Episode Review - Deadly Choices
Review and Media by Stu

Episode #4 - Deadly Choices
Original Airdate - December 23rd, 2000
Git Hoskins, a Human Revolutionary who has unusual powers due to being experimented on by the High Evolutionary, steals a canister of deadly mutagen from Sir Ram's laboratory. Spidey and the Knights must reluctantly join forces to find Git, because the canister has a failsafe that will detonate a nuclear charge to prevent the mutagen from infecting Counter-Earth.

Credits
Story By: Michael Reaves, Will Meugniot
Written By: Steve Perry
Directed By: Patrick Archibald

Review:
This episode takes the time to go into the backstory of one of the humans that John Jameson hangs around with, Git. His bizarre appearance and mute personality made him the one I was most interested in seeing again after watching "Worlds Apart," as well. They're all fleshed out a little more here, actually, but Git is still the most interesting of them. I actually felt sorry for the character, and I haven't felt anything except boredom and anger since I started watching this series.

The flashbacks to Git's childhood were actually pretty well done, and it actually made The Beastials seem more like sick, evil villains rather than just talking animals with a holier-than-thou attitude. On the subject of The Beastials, it's getting harder to watch them. Sir Ram's arrogant dialogue doesn't help matters at all, but the simple fact is, they just aren't that interesting.

There were a lot of elements here to reference in future episodes, with someone (voiced by Rino Ramano, which means it's probably The Green Goblin) stalking Shane and his mother, and Venom and Carnage now have the bomb that everybody spent the entire episode fighting over. The plot is starting to move a bit more, which is a slight plus

Still, there's no oomph or spark to any of it. Perhaps the very premises of the series is too far away from the Spider-Man I know and love, but I'm really not feeling any of this show so far. It never quite reaches an engaging level. It's either terrible, simply bad or just watchable. There's still time to improve, but I don't think the show has it in it.

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