Spider-Man: The Animated Series Episode Reviews

Partners
Review by Stu, Media by Kolbar

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Episode #46 - Partners
Original Airdate: May 3rd, 1997

Alistair Smythe, currently working as Silvermane's top scientist, kidnaps the Black Cat. He then bribes Spider-Man into capturing the Scorpion or the Vulture in exchange for her release, and plans to use their DNA to restore Silvermane's true physical appearance.

Credits:
Story By: John Semper
Written By: Brooks Watchel and Cynthia Harrison
Music Composed By: Shuki Levy and Kussa Mahchi
Animation Services By: Toyko Movie Shinsha (TMS)
Guest Starring: Christopher Daniel Barnes as Spider-Man/Peter Parkr, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as Doctor Octopus, Jack Angel as Nick Fury, John Phillip Law as The Cat, Nita Talbot as Anastasia Hardy, Rachael Davies as Agent X, Jennifer Hale as Felicia Hardy/The Black Cat and Steven Jay Blum as Brace Huntington

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Review: This episode was a mixed bag. There are a lot of characters in this one, and as it is only a single episode, a lot of the story suffers because of it. It starts off well enough, continuing on from the previous episode with The Black Cat still wanting to be a superhero whilst Spider-Man is still refusing to let her tag along.

Then she gets kidnapped by Smythe, who's evil again, in order for Spider-Man to bring either The Scorpion or The Vulture so he can make Silvermaine older again. I'm not so sure we really needed to see Silvermaine again, but whatever he's here.

There were some neat parts to this episode, such as The Scorpion wanting to go straight and get married (!), and The Vulture unable to control his aging and randomly changing from old to you young. This episode did a good job of fleshing out The Scorpion a little more, especially as he only attempted to steal the money in order to cure himself from what technically is an awful disease.

Besides that, we got some predictably dire Spidey/Black Cat scenes, and a massive fight sequence at the end of the episode. Season four was pretty dull on a whole, with everything with The Black Cat petering out before too long. This episode was unfortunately one of those dull episodes.

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