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Black
is the new red this weekend when an alien symbiote
causes a metamorphosis of Spider-Man's suit in
"Persona," an all-new episode of "The Spectacular
Spider-Man" premiering this Saturday, May 17 at 10:00
a.m. ET/PT on Kids' WB! on The CW.
In the episode, Spider-Man learns the hard way not to
judge a book by its cover when another Spider-Man starts
making headlines … as a crook! It's the Chameleon,
master of disguise, looting the city and laying the
blame at Spidey's feet. The Web-Slinger is forced to
team up with another crook, the lovely Black Cat, to
stop his foe's faux-Spidey crime spree and clear his
name. Along the way, Spider-Man inadvertently comes in
contact with an alien symbiote that dramatically alters
our hero's color scheme … and begins to mess with his
mind.
Battlestar Galactica's Tricia Helfer guest stars as the
voice of Black Cat. Dan Fausett directed the episode
from a script by Matt Wayne.
Wayne said he enjoyed the task of packing so many
plotlines into a single, 22-minute episode.
"It was a good challenge, and I think the show got
tighter as we went along," Wayne said. "As a writer, you
have to love the pace of this show – it's very freeing
for a writer to have every scene be something coming to
a crisis. There's very little laying pipe at this point
of the season. It's just going from climax to climax."
Wayne penned two other episodes during the series' first
season – "Natural Selection," which featured Lizard; and
the subplot-packed "The Invisible Hand," which
introduced Rhino, revealed Tombstone, and gave the first
glimpse of Mary Jane Watson. Wayne also wrote one
episode for the second season before shifting to another
project. He said it was especially entertaining to write
the back-and-forth banter between Black Cat and
Spider-Man for "Persona."
"Black
Cat is definitely flirting with him – she doesn't know
that he's only 15 – so she considers him a man, she
assumes he's available, she's going for it, and he's
reacting like a 15-year-old," Wayne said, noting Peter's
potentially-romantic interaction thus far this season
with Mary Jane Watson, Gwen Stacy and Liz Allan.
"Considering what Peter Parker has been through the
whole season, I think it's great we can throw another
girl on the fire and have him react this way. It's
really capturing what it feels like to be a 15-year-old
boy."
Images and interview provided by Sony Television Entertainment.
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