the Fretless Bass reviews: The Cape pilot on NBC

Today, I'm snowed in, so I'm writing about something I saw yesterday. It was The Cape, a show about a man who was unjustly framed for a horrible crime and must don a new identity to protect his family and get his life back. So it's pretty much every super hero movie or show ever made.
I kid The Cape, I actually liked it a lot, but I'm a fanboy, and as a reviewer, it is my duty to look at this in perspective, objectively, without bias.
The show was entertaining, but was it really good? Luckily, I'm here to answer that question for you, so you don't need to think as much. (Orwellian?) The pilot's job is to draw the audience in with high action, focus, and conflict, so its job is to be the best episode in the entire run of the series. If every episode of The Cape is as good as the pilot, then this show is the next 24 for me until The Walking Dead staggers back onto my TV next fall. But TV shows rarely replicate the quality found in the pilot. The Cape makes the mistake of giving the protagonist one ultimate goal, in this case; it's to prove his innocence by taking down a private military contract army that runs the city. This is going to get old fast. Luke Cage made that mistake as well in his first issue, but the geniuses at Marvel were smart enough to leave Luke's problems open ended enough to keep the series interesting after the death of this antagonist. This is not the case with The Cape, should the main villain fall, there's no more juice left in the tank, and The Cape dies. Like I said, the same bad guy in every episode is going to get old. They also introduced one villain that has scales on his face, and a whole organization of super-killers, but they all work for the ultimate villain as well, so it's kind of a fail on that scale.
At the end of the day, or this review, or whatever you and your cult may call it, the pilot of The Cape was good, but the show has nothing to really set it apart from any other super drama on TV or the big screen. If guys wearing capes and cool hoods excites you as much as it excites me, then you'll probably like the pilot of The Cape, as for the rest of the series, I predict it will fall into the problem Power Rangers had where you could recite what was going to happen in every episode before it even happened. So don't get your hopes up. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go put a towel over my head and pretend I'm Batman.