The Cape

As the new year unfolded, many new things have emerged, toys, movies, cartoons, television series. Among the tv series, NBC's added a hero to the superhero trend named The Cape. This is definitely a interesting take on a masked vigilante in this series no one has superpowers so to speak.

As a follower of many many superhero shows, i enjoy the show. The series does try to put on a realistic look but frankly that's questionable. This show i'm pretty sure it's very much inspired by Batman.

So, let's start off with our hero, Vince Faraday, the Cape.

So he's a policeman, in a town full of crooked cops, so he get's an offer from a private security company lead by Peter Fleming. Late in the middle of the night he get's a call from a notorious Blogger called Orwell, who exposes scums of the town. Vince finds out that he's going to work for a crooked company, so he informs his best friend, the guy who recommended him for the job but before realizing his best friends gone dark side, and rats him out to the Peter Fleming who is also Chess, the masked murderer. They frame Faraday as Chess and set him lose so they can receive credit for capturing this mass murderer.

Faraday then manages to somehow narrowly escape through a manhole underneath a tanker which explodes, so naturally he's been announce dead. he's then found by the carnival of crime, which take advantage of his security id to steal from bank's guarded by ARK, Peter Fleming's company. The ringmaster in returns makes him into the mask vigilante the Cape so that he could expose Fleming as Chess and return one day to his family.

Here is some obvious Batman influences, city full of corruption. Carnies! Dick Grayson was a Carnie.

Here's our very own Lex Luthor, Mr Fleming, the notorious Chess. Basically with Faraday framed chess pronounced, the cities decided to give full authority of the police force to ARK, and slowly he wants to run the whole town with his evil schemes.

Here is Orwell, basically Orwell to Cape is like oracle to batman, talk about influences. So she feeds him information and tries to help him bring Fleming to Justice.

Another similar influence is that they have their own league of assasins, known as tarrot or something. basically each tarrot is an assasin.

Overall it's a well produced program. I hope they stick it through. It's got an all star cast, and People that love the superhero franchise will surely enjoy this addition.