So Who Do You Want to Be a Superhero?
The Defuser, Hygena, and Hyper-Strike’s Final Battle Has Arrived
Tonight at 9pm EST, the Sci Fi Channel presents the two-hour second-season finale of Who Wants To Be a Superhero?, comic-book legend Stan Lee‘s reality series that gives ordinary people a chance to achieve immortality by demonstrating their uncommonly valiant traits. Campy, corny, or kooky though it may be, the show has won over legions of fans, including me. I had all of my money placed on Parthenon (28-year-old college administrator Dan Williams) as the sure and fitting champ, until he went and ruined everything during the first challenge last week by showing he’s bossy and has zero rapport with kids. Now I have no idea who to support. While the remaining contenders all have their assets, they each also demonstrate a fair share of decidedly unheroic liabilities.
The Defuser (38-year-old police detective Jarrett Crippen) definitely has the bulk, tenacity, and heart to do daring deeds. But, try as he might to change it, his inherently domineering personality is such a colossal turnoff, it could leave some victims wishing he’d just leave them alone and go save somebody else.
Hygena (36-year-old homemaker Melody Mooney), the last girl standing, is dedicated and genuine. Nevertheless, her obsession with cleanliness and correctness, not to mention the judgmental nature that both characteristics breed, makes her slow during tasks when time is of the utmost essence. If a life-threatening situation depended on her for resolution, you would probably have just as good a chance of dying while waiting for her to get there or to work her way through the necessary motions as you would of eventually being saved.
Hyper-Strike (21-year-old performer John Stork), on the other hand, is without a doubt one flexible, determined, and highly capable dude. What gets me, though, is how phony he sometimes comes across when he goes into hyper-enthusiastic mode. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, try watching him closely onscreen next time he’s interacting directly with Stan Lee. Victims would never be sure if he was genuinely in it to help them or for some other undetermined, and therefore potentially troubling, reason.
So, since my longtime favorite has gotten himself eliminated and is no longer in the running, I guess whoever wins tonight will be more or less okay by me.
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The two-hour second-season finale of Who Wants to Be a Superhero? airs tonight from 9pm–11pm EST
Who Wants to Be a Superhero? photo courtesy of the Sci Fi Channel
