The cheese wears me

[nosebeepbear]

Who Wants to be a Superhero (no spoilers until the cut) was the corniest thing since sliced cornbread. It was pretty clearly scripted and/or rigged, at least in part, and it could have easily won the "silliest thing on television" award. I loved it. I laughed, I cried, I kissed 3 bucks...no wait, that part's not right

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[mileshedgehog]

feck. I started crying over something trivial recently and I don't remember what it was.

I wanted Fat Momma to win. I only know about the show because ECW is on SciFi and I ended up watching last week's episode after it.

[donnad]

I think parts of it were scripted and parts of it were real. I think Iron Enforcer was a plant, not a real person, but an actor, it was just too convenient that he made the perfect villian. I believe that Stan Lee was looking for a new face, but I think some of the characters were just actors and some were for real people that didn't know the others were actors. I think Feedback and Fat Momma were real people.

I also think Feedback deserved to win it. Whenever Stan Lee had any criticism for him, he took it and learned from it. The others pretty much ignored it and went on their merry ways. Feedback took it all to heart.

But then again, maybe it was all fake and it was Stan Lee's way of introducing a new comic book super hero.

In either case, it was a fun thing to watch.

[sagesaria]

I still kinda wish I could have seen more of Major Victory, but I agree that Feedback was the master of recieving exactly that.

And he was definitelly more excited about it than anyone else. I loved watching him in the last episode; I haven't seen anyone's eyes go that big and gleeful since Sora met Santa Clause in Kingdom Hearts 2's Halloween/Christmas town.

...ok, so both of those were recent, but still! The look on his face was priceless!

[leiacat]

I wish they'd have kept Major V as a sidekick to Feedback. I'm not terribly sure about the chemistry between the two, but lose the darn cape, and Victory is the perfect sidekick. Comic-reliefy, quirky, oh-so-earnest... Not hero material, to be sure, but I think just fine to be a second fiddle.

[lysystratae]

If you go to scifi.com, you can watch the audition tapes for some of them, which'll knock the whole 'paid actor' concept right out of your head (especially where Iron Enforcer's concerned, lol). I DO think they took one look at that idiot and went "oh, he's crap for a superhero, but we could make him a nifty villain" and then talked him into it.

[sagesaria]

I still say my favorite version of that was "Every dream you--*wife taps him on the shoulder* Ahhh! *hug*"

^_^