WEBVTT - Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Episodes 1 and 2 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:04.280 Warning today's episode. Today's spoilers for the first two episodes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:08.479 the really fun episodes of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider Man 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:27.800 on Disney Pluce. My name is Jason ECCEPSI. 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.480 And I am your Friendly Neighborhood Rosie Knight and. 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.640 Welcome back to x ray Vision, the podcast we dive 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:38.600 deep an your favorite Joe's movies, comins, and pop culture gobbyras, 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:42.920 where we're bringing you three episodes every single week. 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:47.320 In today's episode, Spider Man, Spider Man, Cam marvel Land 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:50.520 and Animated Spider Man. Yes he swings from a web, 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:52.360 but he doesn't sound like a kid. He's got a 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:56.000 mature accent. Look out because we are reviewing Your Friendly 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:56.959 Neighborhood Spider Man. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:01.000 First two episodes are on Disney Pluse. Right now, let's 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:01.720 go to the air lock. 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:06.479 Okay, as we step out of the air lock, let's 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:09.840 first do a spoiler free review of the first two 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.760 episodes of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider Man, in which we 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:17.640 get an alternate origin story for Spider Man, as well 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:21.520 as some reimaginings. If you're a Spider Man, you know, 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:25.839 a longtime Spider person spider fan, then you're gonna see 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:31.560 some reimaginings of Spider Man's friend group, the people around him, 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:34.800 the way he gets his powers, and also reimagining of 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:40.119 his rogues gallery. Quick top level thoughts, this is fun. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.759 I think you and I both have concerns like. 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.120 I had it. We didn't know, we didn't know where 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:45.320 it was. 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.080 What if did not hit for us in that way, 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:52.240 And it's obviously hard to top anything or even come 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:54.440 close to X Men ninety seven. But I was just 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:58.320 really pleasantly surprised by these first two episodes, which I 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.560 probably shouldn't have been because Trummel, who is the showrunner, 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.560 he is an incredible creator. He's a big hand in 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.920 Craig of the Creek, which just finished, and I. 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:09.120 Just should have not. 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:11.919 I probably should have known that this was going to 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.239 be targeted directly at me because I love a show 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:16.880 with a big group of kids, and all the kids 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.000 are going through it and they're living their life and 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:21.920 you just want to protect them. And also I was 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.920 kind of blown away by the breadth of characters that 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:27.200 we meet in the first There's. 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.839 So many, I mean many, so many right away. 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:32.360 But you know, you know what, it kind of reminded 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:35.440 me of is like the old Spider Man cartoons that 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:37.440 some of which are on Disney. 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:39.720 Plus we still. 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:40.080 Don't have it. 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.880 Yeah, the eighties one, especially when you go back and 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.360 watch those as an adult, you are like, oh my god, 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.040 every famous Marvel character is in these episodes. 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:49.639 Like you go back and there's. 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:54.880 Lizards there, and you know some random, like deep cut 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.639 kind of female character they created just for the show 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.680 who went on to be part of the Marble universe. 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:03.200 Like when you go back and watch them, that eighties 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:05.760 ninety Spider Man show, you can really watch every single 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.160 major arc happen in it, and it's very direct, and 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.480 it's very much like a sort of adventure of the 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:14.920 week occasional kind of crossover plot lines. But this reminded 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:16.880 me of that because family characters, though are but it 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:21.519 felt more like contemporary animation, where there is a direct 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.720 plot that is going through this show. Every single episode 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:25.520 is gonna connect. 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:31.079 Yes, and visa vis animation. I was a little bit. 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:34.160 It took me a little bit of episode one to 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.840 kind of get used to it. I was I was like, God, 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:38.960 am I watching Archer? 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:42.640 But the action is line weight definitely screamed. 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.280 Yeah, the action is one reethera line weight is quite 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.160 very bold. A lot of contrasts. 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.440 Very critic say, I. 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.400 Was feeling like, allegedly they were trying to go for 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.240 that Dickco kind of jomre me a senior look, and 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.360 I do feel like that. But for me those it's 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.520 got that samny crispness, that kind of throw back to 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.720 the gold Yeah, I'm the same, you know what, I 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:07.120 think this most the first episode watching it, the reaction 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.160 I had that I think is most akin to another 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.000 show that we love, is like, you know, the first 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:13.360 time you watch like Rebels and you were like, this 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.480 animation style is just I don't get it. 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:16.200 I'm old. 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.800 This is made for kids who are so much younger 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.680 than me. But once you get into the characters, you 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.160 begin to love it. You love the character designs. This 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:26.880 happened to me very quickly in this show, because Yeah, 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.760 there are just certain choices they make that we'll get 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:33.159 into in our recaps that I feel like, just scream like, 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:35.960 we love comic books, we care about comic books, and 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:37.960 we want to make a great comic book TV show 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:41.200 for kids, and I think that's so vital and needed, 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.440 and I love you know, I'll talk about this more. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.200 But I think, you know, all of us come into 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:47.960 a show like this and we think, oh, well, what 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.400 about the Mars Morales Spider Verse. That's groundbreaking, that's a 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.240 whole different space, like what can Disney do? And I 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.120 think that the biggest impact that Spider Use had on 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.520 this is actually not the animation, but the fact that 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.440 now because of Spider Verse, because of Miles, you have 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:06.920 to realistically render New York City and what it's actually like. 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:11.640 And this to me feels like this diverse, melting pot, 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:15.320 like gorgeous, kind of probably way more close to what 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.880 kids actually at school go through nowadays. And yeah, I 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.680 think Spider Verse is like so impactful on so many levels, 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.279 and it kind of moved me that that was the 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.480 big thing. Also, we do get a funny new reimagining 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.520 of Peter's origin that's definitely in that MCU space of 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.880 always behind Miles, Like whatever happens to Miles when Peter 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:38.400 starts doing something with Disney, it's probably Miles influenced. 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.480 Well, we will talk about all of that in detail 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:46.760 as we move into our spoiler filled review. 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:52.120 Spoiler filed, so the spoiler alarm is going off, guys. 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.240 We'll be right back after word from our sponsors. 0:05:55.040 --> 0:06:11.080 Yeah okay. 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:14.520 Episode one, Your Friendly Neighborhood spider Man, directed by Mels Wire, 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:19.440 written by showrunner Shift Frommel we meet the teenage Peter Parker, 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.480 and he's everything that you think about when you think 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.479 about Peter Parker. He is very smart, he's late for 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:26.839 school as he always is. 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:32.920 Awkward, he's a little awkward. He lives, still have out May. 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.800 We've got hot name makes her animation debut, but I 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:41.599 love it. Uncle Ben is already dead in an event 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:47.240 that seems to be not connected to Spider Man's evolution 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:52.880 in terms of his crime fighting philosophy. One thing I 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:57.239 want to say about about Hudson Thames. He does the voice. 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:00.000 He does have a deep, kind of like a scratchy voice. 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:06.960 We need to normalize Spider Man Peter Parker having a 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:12.480 very very like thick New York accent. Yes, I don't 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:17.400 understand why he doesn't sound like a fucking beastie boy 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:18.320 or something. 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.840 Exactly from Queen's Let's let him let him. 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:26.360 Happy, let him the accent, let him sound like one 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:27.280 of the Ramones. 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:29.080 That's all. 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:33.160 That's all I'm thinking. One of these days we need 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.440 to do a accent correct spider Man. 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:39.680 I'm very excited for that day. I think it's gonna come. 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.280 So it is Peter's first day of school and he's late. 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:46.520 He goes to Midtown High which is a renowned school 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:50.240 for its science program, notably robotics, which Peter really wants 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.400 to get into. As he walks up to school, May 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:57.800 drives him in a portal, A Strange portal opens up. 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:05.160 Doctor Strange the school and a venomized like alien that 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.760 looks like a brood maybe alien. 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:13.040 Yeah, something outrageous, huge kind of collar, but it has 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.400 and it has ant facial. 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:16.120 Features, ant face. 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:17.480 Right, it looks. 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:23.920 Like a Starship Trooper's drone insect that has been venomized. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:28.720 Doctor Strange begins fighting this thing, although he realizes that, 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.120 wait a second, I brought it to the wrong He's 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:34.400 probably meaning to bring it to some like limbo empty 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.080 world where there's nothing, but he accidentally brought it to 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:38.720 whatever this reality is. 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.600 We do get a great moment here which we've this 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:43.840 is the kind of thing that nobody else cares about 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:45.680 apart from people like me and Jason, And we've talked 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:47.120 about this a lot, and it's one of my main 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:51.199 issues with Doctor Stranger the MCU. Finally here he gets 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:55.120 his leper prink gloves, his famous lepper prink gloves, and 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:56.840 they're right there there in your face. 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.000 And I also have to say, Dick co vibes big. 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.920 I have to say as well, once the action started 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.680 and we saw how they animated Doctor Strange, you saw 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:10.199 how they animated the cape. I love the sentient cape 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.040 in the mc I think it's so great. Once that happened, 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.120 I was like, Okay, this is a show. I was like, 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.199 the way that they bring to life action in this 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:22.600 show is really really great, especially when there's so much 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.000 emotional teenage kind of school drama to go along with it. 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:27.480 But this scene really sold me. 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.200 I would love to see more of Doctor Strange in 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:31.360 this animation style. 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:37.040 So the school gets like completely wrecked, and it's a 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:40.400 wonder that there aren't twenty or thirty fatalities. 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:41.600 I'm saying. 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:48.680 The fight the tea Strange and the and the symbiote, you. 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.600 Know, like smashing every months. 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:55.560 Peter shows his heroism by distracting the symbioda as it's 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.319 about to attack a student, allowing Strange to come in 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:02.360 and lasso the thing back through the portal and they're gone, 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:08.520 but a spider from that dimension powered up on something 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:14.720 symbio juice who knows though some kind of radiation that 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:18.680 pervades whatever reality came from we don't know, remains behind 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.640 it drops on this on Peter's collar and it bites 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:25.040 him as he is introducing himself to the student that 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:26.959 he saved, who is also a freshman who is named 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:31.560 Nico Minoru. Who's that Rosie. 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:35.800 Nicko Minor is? Yeah, she's absolutely fantastic. 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.760 Character first made her debut in Brian Cavaorn and Adrian 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.600 Alphone is smash hit like Cult Classic. 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:42.880 Loved this. 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.240 It was a game changer when this comment came out Runaways, 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.480 which is about a bunch of kids who had to 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.320 become superheroes off of realizing their parents with the villains. 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:52.760 She is a cool goth. 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:56.720 She is the child of two superpowered villains calling themselves 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.480 the Pride. It will be very interesting to see if 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:01.720 we get any Pride action here. I'm guessing not, but 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:05.000 her parents are in the comics are very powerful wizards. 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:06.400 Nico is. 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:08.839 She has in the comics I think called the Staff 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.480 of One, which allows her to bear magic, and I 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:17.080 will say as well, this is a very comics accurate reimagining, 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.840 like Nico is the cool goth kid, and just like 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:25.400 the comics, we do learn here that Nico is a 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:29.200 is definitely queer like like her comic book character. We 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.040 get a little hint of that. So yeah, very excited 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:33.880 for this. She's one of my favorite characters. I have 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:37.480 a Nico figurine. I loved Runaways. I thought it was 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:42.720 very underrated, and the actress who played Lovely Lovely Nico 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.800 in the in the show was called Lyrica A Carno. 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:48.760 She was so great, and it's Yeah, I'm very interested 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.079 to see I think they're doing something in this show 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.480 that they're very good at at Marvel Studios, where they're 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:58.000 basically introducing a bunch of side characters in a main 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.080 character series to see who sticks. 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.839 And who people like, and I'm hoping Nkos is one 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:04.120 of them. 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:08.600 Same Peter passes out from the effects of this spider bite, 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:12.200 and then we had a flash forward during which months 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:15.959 have passed, and in those months, Peter has grown comfortable 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.400 using his powers. He's swinging around, he's made in a costume, 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.560 he's made the web slingers all homemade, so it looks. 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.080 You know, what it does have that we've never had 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:26.600 before though. 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:31.199 It shows where the propulsion of the webs comes from 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.280 because he has like like a scuba tank. It's like 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:34.920 a scuba tank on his back. And I thought that 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:36.559 was really cool because I was like, we never get 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:40.040 to see that. Also, just before we get the flash forward, 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:44.680 we see the spider from another universe, like Miles's Spider. 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:48.160 We see it follow a different character get into their bag. 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.800 It's a burgundy bag. They're wearing white and bred trainers. 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:55.839 I scoured this episode and to find out who that 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.719 could possibly be, and I think my guess is it's 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:02.000 probably Richie Gilmore, who goes on to become this character 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.720 called Prodigy, who is part of this group called the Slingers. 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:06.800 We're getting a lot of characters there, so it's going 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:08.280 to be interesting how that plays out. 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.360 Other option, of course, is Miles. 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.320 But I don't I've only watched the episodes we're talking about, 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.079 so I don't want to jinx it by wishing for Miles. 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:17.800 I think that's probably gonna be a live action thing. 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.480 But yeah, I thought that was really interesting, and I 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.720 also I like a flash forward man, Like if you 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.200 can do it well. I actually want to see Peter 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.160 already knowing his powers. We've seen that origin. We don't 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.200 need to see him learning how to be Spider Man. 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:32.960 I want to see him in those early days. And 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.679 this was originally going to be called Spider Man Freshman Year, 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:37.800 and I think that it's doing a great job of 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.640 showcasing that part of his journey, Like how do you 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.559 balance high school and being a superhero when nobody knows 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:44.439 it's tough. 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.719 On the way to school, Peter in full costume ens 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:53.840 are stopping a mugging from a trio of muggers who 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.679 are live streaming the whole thing, which seems like a 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:01.880 great way to really get prosecuted, Like no questions. 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:03.920 Give yourself, don't video yourself, guys. 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.320 Also, I just need to say Jays said, what is 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.000 the likelihood that when he stopped those muggers, one of 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.839 which he's Spider webbed a bridge and like smashed the 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:13.840 kid into the head. 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:17.320 He killed him out of like a building and smashed 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.440 into the kid's head, that kid is like dead. 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:20.160 He's dead. 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.640 And also I do love that they use a lot 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.600 of like social media kind of stuff here that they 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:28.960 build in like the live streams, you see the comments 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.280 people being like bean here since day one, or this 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:33.480 is a new loaf for the account. And we also 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.680 get this funny recurring threadhair of people just Dragon Spider Man's. 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:40.280 Costume like online that always like who is this guy? 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.600 It looks like shit, Like what's going on? 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:48.080 Well, the kid that Peter saves is Harry osbo boo, 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.840 and Peter doesn't realize that he just Harry's like, I 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:54.560 don't have any money, but is there anything I can do? 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:59.400 And Spidery's like, I'm good, but he doesn't realize that 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.640 Harry is like super rich, so he should have taken. 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.640 Super cool, like kind of, He's got a gorgeous, nice 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.760 little styly haircut, he's wearing all green. They're really leaning 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.200 into the possibilities of his future. But I really like 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:14.240 this interaction. I wanted them to be friends. 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:14.600 Yeah. 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:19.359 Later at school, Peter and Nico run into Pearl, who 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:24.080 was Peter's babysitter when he was four. She's like three 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.680 years older, so she's a junior while he is a freshman. 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.600 Peter clearly has a crush on her and has for 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:32.760 a long time, and Nico roasts him about it. And 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:34.760 it's like you need to ask her out. Who is 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:36.240 Pearl Gone? 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:41.120 Okay, So so Paul Panang is an established character within 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:42.200 the Marvel universe. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.160 She is her alter ego is called Wave. 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.800 And I really like the way they brought Pearl to 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:54.480 life Hit because the creator Great Pact the creator of Wave. 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:59.040 And also I will say, like she is really a 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:01.680 She was in an age of Atlas, so she was made 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.960 to be a different kind of you know, Asian American 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:06.880 representation in the show. 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:08.800 And I just think she's so cool. 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:11.320 And one of the coolest things about this design is 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:14.200 they were not afraid to make Pearl big like Waves. 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:19.760 Hence she's muscles, She's super badass, and I love how 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:21.400 in the show they were not afraid to do that, 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.920 like she's huge, and yeah, I. 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:26.120 Think this is great. Is she gonna get her powers? 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:26.480 I don't know. 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:30.280 I think what we're seeing here is the setup for 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.640 potential characters that you might see in other projects. I 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:35.720 don't know whether in ten episodes you're going to get 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.080 to see Pearl get her powers, but it is notable 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:40.200 to mention that she is here, and I would love 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:40.720 to see that. 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:44.920 Yeah, I mean, who doesn't love Greg Park. He's a genius. 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.239 He's always making fantastic comics and fantastic creations. 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:52.920 During school, Peter leaves like makes an excuse to go 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:56.360 leave and apprehend criminals. When he sees a police chase 0:16:56.400 --> 0:17:01.400 go by the school. He is so like drunk on 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.679 victory and the crowd cheering him. After he apprehends these 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:06.400 guys that he's like, you know what I'm gonna I'm 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:08.520 gonna do what Nico said. I'm gonna go ask Pearl out. 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.560 Only problem is Lonnie Lincoln, captain of the football team, 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:12.520 has gotten there first. 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:13.280 Uh. 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:18.080 Peter and Lannie end up partnering up in science class. 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.879 Peter wanted to I love, but it didn't happen. And 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:25.600 guess what, Lincoln's a smart guy. He's much to Peter's 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:27.720 kind of surprise. 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.040 He was making a lot of assumptions about the black 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.359 you know, captain of the football team not being able 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:34.680 to keep up in science. 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:35.320 And he was incorrect. 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.000 He's a very smart kid. Lonnie then tells Peter that 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:41.920 Pearl is often talking about how smart Peter is and 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:46.040 kind of against his instincts. Peter discovers it, you know what, 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.320 I really like, Lonnie, I think I we're going to 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:54.560 be friends Lonnie. Yeah, is a character, So Lonnie is 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:59.080 a comic book character, and Miles, I think this could 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:00.879 be a spoiler if you want. 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:02.919 To put if you want to put the spoiler ear 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:05.560 muffs on, take out your air pods. 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:06.640 This could be a spoiler. 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.240 But I also think that what they're doing here is 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.200 a really empathetic version of the character. If it is 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:16.520 him in the comics Lonnie Lincoln, Alonzo Lincoln, spoiler Illa, 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:18.320 that's the Spider. 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:19.160 Man villain Tombstone. 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.800 So so it does seem here that they probably are 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:25.400 going to set up Lonni for that, especially when him 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.000 and Peter have this interaction and it's very clear that 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:30.840 Lonnie is kind of like, do you want to hang out? 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:32.920 Like can I come to your house? And Peter is. 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:34.919 Still a bit burnt out about pul So then we 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:39.400 see Lonnie heading home and he takes the subway and 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:41.280 on the way there, they do a great job of 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:46.160 establishing that while Lonnie goes to Midtown High his neighborhood 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:48.320 in Harlem is not being looked out for, like he 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:53.120 experiences racism on the subway. But what I really thought 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:56.160 was great about this was that is all outside issues 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:58.600 that Lonnie is dealing with as part of society. But 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:00.880 when he gets into that house, Chase and his home 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.440 life and family are great. There were they love him, 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.680 They're so happy to see him, And I just thought 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:09.399 that was really cool and kind of once again showing 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:13.200 that this show can do something intricate and interesting without 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:15.719 falling into like a lot of stereotypes and tropes that 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:17.040 we've gotten in other shows. 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:18.840 So I'm already a big Lonnie fan. 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:21.800 He is my breakout character for this first episode. I 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:25.320 just thought he was so well drawn and interesting, banging 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:30.160 character design, such a cool kind of play on the 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:33.720 general romantic triangles that Peter always gets himself into. 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.200 Here, it's kind of Pearl and Lonnie who both really. 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.640 Like him, and he's kind of the one who's like, oh, 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:40.040 I wish I was going out with Pearl, but the 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:43.520 three of them together seem to really get along. Yeah, 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:46.720 and then you know, we get to this kind of 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:48.280 final couple of minutes. 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:50.560 Jason, how does the episode end? 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:54.240 Well? Spider Man continues, of course to fight crimes, and 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:57.360 we see a little bit of something I think there's 0:19:57.400 --> 0:19:59.920 really unique to Spider Man, who has like a Matt 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:03.560 like a huge, massive, one of the biggest rogues galleries 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:06.040 like in comics, if not the biggest of a major character. 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:11.680 Like there's probably fifty villains, major and minor villains that 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:14.280 Spider Man has. And one of the things that I 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:16.159 think is unique to Spider Man is a lot of 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:20.280 those villains get redeemed because Spider Man is a good 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:27.000 guy and end up becoming not heroes, but like anti heroes. 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:29.639 So like Venom, this has happened to Venom, this has 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:34.199 happened to Black Cat, on and on and on. You know, 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:38.680 Harry Osborne is like it goes between good and bad sometimes, 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:42.800 And so we see here Spider Man has apprehended a thief, 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:47.320 but rather than turn the thief in, Spider tries to 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:51.040 convince the pizza shop owner like, hey, let's just like 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:53.520 let it go because this person obviously feels really really 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:55.040 bad and they're down on their luck and they just 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:56.800 did something on the spur of the moment. 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:00.159