Ultimate Spider-Man TV series.

I co-write a Spider-Gwen fic that tries to address the Character Derailment and character deaths. It's very different and we went to town on it being an alternate universe where Peter doesn't have powers, Gwen's something of an anti-hero that wants revenge for an assassin killing her father, the Sinister Six are being built up as The Dreaded that won't be taken lightly, and gratuitous amounts of cyborgs, gangs with lasers, and Norman's straight up dead, leaving Emilia to pic up the pieces.

But that's neither here nor there.

Its not like the show hasn't previously introduced characters with little to no buildup, likewise Gwen doesn't need to be a love interest.

... Fair enough.

Speaking of love interests, looks like they're hinting at a Peter/Mary Jane relationship.

... They are?! Didn't they go on record to say these two would never be together in the show?

Didn't they, like, ditch the character after Season 2?

I haven't been keeping up but from what I remember after a certain point she just stopped showing up.

Huh. They kinda did, didn't they? I don't remember seeing her that much, if at all, in Season 3.

Well its only ever a matter of time I guess

It makes sense, there seems to be a renewed interest in MJ over at Marvel, even the marriage is making a comeback with Gerry Conway scheduled to write a new Renew Your Vows series in the coming months (though the marriage was always kicking about in the newspaper strip during the near decade OMD's changes have been in effect)

edited 22nd Jul '16 10:23:07 AM by Zarius

Still seems weirdly against Jeff Loeb's politics regarding cartoons. Was there a change at the head of the animation department or something?

IIRC, Jeph hasn't been in control of their animation for a while. Stephen Wacker is.

Jeph's in charge of general tv now, which I suppose means AOS and the Netflix shows.

edited 22nd Jul '16 12:06:09 PM by KnownUnknown

This is the final season

Isn't "Miles from Home" an episode that already aired?

It is, but I was concentrating on what the designer was saying when he billed it as a "final season episode" and then confirming in the comments section to a fan that the series was finished.

... I probably shouldn't say this, as it's kinda mean to the fans of this show, but I kinda feel relieved that this show will be over.

I'm just wondering if anything is going to actually be wrapped up, or if most of the series' lingering points will never be followed up on.

I kinda get the feeling they're just gonna start up a new Spider-Man show, albeit even more based on the MCU than this one since MCU!Spidey has finally shown up and gotten his own movie.

The showrunners might surprise us. I remember watching Generator Rex, and the first three and a half seasons set up plot point after plot point without any real resolution, only for the last half of the last season to start shifting status quo and resolving ongoing plots.

Well, this is big news. Could that mean that Avengers will end on 4th season?Could Guardians go out with them and we could be finally free from tyranny or Marvel Animated Universe?

..Although raises a point. Marvel already has a track record of trying to cash in on things asap, even if they have to redo them later (like putting Guardians of Galaxy in cartoon) but come on, they can't be dense enough to make cancel Spidey cartoon just to make identical one, only more movie-ish. I know continuity between shows is terrible but they must finally kill this universe, right?

It's the last season? Didn't See That Coming...

Could it be that the showrunners are fed up with the negative feedback and figured "Screw it, we're rebooting this schlock so people can stop whining at us!"?

Actually, in retrospect, it makes some sense when you realize the next season of Avengers Assemble will be subtitled Secret Wars and apparently involves time and space shenanigans. Late last year and earlier this year, we had the comics go through Secret Wars (2015), and we know how that ended, right? ^note  A rewriting of the universe, but not to the point where everyone had to start from scratch.

Perhaps the same will happen here?

It's gone far beyond the 65 episode syndication count. It definitely makes sense that they feel they're finished and want to do something else.

Well, this is big news. Could that mean that Avengers will end on 4th season?Could Guardians go out with them and we could be finally free from tyranny or Marvel Animated Universe?

... you have my eternal respect just for delivering that line^^' that was both true AND hilarious.

Honestly I am fine with them starting all over if that means we finally get cartoons with better continuity between them and better quality. I wouldn't go as far as the loosely named Marvel Animated Universe is the worst thing ever, but it has still been frustratingly mediocre overall AND obnoxious enough to outlive Marvel shows that were of much better quality.

Whatever's next needs a better studio than Man of Action.

Or less overall focus on MCU content (I am fine with the MCU; the way it's used and how everything has to resemble it, however, makes it feel like a crutch).

Or no more creators lying about how the shows aren't connected to each other until the first crossover event and how EMH was ended because nobody could follow it when you need to watch pretty much all the current shows to understand some of the current events.

Hey, who could they get that's better than Man of Action?

I... Will get back to you on that, because I don't know many studios or creative teams. Need to.

Greg Weisman isn't too busy at the moment. I'd love to see him back to this forte as soon as possible.

Most of the people I trust are busy on other projects. Victor Cook is doing the new Stretch Armstrong show. Mitch Watson is still doing All Hail King Julien. The duo behind Kim Possible is doing Big Hero Six. Alan Burnett and Jim Kreig are doing Justice League Action.

Two other people I can think of are Giancarlo Volpe and Christopher Yost. The former is doing some directorial gigs in Star Vs., but nothing too big either. The latter doesn't seem particularly busy and is probably done writing Thor: Ragnarok. Not to mention Yost was one of the masterminds behind Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.