Yes, it's visually beautiful. But the storytelling is irredeemably broken.
Look at how Marvel handles its best stories: the issues are admitted to be complex, and both sides are treated as having legitimate arguments. Heck, even X-men got this right. But this story feels like something from DC, with a simple-minded claim that one side is right (to hell with all evidence to the contrary) and everyone else is wrong - basically a triumph of teenage narcissism. I'm left with little interest in the third episode because it's obvious what will happen - our Mary Sue will be proven to have been correct, all the other spidies will help prevent disaster, and what we will have learned is that you should always listen to 13 yr olds, no matter how often they have been wrong in the past. Pathetic, just pathetic.
The way the story should have gone (and could still go, but we all know it won't...) is as a villain origin story - Miles Morales lost his community and his soul because his hubris led him to believe he knew more and could do things no other spidie could do, with tragic results (cf, eg Star Wars). But of course that would be against canon...
Look at how Marvel handles its best stories: the issues are admitted to be complex, and both sides are treated as having legitimate arguments. Heck, even X-men got this right. But this story feels like something from DC, with a simple-minded claim that one side is right (to hell with all evidence to the contrary) and everyone else is wrong - basically a triumph of teenage narcissism. I'm left with little interest in the third episode because it's obvious what will happen - our Mary Sue will be proven to have been correct, all the other spidies will help prevent disaster, and what we will have learned is that you should always listen to 13 yr olds, no matter how often they have been wrong in the past. Pathetic, just pathetic.
The way the story should have gone (and could still go, but we all know it won't...) is as a villain origin story - Miles Morales lost his community and his soul because his hubris led him to believe he knew more and could do things no other spidie could do, with tragic results (cf, eg Star Wars). But of course that would be against canon...