As most of you know this past Sunday January 9th, 2011 NBC premiered its newest attempt at trying to cash in at the superhero genre with their new show The Cape. Everyone remembers Heroes on NBC a couple years back. The first season of that show started off as something fresh and new and blew peoples minds. After that first season, unfortunately, they went downhill until their eventual cancellation. The Cape seems NBC's next attempt to capture lightning in a bottle. While it seems that it isn't going to be as fast catching on to the public's attention as Heroes that may be a good thing, so long as the ratings keep it in good graces with the studio. The Cape is about a cop, Vince Faraday, who is framed as the masked criminal Chess for killings in Palm City, and then dons the alter-ego The Cape to try and clear his name and return to his family who thinks him dead. Now warning from here on out that there will contain SPOILERS! Now if you haven't seen the show yet and are not interested in spoilers then watch the episode then return, but if your like me and don't mind them, then please by all means continue.
For around the first thirty minutes of the show we are spent gathering a little background about the main character Vince Faraday. We find that he is a loving father to his son as well as a loving husband. He reads to his son every night a comic about a superhero named The Cape, yeah I think you see where this is heading. He is contacted via his computer by Orwell who tells him that she's been watching him and knows that he is a good man and gives him information on a shipment of weapons coming into the city via cargo trains. When Faraday investigates with his partner he is double-crossed and turned over to Chess. Chess is the main villain but he also has a secret identity which is Peter Fleming CEO of Ark Industries. Ark Industries is currently working with the police to put a stop to Chess so when Faraday is handed to him he staples the mask to him and tells him to run. The chase of framed Faraday wearing the Chess mask is televised as swat teams pursue him through the train yard eventually ending up with him escaping into a tunnel underneath a explosive freight right before it is blown to pieces. So everyone thinks Chess is dead, Faraday was framed and now the mayor hands over the police force to Ark Industries for finally putting an end to Chess. The rest of the show has Faraday meeting up with a gang of circus folk, who rob banks, and them teaching him all the tricks they know for fighting and giving him this cape that is extraordinary. So before he starts off on his crime-fighting job he stops off to see his son and play the part of his son's favorite comic book character The Cape. He tells his son that he knew his father and that he did not commit those crimes. Orwell turns out to be a woman who knows quite a good deal about what's going with Ark Industries and joins him in trying to bring down Peter Fleming and Ark Industries.
Now the fight scenes aren't as good as they could be but I believe that given the time they will get better at it. It definitely has that cheesy factor but it seems to fit. There are a couple of funny scenes as he tries to explain to people who he is. All in all they did a decent job for the first episode. The series has potential of growing into even more than what it is now. I like it despite it's fall and drawn out story at times but because it kind of reminds you of Batman meets Spawn. I highly recommend tuning in to catch the show if you are able and give it a shot. I give it 7 Gamma bombs outta 10.
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