Together Orwell and The Cape make up Bruce Wayne and Batman. 
Um. Why are we supposed to believe for one second that the boy wouldn’t recognize his father? Hell, he didn’t even have a pair of glasses a la Clark Kent’s disguise.
Considering what a big deal is being made of keeping his identity secret, he seems pretty casual about letting people know what he looks like. At the store robbery, the thieves and the store owner saw him in his regular appearance before he put his costume on. And Linus, the guy he was questioning, saw him as the Cape and then later saw him out of costume. Plus everyone at the circus know his identity. And Orwell was able to identify him via his fingerprints pretty easily. There must be twenty people who know his secret identity already and it’s only been one episode.
That was just terrible. I wasn’t exactly expecting big things – maybe a bit of harmless superhero fun – but practically nothing about this show worked for me. Much as I would love to watch Summer Glau being hot, this show is not going to be the place where I do it.
One of the things that really bugged me: Faraday gets in with the Carnival crowd because he has a security key card from Ark which can get him access to all sorts of things (it was shown as being used to open a bank vault during one of the robberies. Why would banks give Ark access to their vaults just because it’s running the police department, and why would Faraday’s card still be valid after he’s “killed”? Wouldn’t Ark have deactivated it, or did they just assume that because he’s dead the card was also destroyed?
He said it was a “Master Key” - not necisarilly tied to Faraday personally.
They likely assumed it was destroyed in the 'splosion at first, but it should only take one robbery for them to figure out “time to change the password”.
Not necessarily a plot hole, though it probably is one. The wife and kid are being played up far too hard to not have some ‘family in jeopardy’ arc planned in the future. The whole ‘I forget to wear a mask’ business may be the entre to that arc. Or maybe it’s just sloppy writing.
Already, the previews for the next show are teasing that his wife is starting to clue in that it was a deliberate frame instead of a ‘hiden life’ situation. FAR too soon, IMO - that kind of realization should come at the end of a season, not at the begining! I’m beginning to have my doubts about the direction this is going after just two hours and a teaser.
Um, so this was the thing that bugged you? Poking holes in the plot for this show is about as challenging as poking holes in wet toilet paper. If you’re going to nitpick a show doing a real life portrayal of a comic book genre, why not pick up on Vince offering up the keycard info to people of questionable intentions and integrity who can take the card from him and still kill him? Wasn’t he smart enough to say he can get them into the bank without revealing how?
Why doesn’t Ark’s security system log which keycard was used to access the bank vaults and why didn’t they update their security after the first or second robberies?
Howcum the midget didn’t finish off Scales when he was down and why was Orwell’s taser shrugged off by Vince? Why doesn’t Vince use the hypnosis trick again after he finally mastered it?
The answer to this and the rest of the mysteries is that all events are plot driven for this show. At the time, Vince didn’t have his disguise (cape) and could not rob in person, so he gives away the card. Chess was not supposed to ID Vince yet, so magically their security system cannot track keycards. Scales (unlike the random guards) is a unique henchman character, so he can’t be killed off. Vince could not be incapacitated by Orwell in that scene. And the writers have plans for the hypnosis trick later, so using it on random goons cheapens it too much for the later reveal. So they conveniently forget it hoping the audience will also forget about it until it is surprisingly used later.
If all this bothers you, then you might as well stop watching now.
It was very derivative but interesting enough that I’ll probably watch it. The “I’m not quite dead yet” moment was refreshing.
His face was in the shadows. Shadows!
Yeah, that made me laugh - except I had seen enough in the promos to know he wasn’t going to die. Still was fun though.
Seconded. I won’t cancel my Season Pass quite yet, mostly because I like to think that Summer Glau wouldn’t pick a blatantly bad project (I don’t think she’s desperate for work), but there’s not a lot keeping me around at this point. I’m not impressed with the guy playing The Cape, for starters.
Which one? They were both awesome…
I figured that the kid’s beliefs (a) that his father is dead, and (b) in the superhero who seems to be standing before him would go a long way toward letting his eyes trick him. What surprised me, though, wasn’t so much that Trip didn’t recognize his father’s face but that he didn’t recognize his voice.
She sure drives some fancy cars for someone who’s concerned with hiding her identity.
It’s a comic book.* That’s par for the course.
- OK, it’s a TV Series Pilot. But it’s very consciously intended to mimic a comic book tropes and memes - If you’re looking for realism, you should be watching something else.
For the same reason that Superman can put on a pair of glasses and suddenly be totally incognito. For the same reason that Spiderman can have long conversations with a girl who has known Peter Parker for years, and she has no clue who he is.
These are all comic book tropes, and you just have to go with it. Another example: the bad guy catches the good guy, and instead of just killing him instantly he comes up with an elaborate way to kill him, and then launches into a long speech giving away his evil plan. In a regular movie, this would be horribly bad writing because it’s an old cliche and everyone knows it. In a comic book, it’s part of the ‘language’. So you just go with it.
I thought overall it was mediocre. The back story was contrived, the dialog was, well, comical, the lead actor doesn’t have a lot of charisma, and I’m sick and damned tired of bad guys being evil corporations and evil businessmen.
However, it was reasonably entertaining, and it was something my whole family can watch. My daughter enjoyed it, and so did my wife, so it will stay on the recording schedule at least for now.
I’m totally going with it, but there’s a big difference between a teenage girl not recognizing the voice of the dorky kid she’s grown up with and a son not recognizing his father’s voice. (The Superman thing is visual, and therefore not germane.) I’m just sayin’. 'Cause that’s what we do around here.
I found the show to be good enough to give another try, but not good enough to put on the “must see” list. All the issues I had with the show have already been noted above.
I think Orwell’s first car, the Tesla, was the sweetest one, although the Mercedes was pretty nice too. But the Tesla would be better suited to crime fighting, what with it’s whisper-quiet electric engine, good for sneaking around, and ridiculous torque and handling for hasty getaways. 
Was it a Tesla or a Lotus Elise? I’d think a Tesla wouldn’t be that great because after 100 miles you’re out of juice. Of course it’s probably modded. 
It’s only out of juice if it’s not recharged. I’m sure Palm City would have recharge points across the CBD and they’d be 20x faster than the real world ones, so you could get a full recharge in the same time it takes to refuel a regular car.
You see, this is why I’m addicted to the Dope. I thought, maybe because of the Scales character, that he had slit-pupiled eyes – snake eyes. I didn’t realize they were supposed to be chess pieces.