Well, to be fair, the Green Goblin is still killed by his own cowardly attack, the difference is that instead of jumping out of the way so that the cowardly attack could kill the Goblin, Spider-Man had the smarts to limit the Goblin's movement by tying him to a piano? If you think about it that way, then Spider-Man didn't do anything wrong, and the Goblin still died by his own cowardly attack?

I feel like there's a world of difference between killing yourself with your own attack...and being tied to a piano and pushed off a building to your death.

Also, death by falling piano is just pretty stupid.

T.V. Carpio takes over Spiderman Villian Arachne
http://www.broadway.com/shows/spider-ma ... w-arachne/

Pure Looney Tunes. It's a comic book, not a cartoon.

Spider-Man's Christopher Tierney on GMA: 'I Feel Fantastic'
http://www.broadway.com/shows/spider-ma ... fantastic/

I really can't decide if I want to see this or not. A part of me wants to see what all the spectical is about.....the other part of me runs away in fear of an actor falling on me.

Because as we all know, Norman Osborn is such a funny villain, right? "The Night Gwen Stacy Died" was so utterly hilarious!

Also, it bugs me that the show is putting special effects first and foremost. I realize that special effects are necessary to some degree, what with the web-slinging and such, but the comics always seemed more about the characters and the internal conflicts than anything else, with problems that Spider-Man had to solve through ingenuity or sheer willpower, rather than just throwing tons of web at whatever came up.

And a lot of the changes seem minor, but they ad up and become annoying - a stolen car hitting Uncle Ben instead of a robber, Emily instead of Harry...

Not to mention, I doubt that a bunch of comic book geeks trying to write "THE GREATEST SPIDER-MAN STORY EVER" would just be re-treading the movies and derailing continuity. Comic book geeks are insane when it comes to continuity and character derailment. There is absolutely no way that a Spider-Man fan would have him tying the Green Goblin to a falling piano. That'd be stupid. That is stupid.

Spiderman has been delayed its opening until March for the final time while they fix then ending. Thank God.

http://www.broadway.com/shows/spider-ma ... -march-15/

I can see why they postponed it, yet again, from officially opening on Broadway but postponing your show a whole year is uncalled for. You should have more control of a show than that. I understand that they want to do the best they can with the money that they have and I agree with that but let it go already. I just want to see it crash and burn and be over with. I don't think it will survive two years of sold out shows to regain the money that was put into it.

You know what bugs me about this whole mess? (Besides all the awkward and unnecessary mythology additions, that is.)

They didn't NEED all these eye-popping, over the top special effects. The best comic stories have always been about the people at the center of them. When you have a really good writer, the superpowers are almost secondary.

So if they'd just concentrated on a character-driven story, they wouldn't really have needed any special effects more complicated than, say, Peter Pan's. And they could have had a perfectly good Spider-Man musical!

Instead, they had to make it a huge effects-driven extravaganza, and look what happens! The effects cause no end of trouble, and because they didn't concentrate enough on the story at the heart of it, the story isn't winning anybody over.