This premiered last night on NBC. There were two episodes. It aired as an encore presentation tonight.  

Brief synopsis: Vince Faraday: a good cop, in a bad town (fictional city called Palm City) who is found by circus folk after a encounter with villain "Chess" and an explosion. Vince dons a cape that expands and retracts, etc. He calls himself "The Cape" the title character of Vince's son's comic book he reads.   The villain is Peter Fleming aka "Chess". Fleming is the head of a private security firm ARK (I'm not lying - that's the name) and Vince finds a hot techie and superhero named Orwell (played by Summer Glau)

What did you think of it?

For me  Smelled of Batman Begins and Dark Knight - at some points shot for shot, word for word.  

I'm a Batman fan and am very game for anything Batman related, but I'm also very picky and harsh about anything Batman especially parodies of a good Caped Crusader film.  

So this show was not only disappointing. I could never tell if they were trying to parody Batman, and if so they did a very poor job IMO.  

The main character dresses like he walked out of Assassin's Creed. The first episode was entertaining enough. but the second was meh.

As screenwriters and comic book fans if you saw the two premiere episodes could you look past the "similarities" or is this to close for comfort?

Maybe it's just me and my demand for high standard with anything Batman.

But like a review said - If you're going to rip off ideas, might as well go all out, and The Cape failed to do that. I wonder what Warner Brothers is thinking right now... if they saw the show.

Like I mentioned on another site - Maybe the creators thought that they can get Summer Glau in a film the would not have to worry about anything from substance to legal ramification.  

Yes, Summer Glau usually makes the shows she's in better, but I'm not sure even she can save this one.

I think NBC/Universal would have better luck bringing back Firefly.

I gave the show about forty minutes of my life.
I tuned out when "The Cape" tells the kids to keep hope alive, no matter what.
Really? That's the best you can do? Did you stay up all night or take lessons for that?
Your kid just lost his dad are you're quoting Crystal Method? Seriously?
It's Doctor Doom, Spawn, Batman & Robin, Darkman and RoboCop rolled into a turd.
Poor Summer Glau, another talented actress pigeonholed into shoddy sci-fi.
They run you through the plot like gauntlet, no slowing down to enjoy yourself.
It's the most shake and bake superhero origin myth, who wrote this? Guinness?
This show won't be around for long, high budget low brow stuff like this rarely does.

E.D.

Yeah, I was disappointed in this because the promos looked good.  Its like they were in too big of a hurry to turn him into the superhero.  They didn't handle the passage of time well as far as his training with the cape.  He became Batman in about three days, it seemed.

I did like the back story with the cape itself, how it belonged to some Russian escape artist and the 37 disappearing illusions you can pull off with it.  Nice(although ridiculous) touch having it made out of spider silk.

Anyway, I'm hoping the producers find their pace as the season goes on.

I'm watching the second episode now.  I'm very underwhelmed with this show.  The only reason why I've gotten this far is because of Summer Glau.  I'd watch her read a phone book.


Phil