I honestly did not mind and don't find any of what's being brought up about [i]Homecoming[/i] to be annoying. I liked the cast alot and thought that the individual roles that the kids at Peter's school played served a nice purpose of establishing a very different status quo that ultimately serves to distance the MCU version of Peter Parker into it's own thing. It reminded me alot of when they shifted dynamics around for the Ultimate comics, but in a less annoying way than having Mary Jane take on the Gwen role while Gwen takes on the Mary Jane role, or something (Damn you, Bendis! You had me up till that!). I like doing new things with old characters in the service of a story, provided the story is enjoyable, and I thought [i]Homecoming[/i] very much was. 

Stuff like making Betty Brant an intentionally bad news prompter for the school was funny to me, and I don't really see how going with the traditional "She's Jonah's secretary that Peter may or may not have the hots for" alternative really would've make the movie better beyond the fact that it'd have made Jonah a factor. Ned being essentially Ganke worked for me because Peter being a lonesome character who doesn't have any friends while dealing with these issues as Spider-Man was something even the comics were quick to throw out after that initial learning curve period with the character, and I understood the reason to change it from Ganke to Ned Leeds due to the possible future of Miles Morales popping up. Flash was an enjoyable douchebag, and I didn't need to see a dude bigger than Peter stuffing him into a locker for thankless scenes that provide no real character development [i]yet again[/i] after the movies tried it twice. I can actually remember stuff that the Flash in this movie did beyond act gruff and brainless for one scene to help established that, oh, Peter Parker has superpowers.

Now, that being said, the one thing I [i]do[/i] agree was bullshit and should've been rethought immediately is the Michelle character. Every aspect of her personality screams a coming-of-age Mary Jane Watson who uses her snarky personality to deflect from a troubled homelife, or in the case of Michelle, loneliness from being a self-imposed social outcast. I was actually really looking forward to a scene where they actually get to the Homecoming dance itself and "Michelle" appears all glammed up, reflecting MJ's change into the consummate party girl that she becomes in college. That... scene didn't happen, and instead she was just called MJ near the end as a sort of apologetic wink for chickening out on that. 

It was a really dumb decision to me because Zendaya, I thought, would make a great Mary Jane to Holland's Peter. She basically had everything there except for the aforementioned glamming up and the red tint to her hair, both of which she could have still acquired in sequels if she'd just been allowed to be named Mary Jane. As it stands, I'll wait to see if [i]Far From Home[/i] makes any headway in making up for that, but it's kind of going in on shaky ground due to that hesitation to just call her that. And I think it stems moreso from the culture of studios believing that if a character's appearance is spoiled, however major or minor, that it ruins the movie for the audience. I guarantee that in the early 2000's, [i]Homecoming[/i] would have never minced words about her totally being Mary Jane Watson from the first press release onward.

That, or it's a dumb Sony thing. Which I can actually see, come to think of it. They probably want to make Mary Jane Watson the star of the next phase of their cinematic universe. 

As Carnage. 

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