It's sad to hear NBC's The Cape was canceled. It stood out from the rest of TV with it's well written, genuinely goodhearted characters. Seeing a character with good intentions on TV is something viewers desperately need for, even though it shouldn't be done, TV characters are often the examples people look to. It's a tragedy that shows with characters like this are cut so often. I hope that the producers and writers are looking for new avenues to either resurrect The Cape or write a show with characters like these.
I've watched every episode of the Cape and really enjoyed that each one worked with those before taking all the potential plot lines into action. Often this is the fault with shows that have good ideas but are canceled for poor execution. For the Cape execution was not its problem. The show would have become a great success in the long stretch.
This hero lived in the real world, he was wounded, the press didn't know about him so he wasn't flocked with paparazzi or fans. Despite the superhero setting, using the unrealistic, I believed, nicely done writers.
The familial plot (the flashbacks) made the audience feel warm and fuzzy and desire Faraday get back to his family. How much Faraday loved his family was important to his character, gave him strength, lead him to what he had to do.
Orwell's motivations were also intriguing. Her good heart, willing to go against her family and isolate herself from people to do the right thing made her nothing short of a saint. Yet she was also very human in being crabby for she was lonely.
Good luck to all who were apart of the show!
