Yet within his own "universe" he has no problem establishing that "only living tissue" can be transported thru time, whilst in the same movie sending a mechanical robot back by wrapping it in flesh. How come the Terminator didn't arrive in the Past as an empty skin sack?

And if such a thing were possible, why not simply create flesh wrappings for the jets and tanks of the future to be sent back?

Reading through this thread, I really am amazed at what people are willing to throw out and consider inconsequential to a character that has been my all-time favorite since I first discovered him 33 years ago.  When people talk like his background in science isn't important, I really have to scratch my head and wonder if we've all been reading the same comics!  When people say that it doesn't matter if it's web shooters or organic webbing, some going so far as to say organic makes much more sense, yet have no problem with Peter sewing his own costume with nary a tailor's skill inherited from that spider bite, I have to laugh.  Expanding beyond this thread, when people say that it doesn't matter that Aunt May knows his secret, others saying that they wished May had stayed dead, I find both notions to be absolutely ridiculous.  They come from people who don't really understand, at all, what the character of May represents to Peter and the guilt he carries as a result of Ben's death.  When I read that people think JMS' run on ASM was really good, that the horrible "Sins Past" should be mined for opportunities to bring back the Osborn/Stacy twins, I have to shake my head.

I dunno.  So much has been mucked with and changed with Peter that I can't help but feel incredibly sad when I think about.  That's compounded to the Nth degree when fans justify all the crap that's been shoveled on, over, and around him. 

Of course I can pinpoint their reasoning (even if, perhaps, some of them can't) with ease: it's the whole denied responsibility thing again. Somehow, this strata of fandom, whilst loudly declaring itself to be the Greatest Spider-Man Fans Ever completely miss the central core of the character. Spider-Man is about anything but denied responsibility. But for these "fans" -- and anyone who so completely misses the point of a character cannot be considered a true fan -- Aunt May represents exactly what they don't want Peter to have, and what Stan made the very cornerstone of the character in the very first story. They want Aunt May gone, so Peter can just forget (and so can they) that "with great power there must come great responsibility."

I dunno.  So much has been mucked with and changed with Peter that I can't help but feel incredibly sad when I think about.  That's compounded to the Nth degree when fans justify all the crap that's been shoveled on, over, and around him. 

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Ditto that, my brother.

Sadly, even Stan seems to have forgotten that!

This'll probably never happen, but I would LOVE to see a film that focused on Spider-Man as Lee/Ditko presented him as exactly as possible. Most important, a teenage Peter Parker and PLAYED by a teenager too. (Would love an X-Men movie with the original team the same way!)

Aunt May is indispensable. Has Stan Lee changed his mind on that?