I liked it, particularly casting 'that guy' and 'hey, that other guy' as Goggles and Hicks. And next week's episode looks promising.
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What the heck is wrong with Orwell? Did she take stupid pills this episode. No wait that's not fair she'd been doing stupid stuff all along.
Okay she and the Cape are confronted by a remote controlled vehicle that is trying to kill them and after the Cape takes it out both she and the Cape spend hours studying the vehicle in the exact spot where it crashed???
WTF?!?
Hello . . . Earth to dumb hot chick . . . you are supposed to be the paranoid computer geek. Start acting like it. Have you never heard of GPS? The assassins know exactly where their deathbot crashed. Get the frak out of the motherfrakking alley and take the damn deathbot underground where you know the damn thing can't be traced. You already know that concrete messes with it's signals when you ran into that short tunnel in the park.
It was stupid sh** like this that kept pissing me off about SGU plots.
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Or maybe they were staying there to wait for whoever sent it to show up and try finding them again? If you spring a trap, sometimes it's good to figure out who laid it.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
What the heck is wrong with Orwell? Did she take stupid pills this episode. No wait that's not fair she'd been doing stupid stuff all along.
Okay she and the Cape are confronted by a remote controlled vehicle that is trying to kill them and after the Cape takes it out both she and the Cape spend hours studying the vehicle in the exact spot where it crashed??? WTF?!? Hello . . . Earth to dumb hot chick . . . you are supposed to be the paranoid computer geek. Start acting like it. Have you never heard of GPS? The assassins know exactly where their deathbot crashed. Get the frak out of the motherfrakking alley and take the damn deathbot underground where you know the damn thing can't be traced. You already know that concrete messes with it's signals when you ran into that short tunnel in the park. It was stupid sh** like this that kept pissing me off about SGU plots. |
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Waiting at the end of a dead end street for the assassins to send more flying machine guns? (They didn't know the baddies couldn't send more. They didn't even know at that time the Cape was tagged with a locator beacon.)|
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Or maybe they were staying there to wait for whoever sent it to show up and try finding them again? If you spring a trap, sometimes it's good to figure out who laid it.
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If you are going to try to catch the person chasing you, you don't stay out in the open. Instead you set up an ambush by hiding where you can see them arrive but they can't see you.
The Cape is not only a cop who has been trained on how to do stake outs but ex military where setting up ambushes is part of the training.
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Yeah, that bothered the hell out of me too. As well as a few other things. First, his kid is supposed to be like 10, but acts, talks, and looks like he's closer to 13 or 14. Second, I hope that second kid was only temporary to bring humor to this last episode, cause I know he's going to get on my nerves. And finally, when The Cape's kid is talking to his mom about trying to catch The Cape on webcam, and she says he doesn't exist. How is that possible?|
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
What the heck is wrong with Orwell? Did she take stupid pills this episode. No wait that's not fair she'd been doing stupid stuff all along.
Okay she and the Cape are confronted by a remote controlled vehicle that is trying to kill them and after the Cape takes it out both she and the Cape spend hours studying the vehicle in the exact spot where it crashed??? WTF?!? Hello . . . Earth to dumb hot chick . . . you are supposed to be the paranoid computer geek. Start acting like it. Have you never heard of GPS? The assassins know exactly where their deathbot crashed. Get the frak out of the motherfrakking alley and take the damn deathbot underground where you know the damn thing can't be traced. You already know that concrete messes with it's signals when you ran into that short tunnel in the park. It was stupid sh** like this that kept pissing me off about SGU plots. |
This dude has appeared out in the open two of the last three episodes, teaming up with Fleming to stop the train, and then save him from an assassin. You mean to tell me not a single member of the press was around to take a picture, or that no one in Palm City has a cell phone camera? The Cape should've been plastered all over the news by now. Or at the very least be a much-talked-about urban myth.
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Yeah, that bothered the hell out of me too. As well as a few other things. First, his kid is supposed to be like 10, but acts, talks, and looks like he's closer to 13 or 14. Second, I hope that second kid was only temporary to bring humor to this last episode, cause I know he's going to get on my nerves. And finally, when The Cape's kid is talking to his mom about trying to catch The Cape on webcam, and she says he doesn't exist. How is that possible?
This dude has appeared out in the open two of the last three episodes, teaming up with Fleming to stop the train, and then save him from an assassin. You mean to tell me not a single member of the press was around to take a picture, or that no one in Palm City has a cell phone camera? The Cape should've been plastered all over the news by now. Or at the very least be a much-talked-about urban myth. |
The way the Cape keeps stalking his family is getting on my nerves. If the bad guys can take pictures FROM OUTER SPACE of him outdoors following his family around then the neighborhood watch can see the creepy guy in the hoodie that always hangs around in the shadows watching a certain house or hanging out near the school and playgrounds. Also if he's gonna hang around his family so much the odds of him getting spotted by someone who will recognise him go up astronomically.
I think someone is secretly contaminating the city's water supply with stupid juice cuz the whole cast has done some dumb things.
I liked him better with the mullet. Business up front... party in the back.
Is the whole superhero aspect of the show supposed to be this boring and uninteresting? The only parts of the show I've found myself wanting to watch are the mom/wife "solving" the mystery.
Gotta cut them a little slack for the train given that everyone on it was in costume and there was at least one other person dressed as the Cape. But yeah, people in general on the show act like idiots. Of course people on most TV shows act like idiots so that's nothing new.
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I wasn't thinking about the train. The Cape should be getting tons of press after thwarting Dice and saving all those people from the explosion in the skyscraper.
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Originally Posted by Wayfarer
Gotta cut them a little slack for the train given that everyone on it was in costume and there was at least one other person dressed as the Cape. But yeah, people in general on the show act like idiots. Of course people on most TV shows act like idiots so that's nothing new.
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Come on, who believes in a guy in a cape?
Anyways it's also mentioned in a previous episode that Flemming controls all the media in town so there simply isn't any news reports about a caped crusader.
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Flemming may control all the media in town but does he control everyone else? When I wanted to find out what had happened to a restaurant I frequent after driving past and noting that the corner of the place was all boarded up, I turned to the Internet. I didn't find the story in the local media but I did find a first hand account by someone who had been eating in the restaurant when someone pulled into a parking space without slowing down and plowed through the corner of the restaurant before stopping. This included a number of pictures of the aftermath. |
Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Come on, who believes in a guy in a cape?
Anyways it's also mentioned in a previous episode that Flemming controls all the media in town so there simply isn't any news reports about a caped crusader. |
We live in a time where almost everyone has a cell phone and almost all cell phones have cameras. Few things of note happen without someone being on hand to take a picture of it which is why we're starting to see things like laws against taking pictures/video of police officers performing their duties.
"Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, the ill deeds along with the good and let me be judged accordingly. The rest is silence." -- Dinobot
One aspect of the series is Orwell is the last bastion of truth in the media. Now there may be message board and comic forum whispers of a man in a cape but he's conducting a one man war against Flemming and his goons, not cleaning up the town of general riff raft. His exploits are rather targeted.
As for cell phone videos or photos, if this was the real world with the number of times he keep yanking off his hood and mask, his identity would have been known already, no need to hire trackers.
It's the Countess Crey arc, not running down purse thieves or rescuing people.
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Exactly. There are far too many sources of information out there for Flemming to control it all, and far too many idiots with camcorders and nothing better to do than videotape stuff.|
Originally Posted by Wayfarer
Flemming may control all the media in town but does he control everyone else? When I wanted to find out what had happened to a restaurant I frequent after driving past and noting that the corner of the place was all boarded up, I turned to the Internet. I didn't find the story in the local media but I did find a first hand account by someone who had been eating in the restaurant when someone pulled into a parking space without slowing down and plowed through the corner of the restaurant before stopping. This included a number of pictures of the aftermath.
We live in a time where almost everyone has a cell phone and almost all cell phones have cameras. Few things of note happen without someone being on hand to take a picture of it which is why we're starting to see things like laws against taking pictures/video of police officers performing their duties. |
Just tonight there was a story on the local news taped by some A***ole who stood filming an old woman being attacked by 3-4 street punks.
Yes, in the REAL world. But in this TV fiction this doesn't happen. And if it did it wouldn't make the news as Flemming controls it. I don't know about you but I don't search YouTube for unreported news stories.
We had a building fall down on main street in my town last Friday due to snow and ice. It went unreported in our one state newspaper, which I don't get, or on their web site. Only mentioned on two of the four broadcast news but not during the main broadcast at 6pm before the national news, when I looked. The regional paper, which I also don't get but you can't use their web site without a subscription to the paper, did have a picture on the front page the next day but no associated story other than buildings falling down all over the state due to snow and ice. No mention about the families displaced or businesses destroyed (1st floor shops, top two floors apartments). If they didn't shut down main street and divert traffic because there was a building all over the road I wouldn't have known something happened till the next time I try to order Chinese (their gas and electric were cut in the collapse).
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Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Yes, in the REAL world. But in this TV fiction this doesn't happen. And if it did it wouldn't make the news as Flemming controls it. I don't know about you but I don't search YouTube for unreported news stories.
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The whole "let's analyse this thing in the alley for 6 hours" bothered me too. As I have said before, there are elements of this show that I rather like, but some of the writing is just rather poorly done.
Another thing that has been bothering me for some time:
Where the hell do Dana and Trip live? As far as I can figure out, they spend the week in an apartment in the city and the weekend in a house in the 'burbs, because Trip is often up on the roof with the cityscape in the background, has a fire escape and a downstairs neighbor. Yet Vince is watching them in their house...
And if they are still in the house (because much of the interior looks the same now and in the flashbacks), why is Trip shown as enrolling in a new school? The flashbacks would indicate that they have been in that house for some time.
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My impression is that they now live in an apartment but Vince still likes to visit their old house, where they no longer live, just because he has memories there. I know I still like to drive past the house I grew up in and my grandparents' house on occasion even though my grandparents passed away in the 80s and I haven't lived in my old house for 30 years and it was torn down long ago and the lot is now vacant.
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Originally Posted by Night-Hawk07
Yeah, that bothered the hell out of me too.
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And finally, when The Cape's kid is talking to his mom about trying to catch The Cape on webcam, and she says he doesn't exist. How is that possible?
This dude has appeared out in the open two of the last three episodes, teaming up with Fleming to stop the train, and then save him from an assassin. You mean to tell me not a single member of the press was around to take a picture, or that no one in Palm City has a cell phone camera? The Cape should've been plastered all over the news by now. Or at the very least be a much-talked-about urban myth. |
Now yeah, it's silly that he lowers his hood every chance he gets. It's not like he has a unique hairstyle and doesn't alter his voice in the slightest either.
But that aside, if we're putting the show up to a real life test, I don't have a problem with the Cape not having much publicity. As has been said, Fleming has control of major media, and other than that, how much legit publicity would a low rent Batman actually get? People doing the real life costumed protector thing are taken as seriously as alien visitor theories. and as far as we know, Faraday isn't doing anything like making daily attempts to stop crime. He's gunning for ARK and Fleming, another factor that limits his exposure.
Tales of Judgment. Also here, instead of that other place.
good luck D.B.B.
Overall the show as good but like the others mentioned already, "sitting in the same spot for x amount of hours after the drone was taken out?! really?" got to me (and my dad) a bit heh....
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But that aside, if we're putting the show up to a real life test, I don't have a problem with the Cape not having much publicity. As has been said, Fleming has control of major media, and other than that, how much legit publicity would a low rent Batman actually get? People doing the real life costumed protector thing are taken as seriously as alien visitor theories. and as far as we know, Faraday isn't doing anything like making daily attempts to stop crime. He's gunning for ARK and Fleming, another factor that limits his exposure.
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You mean like these real life super hero wannabees?
http://news.reallifesuperheroes.org/...articles-2011/
Note: I'm not trying to be mean to them just pointing out that they are nothing more than average local people from all over the country getting media attention.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
You mean like these real life super hero wannabees?
http://news.reallifesuperheroes.org/...articles-2011/ Note: I'm not trying to be mean to them just pointing out that they are nothing more than average local people from all over the country getting media attention. |
It's sorta like fan interference in live sports. Commentators will usually ignore it, since they don't want to encourage it.
Tales of Judgment. Also here, instead of that other place.
good luck D.B.B.
A good episode. I like that they're moving his family along in their development. The dynamic of another group of people that knows who The Cape is should make things interesting down the road.
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