It had its moments, but it had a whole lot of rampant stupid, too. Meh....
Yeah, I'm not even as nice as you about it. For the 48 minutes of torture that The Crap (er, I mean Cape) offered I thought of the other things I'd enjoy more, including but not limited to -
Draining my wife's cancer surgery drains (but I'd done that before the show so no escape for me)
Shoveling 18 deep of snow off my driveway and walkway after pulling my tank-tread equipped and yet immobile 1000 pound snowblower all the way back up the driveway into the garage after the transmission belts exploded in the middle of the road as I was trying to turn it around. Sadly again no escape for me as that happened at 7AM.
Punching myself repeatedly in the face, but I get woozy at the sight of my own blood.
I'd already washed all the dishes, folded the kid's laundry, cleaned both bathrooms, and prepared an agenda for the upcoming writers' group meeting for the writer's group I accidentally started six weeks ago. So I'd effectively run out of self immolation. I could have watched an episode of "Bones" but even I don't stoop to the idiocy of that show unless I'm under extreme duress (i.e. my wife is already watching it).
I actually have the pilot script for The Cape here and have had it for some time. If they'd gone with the original idea of having him burned into the Chess mask so that he couldn't effectively clear his name the rest of the show would have made a whole hell of a lot more sense. But they didn't, so instead of officer whateverhisnameis (surviving two explosions that would have liquified his organs) he becomes a bad GCI using vigilante instead of just walking into the District Attorney's office and dropping the dime on the owner of the private security company who had already monologued his whole evil plan twice.
The Cape makes No Ordinary Family look like Justice League Unlimited.
