Post by DC-Fan on Apr 6, 2018 3:53:39 GMT
In Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2, Peter Parker is struggling in school, his boss is a jerk, his relationship with Mary Jane isn't as great as he wants it to be, and Aunt May is struggling to pay the mortgage. Peter has plenty of problems that most of us have experienced at some time in our lives so we can empathize with Peter and root for Peter to succeed.
But in SMH, Peter Parker has no problems at all. He's doing well in school (he's on the Academic Decathlon Team so he must be getting good grades to be on the team), he doesn't have to get a job, he gets invited to parties and has a date for the Homecoming Dance, and Aunt May gets free meals in restaurants. Everything is going perfect for Peter and Peter is nothing more than a shallow show-off who's only concern is not a jerk boss or poor grades or relationship problems or financial problems but only how to impress Tony Stark. There's nothing to make the audience empthasize with Peter or want to root for Peter to succeed.
In fact, in SMH, Adrian Toomes was a more likable character than Peter Parker and Toomes was the ONLY likable character in SMH. Toomes was only trying to provide for his family and got screwed over by Tony Stark's Damage Control team (which actually pulled out guns and threatened to shoot him).
Peter was originally on the Academic Decathlon Team. He quit the team. Then he re-joined the team just in time for the trip to D.C. And he missed the competition because (as DHS and FBI would see it), he gave an explosive device to his best friend Ned to take into the Washington Monument to blow up the elevator so obviously Peter wouldn't want to show up for the team's trip to the Washington Monument when Peter knows that his best friend is going to blow up the elevator with an explosive device that Peter gave him. That's another reason why SMH is such a badly-written movie. DHS and FBI would've detained Ned for questioning until Ned gave up Peter as the guy to gave him the explosive device. Then DHS and FBI would've gotten a warrant to search Aunt May's apartment.
That only means the jerk boss thing doesn't apply. But high school kids can have relationship problems like college students do. In Spider-Man 2, Petre's relationship with Mary Jane wasn't as close as what he wanted. In SMH, Peter not only gets invited to parties but also has a date to the Homecoming Dance with the girl he has a crush on. And in Spider-Man 2, Peter was struggling to keep up his grades in school. In SMH, Peter is doing so well in school that he's on the Academic Decathlon Team. And in Spider-Man 2, Aunt May is struggling to pay the mortgage, which makes Peter worried and concerned as well. But in SMH, Aunt May gets free meals in restaurants.
So my point still stands. Peter Parker in Spider-Man 2 has many of the same problems that most of us have experience at 1 time or another so we can empathize with Peter and root for Peter to succeed. Nut in SMH, life is perfect for Peter. No relationship problems. No problems trying to keep up in school. No financial problems for Aunt May. Life is perfect and Peter's only concern is how to impress Tony Stark. There's nothing hard about Peter's life in SMH and nothing that makes us want to root for Peter to succeed in SMH.