Who Want's To Be A Superhero: The Code Says: Breakdance?!
Episode 6 Recap by J.G. Bird August 31, 2007
The show is flagging right when I think most reality shows should have you desperately hooked. I can only compare it to the rarefied beauty contest. It's human nature to tune in at the beginning of a televised beauty contest, because there's so much to see and wonder about with fifty beauties crossing the stage. I think the Superhero2 has a similar viewing model, and maybe no one's noticed. I'd much rather be watching when hundreds are vying for the prize. When it's down to this number (four) you're thinking, Yeah, one of those I'll do…and the 3rd runner-up can take home Miss Congeniality to boot.
Stan Lee will get his Superhero one way or another. Next time you get sent out on a caper though, True Believers, make sure someone hasn't cloned your wrist communicator number. Or, better yet, be sure to check that the villain hasn't cloned the creator himself. Why would any contestant stop to think that the guy giving the instructions, who both looks and sounds like Stan Lee, is in fact, Evil Stan Lee? Taking instruction blindly in a challenge at Los Angeles' Pershing Square, every one of the four heroes takes their public skills over the top. And it's a trick by Dr. Dark. Parthenon ends up with a serious infraction, even though he doesn't realize it. Instructed to take the cane of a woman he just helped across the street, then to dance a jig, he scurries out of the crosswalk, back to the corner at the park, and then leaves the cane on a trashcan on that side of the street. I guess Simon, uh Stan, didn't say take the cane back. Doh! Taking a cane from a woman (promising to bring it back) is verboten. Of course, so is giving out even part of one's real name, Mr. Stork (HyperStrike's secret identity). He did it out of true-to-life putting kids at ease, though.
The four of them also get trapped (nailed into) an oversized shipping crate. They had to work out several devices and plans of attack to retrieve a tool outside the crate to help them. But really, even edited, this forty-five minute struggle was deathly dull. Hygena may not have been suffering claustrophobia and heat exhaustion as much as boredom. She couldn't assert herself out of a paper bag in these guys' company. She stood back, because they were "so big and strong" and had it handled. Survey says, "XXX!"
HyperStrike is super confident tonight even though he shares the spotlight on the red-hot cubes in elimination. I gauge he had one infraction, while Parthenon had two. Hygena gets a shock; she had to be thinking it was her going home for sure, but maybe she's a really good mission report writer after all. Parthenon is told to go home
Stan Lee gives little explanation for making the decision to eliminate Parthenon. I believe, with some consideration, the writing was on the wall. Parthenon played his superhero like a caricature. If they were going to make paper dolls rather than action figures of the finalists, Parthenon would have made the best paper doll. And none of the fourth-grade children voted him their favorite. That made Stan's choice easier than he states it was.
I watched parts of Mega Snake, and this SciFi Channel original movie is right in the category I'll call Abhorror. My own wording, but that really should be a film category, folks. I abhor gore and particularly the horror formula in which all stupid people must die. Michael Shanks from Stargate SG-1 must've been pulled into this project because execs doubted the unknown, Matt Atherton, (Feedback) would pull a big enough audience. And his catchphrase, "Time for some Feedback," is nearly all he gets to say besides some simpering State fair-audience warm-up about learning to be safe around electricity.
Next Thursday, the final episodes are paired in a two-hour Who Wants to be a Superhero 2 Finale.
About J.G. Bird
J.G. Bird has been writing for three-quarters of a lifetime, over-analyzing and using big, yet appropriate words in an on-going dialogue with the universe. She works at a great metropolitan newspaper, but has never used the broom closet to change into a costume. Both the Internet and Reality TV give her the power of flight. You'll find her portfolio here. You may contact her at walkinbird@writing.com.
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