I'm looking forward to seeing this when they eventually put it up on Disney Plus! The latest round of Spider-Man movies were a great surprise for me - I'd seen the first Amazing... at the cinema, but when Homecoming came out I was a wee bit cynical, meaning I had low expectations which were delightfully confounded. Now my favourite sub-series of the MCU.
I think part of what works so well about them is that by the time the first one came out, we'd really been very deep in the perspectives of adults with, on the whole, a lot of power and agency: scientists, super-soldiers, secret agents. The impact, therefore, of a series that goes, "Okay, but imagine being in that world as someone who still basically has to go where they're put and has their full complement of hope and dread and innocence intact?" is really something.
I'm looking forward to seeing this when they eventually put it up on Disney Plus! The latest round of Spider-Man movies were a great surprise for me - I'd seen the first Amazing... at the cinema, but when Homecoming came out I was a wee bit cynical, meaning I had low expectations which were delightfully confounded. Now my favourite sub-series of the MCU.
I think part of what works so well about them is that by the time the first one came out, we'd really been very deep in the perspectives of adults with, on the whole, a lot of power and agency: scientists, super-soldiers, secret agents. The impact, therefore, of a series that goes, "Okay, but imagine being in that world as someone who still basically has to go where they're put and has their full complement of hope and dread and innocence intact?" is really something.
Spidey, more than any other MCU character, instantly teleports me back to the teen-age mindset. It’s like a mental wormhole for me.