Spiderman Unlimited

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Spiderman: The Spider Web (ie the sink): Spiderman Unlimited
By Rene on Monday, August 23, 1999 - 3:05 pm:

What do you guys think of the new Spidey costume
for Spiderman Unlimited?


By Rodnberry on Wednesday, August 25, 1999 - 5:24 am:

Haven't seen it yet, but I'll check it out.


By Matt Pesti on Thursday, August 26, 1999 - 9:48 pm:

Is It really Parker or is it some kind of Batman Beyond, Where he fights Doc Oct X or something


By Nawdle on Saturday, August 28, 1999 - 12:26 am:

I've read it's Peter.I've also read that it just takes place in an alternate reality and not some far off future like Batman Beyond.But I don't know for sure if it's really our Peter in an alternate reality (Hollywood types can change their mind at the drop of a hat.).If it is though,I wonder how he gets there and what happened to the Peter from that reality.

Rene:I myself don't like the costume very much.Now if it didn't have that webbing/cape thing I might be able to bear it.


By Mark Morgan on Tuesday, August 31, 1999 - 5:19 pm:

I can live without the "alien-costume-with-veins" look, but then I didn't think I would like the Batman Beyond outfit until I saw it in action.

There's more info over at ign scifi.


By Rene on Friday, September 24, 1999 - 1:23 pm:

From the previews, the animation really sux.


By Keith Alan Morgan on Sunday, October 03, 1999 - 10:31 am:

First off, what is with Jameson and Parker's hair?

The proof that this was a really, really, really bad idea came the first time they mentioned Counter Earth. Auuuuuuuuuuuuugh! Didn't Marvel stop using this lame brain idea back in the 70's?
(Why, oh, why is it always the bad things from the 70's that get revived? Counter Earth, the Village People, Disco...)

Parker's Spider Sense goes off and while looking around he spots Venom & Carnage. However, V&C can't be detected by the Spider Sense, so what did trigger it?

Also V&C seemed to be walking round without any human hosts. That's a new trick.

Then we have some wonderful scientific blunders. Spidey races up a gantry after the rocket has launched and manages to hook onto it with a web line. Did Parker get a blood transfusion from Barry Allen, because he's never been that fast before? Also even if the webbing did stick to the shuttle, I believe Spidey's arm would have been ripped out of it's socket as he gets jerked along.
Of course, Spidey is able to engage in a prolonged fight on the outside of the ship, without (1) burning up from friction, (2) suffering from the lack of oxygen as they go higher and higher, (3) getting the bends.

In real life I believe the 2 side rockets drop off first, then much later in flight the big rocket drops off. Something that wasn't done in either cartoon launch.

The comic book captions were a distraction.

Why did the animators rip off Spider-Man 2099's costume? They should have just made a Spider-Man 2099 cartoon. It would have been much, much better. (But then it would be hard to make a worse Spider-Man cartoon than this one.)

In the commercials the announcer says that Spider-Man is blasted off at billions of miles a second. First, the Speed Of Light is 186,282 miles per second. Secondly, at that speed Spidey would be chunky salsa against the back bulkhead. Thirdly, Counter Earth is only 186 million miles away, 16 minutes at the speed of light.

I think the people who made this wanted to make Spider-Man in the worst way possible and succeeded. I will not be watching another episode.


By Mark Morgan on Sunday, October 03, 1999 - 6:44 pm:

So, Spidey abducts the second ship while there's no one aboard. I hope everyone got out of the launch area in time!

I've mentioned this in the Spidey sink, so I'll repeat it here...just because: the new Spiderman seems to be following very much in the footsteps of Batman beyond:

1. New super outfit--it even has a stealth mode, and fires whatever "stingers" are (why not call them "spiderarangs"?).

2. It takes place completely out of the "regular" comic book world, allowing the writers to ignore continuity as they see fit. What, is this "Beast Machines Spiderman," to completely change everything whenever they want?

I am a Spidey fan from way back, and although the storyline was okay, the animation was substandard and his constant self-referential dialogue lacked all emotional punch. Can't the new voice guy put some more emotion into his dialogue?

And, they even scheduled it opposite Batman Beyond! Where's my baseball bat?

Here endeth the rant. I'll give them one more time, then...


By Chris Booton (Cbooton) on Monday, October 04, 1999 - 2:34 pm:

I've finally put up a section for spiderman unlimited. I wasent able to watch it so I'll make it so people can put episodes themselves as they air.


By Rene on Saturday, October 16, 1999 - 8:49 pm:

Okay....why did the FK promo for Spiderman Unlimited claim that it takes place in 2099...
the series itself seems to be set on an
alternate Earth in the present.


By Harvey Kitzman on Friday, January 14, 2000 - 3:46 pm:

This new series is really lame. I HATE it! Bring back the Fox series and have them find Mary Jane.

BTW: Does anyone know if the REALLY old Spiderman cartoons (Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can....) ever show anywhere on TV? I would just like to see them again.


By Matt Pesti on Wednesday, August 16, 2000 - 10:41 pm:

Does anyone think this show was not given a fair chance? I mean I know it's Fox policy to cancel a show after three weeks.

If it does reappears, expect it on Fox Family.


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