I'm sad, I understand the Cape is going to be canceled. A show like the Cape needs a chance to grow and find its audience. It's just got too many pieces that need to be tinkered with till it becomes a well oiled machine. Even an excellent show like the Buffy the Vampire Slayer didn't hit full tilt crazy til after the first season.
Oh well.
This stirring episode starts with our hero suffering from a bad case of broken ribs. He mopes. The Carnival when not trying to break into a safe tells him to take a day off. Well he tries, and keeps an eye on his son who is still having a tough time with everyone thinking his daddy was a bad guy. What the Cape doesn't know is he's being stalked by two assassins.
Compared with the weirdos we've met already Goggles and Hicks are pretty normal. Goggles is in a wheelchair and basically plays Goofy Creepy Nerd. Hicks doesn't talk much. Goggles tells Chess "You don't want to meet Hicks. People who meet him die." Together they are the Chariot (Because of the wheelchair get it?) in the secret group of assassins called Tarot.
So these two charmers spy on the Cape. They find all his weaknesses and his secret identity. Oddly they don't do a damn thing with the information. Instead they use a drone and later Hicks comes in a blazing after the Cape. The Cape takes care of these two really way too easily and even beaten and his brother in jail, Hicks still won't use the information they gathered on the cape or give it to Chess.
Lame.
The big new plot point is the son gains a friend. I don't know if he really wants bat shit kid as a friend, but like a barnacle he clings. Any kid with this line of dialog, "I saw a werewolf once. Well, I found its droppings and that counts. I kept them in a jar, wanna see?" is probably not someone you want to associate with.
STRANGE SPANNERS being an accounting of strangeness of the warp and woof of my mind For those of you new here, think of this as 1/2 "Night Gallery" Our Motto: Nos somnium quisnam es futurus fatum quod insolitus tutus vos!
Ok, this is the only episode I've seen though I've been reading your reviews from the get go.
ReplyDeleteIt reminded me to no end of Robocop. I can hear the pitch, "let's do a series that is kinda like Robocop, but instead of being made into a machine he'll have these friends in the Carnival. The bad guy will be named Chess, because hey, checkmate will be a terrific line later on."
It fleshes out the wife and kid a bit more and it would be interesting to see where she gets with the 'friends' and where her son gets with his. (a plant?)
Also, I didn't find the battle too easy, especially with his co-heroine involved. I think it shows a certain integrity that Hicks won't give out the info, I mean, he and his brother worked for the intel and will use it at some point--opens a hanging thread over his head without giving more power to his existing nemesis.
ok some good points and yes on the level of the comic book reality Hicks not using the knowledge does make sense.
ReplyDeleteI was referring to the final battle in the dark when the Cape was banging Hicks like a tin drum, broken ribs be damned. Then Goggles panics and turns on the light blinding his brother. Both these guys are suppose to be professionals. It would seem to me they would have carried it off a little better.
Cocky bad guys get in their own way which levels the field for our hero.
ReplyDelete(Plus, I hadn't seen other battles, so did not have expectations on how it should go.)