The Cape - ....What can I say about The Cape
I can say that I really want to like this show. I can also say that they make it really hard to do that. ***Summer Glau looked damn good with the Cleopatra Cut at the end.
So much is left out that I have a hard time not only believing whats going on, but actually getting into it and the premiere is 2hrs long!
I can overlook the cheap special FX or the fact that a city in the USA would be able to privatize it's police force and it's jail system, but they way the main character "perfects" fighting and magic in what seems to be a day or 2, maybe a week at best or how he was even set up to begin with by the ARK corporation who happen to leave him with a master key card to everything the corporation is in charge of when he hadn't even started his new job yet at ARK Corp. and countless other little things that happen like falling out of a hi-rise window, landing on a car and walking away after being poisoned and still managing to walk away and survive till the next day with out any medical treatment (it apparently is a BIIIG city since it took hours to drive from the scene of the fall & stabbing/poisoning back to the circus where he got poisoned again to cure his first poisoning/stabbing.). Did I mention that Orwell - the eyes and ears of the city that seems to know more than the police, is a single female (Summer Glau) who has her own Batcave in her garage with a computer that is apparently capable of blocking cellphone traffic in specific locations of the city and maybe anything else The Cape ask of her since I don't remember them discussing everything that she is capable of with out leaving her computer chair.*
**The boat. How did he know what boat they were on? and why did the midget show up alone & how did the midget get past the other security.
The one thing that this superhero has going for him though is that atleast he has enough sense to wear a damn mask when patrolling the streets in pursuit of the badguys (yes I'm referring to No Ordinary Family). I just hope that now that they got the pilot out of the way (which I hear was re-edited and re-edited again before being aired) that it gets better, because it hasn't earned the benefit of being this lazy and still holding it's audience (like the middle seasons of Smallville) since it doesn't actually have an audience yet, This show has potential to be interesting(Spawn meets Batman meets Houdini), but if it doesn't get better from here on out, I don't see it lasting past this season if it even finishes this season at all.
Pilot episode - 5.5/10
*i fell asleep about 4 times during this episode and had to rewind numerous times in hopes that I didn't miss anything,
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The pacing of this show was just bad. But like I said, I heard it was edited and then re-edited again after early reviews before airing (once or twice). So much seemed to have been left out, skipped over or just assumed, that it made the suspension of disbelief hard to maintain. Hopefully things get better in later episodes.
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