The Reel Rejects - SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN Season 2, Episodes 9 & 10 REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:01:33 that's big that spread across like four different comic titles but there was also a smaller gang war in the 76, 75 era that like Goblin was manipulating everyone. So that like was a fun mislead as a fang because I thought

Starting point is 00:01:47 they were going to tell one story and they told a totally different one and then I was like, it's got to be King Pit and then it was obviously Goblin the whole time. But once again, Harry or Norman because Norman manipulated Hammerhead and did the mask thing

Starting point is 00:01:57 but Harry had the glowing green vials And Norman said that thing He's like, oh, I got somebody Yeah, yeah And Harry wasn't around Is he manipulating Harry for this Or is he taking up the mantle And looking and sounding exactly like his son

Starting point is 00:02:13 Well, I mean, he saw the power Harry had so Yeah, and that's a fascinating switch Or like instead of you know Passing it down from father to son You know, acquiring it Yeah Or has he been the goblin the whole time And he was sending Harry on the lackey

Starting point is 00:02:26 Oh my God And the globulent green just made him kind of strung out and not actually the gob. Yeah. I don't know. Playing the long game. So these two episodes kind of tied together. Kind of like the last episode is the first time they didn't really tie together.

Starting point is 00:02:42 But yeah, those two are both great. Like the... Well, I feel like the last time we watched probably the introduction of Silver Sable probably starts this little gang war arc. Yeah, that's true. That's fair. Because yeah, we just met Silver Sable. Just met Silverman.

Starting point is 00:02:57 We did that Sandman episode, which was great. And it kind of stood on its own. And then, yeah, we had the sort of big, yeah, gang brawl. Yeah, start into this. Over the hard drive or the rhino drive. Yeah. So, yeah, I guess this is, yeah, these ones matched much better. Yeah, these paired.

Starting point is 00:03:13 And then it kind of as a trio, you're right. Really liked the manipulating of the villains. I thought it was fun. They were all pointing at each other. I thought it was really interesting. Yeah, exactly. I thought it was really interesting how they finally revealed Tombstone to the public, but also that's because.

Starting point is 00:03:29 of the, like, George Stacey relationship. Like, I'm really digging their vibe. Yeah, absolutely. This feels like the Gang War Comics. This definitely feels like that era. Like, it's really fun to see stuff. We don't get to see this adapted very often. Like, this is what I wanted them to do the next movie out of,

Starting point is 00:03:42 a smaller, more contained story. You know, keep it to New York. Keep it smaller. Like, not a global threat. Like, literally protect your city. Because that would be Kingpin, Daredevil, you know, new villains we haven't seen. Scorpion can come back.

Starting point is 00:03:56 Like, this is... We need them to fight Galactus, Corey. Obviously, he's got to go to space. only one who can take the power cosmic. He's got to be silver surfer. Spider-Man has gone cosmic. It's not the move. I'm sure. Tom Holland, small, contained Spider-Man.

Starting point is 00:04:07 How many times has he gone magical, mystical, Spider-Man? Definitely more than I like. He's a friendly neighborhood guy. Well, and that's what they're so, and I'm sure we've said this in multiple ways, but yeah, I was in these episodes re-appreciating how they're able to make

Starting point is 00:04:23 this feel appropriately big and exciting and, like, destruction's going down, but also like, this is kind of lot for Spider-Man to take care of. And there's a reason these fights are prolonged, not just because you know, they're cool and stuff, but because, like, this looks like hard work. Yeah. And it looks like it takes a lot of energy

Starting point is 00:04:39 and mind power as well as physical power. And I really like the messages being given by that. Like, this is a lot of work, and he's doing a lot. And, like, the Tombstone Beat down, all those fights are cool. But at the end of the day, the human part of the story is my favorite. Like, I really like that Flash is seeing that you're getting rewarded for being a good person. And I like that

Starting point is 00:04:55 kids watching this and adults watching this are seeing that. I like that Peter did a really dumb thing and he's our hero but like we both winced and like that's immediately not acceptable. I'm yeah like I get I'm not mad dramatically because I think it does make dramatic sense

Starting point is 00:05:11 of like of course like in the in there's got to be a follow I got to rush out you know in that absent minded moment I mean I'm sitting here going you need to if you're going to make up a cover or you're dealing with people you need to be in character until you're out of the room Peter yeah but at the same time being like you know still a teenager

Starting point is 00:05:27 I get how he'd be like I got to go Gwen, I'm sorry, but also at the same time, I'm like, dude, dude, like, that's the one moment I've wanted to strangle Peter for the most. And yeah, and it, yeah, I like that they've taken time across this, especially with Liz. And they've done it with Gwen as well, but like, I think more subtly with Liz to give her just moments where she's just reading the room and kind of reacting to it. And you can tell something's on her mind and they wait a while to pay it off. and yeah like this is this has been so great because uh because i so am rooting for them like i want that to happen actually and it's over and i know that yeah it's over now and or it you know most

Starting point is 00:06:09 likely is and i know that gwen is like the canonical like he's got to be with gwen yeah but mary jane's still there and and yeah and i like that they've made all three of them interesting and distinct characters but that i am like sort of heartbroken for liz Reject Nation, as a business owner, I'm actually terrible at tracking finances, believe it or not. It's something I work on a lot because I can be forgetful. I can have terrible oversight when it comes to tracking things. I'm sure you can understand the immense hatred that comes with the feeling of forgetting to pay for something or the feeling of consistently paying for something you forget to cancel or something that you just simply haven't thought about a while, so you keep paying for it, which is the same thing as what I just said.

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Starting point is 00:08:23 Like, why does he know this crime thing? Where to get that money? But then about his sister, he's like, no, no, no, no. Uh-uh. Like, immediately. You're not going to hurt my little sister. Every character has so much going on that even, like, we've barely heard Mark Allen speak other than hit on Mary Jane. But immediately we're like, oh, that fucking, don't mess with their sister.

Starting point is 00:08:38 Yeah. That's so smart, such good writing. Yeah, I love it. And even their vibes together, like the fact that they'll still take time for that to be like, hey, you know, we're both just not attached. We're just party people, look it out to have a good time. And then that is the kind of person that would be drawn towards crime.

Starting point is 00:08:53 Sure. That is the kind of person that would be like, here's a lot of flow. It's like that's so perfect. Yeah. Even Kong's little moment at the end where we didn't really see

Starting point is 00:08:59 it was at the table and he kicks flash. Like, it does a really good job making everyone interesting. Peter's still obviously the lead, but I like that we can be mad at him for doing something stupid because people do stupid things.

Starting point is 00:09:08 I like that I could see season three being Gwen and then Gwen dying at the end of season three and then four and five being Mary Jane. I could see like, it's such a shame this guy. I know. I knew when we got here.

Starting point is 00:09:20 It hurts more with each episode. I knew we'd get here and I'd be upset and it happened. And it happened. It's finally happened. I want those scripts so bad. I want to just read the outline. I know. Call Greg Wiseman.

Starting point is 00:09:30 You're like, hey, bro, what will we got? What is the plan? Can you come on a live and break down the next three seasons? Yeah, yeah. Can we Expend 97 this, please. They should. We can have a multiverse. I mean, I know there's a new Spider-Man show coming out, but multiverse.

Starting point is 00:09:43 I'm sure this is like, you know, everyone who has already seen this is like, I remember my first crabbing paddy. exactly must be nice to only now realize how frustrating it is but at the same time I'm like this is so good I feel like you could make it an honest case and maybe they could resurrect how many honest cases but also but it's been yeah it's been what since 2008 and uh he was he is in the spider verse movie though that is this character that is true he is in spider verse yeah that with his specific it's weird when we're watching the show I I get acclimated and everything looks totally natural and then when I see him when I see him next to others

Starting point is 00:10:20 Spider-Man, I notice how small and also how like interestingly shaped his head is. His proportions are weird. Yeah, his proportions and stuff. But it's perfect on this show. And I've really enjoyed, as we've constantly pointed out, but especially in these two episodes as well, like the interesting choices of sound design and using the spaces and really making like whatever place they're at,

Starting point is 00:10:42 like part of the aesthetic theme. And the holidays. I really like the setting, like the time and place. Yeah, it's been really cool. Absolutely. and that you get these little glimpses like yeah you have like the fight that's going to break out at the opera and you have things happening at the you know valentine's dinner dance and all that stuff but like they bother yeah i don't know they make every choice feel like someone put thought into it and so it's like you know we get the opera house as kind of this little wrap around here or at least we keep checking in and we keep using it's the same way we did the the videotape for flash's birthday or the monologues for the play are very various other motifs they've used. And I think, yeah, they make a setting

Starting point is 00:11:22 that you're about to have a fight in a place with a personality of its own that kind of flavors everything. And even when it's like, you know, a subway shaft or it's, you know, a room full of gold bricks, you know, everything gets like a little bit of flavor and a little bit of seasoning. And I think that's like, again, like watching something

Starting point is 00:11:40 like this is super fun and enjoyable, obviously. And, you know, it's gratifying. I would especially have to imagine, like, as someone who's read all the comics. But I think you could, like, low-key study these. just for like... Storytelling. For storytelling

Starting point is 00:11:51 and for ways in which you can use animation and sound design to like complement the storytelling and enhance it accentuate. Also in two episodes we had like eight villains

Starting point is 00:12:01 and it didn't feel heavy. Like we had henchmen in one and then like villains in the next. Yeah. The henchmen in the enforcers and they were leveled up into powered henchmen and then we had full on supervillains

Starting point is 00:12:11 in the next one. And none of these are except Doc Ock characters that get too much exposure in other mediums. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like they're not go-to bad guys.

Starting point is 00:12:20 Yeah, and that's what feels illuminating is it feels like, at least for me, yeah, like you have, you know, your certain upper echelon, like, classic Spider-Man villains, and then, you know, you kind of have like an A-B-and-a-C-tier on this particular show to me, whereas, like, you've got Goblin and you've got Ock, and then you've got, like, a shocker or an electro, and then, you know, you've got the, what's his name, you know, the ox and ricochet and the other guy who's shocker. so you know you've got like these multiple levels shocker and then you've got like the other guys kind of below them yeah and uh and yeah like you feel the I feel like the power stuff is scaled well because it's like yeah he can take on like two or three or four like

Starting point is 00:13:01 you know kind of enhanced but you know low level thugs and like that's one level of fight but then when you get like four of like the bigger villains together it's way harder he gets crowbarred underground train station yeah crushed by gold bricks that was crazy um and these two episodes too like you know like we said a lot of

Starting point is 00:13:17 these have felt very complimentary, but these two almost felt like they could just be one long episode. It felt like a one-two punch of henchmen into villains. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I, too, I like the motif of the ride-around, the ride-along too.

Starting point is 00:13:28 And what's her name, Flash's ex-girlfriend, who is forced for a moment to care about Peter's existence. I forget her name, yeah, that's great. And the trash thing coming back with the suit smelling bad. I love George Stacey.

Starting point is 00:13:39 Look at how paternal he's looking at him. Like, I love the bond. Yeah, the show is everything people prepped us for, and it is so, bittersweet that we only have one more of these. Please do leave a comment below. Let us know what

Starting point is 00:13:53 Hobie Brown was going to do. If we'd gotten five seasons, let us know. Does he always become Spider- Punk, or does he become other things? The prowler. Why in my day, that's the prowler. No! Hobie Brown is the prowler in 6-16 continuity. I feel like I knew

Starting point is 00:14:09 this, but had forgotten because I'm used to not seeing him. Which is why it's also fun play around with the lore of Aaron Davis and and Miles and all them becoming the prowler like the lore of Donald Glover is interesting

Starting point is 00:14:21 because of that character change there's a whole thing but that is gonna do it for this episode your lovelies we will see you next week for the finale of season two

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Starting point is 00:14:40 I had to say it series finale next week here on the real Rejects Watch in tragedy the end of spectacular Spider-Man. Much love, Regnation. Leave a comment, leave a like, hit subscription bell, press buttons,

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The Reel Rejects - SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN Season 2, Episodes 9 & 10 REVIEW!!

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