{"id":39,"date":"2004-07-08T02:57:05","date_gmt":"2004-07-08T08:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/wordpress\/?p=39"},"modified":"2008-08-21T02:03:10","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T08:03:10","slug":"the-matrix-re-spideyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/2004\/07\/08\/the-matrix-re-spideyed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Matrix Re-Spideyed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, the beauty that is Spider-Man 2<\/em>. The genius. The overwhelming wonder. Better than the first movie in every way, but that’s not my point.<\/p>\n

Last night, or the night before–well, some<\/em> night recently I had just gone to bed after reading some good ol’ Spider-Man<\/em> comics. I have become addicted to All Things Spidey (ATS), and I’m not ashamed to admit it. I almost bought some Spidey shoes last night, and they were eight sizes too small. Luckily, I had someone there to beat me over the head with a whiffle bat just in case any such impulses seized me, because my size limit on too-small shoes is five.<\/p>\n

My ATS addiction notwithstanding, I do<\/em> have a small complaint about Spidey comics, but that’s a story for another time and place.<\/p>\n

Maybe not another place–probably this place–but whatever.<\/p>\n

Anyway<\/em>, I was lying there, trying to go to sleep, letting my thoughts wander, and they wandered (surprise!) to Spider-Man. I was recalling the scene in the first Spider-Man<\/em> movie where Peter is sitting in the hospital room chatting with Aunt May about the first time he met Mary Jane. Aunt May says to Peter, “You said, ‘Aunt May, is that an angel?'” and Neo says, “Gee, did I say that?”<\/p>\n

Seriously, Neo appeared out of nowhere and took Spidey’s place, and I haven’t watched The Matrix<\/em> for two months.<\/p>\n

I wondered where Spidey had gotten to, and so I plunged through the strange and absurd recesses of my mind until I found him right where I thought he’d be–fighting Agent Smith, and sporting a long, black trenchcoat, no less.<\/p>\n

The scene was a combination of the final fight scene between Spidey and the Green Goblin in Spider-Man<\/em> and the final fight scene between Neo and Smith in The Matrix Revolutions<\/em>. Smith had just knocked Spidey back into a wall for the 300th time and was laughing maniacally. Spidey lay quietly for a moment, then got up, flexed in that weird Matrix way that makes the space around someone bulge for a bit, and then faced Smith, outstretched his hand, and made the Come Get Some More sign. Smith frowned, and then got some webbing in the eye.<\/p>\n

I didn’t get a chance to see how the scene ended, because at that point I fell asleep. I really think there needs to be some sort of crossover comic happening soon, so I can see what happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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