The Spectacular Spider-Man goes for the glory as the competition increases.

On the heels of the Spider Man 3 movie, I was looking forward to seeing that this series’ version of Sandman would be after and how he’d be animated. I wasn’t disappointed, the Sandman’s transformation was just as good, if not better than, as the Lizard’s. I liked that he wasn’t interested in neither revenge nor redemption. He just wanted money (who doesn’t with that recession going on). To add fuel, there was the Freudian slip about the Big Man.

Good to see a gallery of future villains again. Doctor Otto Octavius appears to have a timid side. It’s a welcome change from his arrogant portrayal. It makes more sense to me that his dark side is released after his fateful accident and the timid personality was just a mask. And it was an interesting move to have Emily Osborn. To me this definitely foreshadows a certain goblin appearing soon as I don’t remember what other purpose she served in the comics….

Correct me if I’m wrong, but the football try outs was straight out of the comics or was it invented in that movie trilogy? Old age. Old age. But it made sense that Harry Osborn was athletic (well, more than Peter before the spider) as it makes his later transformation more believable. Cool minor character cameos! I think we had Gwen Stacy, Hobbie Brown, Glory Grant and Stan Carter. Nice to see that Gwen’s feelings are starting to become more apparent but whom will she go to the social with, Harry or Peter? And, Hobbie Brown, will he become another misunderstood costumed character? Even Glory Grant has appeared. It looks like the Daily Bugle staff is getting thicker by the episode.  

If anything, even the Spider-Man haters had to love this episode. I’m pretty sure he got a couple got a couple good cracks handed to him. It really implies nicely that at this point, Spider-Man is still a novice hero, much less a fighter.

If you haven’t started watching this series, there isn’t much competition, give it a shot.

The Spectacular Spider-Man "Competition"
Written by: Kevin Hopps
Directed by: Troy Admonitis