This is it, the final arc of the season, 'the Alien Costume' arc of this show.
I remember when someone's words were "Make me a
Venom fan" before we saw this story for the first time, or maybe that was just before seeing the season's finale.
PERSONA
I don't like how
Spider-Man was made
Black Cat's punching bag for her first scene. I still want to know what captain of industry wants to buy the ooze from Cat.
Newspaper shows pictures taken by
Pete while
Connors talk to cops, and another newspaper saying
Connors only knew of the theft this morning. Multiple editions a day can put someone's head in for a spin.
Spider-Man remained sulking on
Empire State Building for what? An hour? From twilight 'til night.
Jonah Jameson is his funniest this episode.
"Nooorman, how wonderful of you to come"
Normie is in
Europe, or didn't the mayor get the memo?
"The real one? You don't even have the costume right"
"I'm in mourning for my buried rep."
The whole dialogue in that moment is rightfully hilarious.
Few nitpicks aside, this is a near perfect episode. I think I'll place it a bit above 'The Uncertainty Principle'.
GROUP THERAPY
Best thing about this is how they have solid build up to bring in the
Sinister 6 in season 1, it might feel a tad bit rushed, but the episode execution makes you ignore that.
I love how
Ock is nice to
May without building up a love story between these two.
Eddie &
MJ together is blah. Why is
Eddie casually reckless and comments as if his family deaths are funny?
Symbiote vs the
Sinister 6 has to be some of the best action this show provided, and with all the high quality action in this show it's a difficult pleasure to narrow down a best action scene.
INTERVENTIONS
Two short scenes with
Flash Thompson and they are the most standout of his entire appearance in this show. I wish we could have a
Flash this great for the movies instead of what we got so far.
No super villain fight, and this stands out as the best episode of the show to me.
I get the feeling that the
Speed Force flashbacks in season 2 of
the Flash took inspirations from this episode on how to do it.
NATURE VS NURTURE
Undoubtedly the best
Venom in animation, and the best he's been as a villain.
Ranking the episodes so far:
- Interventions
- Catalysts
- Nature vs Nurture
- Persona
- The Uncertainty Principle
- Competitions
- Group Therapy
- Natural Selection
- Survival of the Fittest
- Market Forces
- The Invisible Hand
- Reaction
- Interactions