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[Hide] (273.7KB, 503x375) I'm the fag who mentioned watching Spider-Man: The Animated Series and just thought I'd mention that I finished it and do a bit of rambling about my thoughts. Having seen the entire show now, I did actually like it a lot even if there were things about it I wasn't a fan of. The ending felt rushed due to the show getting canceled, for one thing. And I'm not knowledgeable about Marvel lore, but I thought bringing in Electro on an episode and having him be the son of the Red Skull was pretty dumb. There was some pretty heavy censorship, but I consider the most egregious part the way the word "blood" wasn't allowed. The word "plasma" is repeatedly used in the Morbius plot line, which just sounds silly. I didn't like what happened with the Mary Jane storyline, but I guess the final episode sort of set things right even if it wasn't quite satisfying to me. The animation might be choppy and the 3D CGI old-fashioned, but I find the latter more charming than anything. Where I think the show really shines for me is the long story arcs. It feels like there's a genuine sense of progression going on over the course of the show. The voice acting was generally really fitting too, even if it can get hammy at times. Maybe it's more nostalgia than anything, but Christopher Daniel Barnes is how I always imagine Spider Man sounding. They managed to get some pretty impressive names involved for a kid's superhero show, including Ed Asner, Mark Hamill, Martin Landau, and David Warner. David Hayter played Captain America, but I don't know enough about his work to say it was before or after his Metal Gear Solid voice acting.
Another thing that made the show so appealing to me when I was a little kid was how many crossovers there were with other Marvel superheroes. I tend to dislike "deep lore," but in this case I appreciated the sense of expansiveness it gave to the world. It made it feel like Spider-Man was part of a larger world despite being the focus of the show. My favorite episode of the show as a kid was the first Secret Wars episode where Spider-Man transports the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Captain America, and Storm to an alien planet to help him take down a team of villains that include Doctor Doom and the Red Skull (in addition to the usual Spider-Man villains). I remember seeing it once and wishing they'd air it again. One of the other ones that came to mind was the episode that introduced the different versions of Spider-Man from alternate realities. Pic related. That was the second-to-last episode, and I'm not sure that I ever caught the finale despite how much I watched the show back then. It got me thinking about whether or not Fox continued to air the show after it was canceled. The Wikipedos say that the show was canceled in 1998 but continued to air into 1999, and that lines up with my hazy memories. Apparently it was also brought back in 2001, but I don't recall that at all. I do remember it was later syndicated on Toon Disney during the second half of the 2000s, but obviously that was a good amount of time after it originally as part of the Fox Kids block.
My opinion overall is that I wasn't let down at all and thought it made entertaining background viewing.