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'Who Wants to Be a Superhero?': Double Trouble
Well, true believers, it doesn't help my mood that this week's Who Wants to Be a Superhero? opens with a rehash of last week's Mindset elimination. I still think that if we're talking heroic qualities, and following patterns established in earlier episodes, he should've stayed. But then came tonight's episode and, well, something wonderful happened.
Don't want to know yet? Go count the days until the next Powers TPB!
First we see some shots of Dr. Dark skulking around an amusement park, and I wonder that this show goes for such camp appeal yet is so deadly serious when it comes to upholding ideals.
The heroes are awakened by Stan, who tells them Dr. Dark is holed up at Six Flags Magic Mountain. I wonder why none of the heroes think to question Stan more closely, seeing as it was Mr. Lee in the Dr. Dark uniform during the season premiere. Instead, Hygena wonders aloud whether Dr. Dark might have light-based weaknesses, and while I want to cover my face, she may be right. I mean, come on, comic-book characters do tend to be named for their strengths.
Once at the park, the heroes find a Stan-television, but Dr. Dark breaks into the broadcast, and while the heroes may not have known his name, surely they recognize the costume as the one Stan wore. But no, it goes unsaid, and Dr. Dark launches into a tirade complete with Superfriends-level insults like "superzeroes." Woof. The gist is, he's hiding in a padlocked cargo container, and the heroes need to undo all four locks to capture him. Can't they just take the locked container to Arkham Asylum? Please?
Nope. Each lock requires a two-hero team: One will ride the Tatsu rollercoaster and spot colored squares, and the other will run to poles of corresponding colors to collect numbers. The numbers form a combination for that team's lock. It's actually a really neat challenge, and the coaster is one that lets riders pretend to be flying, so ... Points for that.
The important bit here, of course, is how the heroes fail. Mr. Mitzvah, who has a fear of rollercoasters, claims to be a fast runner but then pulls a hamstring as soon as he begins. Oy vey. He then tells Hyper-Strike (his teammate on this outing) that Dr. Dark slathered the ramp with oil. Ms. Limelight -- who doesn't pretend to be dumb, of course -- runs right past her first target and gets lost. In an amusement park. While holding a map. Basura and Parthenon stop to take pictures with an obviously staged tourist couple.
Doesn't matter, though, because all four locks are soon undone, and inside the container is... a television screen. Upon which Dr. Dark lawls that he pwned the heroes and that he'll see them back at the Lair. Dum-dum-dummmm!
The heroes arrive home and find a note hinting one of them is a mole. Well, there was the one guy at the beginning of last season who worked for Stan, but he turned himself in pretty early on. Suspicion immediately turns to Mr. Mitzvah because he's cranky and introverted, and I begin a list of who among my good friends might be moles. A long list. We are a cranky bunch. The group takes turns saying why they're there, because a mole would never lie, anbd Mitzvah steals his fate by cranking some more. Time for elimination!
Oh, and Stan says there's no mole. Psych! The bottom three are Mitzvah, Basura (no!) and Limelight. Mitzvah says he soldiered on through his pain; Basura wants to stay and learn to be a role model; and Limelight, well, babbles. There is absolutely no shock when Mitzvah is booted. In fact, the other heroes don't go in for the group hug or anything. I can't even complain, and I can complain about anything.
But wait! It's a two-fer day! There's something about sidekicks, and I have to wonder whether that may come into play later. First, though, Hyper-Strike is put on the chopping block because, um, he didn't encourage Mitzvah to ride the rollercoaster. Seriously. Doesn't matter, though, because Limelight is out, and she does get a group hug. But could there have been a mole after all? When the heroes return downstairs, the Lair has been burgled, and their secret identities are missing. Dum-dum-dummmm!
Well I think that this show is really stupid cuase nobody can really be a super hero!!!!! IDIOTS!!!1
Tereka | Aug 10, 2007 12:56:50 PM | #How nice to state the obvious, 1. Just in case you didn't get it - IT'S A CAMPY TV SHOW! Have some fun.
Whipster | Aug 10, 2007 7:25:50 PM | #This show gives you inspirat-
ion to be creative, and it's
a trip how Whip Snap gets
sexier by the minute.
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