Na na na na na na .......The Cape

I will just start this out saying that I actually liked The Cape.  Was it a great show? No, but it was fun for an early episode. It is seems a little Batman reminiscent, but The Cape is no Batman.  The Cape has gotten pretty beat up in just a two episodes.  Watching it reminded me of the TV show The Flash from 1990 which I have been slowly watching with my friend Walker aka anaraug.  I enjoyed The Flash tv series, but also know it is horribly bad.

Whereas The Flash has some 90s cheesy effects such as speeding up the camera, The Cape has the new cheesy effect called CGI.  The whole cape is pretty much made of CGI when it is in use. It stretches to crazy lengths, it becomes slightly rigid at time, and it wraps around people and items to pull them toward the user.  No the cape is magically, or all supposed to be illusionist tricks and a specially designed cape for a carnival act, but it is supposedly made up of some material called Spider Web which is apparently as strong as Kevlar.  The main villian goes by the name Chess, and while chess he wears a near full head mask while also wearing rook shaped contact lens.  That way you know he is creepy and crazy.

So Vince Faraday is a cop for Palm City, a city that is full of corruption and a falling apart police department.  Then there is Chess who goes around terrorizing the city.  Chess captures Vince, straps the Chess mask on his head and convinces the police and news that Vince is Chess.  The basics are there.  You got a man who is believed dead once a tank explodes near him; he can't go see his family so people don't know he is alive; and he has been taken in my come carnies.  It is with the carnies that Keith David makes his appearance, and it is a good one. So far, probably the best part of the show has been Keith, as Max Malini the head of the carnies, teaching Vince how to do illusions and using the game to his advantage.  Finally, they introduce Summer Glau as "Orwell" as in 1984 Big Brother, the Oracle (of DC Comics fame) like character who assists from an ear piece and helps with the technology.  So far she has had a very minor role that will hopefully be expanded upon soon.  The also introduced a group of assassins they call "The Tarot" which seems like they will have at least enough villians for The Cape to fight as there are Tarot cards. They only introduced "The Tower" card so far who liked to poison things.

The first two episodes were nothing great, but I have seem worse stuff say on the air for a long time, and also see better stuff cut before a full season.  It embrasses the cheesyness of the genre, probably a little too much, but it kind of works so far. You never know what is going to happen with these shows, but I think it may fit a niche spot for people right now.