Re: Spider-Man: The Reboot!
but I can't accept that a regular high school student
I'd say Peter was a tad more than your regular HS kid.. He was a pretty damn bright kid, a boy genius is how he is written.
Now we got a director that is doing things the way it's supposed to be done. (so far) Web-shooters are a big part of PP. They were a huge part of many stories, his father was a scientist that was developing the adhesive, PP just perfected it. It shows his genius side, more so than any raising your hand in class and and saying "1.21 electron volts" ever could. He would run out of webbing in a fight, and bring up dramatic circumstances. They would jam up. They cost mega $ and were expensive. Another problem for a kid. They were very much a part of the character of PP in the comics etc. Plus, they just look ____ing cool!
Organic Web-Shooters (article)
Back in days of yore, around 1991,
James Cameron and Co. came up with the legendary “scriptment” that contained the now infamous “
organic web-shooters.”
Cameron might not have come up with the idea, but it was his will and fame that kept it in script after script until Sam Raimi arrived on the scene. The idea was that it's simply unbelievable for a high school student (as nerdy and science clubby as Peter Parker may be) to invent anything even remotely resembling the web fluid. It was Raimi's belief that if an actual scientist can't make web fluid then Parker would have no chance. So, instead of inventing a device, Peter mutated spinnerets in his forearms.
This is just another classic
example of screenwriters thinking they're better than comic book writers. The real reason producers couldn't let go of the
organic shooters was because it came down from upon the mountain... from
James Cameron himself (Cameron's initials are J.C., Jesus's initials were J.C.... coincidence?). Film makers prodded Marvel so much about these
organic web-shooters being better, that comic writers were actually forced to incorporate them into the comics! Yes, Peter Parker grew wrist spinnerets, and they worked exactly the same as the as original web-shooters, he even had to still use his devil horn trigger finger.
My problem with the
organic web-shooters is the explanation. Raimi said they did this for believability, but if the audience was willing to suspend disbelief enough that a radioactive spider give a teenager super spider power, I don't think you'll lose them with mechanical web-shooters. In fact, wrist mounted web slingers are actually the most believable element of the whole Spider-man mythos. Other things that don't exist in real life: the Batmobile, adamantium, invisible jets, and jets boots, hand repulsers, unibeams, and just about every bit of Iron Man technology.
The
organic web-shooters are actually far less believable because spiders do not produce webs through any of their eight legs. The spinnerets are located at the
rear of the spider's abdomen, or, in the case with human/spider hybrid, on Peter Parker's ass. Yes, Spider-man would have to swing from his butt and fart at the Green Goblin. A biologist on the this History Channel's Spider-Man Tech, I think trying to be a little more discrete, suggested that our salivary glands could conceivably mutant to produce
webbing, but definitely not his wrists. Additionally, the artificial
webbing was designed to dissolve after an hour (great for cleaning up after spider parties), if Peter Parker produced his own
webbing, there's no telling how long it would last. Spider-man would most likely poop out enough
webbing to encase New York City several times over.
