TV time - The Cape

Sometimes when their homework is done, and their rooms are clean, I'll sit down and watch a TV show with my two sons. We've started watching a new TV show called The Cape. It's a show about a superhero, like in the comics, and I thought it might be a good "Boy" show to watch with my boys.

Well, it's OK, but I was really astonished at all the holes in the plot, and the overall lazy writing. So what am I expecting? It's basically a Batman-like superhero, a regular guy (an ex-cop) with no special powers, who trains with some circus leader to use a special cape made out of spider silk. He was framed by the main villain, and presumed dead, and now fights crime as the latest "caped" crusader.

But when obvious holes are left in the plot to where you're asking what about this or what about that, it makes you wonder just where are they getting these writers? I've always been disappointed with Holywood's take on superheroes. I've always thought that the TV shows and movies would be so much better if they just went with the original stories from the comics.

I think it's arrogance really, is why they don't. Hollywood believes that comics writers are so beneath them, but imo, the opposite is true. If the movies went with the original stories as written in the comics, they would have been ten times better. So that tells me the comics writers are the superior writers. At least when it comes to their own characters. That's all.