Feedback’s power suck, but the thing that bugs me is that he comes of as an emotionally stunted 14 year old, especially around Stan. Major Vistory was the best one there. Yes, he’s a charicature of a superhero, but when it came down to it, he could defeat the villians with a smile, good hair, and a pun, and to me, that’s better than what the other two could do.
At the elimination, each character had a good and bad point, except MV. Feedback didn’t impress the kids, but was unendingly polite at the park. Fat Momma won the kids over, but bombed at the park. She couldn’t stay focused at ALL and took an hour to get there. Victory did ok at the school, and won the park challenge, giving him one good and one average. Seems like that should have left him off the chopping-block but Stan never said anything about him getting through the fastest.
Major Victory has this weird (taking it seriously / playing it for laughs) thing. I know what Stan’s talking about when he says that he verges on parodying heroics. When he’s back in the lair, I think we see his true character, but we he’s doing the challenge, he starts playing this affected character. As opposed to Fat Momma who keeps it real at all times. But that brings me to…
After Fat Momma’s speech about self-esteem at the school, I was torn on her attempt at self-sacrifice for the sake of Feedback. (For the record, I rather think she took her sweet time on the Universal Studios challenge to out herself). Whereas I admire her self-sacrifice for someone she feels a motherly protective bond with, she had no faith in Feedback’s content of character. As if “Feedback is such a poor sap that if I don’t step aside, he’s done for. AND he is so fragile that he won’t be able to cope.” I understand that she did it out of compassion, but there was something a little insulting mixed in there too.
Although I will say that Feedback hasn’t impressed me too much either. He’s good on paper - meets the challenges well enough. But his presence reads a lot more like “kid sidekick” than “hero.”
I am really surprised at how much I like this show. When I first learned of it, the concept sounded really stupid to me, and I only started watching because hubby wanted to see the cute girls in their superhero outfits, and if hubby is gonna ogle cute girls, I’d like to be there at the time. Now I am totally hooked, and I hope for another season.
I’ve been rooting for Fat Momma from day one. Of all these contestants, she has the true heart of a superhero. She may not have the hips of one, though, so I suspect that Stan will choose Feedback. And Feedback will wail and blubber and make a big ol’ fuss, and I’ll be suckered into wiping away a tear or two myself.
I’m pretty sure if Feedback doesn’t win, he’ll totally crack from letting his hero Stan Lee down, especially after that display at the elimination last week. I’d be creeped out by him if I was Stan.
Considering that Feedback has mentioned that his dad committed suicide, I would expect that Stan might be concerned about Feedback’s very survival in the case of defeat. But a superhero who is so emotionally frail that he can’t stand to lose? Naww. That’s not the stuff of which a real superhero is made. So, it looks as if Stan has quite a dilemma in front of him.
Watch the elimination scene again. Feedback was gonna ask Stan to eliminate him instead, but MV stopped him. Feedback’s cracking because he can’t stand the eliminations, not because he needs to win.
One thing I’ve noticed is that there’s no point to being the winner of any particular challenge- you just have to not be a loser at any specific challenge.
Yep, superheroes excel at mediocrity, according to Stan.
Only a few times has an elimination been obvious. Cell Phone girl screaming “Uncle” after four seconds in the Rabid Dog Challenge is one, Nitro G changing in public is another, Lemuria failing the Sit on the Lap of the Butch Convict Challenge is another.
All the other eliminations the producers arbitrarily picked whoever they wanted out of a fairly large list.
As in the “Scavenger Hunt” and the race in the first episode Stan specifically said “In a superhero like manner”. This is the the Key clue that should point to the fact that “time” has no meaning… so to speak.
While I agree with you that the winners dont “win” anything, it would be quite hard to give them anything. The pace of the show (that is, the eliminations) seems not to allow “Immunity” of any sort.
Well, this is a very fast-paced show…two eliminations per episode means only 6 episodes for a summer fill-in type show. I never watched Survivor or other shows of that ilk, how many episodes per season do they usually have?
WOuldn’t it be great if the final challenge was something a real superhero would have to deal with.
[Stan Lee] Superheroes, you will notice Dark Enforcer on that train, set the train speeding down the track, he has taken a pregnant woman hostage, and placed a bomb on her set to go off if the speed of the train is reduced. You must defuse the bomb, save the woman, capture Dark Enforcer and stop the train before it derails into that chemical factory as well as the orphanage next door to it. You are being timed. GO![/Stan Lee]
Poor Major Victory…though I gotta agree with Stan, he was more of a comic book parody than a genuine superhero. Too bad he didn’t seize the opportunity of going back to his roots and stripping off his ENTIRE uniform when asked to turn it in…
