7. Allusions to the Supernatural in Superhero TV shows will be characterized as "evil" (i e..."Tarot is an underground network of killers)---come on NBC--Really?
ps- I WAS interested in watching this series, after the TAROT episode, I'm out. Yes, I am a Tarot reader.
I'm not certain if you're being serious here or not, but because your comments aren't particularly sharp or witty - no, I'm not making fun of you or insulting you, I'm just stating that the normal indications of sarcasm aren't present - I'm going to reply assuming that you were being serious.
That being said, they aren't trying to say that Tarot, the belief or system, or however you want to catagorize it, is evil. They were just saying that there is an evil organization that are known as Tarot. It's a theme of the fictional organization, the writers aren't trying to say anything about the Tarot itself.
7. If you hype something enough you can bilk millions out of advertisers for a few months peddling crap shows, year after year and still keep your job. _____________________
8. The best way to fight people is a large stretching bullet proof cape!
9. You can become a hacker easily, just buy some old used computers,, and establish an internet connection, in a very old building using a generator for power!
10. A super hot chick with a super awesome hologram computer is only able to make a blog and not a whole website!
11. You can disappear immediately using ninja smoke!
12. You can be a super hero similar to batman, if u simply help circus ppl rob banks!
13. Vince Faraday's kid cant recognize his fathers voice when he visited him as "The Cape"
14. To become a supervillain (or supervillain minion), you need a convoluted signature kill like elaborate homemade poison. Buying Drano is just too easy.
------------------------- Veni, Vidi, Oh Just Facit!
17. Even though a wife has lived with her do gooder husband, who is so noble that its sickening, she will believe he was secretly a criminal mastermind at the drop of a hat.
19. After your victory over a serial killer/villain, hog-tie him and leave him for the archvillain to re-employ against you.
20. If you see your archvillain standing in the open, unarmed, and in a restaurant kitchen. DO NOT TRY TO APPREHEND HIM. Instead, just disappear so you can continue your epic struggle next week.
------------------------- Veni, Vidi, Oh Just Facit!
21. Palm City is the quintessential American city, incorporating landmarks from New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles (and possibly other cities as well).
22. A full restaurant has NO ONE, other than the planted bad guy, working in it's kitchen.
23. A stay at home mom can get a defense attorney's job just by arguing in public for 30 seconds with the interviewer.
24. Palm City is apparently warm enough to grow palm trees but cool enough for many people to wear long sleeves and hoods all the time.
25. Military surplus store owners are always foreign, and will thank you for smashing up their store while saving them from bad guys by giving you free merchandise.
26. You can get a gourmet meal anytime by simply walking into a fancy restaurant and telling the manager that you are a well known food critic there for a walk in review.
27. French guys always have long messy hair and are chefs.
28. Total access security cards are never de-activated after the owner apparently dies in an explosion.
29. Circus performers never have shows, but always practice.
31. The best way to kick off a nice get together with friends is with a bottle of wine and by informing your dead ex-partner's widow that her dead husband definitely had his hand in some corruption....fun times...
35. After subduing a circus-trained superhero, don't kill him with your gun. Instead, find a nearby chain, wrap him in it, and toss him off the dock so he can exhibit his skills as an escape artist, which after he calms down and recalls his training, consists of a simple shrug.
Boy, this show must be really popular since people are obsessed with it. This is the first time I have seen a "100 Things I Learned" post for a TV pilot. It wasn't even a TV movie. It was two episodes linked together.
36. If you're a superhero and the store you're currently shopping at is being held up, follow up with the best idea in the rulebook... nope, beat the thieves senseless and save the shopkeeper isn't all of it, you gotta do it after putting your ENTIRE costume on.
37. After saving a Shopper keeper while wearing your costume, you're NOT looked at like a well-trained lunatic wearing a cape, "You're a Superhero!".
38. Really Hot Chicks just have loads of money and awesome cars that come outta nowhere with no explanation.
39. After falling an estimated 20+ Stories, the first thing on your mind isn't your well being or how the hell you survived that insanity that just happened but, how "Cool" your getaway car is.
40. Rich people only use computers from the future.
41. With all the masterful training in the art of escape, you(Keith David) clearly have to let the bad guys rough you up a bit before your daring escape into a bullet.
42. This is the first time I've thought "Damn, that's one bad-ass midget" since Lord of the Rings.
43. Show up to a High Profile Government Official's office wearing a mask at night and you will not be shot on site or immediately detained, you will have a mildly pleasant conversation with that person which is followed by automatic trust.
44. Palm City is full of criminals but luckily, Homeless people are nowhere in sight... leaving all sewers and subway tunnels nice and cozy for all the Circus Thieves and Super Heroes needing a hideout.
45. Super Heroes can have some heartless ass BFFs.
"38. Really Hot Chicks just have loads of money and awesome cars that come outta nowhere with no explanation."
I already knew this. I live in L.A. :)
"40. Rich people only use computers from the future."
Oh come on, wouldn't you? I sure as hell would. To this day, I still sometimes pick up my mouse, hold it near my mouth and say, with a Scottish accent, "Computer!" hoping it will actually respond.
"44. Palm City is full of criminals but luckily, Homeless people are nowhere in sight... leaving all sewers and subway tunnels nice and cozy for all the Circus Thieves and Super Heroes needing a hideout."
Ah, but you forget, they were living on the railroad tracks. At least until they got displaced. Of course, I like how Chess is made out to be this incredibly evil villain, and yet, when it comes to dealing with a bunch of possible witnesses to what would eventually lead to charges of first degree murder, the solution is to just move them to another city or state. As opposed to say, loading them all up in one of those train cars and blowing it up the same way they supposed killed Faraday.
107.) CGI smoke is cheaper than real smoke if you're trying to disappear. 108.) Two clearly white people can have a half-asian child. 109.) Whatever physical limitations that have been stated in the first episode about the actual cape can be changed throughout the series. Like in the second episode where the cape gives Faraday super-human strength. I actually hope it can also double as a ShamWow when he fights Senior PeePee Pants. 110.) Chess is a really stupid name for a villain. 111.) Dice is a really stupid name for a villain. 112.) The Cape is a really stupid name for a hero. 113.) The Cape is a really stupid show. 114.) Summer Glau is like, just, so hot in this show. She's 29 and this is the hottest she's ever looked. Too bad it's on a dumb show that will last 13 episodes. 115.) Don't talk to Max while he's drinking. 116.) Max is always drinking.
117. Present a superhero that isn't a brooding, deep voiced, philosophical, anti-hero who gets all his equipment from semi-possible sources and everyone will say that it is a horrible and corny show that will and should get canceled. That's my belief and I'm sticking to it.
So The Cape isn't brooding and gets his equipment from a billionaire mystery woman and a gang of circus thieves? Did I miss that? Or are people saying Lucius Fox and Alfred are more believable? I'm confused by your phrasing.
123. If you witness an accused criminal that the authorities are chasing enter a building then exit with a change of clothes, he must be innocent and being framed. The authorities have dressed him in villain outfit then set him free in a crazy police chase to try and kill him, even though they don't realise there's a witness. That's more logical than the criminal simply carrying the outfit in with him in the first place.
47. Either you wear the cape, or the cape wears you.
48. First graders are cruel but up to date on current events. They won't think twice about mocking a disgraced cop's son on his first day of class.
49. Master magicians can kill with playing cards.
50. When a really hot girl arrives at your place unannounced and insists on staying the night, don't even try to be friendly. Instead, tell her to befriend the midget who comes by in the morning.
51. One man, one fight, one right. What the hell does this even mean?
------------------------- Veni, Vidi, Oh Just Facit!
When a really hot girl arrives at your place unannounced and insists on staying the night, don't even try to be friendly. Instead, tell her to befriend the midget who comes by in the morning.
*Insert sexual joke*
**That's what she said**
Killing people is easy...if you can forget the taste of sugar.
52. When your best friend betrays you give him a pass and never bring the subject up. Let him continue to be around your wife and kid so he has room to do more dastardly things to your name and family.
55. Dropping someone from a bridge nearly killing them does not constitute as a murder attempt nor does it make you any less good.
56. If you disappear in a smoke puff in front of someone you will appear a couple of yards behind them.
57. Hiding behind a car door makes you impervious to bullets even if the bullets obviously penetrate the car door.
58. It's apparently easier to get from Russia to the US when you have multiple warrants after you than to escape from a poorly managed maximum security prison.
59. When you want to shake someone tailing you: Put your clothes on someone else. They won't even notice it!
Looks like we skipped a few numbers back there. Continuing with the corrected numbering:
65. The crime-fighting circus gang that trained Faraday are seemingly no match for the supervillain of the week, who singlehandedly (and sans cape) overpowers Max the Escape Artist, the MMA champion midget, and the Jedi Mind Trick master.
66. Summer Glau, in addition to being a mysterious, independently wealthy, NSA-level computer hacker with daddy issues, can also perform circus tricks.
67. Despite initially rejecting a recently widowed housewife with latent legal abilities, after a week you, too, will hit on her because she's hot.
------------------------- Veni, Vidi, Oh Just Facit!
68. when you rob a bank, and a hostage disappears, you must be politeand tell them that they shouldn't be heroes...casue they will get shot.
69. It is ok to go out with a recently widowed woman whose husband was murdered for being a villain.
70.For being a guy who doesn't whan't people to know he's alive, going around in daylight with just a hoodie it's a really bold move.
80. I think the cape was made for Ezzio by Davinci in Assasin's Creed.
81.You could use one access card to open all the banks in the city,and the company never realized who's name was on that access card and didn't even have the time to just denied the acess.
119. You could have worked with someone for years but if they are dressed in a costume and speaking in their normal voice, you still won't be able to recognize them.
97. If you want to remain inconspicuous, draw massive amounts of power for all the computers at your hideout and drive around in a $200,000 Mercedes.
98. When you want audio recordings of your arch enemy's confession, make up convoluted schemes instead of recording one of the many chats where he openly confesses to you personally.
99. Super villains wish they weren't as smart as they think they are.
104. Fanboys can accept the following by deploying the ability to suspend disbelief a. that a guy can come from another planet, fly in the sky yet hide behind a pair of glasses, and a nerdy attitude. b. a kid can be bitten by a radioactive spider, develop superpowers and swing from buildings on a spiderweb. c. 4 scientists can go into space get bombarded by gamma rays and develop superpowers d. a man can dress up like a bat, change his voice, and be a rich bachelor... well actually this one makes sense
YET they are unable to do it for a guy who seemingly learns how to do carnival tricks, and use a cap?
HAHAHA Sorry guys couldn't resist. I know there's a lot that defies all reality with the show. But it's fun and corny, kind of like the 60s Batman kind of show
considering they started with 12 million, which was far too low for a debut this hyped and expensive, and they've lost more than half of that amount in the following weeks, they may not even release the 13 episodes they have on DVD. I'd hardly call "a couple million people" an audience... it's certainly not one that advertisers will invest in.
If your post contains "Am I the only one" end with "on the board who is a moron".
All of the above are comic book characters. The show is about a guy in a fictional city who reads a comic with his son and due to an unfortunate series of events if forced to actually become the hero from the comics.
They presented a world where there were no super powers and heroics of the sort. They gave us a set of rules that they were supposed to act within. They basically pointed at the comic book and said: "This is not real" . But the results of his training enables him to break the laws of physics, logic and even space-time continuum because of a few carnival tricks. It's not about disbelief. It's false marketing. They sold us realism and gave us wizardry and sorcery.
[insert number here]. if your script is lacking dialogue, just use the name of the show (in this case, the cape) for every few words of the dialogue... i mean really, its all the time: cape this, cape that!
All this in less than 40 seconds of runtime (episode Kozmo): "You gave my cape to a cop?" "You dont deserve the cape." "Give me the cape and save your soul." "He wants his freedom more than he wants that cape." "As long as i'm wearing the cape..." ENOUGH WITH THE CAPE!!!
[insert number here]. in 2011, anyone can get really famous and great actors to be in their comic superhero movie or tv show, no matter how hard it sucks...
OK, there are a lot of these that have made a lot of sense and a lot that have made absolutely no sense, there are even some in the middle, but 102 is a horrible one if you're being sarcastic. This is not to offend you or pick at stupid stuff, but it's common sense that you don't open the door for strangers as a kid.
First off, Mommy tells you not to and Daddy did, too... The Cape probably would, as well. Second, he doesn't know him! Third, he's defenseless, and knows it. Fourth, there are always schemes going on in thee news, you can't just trust people. Especially if your father has been framed as a criminal mastermind.
The one time I opened the door as a kid, my parents got arrested. My brother had opened it for my aunt recently and I didn't want to be outdone (though I'm not sure why since I knew we weren't supposed to do it) so on the next knock I opened it. It was a cop my aunt had called because children aren't supposed to be home alone so Mommy and father were arrested for child endangerment. So, yeah, you go on ahead tell your kids to open doors for people who claim to be from your office, though they've never even met them.
P.S. Obviously, the mother was not mad. Why? Because she told her child to do that, because it's sensible. His father was a cop! He probably put away a lot of criminals smart enough to buy a suit and stock up on a little vocabulary. Sorry to harsh the mellow here, I let everything else be because you guys have a huge right to say all of this. However, this was just an insane post. You should drop the list by a number.