Waarom The Cape zo slecht is, dat het weer goed is

RDJ134 2 februari 2011 om 18:25 uur

Als één van de weinige Nederlandse websites gaven wij The Cape al ver voor zijn release de nodige aandacht, want deze TV serie heeft een lekkere comic vibe en kijkt goed weg. Shamrock schreef dit artikel over de serie toen deze voor het eerst op de TV was, deze zei ook het is campy en zo slecht dat je toch blijft kijken. De website www.uproxx.com deelt deze mening schijnbaar ook, want ze hebben een vijf pagina tellend artikel geschreven waarom de serie zo slecht is dat het weer goed is. Cult status op en top natuurlijk, want de Batman uit de jaren 60 met Adam West is zelfs nu nog ongekend populair.

Plot Holes Galore

After going through the first 3 episodes and having the time of my life (though for all the wrong reasons, I imagine) I went back to the first episode and counted exactly 21 plot holes in it. That's a single episode mind you, and with a runtime of 45 minutes, The Cape's pilot boasts a plot hole ratio of ONE every 2 MINUTES. By all possible standards this makes the show more hole than plot. I didn't think such a thing was physically possible. The Cape has absolutely no right to exist, not by the law of man, science or God. This is the vampire zombie Big Foot of TV shows - an unnatural creature of evil that should not exist, now standing now before, and I simply cannot avert my gaze.

Let me give you an example. A key element in the first episode of The Cape is a chemical called L9. It's a pretty nifty experimental pressure explosive, more powerful than any other explody substance known today, as we're informed. The Cape's first encounter with Chess takes place when the latter is unloading a whole shipment of L9 from a ship, to which a third character asks "What's the plan for the L9?" That's a f-cking good question, but the show never bothers to answer it. See, this was no doubt a GIGANTIC smuggling operation carried out by Chess. I can tell you from experience that secretly transporting an entire cargo ship of explosives with a blast power rivaling that of a small nuclear device is not a small task. But after The Cape stops it, the L9 is forgotten, never to be mentioned again. WHY? Obviously Chess had a plan for it and can get more of the stuff but he just decided that "I guess that's it then. Not like I can... try to carry out my plan one more time."

At one point, Chess actually plans to blow up the ship's cargo, claiming it will take out HALF THE CITY (for reasons you should not trouble yourselves with, but I assure you, they are idiotic). Then, he actives the detonator... while standing a couple feet away from the ship. I have never seen anything so beautifully horrible. This is what happens when you lock a bunch of hungry writers in the same room with a crate of meth and a stack of Marvel comics. Or maybe I should have said DC Comics, because The Cape is actually a direct and blatant rip-off of Batman, which is another reason why I love it so.

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