Wonder Woman tv series

[garbon]

Less it is less gaudy with all the special tv lighting, it looks like a halloween costume.

[katmai]

Well the pics that Garbon posted to start thread are different from the one  Larchie used.

They changed the pants because of the calls of Halloween costume.

And Toni is clearly delusional if he doesn't see the similarity from the current costume and the one debuted in comics by grumbler's favorite writer.

[Savonarola]

A Sailor Moon movie would be about as ridiculous.

There was a live action Sailor Moon series.  I've seen some episodes and that might actually be the dumbest thing I've ever seen.  I don't remember the Wonder Woman TV show all that well, but I'm sure it was nowhere near that ridiculous.

[Razgovory]

I don't understand how you could make a movie based on an anime.  Where are you going to find a cast of 13 year old girls with double E breasts and legs four feet long?

[DontSayBanana]

I don't understand how you could make a movie based on an anime.  Where are you going to find a cast of 13 year old girls with double E breasts and legs four feet long?

The resemblances generally stop at weird-colored-hair.  See: Death Note, Battle Royale.

[Syt]

I watched the live action Casshern movie in HD once. Never did a movie leave me so physically exhausted. All style, no substance, and 140 minutes of video clip style fast editing.

Was gorgeous to look at, though.

[Savonarola]

I don't understand how you could make a movie based on an anime.  Where are you going to find a cast of 13 year old girls with double E breasts and legs four feet long?

Disney has an army of them they created by eugenics.  The early models (Lindsey Lohan, Britney Spears) proved unstable but soon they'll have all the bugs worked out and the world will be theirs.

[viper37]

She's cute, but the costume is still awful.  And it should have been written by Joss Whedon

Open letter to David E. Kelly

[Savonarola]

Why? Aside from sexism?

Wonder Woman, more than the other heroes from the era, is a product of the time of her creation (1940's America.)  A Super Heroine was something completely different than anything anyone had seen; women in action movies or serials were the love interest or the spunky gal sidekick.  She had to be from a completely different culture than any that existed on earth, but making her from outer space would have made her too much like Super Man.  The Amazon back story, in my opinion, works out well since she has to defy the traditions of her own culture by coming to the world of men and also defy the authority figure; her mother the queen.  This is a crucial part of her character since she's an outsider in the world of men and must continually defy the norms of that culture.

There are some goofy stories, but as a whole golden age Wonder Woman works well.  Filthy Nazi spies were constantly threatening America and Wonder Woman had a knack for rooting them out.  Bruce Wayne pretends to be a wastrel, Clark Kent pretends to be a coward, but Diana Princess has brains, moxy and gams; her alter ego is free to be true to herself since no one would expect anything more out of a woman.  This further helped her since a woman is usually regarded as unthreatening by the filthy Nazis.  She works as a secretary who is in love with her boss (as all fictional secretaries in the era were, it was a rule) but her boss is in love with Wonder Woman setting up an odd love triangle.

The problem that she faces now is that society has changed in the past 65 years; being a super heroine alone isn't so remarkable.  She's not in the world of men in the sense she was in the golden age; that then draws attention to the silliness of her background story.  Comic books have also evolved since then and the more realistic powers other heroes have (so far as comic book super heroes can be realistic) draws attention to the silliness of hers. 

In my opinion it would work best if they would set the new series during the Second World War the way the first season of the original series was.  Setting it in present day may prove more problematic, but maybe they can set up enough suspension of disbelief to make it work.

[jimmy olsen]

The problem that she faces now is that society has changed in the past 65 years; being a super heroine alone isn't so remarkable.  She's not in the world of men in the sense she was in the golden age; that then draws attention to the silliness of her background story.  Comic books have also evolved since then and the more realistic powers other heroes have (so far as comic book super heroes can be realistic) draws attention to the silliness of hers. 

Aside from the lasso what's so silly about her powers? She's one of the most powerful heroes in the DC Universe.

[Admiral Yi]

You write real purty for an engineer Sav.

[Razgovory]

Well, all superheroes are silly.  I mean look at Superman.  He's an alien (yet looks human).  He one of the last survivors of his race, but since that race was a space faring one presumably lots of them should have survived.  Yet they don't.  The yellow sun is traditionally what makes Superman super, so why wouldn't there be a mass migration to solar systems with yellow suns?  It's not something you should really worry to much about cause it's a comic book.

[Razgovory]

She's cute, but the costume is still awful.  And it should have been written by Joss Whedon

Open letter to David E. Kelly

I don't get all the Joss Whedon love.

[Razgovory]

The problem that she faces now is that society has changed in the past 65 years; being a super heroine alone isn't so remarkable.  She's not in the world of men in the sense she was in the golden age; that then draws attention to the silliness of her background story.  Comic books have also evolved since then and the more realistic powers other heroes have (so far as comic book super heroes can be realistic) draws attention to the silliness of hers. 

Aside from the lasso what's so silly about her powers? She's one of the most powerful heroes in the DC Universe.

Well there is the invisible airplane.

[Siege]

She is too fat.