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Spider-Man Commentary: How I Spent My Summer Vacation

My Season Two opener, "S02E01 "How I Spent My Summer Vacation"" , is taken over almost entirely without change from the IRL-episode "How I Thwipped My Summer Vacation," which opened the IRL-series's second season. I made only a few changes. In the IRL-episode, it is Hammerhead and his son, not Silvermane and his grandson, who kidnap the pop star; Peter has already met Black Cat (a formal introduction won't come in my continuity for a few more episodes); and it is only in that episode that Peter starts taking photographs for the Daily Bugle.

All of my changes are motivated by changes to the first-season continuity, or else I would have lifted the IRL-episode wholesale and dropped it into my continuity. Though no great shakes, it is competent filler.

As for the change in the title: It turns out that "How I Thwipped My Summer Vacation" is too long for the WdC title box when the season/episode number is included. That's okay. It gave me an excuse to change a title that I didn't like anyway.