this is stuff you like and you don't know when you're ready it's a leap of
faith I've been sick recently and one of the
things I did when I was sick was drag myself all the way to the sofa to watch
some DVDs in between the naps and one of those DVDs was into the spider-verse
because it was a patron request and the DVD had just arrived and I thought it
got a lot of votes it must be really good spoiler it was really good
I'm always rewarded by having faith in my patrons even when they make me review
things that I really don't like looking at you Jesus Christ Superstar because
they always end up being interesting episodes so I am thankful for them and
for you for watching and I am thankful to into the spider-verse not least for
coming along and reminding me that pretty much everything good that you
want to do in life is ultimately a leap of faith the plot of into the spider
verse goeth thusly Peter Parker is blond and spider-man and a grad student Miles
Morales is a teenager at a posh school and gets bitten by a spider you know the
drill except this time it's an interdimensional spider and then there's
a super collider and kingpin kills Peter Parker like quite early on and then
there are spider-men and spider-woman showing up everywhere including older
and more bitter Peter Parker and spider-gwen and they all have to work
together to help miles whose uncle is a henchman in a funny outfit and dies also
that one admittedly I did see coming and miles is also unsure if he can do the
thing Spoiler: as if there haven't been at least for spoilers already they
do the thing they close the portal and they send everyone back to their own
dimensions and man it's so good, SO. Good. it's funny it's emotionally resonant it's
age-appropriate and it deals with some pretty heavy topics really wel.l I cried
several times watching it possibly because I was sick but also possibly
because I'm a giant ball of emotions nowadays um who knows. into the spider
verse is about a lot of things it's about how you've got to get back up
every time you get knocked down it's about how anyone can wear the mask and
it's about how you never really feel ready it's always a leap of faith the
reason I got sick or rather the reason that it knocked me flat on my back as
opposed to just being an annoying winter cold is that I have been doing all the
things lately and not really getting enough downtime some of these things you
will see in your notifications in the next month or so if you
have notifications turned on which you should if you're a patron some of these
you have already been seeing over the course of the last month but I hit this
patreon goal and I said alright I'm going to make a video about stage combat
we're gonna have actual filmed violence in it it did not turn out at all in the
way that I was picturing it when I kind of vaguely conceptualized it in my head
and that's okay I think hopefully but we made it and it's going out into the
world and whether or not people like it is not really up to me is it? one of the
things I've been reminded of lately is that it's a really bad idea to expend
too much or really any energy worrying about how people perceive you because
you really can't control that and in the end for me a lot of it just boils down
to being worried about a feeling. Meh? I mean that's easy to say and hard to do
but you know I have been reminded and so I thought I would also share this with
you one of the reasons I think that I loved into the spider-verse so much is
that it knows what it is and it doesn't apologize for it
it could have been bad I mean it could have been really bad so many things have
to be right to make a movie good so many stars have to align but I think it
helps to know what you want be oh look another theme of the movie huh Great
Expectations yeah it could have been a mess that
amazing comic book style I mean yeah but And Lee's Hulk had something similar and
I did not enjoy that at all sly self referential jokes
yeah but too many of them and it just becomes that ensemble cast could have
been overwhelming that central conflict those intertwining themes that
overindulgent product placement okay yeah that last one was actually a bit
annoying but it worked and here's why I think it was really clearly and
unapologetically itself it was a referential cross multiverse mishmash of
characters but it had its own story to tell it echoes with the voices of all
the things that came before it but it blends them like a choir and however
brilliant a single voice is and they can be brilliant I'm a sucker for a harmony
and so are the rest of the characters as it turns out because they're all so
happy not to be alone miles could be spider-man, Peter, Peter, Gwen
Peni, you me anyone can wear the mask and it always fits eventually because
the truth is for anything that you do you can't really
know that you're ready even if you're a big corporation you can workshop it and
focus group it you can throw money at it you can do all of the marketing and it
can still fail spectacularly or succeed wildly big team small team no team big
budget small budget no budget big story small story doesn't matter it's always a
leap of faith and sometimes you just have to take it thanks for watching I
will see you soon for something completely different