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ugh... Smallville ala Spidey? Boring. I thought the most recent one on MTV was pretty decent, though it wasn't given a chance. Doogie Howser did a decent job.

I can say, I WON'T be watching this.

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They're reinterpreting Spider-Man again?! Didn't MTV just do that a couple of years ago? And FOX a few years before that...twice? And NBC a few years before that? I could go on, of course. Oh, I'll be watching, mind you. I'm just sayin'...

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It sounds to me like they're basically making an animated version of Ultimate Spider-man, which I'm behind 100%. I'm a big fan of the comic run, and hopefully they can do the same with the show.

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"Smallville ala Spidey? Boring." Well Curt, beyond the fact that I think you probably meant "Spidey ala Smallville", when you go right back to the original comics, Peter Parker was a teenager dealing will all the things that teenagers deal with as well as his guilt over his Uncle Ben's death, super powers and the need to support his Aunt May. As for updating it to the 2000s, well how many kids are going to watch a show set in 1960?

The old 1960s "Spiderman" was undercut somewhat for Canadian kids who knew that Peter was being played by a guy in his mid-30s named Paul Soles who we'd see every day on an afternoon show for women called "Take 30". Most of the cast were in fact CBC types who we'd often see on a weekly basis.

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Sounds interesting -- worth at least a look!

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I remember the early 1980's, when all great cartoons
had their own places. Bugs Bunny and all his friends
had The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show on CBS, while
Yogi Bear was the conductor of USA Network's 4-hour
block called Cartoon Express, which mostly aired all
the Hanna Barbera cartoons when it started in 1982,
then Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and
even Woody Woodpecker into 2000, all before it went
off the air, and The Looney Tunes era ended as well.
Since then, the new CW has resorted to airing some of
its Saturday morning line-up in different time zones
where some cartoons are mixed up, and other cartoons
like Tom & Jerry Tales & Legion Of The Superfriends
air much too early to wake up, or they're not on
the schedule where they should be at all. While CW
made the right decision to add Spider-Man to its
line-up, and I hope it remains on the air long after
Spiderman 3 makes a good $300 Million Box Office run,
I'm really hoping that the newest cartoon series of
the web-slinging wonder will air somewhere around
the 9:00am timeslot, with no substitutional cartoon
airing in its place, like they've done with the
other cartoons on CW in our area. If Spider-Man is
airing at that time, but not in Baltimore, or is
mixed up with say, Johnny Test in the same time, I'm
going to wonder what fate will have in store for
the forthcoming Tower Of Drauga cartoon series in
2008. I guess CW must stand for Choose Wisely, so
I've chosen wisely. Now if Spider-Man airs this Fall
in a decent Saturday morning timeslot, I think CW
will have another hit superhero show on their hands,
provided nothing else happens to their schedule.
RICK.

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What's the source for this information?

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At first when I read the headline, I thought, eh. None of the Spider-Man animated series have really done it for me, though the mid-90s one was pretty ambitious, it was almost a little TOO crazy (an approach which generally worked well for the X-Men cartoon running at the same time). And the Mainframe 3D one kinda sucked.

Then you guys mentioned Greg Weisman, the head writer for the first two seasons of Gargoyles. Definitely interested now.

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The old spidey... with the rickety animation and kewl music score was awesome... and the best J. Jonah Jameson ever... at least, until the movies...

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