Review: Marvel’s Spider-Man “Take Two”

Do we take a number two on the season two premiere episode?

Overview (Possible Spoilers Below)

Peter/Spider-Man (Voiced by Robbie Daymond) is excited to start his second year as both a superhero, along with his second year as a student at the highly-advanced school of “Horizon High”. However, everyone is understandably apprehensive when Doc Ock (Voiced by Scott Menville) returns and claims to want a second chance to break free from his criminal past. But after his previous actions, can Otto truly be trusted?

Our Take

During the proceedings of this episode, it’s less cringe-worthy compared to “Ultimate Spider-Man” and as somebody who’s going into this show blind, It’s kinda refreshing that not every villain in the series has to be a grown adult. In some ways, it feels reminiscent of X-Men: Evolution’s approach where both the protagonists and nearly every supporting character & villain is a teenager with the exception of a select few.

It was a nice touch that this episode also had some fanservice to people who grew up on the comics in the form of introducing Silver Sable and her Mercenary group the “Wild Pack” but here the lineup is different but handled in a refreshing way that makes sense. I was even more shocked at the nods & references, especially with another obscure & classic Spider-Man villain named “Puma” having his first animated debut as a Wild Pack member despite having almost no dialogue.

There were times when it got a bit weird in regards to the highly advanced school Peter is going to since it feels like it was made for Genius’s, with possibly one of the worst security systems ever designed in the form of floating robot guards that are about as useful as traffic lights in a Grand Theft Auto game.

Overall, the action was solid in places and while I’m not quite used to the new renditions of certain villains being teens, The show does deliver on entertainment value in terms of fanservice in the form of lesser-known classic Marvel Characters such as Silver Sable, Paladin and the first animated debut of Puma into the spotlight, and also works as a decent episode with an effectively handled underlying themes of atonement and second chances.