Spider-Man: criminal (quoth J. Jonah Jameson), or universal hero? What makes our favourite web-slinging New Yorker such a good role model for personal good? How can there exist in the world a film as unquestionably perfect as Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse? And was it REALLY necessary for Chris Pine Spider-Man to die after only 5 minutes of screentime? We answer these, and other truly earth-shattering questions, on this week’s special Spidey Episode. Join us as Phil busts out her gold-standard Tobey Maguire impersonation and we unpack how and to what end each individual person has the unique capacity, and CHOICE, to contribute something good to the world -- great or small.

REFERENCES

Framework for these Discussions:

Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1981). Metaphors we live by. University of Chicago Press.

"The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" -- https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-the-carrier-bag-theory-of-fiction

Tolkien on Myth -- https://jenniferjsnow.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/11790039-jrr-tolkien-beowulf-the-monsters-and-the-critics.pdf

Joseph Campbell's "The Power of Myth" -- https://www.docsonline.tv/the-meaning-of-life/

David Bohm, “Thought As A System” Published Posthumously 1992 -- https://books.google.ca/books/about/Thought_as_a_System.html?id=Nj77486SOyMC&redir_esc=y

In-Discussion References:

Spiderverse “spark in you” scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urb13v4XmSU

Homecoming “come on, Spider-Man” scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y8HBCOgazw