That Whedon experience is a good sign again because, well, Spider-Man is a bit of a chatterbox. Whedon is infamous for his rapid-fire, His Girl Friday-style bantery dialogue, suffused with pop culture references, silly jokes and lingo, all of which frequently figure into the classic version of Peter Parker. As in, not the one Sam Raimi bogged down with the perpetually wet Toby Maguire and his second-hand Three Stooges gags. And, thanks to Buffy, Goddard is adept at that kind of dialogue. He worked it in not only during his Whedon TV work, but also with The Cabin In The Woods, and brought a similar sensibility to a couple of JJ Abrams' shows. Abrams is similar to Whedon in a lot of ways, and that connection was strengthened from Goddard's writing on both Alias and Lost. Whilst The Amazing Spider-Man films have had a lot of problems (enough for Sony to essentially rip them up and start again), one of the things they excelled at were the non-plot-driving interactions between Peter, his loved ones and enemies. If there's one thing they should bring over to the new Spidey, it's that, and Goddard can be trusted to handle it with care.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
