Ah! Brilliant!

Man, Amazing Spider-Man 2 tried to cram WAY too much plotty stuff into one movie. That said, I liked it overall. If you go in accepting that Harry Osborne and Electro are going to chew the scenery like crazy, you can just sit back and go with it. I still really like Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker, although I don't think anyone is supposed to accept that he's 19.

Also, I've been reading Spider-Man since I was 5, so even though I was unspoiled, I knew Gwen Stacy was going to die, because that's what happens to Gwen Stacy. Damn it.

And on the way home, Tim got to learn the phrase "Women in Refrigerators."

Oh, and this is only relevant to people who also watch Arrow, but (whitefonted for Spider-Man) Peter Parker is really giving Ollie competition in the "walking bag of pain" competition. Frankly, Batman needs to shut his whiny mouth.

I haven't watched the movie yet and normally don't like being spoiled, but I read the white font anyway because I wanted to know how they were handling that.

This is one instance where I would happily say screw reflecting the comic books.

My Veronica Mars DVD came!

Is it spoilery to talk about the making-of special?

This is one instance where I would happily say

I would, too. But apparently you can't have Gwen Stacy without fridging her eventually. Hell, in that scene, she was even wearing the same outfit from the original comic book. It was always going to happen, and it pisses me off, because I think Emma Stone did a great job as Gwen Stacy and needed to stick around.

I was trying to figure out, from this movie and visual hints dropped in it, who the Sinister Six could be in this iteration of the Spidey universe, and I've come up with The Lizard, The Vulture, Doc Ock, Green Goblin, Electro, and Rhino. Which would be pretty decent. And god knows I like Rhys Ifans WAY better as the Lizard than I do as Mycroft on Elementary.

Is it spoilery to talk about the making-of special?

Spoilers, I'm in it!

I know a person who's on a commercially available DVD!

Oh, wait, I sleep with a person who's on a commercially available DVD. Sorry, Sunil, you're no longer as cool as I thought you were.

In a way I'm glad the Spectacular Spider-man cartoon didn't last long enough to reach that point. Though Weisman never said what his plans were on that front, as he responds to questions about the future story lines of any project he's worked on, no matter how unlikely to be revived, with "Spoilers. No comment." So things might have been different.

And I agree wholeheartedly on Emma Stone's Gwen.

I wonder if anyone was spoiled that it was going to happen this movie by pictures of the outfit being worn.

That'd be impressive.

There have to be comics nerds who were. Nerdery is powerful.

Tim said he thought Harry Osborne looked like a model, while I was retching in the corner. He was greasy and pointy to me. Ick. (It's not *just* the difficulty of following James Franco in that role, but it doesn't help.)

Also wondering if Harry Osborne's assistant (inherited from his evil dad), who happens to be named Felicia, is meant to become Black Cat. Because that has the potential for awesomeness.