NBC's The Cape

[Brainonska511]

I missed that the premiere is on Sunday night. I was doing something else anyway but would have DVR'd it if I had known. Anybody knows if they're going to show this again?

It is going to be aired again tonight.

 

[69Mach1]

I wanted to like it, too, but this show appears to be one of the worst to appear on television in recent memory.

this +1

 

[zebano]

Summer Glau's in it, so going to give it a chance.

It's NBC though, so don't expect to see more than a quarter season.

This. Mmmmm Summer Glau, almost as hot as Yvonne Strahotskie (whatever her name really is) in Chuck.

 

[Connoisseur]

yo know, I think Vegas odds-makers would actually give me 50/50 odds to see if this show survives past episode 2. Just call it 2.5.

 

[AgentUnknown]

Carnies by night, bank robbers by day? I don't care much for the main character.

 

[GlacierFreeze]

Pretty weaksauce.

Didn't have high expectations when seeing the previews. "Hero" with a cape he flings around? Lame.

Have him fall into some radiation and give him a few *real* super powers. Unorginal? Yes. Much more interesting? Yes.

 

[Perknose]

Turns out, it wasn't good cape weather after all.

 

[Kev]

was this as dumb as every NBC show of the past decade? I almost gave it a shot but its on nbc

 

[Praetor]

Not even Summer Glau can save the travesty that is "The Cape".

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Wow, that was pretty terrible, I have both episodes and I don't even think I can bring myself to watch the 2nd. My thoughts on the first:

1. Never thought Smallville's terrible writing could be beaten, but I was way wrong. At least Smallville can chalk quirks up to being in a universe with aliens/superpowers/magic.

2. They tried to create a Batman-like superhero in the sense that its supposed to be a superhero in a world without magic/super powers, but he's essentially using magic. Only very young children or complete idiots would be able to suspend disbelief for this super hero to pan out. The protagonist decides he's going to fight back against an evil privatized law enforcement agency with a fucking cape as his ultimate weapon.

3. The protagonist is a physically fit cop who wrestles/fights a midget in a 1 on 1 fight...and loses...

4. Hypnosis. Yes, hypnosis. The Cape learns how to hypnotize people to make them do things they don't want to do.

5. He looks retarded with the hood because it doesn't hide his face which he needs to hide (seriously, how fucking hard is it to wear a fucking mask) so instead he's always awkwardly looking down to try and avoid eye contact...all while wearing that stupid giant hood that makes him look like Dark Helmet from Space Balls...only he's always looking down.

notice the giant pressure suit helmet on the dummy to the left, and notice the even bigger hood:

6. The magic black dude (who taught the Cape all his magic tricks) gets caught by Chess, and after he's been extensively tortured - Chess "begs" magicblackdude not to die so that he can keep torturing him - magicblackdude decides he can just magically escape and does so, I suppose he must be into S&M or something.

7. The midget shows up to the boat in what seems like a very convenient plot-hole (maybe I missed something, but its so bad I don't want to go back and re-watch to see what I might have missed to have it make sense why he was there) and encounters the villainous henchman "Scales" who is chasing a shot and wounded magicblackdude to try and finish him off. Well for whatever reason, the midget shows up going the other way instead of helping his frined/magicblackdude. Ok, so instead of Scales simply shooting the midget in the face and moving on, he pauses to laugh at the midget. They exchange some terrible Wizard of Oz dialog while Scales basically lets the midget hit him in the knee and then the face with a giant pipe wrench, again, instead of simply shooting the midget in the face in the first place as it was previously established that Scales is supposed to be a scarey and ruthless character, I guess midgets are his only weakness and that they must be super effective against him.

8. The super rich badguy "Chess" uses a cellphone from 2003 while Summer Glau's character is using holographic surround displays for her computers.

I beg to differ:

Arm Fall Off Boy

I raise you one Chocolate-From-Every-Orifice-Man:

 

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Why do you hate America so much?

Edit: and your complaint about the cellphone may be the most idiotic of the bunch. Would you really expect him to use his own brand new cell phone as a bomb detonator or just any old phone that will do the job without being directly tied to him? DERP DERP THERE'S NOT AN APP FOR THAT.
The dumb thing about that scene was how that lady could remotely jam the cellphones from who knows how far away.

 

[pontifex]

Is this replacing Undercovers? if so that sucks ass.

 

[fatpat268]

Meh, I thought it was ok.

Nothing groundbreaking, but not bad.

<snip>

You know, honestly, none of that matters and most of what you say applies to so many other superhero and comic based movies. I've certainly seen and enjoyed worse movies on a similar premise...

 

[SAWYER]

LOL wow this show is cheesy as hell

 

[PingSpike]

I watched a few episodes of the green hornet from the 60s or whatever yesterday and it was actually much better written than the Cape.

 

[Fritzo]

LOL wow this show is cheesy as hell

I like the choppy camera fight scenes. They were very sloppy, so they just showed like every 5th frame and sped the up. Looks like something someone would do on Youtube.

 

[Dessert Tears]

5. He looks retarded with the hood because it doesn't hide his face which he needs to hide (seriously, how fucking hard is it to wear a fucking mask) so instead he's always awkwardly looking down to try and avoid eye contact...all while wearing that stupid giant hood that makes him look like Dark Helmet from Space Balls...only he's always looking down.

I thought it was silly-funny. Conspicuous hoods feature in video games like Assassin's Creed and Prototype. See In The Hood.

 

[Rumpltzer]

I thought it was terrible. I'll give it one more week, but I don't hold out a lot of hope.

 

[Newbian]

Horrible show but any show that places Summer Glau in a leotard doing a spread eagle gets 3 / 5 stars no matter how bad it is.

 

[Anubis]

they did an episode on shark fin, once. That shit is so insanely illegal.

when did it become illigal? I had shark fin soup when i was in England bout 10 years ago

 

[Riverhound777]

I'm usually pretty easy to please when it comes to stupid cheesy shows like this, but even I couldn't bring myself to finish the first episode. The horrid cape CGI, midget, and stupid characters were just too much. I felt really bad for Summer Glau.

I did enjoy the premier of Being Human last night though.

 

[lupi]

Watched the first two hours so far. Pilots are almost always odd cause they introduce a bunch of concepts, so can't judge too much just on that. It does feel a bit like the old batman tv series, so don't think it's that odd/bad of a series when viewed from its predecessors.

 

[dougp]

Watched the first two hours so far. Pilots are almost always odd cause they introduce a bunch of concepts, so can't judge too much just on that. It does feel a bit like the old batman tv series, so don't think it's that odd/bad of a series when viewed from its predecessors.

I agree about the Adam West Batman relationship - it has that kind of feel. I'm not sure what people are expecting, perhaps a Batman Begins style show?

I think it's fresh though, because it doesn't take the whole thing seriously. I don't know how anyone could take a superhero show seriously though, that's just weird.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

I still don't understand how his son does not recognize his voice...

 

[Zargon]

I enjoyed how campy/cheesy it is