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Spider-Man: The New Animated Series Episode Review
Episode #107, "Head Over Heels"
Original Episode Airdate - July 25th, 2003
It's a world of balance for Peter Parker and his web-slinging alter ego Spider-Man and makes more sacrifices than most. This morning is no different as he juggles his academics, a floundering social life and one heroic rescue after the next. What Peter can't save is his unfortunate pairing with Christina - his new Psychology lab partner - a gifted yet quirky scientific type who is also fanatical in her devotion to Spider-Man. She convinces Peter that she has the perfect invention to help them score a high grade in class, an ESP crown, that she wants to demonstrate by reading Peter's mind. While she's wearing it, the crown malfunctions jolting her brain with electricity. The voltage alters Christina's reality and suddenly Spider-Man - well - a 2-D version of the wall-crawler is advising her on how to get close to the real Spider-Man. Soon, Christina is no longer able to distinguish fantasy from reality and has deadly designs on Mary-Jane Watson who she views as her major competition for Spider-Man's affection.
Credits
Screenplay By: Tracey Forbes
Directed By: Brandon Vietti
Music By: John Digweed, Nick Muir and William Anderson
Animation By: Mainframe
Guest Starring: Tara Strong as Christina, Rino Ramano as Kwang
Review and Media by Stu:
Well, to put it short, this episode reeked of MTV. It's pretty bad by anyone's
standards, if only for it's premises. Spider-Man, a guy who has, you know, fought The Green Goblin, a guy who can control
electricity and a 7-foot human reptile, is fighting a fan girl. A fan girl. What the hell?
Despite it's stupid premises, there where enjoyable parts of the episode, such as Peter explaining something truthful,
deep and meaningful about himself was one of his allergy to fish, and the ending fight on the lift between Spidey and
Christina. The undoubted highlight has to be Spidey's one liner; after he's annoyed that Christiana kidnapped MJ,
where he starts shouting "I think your invention sucks!" Arguably one of the series funniest lines, but it couldn't
save an entire episode.
Despite him not being in the episode much, Harry got a nice chance to shine. He came this close to stealing the episode
with his "Your turning me into one of your chick friends!" scene. Considering how dull pretty much all versions of
pre-Goblin Harry are, it's probably not the highest accolade to call this version of Harry the best ever, but still,
he's worlds better than any other version. I remember he received a lot of criticism before the show started airing,
because he was blonde. Internet fanboys can be such a fickle bunch, I tell you.
MJ's characterisation was completely off in this episode, constantly annoying Peter. I realise she wanted to be closer
to Peter, but damn ... she was bordering on a "restraining order" relationship.
Other than that, despite some nice animation with his web slinging, this is one of the more forgettable
episodes of the show that is simply disappointing since we've only got thirteen episodes.
Screenshots
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