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Hawkeye2701 wrote: It's not as heavy on the Peter drama, which isn't always a bad thing, but it has its moments and as I covered with my thoughts on the humour, it's clearly not aiming for a darker tone. For what it is, I think it's achieved its goals.

I really enjoyed readying your analysis, but since its long I'll just quote the part that to which I am most directly responding, forgive me if it misrepresents your post.

Anyway, I understand your point, and yes I can't say they failed to do what they intended, my problem is that what they intended doesn't feel like the spider-man stories I most enjoy. This is in general, spider-man across all media. In my opinion, Spider-man is best, when targeted towards teens and young adults, where you can have silly fun but contrast it with other powerful and brutal things. What I enjoy are the series that can mix the levity with the heartbreak.

The fun parts are always more enjoyable because the serious parts feel like they have weight and consequence, and I think that is the problem with the show as is. Nothing seems to really stick. Obviously, people can't die, but even the character interaction feel like one episode cul-de-sacs. Like I really enjoyed the Kraven the hunter episode, centered around Ava. But there's no real follow through. There was a moment, it passed, back to business as usual. I think this might be why the villians feel like the more interesting parts of the show, because the villians actually have arcs that last and what they do or have happen to them have lasting consequences past their episode.

For the heroes, I never feel like anything will really change the formula, their won't be a team splitting disagreement that isn't solved in the episode in which it is brought up and that really drains my interest in their relationships with each other.