Worlds Apart, Part 1
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Worlds Apart, Part 1
Here's a couple of posters nits for the first episode, as copied and pasted from the sink:
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By Keith Alan Morgan on Sunday, October 3, 1999 - 12:31 pm:
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 3, 1999 - 08:44 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 Rene on Tuesday, October 05, 1999 - 11:31 am: I wasn't too impressed with the first episode either. The animation was aweful, the story was
rushed and too unbelievable.
So Earth sends a probe to Counter-Earth and
it gets destroyed...so what's the solution?
Send a man over there?! Please...that's
just plain stupidity.
By Rene on Tuesday, October 05, 1999 - 11:34 am: I also find it hard to believe that Peter would
abandon MJ so easily...come on. Is this
supposed to be the same Spidey who would
scream "MARY JANE" at the top of his lungs
and didn't know how he could go on when she
dissappeared the first time.
By Rene on Tuesday, October 05, 1999 - 3:23 pm: Oh...and moderator, the title for this episode
is "Worlds Apart, Part 1"
By andrew spruce on Sunday, April 28, 2002 - 12:36 pm: This Sucks, why can't they make more episodes like the 90's series. They were quality (apart from the last episode - "Stan Lee What a guy!- grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr - talk about ego.