Thanks to the wonders of YuTube, I've finally caught up on seasons one and two of Spectacular Spider-man.
Y'all probably know is one of the main guys behind the look of the show. You may also know that I hate that bloody mole that he stuck on Pete. really man, did you have to? It's like someone planted a tick or beauty-mark right smack dab under his eye. You get used to it after a while, but it still drives me up the wall. (heh, Spider-man.. wall.. I made a funny)
But even more jarring then that is the first season banter, which made me want to strangle Spidey myself. Doc Ock and Electro will just have to get in line, that's how bad some of the jokes were... and I'm incredibly forgiving when it comes to banter and gawd-awful jokes. The King of anoying moments in the first season, however, was the venom saga. For the most part, it was handled fantastically... until we go into the battle for Pete's soul. The melodrama there would make Twilighters and Captain Kirk want to puke. I couldn't take it in the least, it was so bad and over-the-top. Again, as with bad jokes, when it comes to melodrama I am supremely forgiving, but this just turned my stomach. The rest of the Venom arc was awesome, but this was a shining moment of mush. I could deal with the flash-backs, I could deal with the battle with the symbiote, but when the images of his friends and family stand between him and the symbiotes swoop in on dust devils, with the sappy-as-hell music reaching it's crescendo... I could take it no more. I had to stop the video and take a dump, just to break up the fail.
Yeah, I hated it THAT much.

However... season two shone. The love triangle, the villians, the evil plots, the story arcs, the return of the green goblin... all of it took on a whole new level, turning a mediocre show into a fangirl geek-fest. I was bouncing on my bed, trying to figure out where they would play true to the original story (master-planner is Doc Ock, Captain Stacy Dies, Norman Osborn is the Green Goblin, Liz Allen marries Harry Osborn,Doc Ock dates Aunt May, etc) and where they would turn the plot on it's heels. I knew that they knew I knew what had happened in the comic, so they effectively screwed with my head, using false leads, doing the obvious and then flipping things on it's head, retconning one thing while staying true to another.. all of this to the point where I even questioned if Norman Osborn was the Goblin or not! That's tough to do, because Gobby is my favorite spider-villain. At the season finale I was beside myself. I went as far as to burst into my sweetmate's room and wave my fan-girl colors. "You would not believe what just happened in Spidey!"
The banter was better, the characters, the themes... so much fun, so much geeky goodness. I even started singing that stupid-as-hell theme song. (The more you listen to the lyrics, the dumber they get.)

That's how I spent yesterday... in a fangirl paradise. I haven't enjoyed Spidey this much since before Spiderman 3 came out. (A truly incredible low.)

I you want to catch it on Youtube.. well, I'm not going to give you the name of the channel, but make a search, the full two seasons are currently up, but be quiet about it. If too many people start faving and linking, the mods will shut it down. You know the drill.

Art Update: Ready to start on fullsize table, prepping for Fri 13 review, and finishing shark drawings for drawing show.