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Title: 'The Cape' on NBC last night
Post by: Yoc on January 11, 2011, 12:24:38 PM

Anyone watch 'The Cape' last night?
It felt like a 70s Marvel to me.
http://former.imdb.com/title/tt1593823/

Thoughts?

Title: Re: 'The Cape' on NBC last night
Post by: Roygbiv666 on January 11, 2011, 03:46:04 PM

I totally spaced on the day.

Quote from: Yoc on January 11, 2011, 12:24:38 PM

Anyone watch 'The Cape' last night?
It felt like a 70s Marvel to me.
http://former.imdb.com/title/tt1593823/

Thoughts?

Title: Re: 'The Cape' on NBC last night
Post by: misappear on January 15, 2011, 09:52:18 PM

Watched the first two off the DVR.  Bad.  Better than Smallville, but still horrible.  Cliche after cliche.

Title: Re: 'The Cape' on NBC last night
Post by: Yoc on January 15, 2011, 10:08:55 PM

It's not ground breaking but I'm willing to give it a chance to mature.
It's no Walking Dead for sure which shocked me when I actually liked it.

-Yoc

Title: Re: 'The Cape' on NBC last night
Post by: NeilShapiro on January 21, 2011, 03:08:31 PM

I really, really dislike The Cape. First off, the circus he joins up with -- what is the first thing they do? They rob a bank at gunpoint and he helps! Can you imagine any other superhero in that genre doing anything like that? He is a criminal hanging with a criminal gang. No hero. Not at all. Terrible, terrible scripting to have him do that.

Title: Re: 'The Cape' on NBC last night
Post by: Yoc on January 21, 2011, 10:03:08 PM

Yeah, that was an odd way to introduce his mentor...

Title: Re: 'The Cape' on NBC last night
Post by: josemas on January 22, 2011, 06:21:54 AM

Quote from: NeilShapiro on January 21, 2011, 03:08:31 PM

I really, really dislike The Cape. First off, the circus he joins up with -- what is the first thing they do? They rob a bank at gunpoint and he helps! Can you imagine any other superhero in that genre doing anything like that? He is a criminal hanging with a criminal gang. No hero. Not at all. Terrible, terrible scripting to have him do that.

It's really nothing new.  Stan Lee had such characters as Hawkeye, Black Widow, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver start out as villains and/or working with villains as mentors back in the 1960s.  All of them eventually left the crime connections behind to become full fledged heroes.   

Best

Joe

Title: Re: 'The Cape' on NBC last night
Post by: GeneYas on January 23, 2011, 09:04:20 PM

I saw a portion of it and was underwhelmed. I don't plan on watching it.

Gene

Title: Re: 'The Cape' on NBC last night
Post by: jfglade on March 09, 2011, 12:38:47 PM

 I finally had a chance to watch an episode; I can't say I was disappointed because I had low expectations but I'm not sorry I can't watch it on a regular basis.