[6.7/10] Another episode where it feels like 50 things are happening, and alliances are forming and breaking up at the ready, and the show has trouble keeping it all straight and meaningful in its progression. What’s funny is that this is one of the few episodes of the show I actually half-remember from when I was a kid. The image of Silvermane turning into a young man again, only to continuing de-aging until he became a little baby again was one that stuck with me.
Still, this one is a clusterbomb of different heroes and villains crossing paths and getting tangled with one another and the show never lingers long enough on any of them or any single part of the story to feel like a unified or coherent episode. You have the machinations and attacks of Silvermane, Tombstone, and Elisa on one hand, the rival efforts of Kingpin, Hammerhead, and Smythe with the megaslayer, and if that weren’t enough, you have a kidnapped Dr. and Mrs. Connors with The Lizard rearing his ugly head.
All the while, Spidey is trying to save the day, all the villains are double-crossing and plotting against one-another, and there’s only the (admittedly neat) macguffin of the time tablet to give it any unifying force. Some of the fights here are cool, and as I said, Silvermane going all Benjamin Button stands out, but this another rushed, overstuffed entry that left me wishing the show had stretched some of these arcs out to give both story and characters time to breathe.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2018-03-05T01:12:24Z
[6.7/10] Another episode where it feels like 50 things are happening, and alliances are forming and breaking up at the ready, and the show has trouble keeping it all straight and meaningful in its progression. What’s funny is that this is one of the few episodes of the show I actually half-remember from when I was a kid. The image of Silvermane turning into a young man again, only to continuing de-aging until he became a little baby again was one that stuck with me.
Still, this one is a clusterbomb of different heroes and villains crossing paths and getting tangled with one another and the show never lingers long enough on any of them or any single part of the story to feel like a unified or coherent episode. You have the machinations and attacks of Silvermane, Tombstone, and Elisa on one hand, the rival efforts of Kingpin, Hammerhead, and Smythe with the megaslayer, and if that weren’t enough, you have a kidnapped Dr. and Mrs. Connors with The Lizard rearing his ugly head.
All the while, Spidey is trying to save the day, all the villains are double-crossing and plotting against one-another, and there’s only the (admittedly neat) macguffin of the time tablet to give it any unifying force. Some of the fights here are cool, and as I said, Silvermane going all Benjamin Button stands out, but this another rushed, overstuffed entry that left me wishing the show had stretched some of these arcs out to give both story and characters time to breathe.