As NBC tries to re-capture an audience with The Cape, the comparison to Heroes is inevitable. But while Heroes started falling apart around Season Two due to shoddy writing and convoluted plot lines, The Cape manages to stumble right from the start.
The first glaring problem is the flat and one-dimensional characters—the result of the show’s too-quick pace. The creators don’t give us enough time to take in the impact of the story. With the introduction to the protagonist David Faraday (Vince Lyons), a rare good cop in a corrupt city (think Gotham), we see some quick shots of him around his son but no real human interaction. Immediately after that, Faraday’s new Chief of Police is killed by a masked villain named Chess. Sick of the corruption, Faraday goes to work for this major corporation named ARK which is taking over the city
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