Across the Spider-Verse is The Matrix Reloaded (spoilers)

David says in the Reloaded episode something like “The first one is about how the world you know is a lie, and this one’s about how the stories, the narratives you’ve been told are a lie.”

I feel like the >!web hologram “canon event” explainer scene is the Architect scene. In Reloaded it’s about the use and overuse of the hero’s journey. In Across it’s about our oversaturation of Spider-movies. !< We even get the non-ending cliffhanger.

Secondary Blank Check thought: I saw it at the Lincoln Square IMAX and it was the closest I’ve come to the ecstatic audience experience JD describes in the Speed Racer episode. Some of the applause and laughter was the sycophantic I-understood-that-reference type stuff you get in any superhero nerd crowd, but some of it really felt like the audience so overwhelmed with a bullet train of light and sound.