#spiderverse 2

As much as I was trying to avoid spoilers I was utterly shocked when it ended with To Be Continued.

It's the kind of ending that I would expect the internet to be unavoidably angry about.

And maybe that's unreasonable of me. If we consider Spider-Verse a trilogy, the middle one always has a to-be-continued vibe to it,

but..

I don't think they ended on the right note.

Imagine that instead of the ending we got, with Miles tied up, and Gwen organizing a team of Spiders to save him, the movie ended a few minutes earlier.

Miles has just escaped and made it back to his universe.

He see's his Mom and admits he's spider-man and-

Cut to black.

We still have a cliffhanger. We still have a lead into part 3.

But we're not left with more questions than answers.

We think Miles has escaped and is ready to begin his rise and fix everything.

Then Part 3 starts and we get the reveal that he's in the wrong world.

What an amazing opening that would be.

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Instead, we aren't left with any triumph. The end of a movie doesn't need to resolve everything, but it can't end in a bind.

Even Han Solo getting left frozen in carbonite doesn't feel unresolved because that scene led to the resolution of the arc at hand.

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