I appreciate the educational bits you include with your commentary, Irving. Thank you for all of your reviews!

Good commentary!

9:30-I actually miss doing research at the library with card catalogs, microfilm, and reference books!

About that silencer; I read once about a pulp magazine writer who had a gun in one of his stories fire more shots (accompanied by a "Bang" for each shot) than the gun could on one load. The writer explained: "They pay me by the word."

Rita, Julie, and Emily. A love rectangle? "Monkeying" with Peter's life makes me wonder what kind of powers he would have gotten if it was a radioactive chimp that bit him.

A Peking spy... Well, being a spy, it figures there'd be a lot of peeking going on.

notice that Peter's break lights go on when he stopped

Sometimes people try to guess my age and thank goodness, they guess low. Recently, I had a birthday, A casual acquaintance asked, "How old are you?" I told her, "18 plus." She looked confused and said, "18 plus?" I said, "Yeah, forty!"

My own guess for when the episode was split was when Spider-Man went down in the subway with the train coming. It's your standard cliffhanger ending to lure people back next week. Can I say "World's Worst News Judgment" by putting the death of a Chinese minister on the front page of a New York Newspaper? It's not a big story, at least in New York City. If, say, the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK died from a heart attack, it might rank high on the UK news, but not the American press. In addition, both papers were risking their reputations by knowingly printing fake news. This series did not like to have Peter Parker use his powers unless he was wearing his costume (except for the pilot). His fleeing the apartment to change before the fight served a plot point with Emily (I remember enough about the episode, even after all this time), but a few episodes ago where he changed into Spider-Man to break out of the jail cell was just absurd. I'm sort of lukewarm on the plot. I'm not convinced the word of American military officers that the bribe was not accepted is worth much in a Chinese court. I'm also not feeling the episode had an excuse plot for some fantastic Spider-Man stunt sequences.

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3:20 Tell me about it. I'm forty-four and people think I look half that at best.

My gosh! I didn't realize Peking and Bejing were one and the same!