useless note about the pending Spiderman relaunch

Casting Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy will be for naught if you script a Gwen Stacy as dithering and pathetic as the way Stan Lee wrote her most of the time. Let's face it, Stan Lee only REALLY wrote two tropes of women, the slutty party girl and the clingy, dependent weeper. There are variations between these two poles but they were the ones with superpowers and the powers could be typologies for other issues. The Invisible Girl, eh? Anyway, despite the fact that Stone was a charmer in Zombieland and is a promising young actress Gwen Stacy won't be too interesting if she's written as poorly as she generally was. On the other hand, Mary Jane was profoundly self-absorbed and annoying as written by Stan the Man. Here's hoping that whatever we get with the Stacys transcends the source material (though Captain Stacy was a fun character, Stan Lee wrote one-note women but his ability to write multi-faceted MALE characters is solid). End of useless rant.