User blog comment:LoveWaffle/Well This Is Somewhat Hopeful/@comment-3317214-20121221003501

I'm going to be honest. I haven't seen much at all of this show, because I can't bare to. So, in that sense, I haven't been fair enough to give it a first chance, but it is pretty horrible.

This show is taking a similar approach to Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends from the 80s. That show featured other villains such as Doctor Doom, Magneto and Loki, and had a few appearances from other heroes, but mainly focussed on Spider-Man's team with Iceman and Firestar.

However, aside from this show (and including this show for the most part), every Spider-Man show has featured mostly Spider-Man villains. So, I think they wanted to change it up. Also, by outlining the relationship between Spider-Man and the rest of the Marvel Universe (which isn't possible to do with films), shows audiences who aren't familiar with the complex workings of the crossover universe with a long history in comicbooks. But yeah, I would much prefer a show that uses character development for Spider-Man, and traditionally that has been most successful, when trying to tell his story (as opposed to everyone's at once and consequently noone's).

I have now lost a lot of hope I had for the new Avengers show. But I'm mostly annoyed with it because they got rid of A:EMH. It was undoubtedly the BEST Marvel show. Ever. But I was really annoyed with the way A:EMH was treated towards the end. They knew it was going to get cancelled, so it felt like they were trying to squash a whole other season into the last half of Season 2. Season 1 and the first half of Season 2 has this clear, direct vision. They told a great story, and there was character development, and everything you could hope for. But I guess they had plans for a third season, which Marvel chose to obliterate, meaning the second half of the show fell into a heap.

I am not happy.