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Review And Media by Amazing Spidey
Episode #48 - The Vampire Queen Written By: Meg McLaughlin & John Semper Music Composed By: Shuki Levy and Kussa Mahchi Animation Services By: Toyko Movie Shinsha (TMS) Guest Starring: Christopher Daniel Barnes as Spider-Man/Peter Parker, Jennifer Hale as The Black Cat, Dawnn Lewis as Detective Terry Lee, Nick Jameson as Morbius, Oliver Muirhead as Whistler, J.D. Hall as Blade and Nichelle Nichols as Miriam Review: Good God another Morbius episode. Season four had a lot of standalone episodes, and lacked any real kind of story arc to it. There was some great chemistry between Spider-Man and Black Cat and it helped tie up a few nagging loose ends from the previous seasons, but overall, not a lot happened in season four. Partially, it’s because the show kept bringing back characters that arguably didn’t see another appearance, such as Kraven, and this episodes’ stars, Morbius and Blade.I’ve always dug Blade, from his appearances here to the badass Wesley Snipes movies and this episode dug into his origins a little more, and actually gave him a little more development than I was expecting. His Mother, Miriam wasn’t very interesting, and her design seemed to resemble a Lady of the 1800’s. A really dissapointing villain. In Morbius’ Neogenic Nightmare appearances, the thing I liked most about him was that his origins were tied into Spider-Man’s disease, and Morbius was transformed because of Spider-Man’s poisoned blood and in turn, Spidey felt guilty about Morbius’ condition. Unfortunately, most of this was completely lost here, and the Neogenic recombinator turned normal people into vampires as if by magic. It made for a very confusing plot point, and with Spider-Man no longer needing the device to stop him from turning into Man-Spider, there was no real hook to the story. It was a no-brainer to simply destroy the recombinator. For a series that usually liked to add a little something extra to make it’s stories unpredictable, it was a little disappointing. It’s ending was a bit of a shocker, with Black Cat just up and leaving. Poor Spidey, he had it rough this season. Of course, MJ returned in the next episode so it wasn’t all bad, but personally, I was glad to be rid of Black Cat. It wasn’t as bad as I’ve probably made it sound, but both this episode and the previous one were unneeded. Screenshots: 
 
 
 
 
 
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