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Spider-Man Commentary: Day of the Jackal, Part 2

Here's an odd one.

Like Part 1, "S01E24 "The Day of the Jackal, Part 2""  is based on a real-world episode: "The Rise of Doc Ock, Part 4." But whereas in my continuity Part 2 comes after Part 1 (dur!), in the real-world series, "Spider Island 1" comes after "Doc Ock 4."

In other words, my two back-to-back episodes are closely based on back-to-back episodes of the real-world series, but I've reversed the order!

It's like I said in Part 1's commentary: The meaning of a story depends not only on what happens within it, but on what happens outside and around it. Here's another illustration. Because of the changes I made to the overall series, I could cut the two original storylines into ribbons while keeping the elements mostly the same, then rearrange and reverse the order without destroying their coherence.