After this month's boring fight in the new cartoon and the moments of idiocy like Spidey keeping his fists on his hips while watching Lizard exit in his school as Symbiote Norman Goblin's back is turned on Spider-Man with slow boring action all around, I felt like watching something Spectacular and watched the climax battle of Final Curtain that wastes no moments and doesn't leave loose ends for.. reasons.
Why is it that after this show we had to wait a decade to see great fights in animation that carry some amazing dramatic weight and story value, and it was in a movie, not a show? I can compliment Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon when it comes to action and animation, but not much else.
The new show fails hard in all of that, and it was supposed to make up for USM's shortcomings.
Spectacular ended in 2009, so I gotta say 11 years after it ended abruptly, 12 after it started, and basically everything about the animated series from 2008 (with exception for Joe Robertson) has been very high level of quality that is used to describe the title character.
Starting with the 80s and the habit of 2 Spider-Man animated shows per decade, this is the record we have:
Eighties: Two entertaining shows (for me at least) that suffer through mostly poorly executed storytelling, but at least got the character and his world mostly right, even though they lack the depth that make Spider-Man a hit character.
Nineties: One show that -while not great- left a big impact on many audience and is hailed to this day as a show to remember fondly, another show that had potential to be great, but was cancelled quickly and has certain issues.
2000s: One solid show despite being confused in episode order and licensing issues, succeeded by one of the best animated shows based on a comic book character that got axed too soon.
2010s: Shows that display failure at understanding the core basics of what makes Spider-Man Spider-Man, what makes Peter Parker an engaging character, boring action, uninspired music, supporting cast that outshine Peter Parker either in value as characters or how annoying and/or bland they can be, less than engaging voice actors for the character, pride in bad puns and lame jokes that take too much time, idiotic behavior, guest stars that are awfully misunderstood by the show writers, and so many more issues.
What make the issues of shows of last decade more painful is that they were made and released directly under the supervision or advice of comic book writers. You'd expect something more interesting and better handled because of that like what we got for PS4, but instead we got the most insufferable takes.