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2 months ago

I don’t know how TSSM managed to do it, but somehow they not only gave us one storyline that tackled the topic of addiction in a way that was understandable towards their younger targeted audience, but they gave us two.

And just whenever people talk about the representation and portrayed attitudes towards mental health issues in other adaptations of Spider-man I’m just reminded of how much immense respect I have for TSSM for both deliberately choosing to outright address such mental health issues like addiction and being able to do it with such sensitivity and acknowledgment of the underlying gravity of such issues that they end up doing it well.

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spiderman spiderverse harry osborn tssm spectacular spiderman mark allen I could probably do an actual analysis on this later like subtext is all around a really great episode and probably one of my absolute favorites and I just rewatched the uncertainty principle where harry is framed as gobby after being discovered with the serum the fact that they had him accurately display such a range of emotions towards being forced to confront his addiction in that moment like discovering that even though he wasn’t trying to his addiction was causing harm to other people (which is a common feeling for people who struggle with addiction as well with other forms of sh to have) but they still don’t and plainly refuse to antagonize him for it (despite literally being framed as the major villain of the series in that moment) I was going to add more thoughts on the antagonization of mental health struggles and compare that to other adaptations but I'll just share those thoughts later

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