Spider-Man: TAS To Get A Proper Conclusion
 

Cyborg's post-Rebirth writer John Semper is reassembling the cast of Spider-Man: TAS, which he was head writer of, for a crowd-funding project, and as a bonus for contributing, he' produced with the cast a resolution to the cliffhanger of the series where Peter finds Mary Jane.

meh, not interested. If it happens that's cool but this radio drama is basically professional fan-fiction with the characters not sounding exactly alike so I can't get too excited and that small preview didn't really do it for me.

I mean the series ended perfectly for me, sure he never found MJ but you knew he would eventually find her and he had just saved the multiverse, saw his Uncle again and met Stan Lee, there wasn't much left for this Spider-Man to do. Sometimes an open ended ending is for the best like with a superhero that you know he'll continue to have adventures and the whole MJ being a clone plot was really stupid and could've been handled better, I mean how many episodes was MJ a clone for? Since the Green Goblin episode right? They did something that really mirrored the stupidity of the clone saga in the comics.

I'm not interested either. It was great to hear the preview, but I thought that the series ended on a high note and the cliffhanger didn't bother me. Most stuff had been resolved and it seemed that Spiderman would find Mary Jane soon enough. She was back on Earth in the spinoff Spiderman Unlimited anyway.

Unlimited and TAS are not the same show.

Also Unlimited Spidey was killed in the 2014/2015 comics event Spider-Verse.

So is it a full out animated episode or is it a few minutes of audio?

With exception to Hobgoblin and Electro the characters are the definitive take for me.

I think this is the only Spidey series to adapt a storyline from the newspaper strip universe (the Mutant Agenda crossover with the X-Men, though in the original storyline, it was only Beast that featured)

A REAL end to the series?! Ooh, yeah! Been wishing for that for YEARS!!! I'd be all over this if it happens.

Yeah TAS was definitely where I learned all my stuff about the Spider-mythos and those versions of the characters are pretty much what I expect most of them to be like. In only 65 episodes I felt I got the entire Spider-Man Universe 101 including Marvel Universe crossover events.

This show actually gets a ton of hate on the internet but I couldn't disagree more, while the animation might be lacking and you can tell the censorship now as an adult as a kid I never noticed those things and personally I loved the terrible CG. I thought the voice acting was good and the story arcs were very well done and had an awesome finale. Spectacular Spider-Man might've been pretty damn fun but my definite Spider-Man is definitely TAS.

And since its somewhat on topic the whole Marvel Animated Universe in the 90s was great, it might not've been as successful or as well thought of as the DCAU but it definitely came first. X-Men TAS was the other big show and also in its entire run it told so many X-Men mythos. The crossover with Spider-Man was awesome, I had no idea before that episode that they were in the same Universe. Fantastic Four also told a lot in its short run, I personally like both seasons and Iron Man I wasn't a big fan of either season. Hulk was surprisingly good about a character I didn't know could handle its own show. And Avengers while not having the original crew was still decent and gave us a good version of Antman. While there were some contradictions overall the shows worked very well and gave us an extremely fleshed out Marvel Universe on screen over ten years before the MCU could even be concieved. I'm not counting the Silver Surfer show since its definitely in its own universe even if it came out during the same time but that was also a great show.

To be fair it was consciously made to be a loose continuation and outside of a few details being different it could've easily been a "sequel" series. When I first watched it I tried to reconcile it with TAS explaining away any continuity errors but I realized it was just better for it to be its own show. The show itself had some really creative ideas, I loved the "comic book" style they went with and would've loved a more traditional Spider-Man cartoon with that style instead of the futuristic thing which sadly Batman Beyond just did better. Some of the future stuff ideas were still neat though.

Iron Man's first season is admittedly a bit ropey n quality, but the second season is one of the most adult and serious efforts and it certainly made me more a fan of the character, plus it had an awesome theme song. To this day I 'ship Tony and Julia Carpenter (a crack pairing if there ever was one).

Hulk's first season was phenomenal, then they severely dumbed it down for the She-Hulk co-starring season

Heh, out-of-nowhere.
Well, better late then never.

OH HELL YES! Can't wait for this. :tcool:


That was not a spin-off, it was an entirely separate show. And a vastly inferior one at that.

So whatever happened to netflix potentially reviving Young Justice for Season 3? I guess nothing happened with that, right?

Just because they didn't make an immediate announcement doesn't "mean" anything.
Do you think they can just press a button to do all the animation?

And why the hell are you asking here?

Netflix is funny sometimes it announces a show once it's basically almost done and sometimes it announces it as soon as the deal was struck. It's more likely that Netflix would announce a new DC cartoon instead of a S3 of YJ.

Because I can do whatever I want! You're not the boss of me!

Well, I haven't watched most of Spiderman Unlimited for ages, but there were a few references to TAS in the show in eps such as the first one and the episode "One is the Lonelist Number". I thought it was a spinoff at the time it aired (I was 13 and didn't remember much about TAS, so I didn't notice a lot of the plot holes). It was boring most of the time, but started to get interesting towards the end before it was cancelled. It wasn't as good as TAS alright, though that show had its own problems as well.

My main issues with Spider-Man:TAS were Hobgoblin and Electro. Granted we did not get the official reveal of Roderick Kingsley in the comics until the final of the show in 1998, it may as well have been unreaveled instead of being a rich criminal that should be known as Jack'O Lantern. Electro, the son of the Red Skull? The whole forming of the Six Forgotten Warriors and Sinister Six fighting over a power source that turns out to be Electro's power? That was a huge downer. It was not even Max Dillon. Everything else seems either definitive or done better, Kraven for example

References do not equal a continuation.

If this episode gets made, then TAS will be the only Spidey cartoon that didn't end on an unresolved cliffhanger. Really think about that.

It seems to me this is a studio recording session that will be released if to you individually if you donate 5 dollars to the crowd funding. I want to believe it will ve an all out animated episode,but going through legal approval through Marvel has to be done first.

60s Spidey, the 80s solo Spidey 'toon, and Amazing Friends did'nt end on cliffhangers either. Indeed the solo 80s Spidey 'toon had a story arc involving Doctor Doom which actually wrapped up before the series ended (and the episodes in the arc worked as standalone stories also)

Yeah, this will just be an audio thing. Semper no longer works for Marvel, and is actually going to be writing Cyborg for DC Comics once Rebirth is over with

Yeah, just an audio recording.

I thought that might come up; I haven't watched any of the pre-90's cartoons. :P Let me rephrase that then - the only Spidey cartoon that didn't end on an unresolved cliffhanger since the 80s.

Really think about that, guys. Why has animation been so unkind to Spidey in recent decades?

I agree that Spiderman Unlimited wasn't a continuation. It just used some elements from TAS. I realised that they were really two separate shows a few years ago.

It'd be nice to see TAS have closure alright. It was great to hear the actors and music from the series in new material after all these years. TAS isn't as good as I remembered it, but I think it was a good introduction to Spiderman and the best Spidey cartoon until Spectacular Spiderman came along.

One thing I always found interesting is how, aside from storyline changes and censorship and whatnot, those 90's shows were very close to the comics. X-Men, Spider-Man, Iron Man, etc, for the most part the designs were pretty much spot on.

It seemed that afterwards stuff like X-Men Evolution, Spectacular Spider-Man and so forth would start messing things around and having characters have either drastic re-designs or all-out different motivations. I mean just compare Spectacular Dr. Octopus and.... basically anyone in X-Men Evo compared to the comics and some of them you can barely tell apart.

However it seems with the newer shows like the Avengers Assemble and Ultimate Spider-Man and whatnot they seem to going back to making stuff happen closer to the comics and having the character be designed mostly how they look like in the comics and sometimes, movies.

Now all we need is for DC to make a new Batman show that has modern day stuff like Nightwing, Damian, Red Hood and Red Robin while keeping the overall look and designs faithful to the comics. Yeah I know Batman kinda has an animated movie universe now, but I mean a tv series....

Edit- I went back and removed any reference from Batman the Animated Series. I forgot that while classic, the show had tons of redesigns like blue-skinned Two-Face and Tim Drake being pint sized and whatnot. Ironically, the cheesier Batman Brave and the Bold was way more faithful to the character designs.