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joysweeper) wrote2008-09-22 11:47 pm
joysweeper) wrote2008-09-22 11:47 pm
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Started watching the Spectacular Spider-Man over the Internet - specifically, here. It's pretty good. Not the perfect show, no, but not bad at all. Characterization for Peter Parker is spot on, I have to say. And although it's certainly derivative, hey. Just have to expand on Sandman and Venom here.
My favorite movie remains Iron Man, but my favorite scene in (almost) any movie(BINARY SUNSET, so much longing in a single moment... Love Star Wars, always and forever) is the "birth" of Sandman in Spider-Man 3. Ah, yay, I can embed again!
Who knew that a roiling pile of sand could convey all these emotions?
I really like transformations like that, into something totally and absolutely inhuman, and yet he manages, painfully, to struggle back, to move like a man, to pick up the locket and stand. I like when they do things that just shouldn't be possible, they learn how to function again. That's maybe my favorite kind of transformation. Ideally it would take longer, but hey.
Anyway. Episode 5 of SSP, they make Sandman, and it's a traumatic process all right. He bloats and explodes into sand which piles up everywhere, then slides up into a half of a man shape, and then he does the Big No. Then there's a scene cut, and when we see him again Hammerhead's saying "You gotcha sand legs, sand clothes... and now you're in color! It's not so bad." And then of course he knows all his moves, yeah yeah yeah. I wish they expanded more on these villains. The Rhino didn't really have to learn much to go from powering up to supervillainy, and Doctor Octopus likewise... hmm, actually, I guess most of them should be pretty much ready. But Sandman didn't go from a man to a man with cybernetic enhancements or a suit or even the inability to turn off a constant, powerful electric charge. He turned into sand. Sand that can, somehow, make itself look human. I did like that detail "Raw silicates only! I don't eat food anymore".
Aaand Venom. More specifically, the symbiote. The symbiote's always interested me more than Venom. I wish they hadn't made it evil like that. Seems like it's always evil, always negative. It causes emo table-dancing, it makes its host do things while asleep, it amplifies all the negative emotions. But I really liked its presence in Peter's thoughts, the way he started thinking "We" instead of "I", that scene where it takes down the Sinister Six(I think) and takes pictures and sends them to the Bugle, various other little things. I like that they explicitly mentioned that Peter was its "first love", quip or not. In the original comic where it was expunged, the bells were killing Peter and the symbiote saved him, even though he was telling it that he'd rather die than be its slave. And in Spider-Girl, Normie Osborn "tames" it. And it turns out that it amplifies whatever's already there. I like that. I like that a lot. Damn it symbiote, if it'd just pleaded more, promised to be better, told him that it would die without him, he would have taken it back. I think. I'd have liked to see that. Weird relationship, yes. Still something I can't help be curious about.
The villains in general just are so flat. They're generic evil. Sandman does mention that he's in it looking for the "big haul", and maybe in future seasons he'll be a more sympathetic villain. Maybe. There were only thirteen episodes in this one, and the new one isn't until next March.
My favorite movie remains Iron Man, but my favorite scene in (almost) any movie(BINARY SUNSET, so much longing in a single moment... Love Star Wars, always and forever) is the "birth" of Sandman in Spider-Man 3. Ah, yay, I can embed again!
Who knew that a roiling pile of sand could convey all these emotions?
I really like transformations like that, into something totally and absolutely inhuman, and yet he manages, painfully, to struggle back, to move like a man, to pick up the locket and stand. I like when they do things that just shouldn't be possible, they learn how to function again. That's maybe my favorite kind of transformation. Ideally it would take longer, but hey.
Anyway. Episode 5 of SSP, they make Sandman, and it's a traumatic process all right. He bloats and explodes into sand which piles up everywhere, then slides up into a half of a man shape, and then he does the Big No. Then there's a scene cut, and when we see him again Hammerhead's saying "You gotcha sand legs, sand clothes... and now you're in color! It's not so bad." And then of course he knows all his moves, yeah yeah yeah. I wish they expanded more on these villains. The Rhino didn't really have to learn much to go from powering up to supervillainy, and Doctor Octopus likewise... hmm, actually, I guess most of them should be pretty much ready. But Sandman didn't go from a man to a man with cybernetic enhancements or a suit or even the inability to turn off a constant, powerful electric charge. He turned into sand. Sand that can, somehow, make itself look human. I did like that detail "Raw silicates only! I don't eat food anymore".
Aaand Venom. More specifically, the symbiote. The symbiote's always interested me more than Venom. I wish they hadn't made it evil like that. Seems like it's always evil, always negative. It causes emo table-dancing, it makes its host do things while asleep, it amplifies all the negative emotions. But I really liked its presence in Peter's thoughts, the way he started thinking "We" instead of "I", that scene where it takes down the Sinister Six(I think) and takes pictures and sends them to the Bugle, various other little things. I like that they explicitly mentioned that Peter was its "first love", quip or not. In the original comic where it was expunged, the bells were killing Peter and the symbiote saved him, even though he was telling it that he'd rather die than be its slave. And in Spider-Girl, Normie Osborn "tames" it. And it turns out that it amplifies whatever's already there. I like that. I like that a lot. Damn it symbiote, if it'd just pleaded more, promised to be better, told him that it would die without him, he would have taken it back. I think. I'd have liked to see that. Weird relationship, yes. Still something I can't help be curious about.
The villains in general just are so flat. They're generic evil. Sandman does mention that he's in it looking for the "big haul", and maybe in future seasons he'll be a more sympathetic villain. Maybe. There were only thirteen episodes in this one, and the new one isn't until next March.