Yeah. But no. We've all been there in our teens. Yeah, but him being like

Starting point is 00:09:16 carted away and just sort of still you want his soul to be reclaimed somehow but it seems like he's still just like suffering this in of like, yeah, he cannot unfixate on Venom. Who was the voice of Kingsley? Or in the second episode.

Starting point is 00:09:31 Let's find out, Koi. Let's see. Let's sing. Who do we got? Andrew. No, wait, that was a Kingsley, but it wasn't a Kingsley. There we go.

Starting point is 00:09:41 Frederick Fuzzle. James Arnold Taylor. Courtney B. Vance. Well done. Courtney Vance. Not bad at all. Hey, Greg Weissman was Minkin. Not bad.

Starting point is 00:09:51 That's hilarious. I like that. Hell yeah. What a great, and again, I said it a couple episodes ago, but if you are enjoying this show and our watch of this show, Greg Weissman is currently writing The Spectacular Spider-Men comic book. It is not tied to this. It is, in fact, the first ongoing series of Miles Morales and Peter Parker in a series together.

Starting point is 00:10:10 Damn. They've done team-up miniseries. They've done team-up, like, individual. This is the first series. It is written by the guy who writes the show, and it is illustrated by Rimbardo Ramos, who is one of the, like, iconic Spider-Man artist. So it's cool to see the difference in Miles and Peter working off each. other it's cool to see them like broan out as Peter and Miles in civilian form like

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Starting point is 00:12:32 This past Wednesday, the 17th of July, issue 5 dropped. That's usually how they're doing trades. Why, in my day, it was 6, but now it's like 5. So that means probably two months from now the first trail will be out, because that first 5 is one storyline. So you can pick it up as floppies right now, or wait a couple

Starting point is 00:12:50 months in computer as a trade. As floppies. They call them floppy? That's what I call. You can pick them up on a floppy disk. You can get a floppy, like OzCorp. You can get an Oscorp floppy disk. That's what you do. It's a super floppy disk.

Starting point is 00:13:01 Yeah, it's got jazz drive. It's got gigs. Oh, remember jazz drives? Man, that's a throwback. We're old. Zip disc. And it was so chunky. I remember it looked like a thick floppy with three seas.

Starting point is 00:13:11 Hey, man, those were satisfied. They had a lot of... Satisfy to chunk it in there and turn the thing. Yeah. How many megabytes or kilobytes could you get on a single flop? And the flop just had like my, my what's it called dysentery

Starting point is 00:13:26 for Oregon Trail on it just had to how it died that's all that's a lot floppy it just had disintery insert the next disc to get your dysentery and lose the game in Oregon Trail

Starting point is 00:13:36 that's great I think that's everything we cover both apps we cover all the vibes we loved it very much I'm very upset we've only got five left we met Hobie Brown

Starting point is 00:13:44 we met Hobie will Hobie be Prohler as he is in 616 will Hobie be Spider Punk as he is in modern mythology will he be neither tune in to find out Well, maybe not because it's five seasons.

Starting point is 00:13:55 They only got to find a no, they're going to answer everything in these next five episodes. I'm so sad. That's all that's left. Don't even trip my dude. There was something I saw in here. Oh, I like the idea, finally, to close off. I don't know. This whole secret auction thing was cool because it, you know, there's obviously a network of rogues and gang, you know,

Starting point is 00:14:15 gangs and various highly, you know, leveled criminals and whatnot. But it felt a little bit like, you know, underground secret cabal. And I like those vibes. Not that I expect like a full-on, you know, Spider-Man Court of Al's, but, you know, it does feel kind of like that sort of like swanky, criminal underbelly thing that's pretty intriguing.

Starting point is 00:14:38 Yeah, and I hope that comes to play again more of the season. I feel like it will. Yeah. I mean, I feel like something like this, this little gang war has got to have some spillage. It's going to have some collateral. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:14:49 So I think that's coming. That might be the finale. Big man. What a show. What? a program been enjoying it love me some spectacular spider being enjoying it uh it's real good leave a comment below let us know what you thought of our thoughts of these episodes which ones did you like most are we inevitably going to be distraught when this ends in five episodes on a on a

Starting point is 00:15:08 cliffhanger of a two of five seasons and a movie i'm upset i get it now i'm real upset did i'm sorry to interrupt your my trauma your trauma thanks john disavow them Did Jonah put up the money for Faswell to, or Faswell as a fair for his fake bid auction thing? Did he put up like millions of, because when he showed up, they were like, hey, you're, you're, you only got $5 million or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, your guy pulled all the funds out of your bidding account. I was like, who's supplying his big bucks for this billing account? Maybe he's like a hacker, like fake numbers. Because I did have to have respect for it.

Starting point is 00:15:51 I was like, oh, because it's a gangster. Because, you know, he's got such a prominent mustache. You see him in disguise and you're like, I wonder if that's Faswell. And then it is. It brings up a good point. He's in, like, he clearly is good enough to infiltrate this auction. That's how we got the last Pulitzer. Who's bankrolling this guy?

Starting point is 00:16:06 Blitzer doesn't pay that much. And, yeah, if not Jonah, then who? All right. Let's find out behind the scenes. Let us know in the comments below who's bankrolling Faswell or Fasbear. We're very curious. That's the secret identity among the cabal. We will see you next week for episodes 9 and 10.

Starting point is 00:16:22 we lead into the sunset, the spectacular sunset, Spider-Man. You need something to fill the void already. Maybe that new bad end show. Yeah, Cape Crusaders coming on. Could be the move. All right, let us know in the comments below if you'd like to watch that as well. All right, much love, Reject Nation. We'll see you soon.

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The Reel Rejects - SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN Season 2, Episodes 7 & 8 REVIEW!!

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