Spider-Man: Brand New Day Review
It’s my first review on this website!
Gonna go through it in these parts:
The questions it tried to answer
The most important plot developments
The most memorable scenes
My nitpicks
Overall takeaway
Spoilers ahead!
The Questions it tried to Answer
Can love persist even without the memory of knowing the person and your time spent together?
Answer: No. But the likelihood of falling in love again with the person for the same reasons before is quite high.
What if we can inhibit the expressions of ourselves that we don’t like?
Answer: The special parts of ourselves is where we get our powers, but it’s also the target of our detractors. By allowing them to evolve over time is what makes them impenetrable.
Can we live/work all alone?
Answer: No, even if we risk harming the people we love, we still need them to be part of our lives for support and inspiration.
And even if all we’ve experienced from other people are abuse and harm, we still need to believe that there are people out there who will understand and care for us.
What if the person we perceived to be dangerous is being harmed, should we save them?
Answer: Yes, no one should be harmed just because you perceived them to be dangerous.
Plot developments to remember
The Inhibitor technology exists now (currently used by Bruce Banner). The DODC could use it to tame superhumans in the future.
Even after MJ discovered about her erased past with Peter Parker, she couldn’t feel “love” for him (yet) because she doesn’t know him (anymore). Ned however, through muscle memory, might have unlocked his lost memory of Peter Parker.
Spider-Man can produce webs naturally now. His spider senses have also heightened.
Jean Grey at first could only hop into people’s minds. Now she can do telekinesis and control multiple people at once too. She might be headed to the X-Men university.
Hulk is able to get bigger now…
The most memorable scenes
Spider-Man’s first time producing organic webs and using them to swing (failingly).
Spider-Man vs The Hulk
When MJ rejected Peter
Spider-Man vs The Hand after he owned his new superpowers
Jean Grey realizing that her sister is dead, angering her and making her mind control the whole city radius
The first time Peter found out the villain could hop into people’s minds, and how he was following it around (and later on able to trap it)
When Ned remembered his hand shake with Peter
My nitpicks (and other weird observations)
Five years had passed and Peter hadn’t moved on at all from MJ and Ned?
It seemed like I needed to know The Punisher’s background to fully sympathize with him. And he never really helped Spider-Man, but rather always made situations worse.
The interactions between MJ and Parker at the bunker were a bit cheesy.
How is Peter getting money for food and bills without a day job?
Tom Holland’s left eyebrow is always brushed upwards.
Main Takeaway
It certainly feels like a new Tom Holland Spider-Man — getting a bit closer now to the Tobey Maguire one, which I still like the best. There are no more high school activities that get in the way. He is a full-time superhero now. At the heart of New York City all the time. And his superpowers are evolving into something new.
I’m so invested in Jean Grey’s story now too, and I’m excited for the MCU’s X-Men!
