looking for an episode

[dk_decker]

i have a question that has been bugging me for about a week now. i've been viewing the episodes for the 1994 spiderman tas. everywhere i look i've looked there are listed 65 episodes in 5 seasons starting with the lizard episode in season 1. my question is what episode did he get his powers in? in the lizard he already has his powers and is already spiderman, but i remeber watching the 2 part episodes where he gets his powers but i cant find any trace of that episode anywhere. can someone please help me out here, thanks

[RAINMAN]

I think your talking about the 2 part ep`s where spider visit a termornal ill kid and tell her his life stories,how he got his power also reveling his ID to her. And doc ock also make apparance along whit his oct bot.

[BCVM22]

Season 3, Episode 2, "Make a Wish"
Season 3, Episode 3, "Attack of the Octobot"

Peter's flashback recounting his origin is entirely in "Make a Wish", but the rest of the episode's story continues into "Attack of the Octobot".

[Apprentice]

I always hated those episodes...

[ifthismeansevos]

Really? They were kinna sweet and childish but they are not that aweful...Well I like them they are not the best of the series but neither the worst.

[Nightwing]

Really? They were kinna sweet and childish but they are not that aweful...Well I like them they are not the best of the series but neither the worst.

Ditto. I only saw it for what it was, and that was a story with a kid who is the only one in on what's going on, but NO ONE believes her, cuz she's a kid. lol!

Of course, those two episodes also remind me of the poor editing jobs anti-fans always rag on me for. Eh, small potatoes.

Something very interesting about SpidermanTAS was that there wasn't really a "first episode which is the origin episode." We're told about how he got his powers later on - and it was the same thing with the Uncle Ben story too.

[Apprentice]

I liked the girl and the idea of Spidey revealing his secrets to her, but I just found the way it was carried across a little clichèd. You're right, though...it was by no means the worst.

[Stu]

The story of Spider-Man explaining his origin to a youngster was adapted from a comic called The Kid Who Collected Spider-Man, which was much, much better than the episode in question. I was also dissapointed in part 2, because the amnesia angle was utterly wasted, as it usually is in these types of stories.

Amnesia offers an outstanding, character defining story as the hero unravels his own life story and realises where he went wrong (Spider-Man's involvement in his own Uncle's death and his guilt consuming him, in this case). The oppertunity is there, and it's rarely ever taken, unfortunatly. An example of the type of story amnesia can offer is found when Superman goes to town on Mongul in For The Man Who Has Everything after he made him relive the death of Krypton - this story had the oppertunity to be that, and instead became some cliched bore and had Doc Ock act as a jobber to an eight year old girl.

[Nightwing]

The story of Spider-Man explaining his origin to a youngster was adapted from a comic called The Kid Who Collected Spider-Man, which was much, much better than the episode in question. I was also dissapointed in part 2, because the amnesia angle was utterly wasted, as it usually is in these types of stories.

Amnesia offers an outstanding, character defining story as the hero unravels his own life story and realises where he went wrong (Spider-Man's involvement in his own Uncle's death and his guilt consuming him, in this case). The oppertunity is there, and it's rarely ever taken, unfortunatly. An example of the type of story amnesia can offer is found when Superman goes to town on Mongul in For The Man Who Has Everything after he made him relive the death of Krypton - this story had the oppertunity to be that, and instead became some cliched bore and had Doc Ock act as a jobber to an eight year old girl.


Well yeah, definitely, but I can't compare a story like that to a story like "For The Man Who Has Everything" from Justice League Unlimited. I mean that story was built up from years of Superman's life, if not his entire life, let alone between the time from JL (War World) to JLU (For the Man Who Has Everything).

If Spiderman didn't have amnesia he would have smacked Doc Ock around, saved the girls, and went home. The amnesia was needed to stretch out the story so little Taina....Tayina...Taa....so the little girl could run around trying to get people to help her but no one believes her.


I don't envy that comic reference. Whenever a comic story (99.9% of the time, LEGENDARY) is adapted into an episode for the animated version it always fall short in the eyes of the fans. The styles between comic and animation are just so different.

I'm unfamiliar with the outrageously popular "War World" story from Superman, so I liked said clunker of a Justice League episode. I'm also unfamiliar with the Spiderman story from which this episode was taken.

[Xurk]

Something very interesting about SpidermanTAS was that there wasn't really a "first episode which is the origin episode." We're told about how he got his powers later on - and it was the same thing with the Uncle Ben story too.
I think this subject was touched upon in an interview with John Semper , he didn't want to do an origin episode to start the series off, because that was cliché, and he wanted to get right to the "interesting" part of Peter's life and do [i]original stories.

[RAINMAN]

NOL was a grate way to start spiderman off. The lizard is both spider`s friend and enemy. It set the thone for the series. What a show what a bad first ep`s,watch FF. The orgin part was good but everything was awful. Don`t ask who was the first viallin they fought?:sweat: Come to think of it, that was the 3rd time spiderman origin was told. Atleast this one had more detals to it .