Comments on: The characters and mystery of The Amazing Spider-Man unveiled http://dailypop.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/the-characters-and-mystery-of-the-amazing-spider-man-unveiled/ Protecting Other People from wasting their leisure time Tue, 21 May 2013 06:02:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dailypop http://dailypop.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/the-characters-and-mystery-of-the-amazing-spider-man-unveiled/#comment-19670 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:35:24 +0000 http://dailypop.wordpress.com/?p=12965#comment-19670 Yeah, I hear you. The potential to take the franchise into a Harry Potter-ish direction is there. I just hope that isn’t the case. I agree, by the way, that the real story is not one of Peter Parker’s pre-determined destiny but of what he decided to do with his powers.

The recent Dan Slott run on Amazing Spider-Man seems to embrace Parker’s inventive genius and courage moreso than we have seen in the past where his place in the grand plot of the cosmos was what drove him forward. Hopefully the film will take a hint from that.

]]> By: Hal http://dailypop.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/the-characters-and-mystery-of-the-amazing-spider-man-unveiled/#comment-19592 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:22:32 +0000 http://dailypop.wordpress.com/?p=12965#comment-19592 Hmm, a secret from his past to do with his parents, this isn’t The Amazing Harry Potterman is it? Perhaps this is a mislead but my spider-sense is tingling. I wonder why they feel the need to tie everything together? I suspect it’s because they think the prospective audience is thick! What makes Spider-Man work particularly well as modern myth is that it’s an accident that Peter becomes super-powered, there’s no need to connect his origin to Oscorp or anything else (it certainly isn’t necessary to state that it was “fated” as in the JMS revision) because that *isn’t* what the story is about. It’s really about how Peter reacts originally when he gets powers because of the things that have happened to him in his life and how he seeks to atone after his uncle’s death. We’ll have to wait and see, but I fear it may go in a emo Harry Potter direction which makes no sense as Spider-Man has its own mythology. Yes, my logic and passion for individuality spoils the party again, right-on brutha :) .

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