Spider-Man was about to be killed by some random street thugs.
Then he says "Talk about dumb luck" and yeah, exactly, this incarnation of Spider-Man has a lot of luck, instead of skill. Not completely, but still.
In the last season he was pretty weak, getting beat by the villains nearly every episode. And to top it off, in this season because of his mutation, he's even WEAKER.
[4.8/10] I think that between the mussed-haired Eastern European guy at the center, an overwrought pseudo love triangle, and a heap of bad acting, this is likely to be as closer as Spider-Man ever comes to The Room.
This one was a slog. The actor who voices Michael Morbius was really overblown in everything, and while I generally like the voice actor who does Spidey, he was not very good at communicating the excruciating pain Peter’s in with his looming transformation.
On top of that, I’m generally up for a heaping helping of willing suspension of disbelief, but man is it convenient that Morbius keeps bats around who get in the neogenic blast and turn him into a vampire in much the same way Spider-Man became Spider-Man. Plus, how come no one can recognize him since he’s basically the same guy except with a snout? And do we really need another tortured, on-the-nose villain backstory.
At the same time, Spider-Man is supposed to be having his own tortured internal conflict about whether to take the serum or deal with his transformation or not, and it only just barely connects to the Morbius origin portion of the episode. He doesn’t really have much to do in this one, and it feels like the show spinning its wheels with a nothing story for its main character while it establishes Morbius’s situation.
But hey, the tease with Spider-Man growing four extra arms is at least weird and body-horror enough to generate some intrigue so at least there’s that.
Overall, this is the worst episode of the show so far, and doesn’t bode well for the continuing Morbius storyline.
Shout by miaBlockedParent2023-06-19T12:56:34Z
i get that they had to make vampirism child-friendly, but personally i think having blood-sucking holes on your hands is 3000x scarier than just having fangs