3 thoughts on “The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Spiderman

  1. I think it’s part of the Spiderman mythos that Peter Parker doesn’t really get truly happy endings. He’s unlucky in that way.

    I expect we will see college-age Spiderman in forthcoming films, and he will have to rebuild his life brick by brick. It will be an act of courage that we will admire, and he will sometimes fail at it. But it will be exactly the sort of struggle we love him for.

    I don’t blame you for finding it unsettling. It is unsettling. It is a heroic sacrifice of high order that Peter did. It will hurt, and he will crawl back from it.Report

    1. Good Spider-man stories end with him not getting what he wanted to start, although usually he’s consoled with a little bit of what he needed. The real compensation for him is the transcendent moment when he puts everything together to solve a problem the way only he can (Wealth and fame, he’s ignored. Action is his reward).Report

  2. No way home was quite an impressive piece of work both as writing and as acting. It deserves the mountains of money it’s been raking in.Report

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