Steve Ahlman

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Right.

So it seems like a stripped-down Spider-Man movie that's more specifically about whatever sort of...

fucking transformation that Peter's going through.

Okay.

The villain of the movie, I get that.

That's an actually interesting point that like, you don't see very many really amazing superhero movies without villains to orient them.

But I do kind of argue that in this one, you need it less.

You need that less with this version of Spider-Man because it's almost as if at this point, life is his villain.

He's lost his mom, basically, right?

He's having this change happen in his body.

He's completely alone.

He's lost his friends, but he knows that they're gone.

Like, he knows that he's the only person in the world that has this knowledge.

So how do you reintegrate Peter Parker into the world?

He's been on his own for four years, and now it seems like he's getting all of his people back.

So in this particular case, while I do agree with what you're saying, and I tried to think of one while you were saying that, and it's very hard to do.

I do agree with what you're saying.

It might not be as important in this story.

You can't because it's difficult to do in the MCU.