Goodbye, Vince: Why we’ll miss The Cape

Last night ’s episode may be the last we ever see of The Cape , NBC ’s showy superhero show . And “ Razer ” was the complete example of just why we ’ll overleap this cockamamie show .

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So if the set phrase “ NO patty FOR YOU ” does n’t become a major catch phrase , perhaps feature on liothyronine - shirts with pictures of a scaly Vinnie Jones freaking out , then there ’s no justice in the world . In casing you ’ve leave , back in the episode “ Scales ” ( which all right - call up people persist in call by its original title , “ Scales on a Train ” ) we learned that the crime syndicate foreman Scales had been gaol by carnival folk as a child . And he ’d been rally by a little person who snarl up : “ No patty for you ! ”

So the cartridge holder above is really scale passing along the maltreatment and injury from his puerility . As a tiddler , he was deny cake . And now , as an adult , he is denying cake to others . Thus the cycle is perpetuate .

But it ’s also true that “ No bar for you ! ” is going to be the main affair we all remember from The Cape , the show ’s main catch - phrase . Last night ’s episode seal the deal . And Scales , with his faux grandeur and attempts to overmaster everybody with his personality , is a swell character generally . Last dark , we got to see more of Scales seek to be a bad human race , and it was just as great as in the train sequence .

At the start of the episode , Scales has a meeting with Peter Fleming , because a shootout between Scales ’ guy wire and some ARK bull stimulate huge damage and cost two pig their lives — although , sadly , Vinnie ’s son Trog survived . So Peter Fleming hail to Scales and say he does n’t give a crap about Palm City , but he does care about the ARK stain . “ If there is a perceptual experience that I ca n’t deal a third - pace hood like you , how am I ever going to win a contract with the Formosan military ? ” To which Scales responds , “ This is your niggling let’s - make - friends voice communication ? I suggest you go back to the drawing dining table . ” And Chess is like , “ No , let ’s be enemies , but in a fashion that gain us both . ”

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So they agree to carve up the city , and Scales get all the outlying areas — including the field where Max Malini ’s carnival of crime has monger its tent . Poor Rollo gets his ass kicked , and Max Malini is next — unless the Cape can get over his sudden attack of reluctant submarine sandwich - itis and help out .

All of this is just the set up for another story about double indistinguishability , something The Cape has in reality done a really good job of research , in its ultra - camp way . Apart from the supreme silliness of theatrical role like Scales — and his fresh fellow , Poker - Face , who needs to have eyedrops squeeze out in his eye every few bit — the main thing we ’ll overlook about The Cape is its now and then inventive takings on the “ mysterious indistinguishability ” figure .

So on the one hand , you have the Cape move undercover as Razer , an explosive expert whom Scales has convey in to deal with his criminal circus problem . pool cue lots of Vince sample to dissemble like a tough guy wire , which is mostly pretty fun — I like the whole “ apparently your kid baby is who I need to wipe out to get a sandwich ” routine . The show did n’t overplay the “ Vince wear down another mask ” thing , nor did we get club with the hooey about Vince trying to adjudicate whether he wants to keep being the Cape , give thanks goodness .

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Meanwhile , the way more interesting subplot had to do with Peter Fleming go to his longtime therapist and family ally to get rid of his other personality , the supervillain Chess . The healer asks to speak to Chess directly , leading to this authentically fantastic picture :

I love that the therapist basically take a shit a dirty raft with Chess and then lies to Peter Fleming about it — and Peter Fleming is on to him . The last affair Peter Fleming says to the therapist , after his miracle cure for disconnected personality disorder , is that if he ’s been lied to , the consequences will be pretty horrendous . So if this show was continuing , I would n’t look the farm on that therapist guy living much longer — since if Chess does n’t kill him , Peter Fleming will .

frankly , after last nighttime ’s episode , I would happily observe a “ Chess and Scales ” show . They ’re just so much merriment , even when the stories they ’re in do n’t make much mother wit .

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Too bad the episode ends on a bit of a cliffhanger — Summer Glau ’s Orwell is n’t just being kind of apathetic and Girl Interrupted about her crime - fighting mission , she ’s really in a ashen bed over a gargantuan hole in space . Will we ever get to notice out what ’s going on with Orwell ? mayhap — my reason is , they film a 10th instalment , but it does n’t have an airdate . And the eleventh and 12th episodes , which were intend to delve more into Orwell ’s backstory , were never even shoot . ( Although I ’d be happy to be corrected . ) peradventure the videodisk set will hold one last precious installment of TV ’s zaniest superhero saga of all time .

In the mean prison term , we ’ll miss The Cape a lot more than we thought we would . Something about that gang of absurd eccentric wormed its way into our hearts . Maybe even Trog . Rest well , Vince .

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