Call me crazy, but I still think Wonder Woman should have an outfit that can stop a bullet to the upper part of her torso, and that provides some leg protection as well.
Although maybe itâs just because Halloween is coming, and Iâm thinking, that costume is amazing, but do I really want to shave my legs?
Dammit, I got chills.
Screw Hollywood.
OH HELL! Why is this not already being made into a full length feature? I loved this! Wow⌠I am just amazed. Great stuff here!
I really thought sheâd bounce the bullet back into the banditâs forehead for symmetryâs sake.
I donât think it is plagiarism to repeat myself, right? Here is what I said over at io9 when I first saw this posted.
So I watched the TV Wonder Woman pilot. Kind of funny but also sweet⌠One of the things that was clear is that Linda Carter and the writerâs didnât just see her as a man with a skirt. At 16;16 Cloris Leachman, her mother, talks about the evil of male ways., women treated as slave,s but also a hint of something else that men brought to the table.
Here is a link to the show. Want to get nostalgic? Listen to the opening song and note the lyrics.
But the whole thing about a race of Warrior women who are also smart? Fair? And donât believe in hurting people? That would be refreshing. Especially instead of, âLetâs beat the bad people up.â world that male superheroes writers have created.
What Linda Carter said in a comment about the character was interesting. Her quote:
Iâve often tried not to say that, but I think itâs the truth. Itâs
like, âHellooooo guys, get a female that understands what thatâs all
about.â You look at any society that suppresses women, and itâs
violent. Look around the world. ⌠Thereâs a humanity that theyâre
missing. Thereâs got to be a sweetness, a kindness, a goodness in the
character. The rest takes care of itself."
Doesnât the logo look a bit like a stripper spreading her legs? Sorry if you canât unsee that folks, someone pointed it out to me and I thought Iâd share the pain.
Who throws a spear like that
Someone on Kotaku yesterday mentioned how itâs more of an OB-GYNârelated scenario, stirrups etc.
Soooo⌠another âgrittyâ superhero reboot with a slobbery helping of Zac Snyder slo-mo porn.
Linda Carter or GTFO.
My WW Origin story idea:
Some of those Kryptonians (from the latest film) that landed on Earth several thousand years ago got in an epic struggle with men, and were killed off, but one Kryptonian woman mated with a human male, who then spirited away their daughter to a remote island. Thus, the race of Amazonians is born. Occasionally, they take in a human to procreate, but otherwise are (rightly) fearful of the humans.
In short: Wonder Woman is 1/8th Kryptonian. Cheezy? Yes. Blasphemy? Probably. Would the studios eat it up? Yes.
I think the term youâre looking for is âspread eagle.â
Her bracers can stop bullets, at least thatâs how it is in the original. Sheâs always had kind of a weird grab bag of superhero accessories. Bulletproof bracers, truth extracting lasso, invisible jet, and none of it gets âWonder Womanâ branding like you see with Batmanâs accessories. Well, maybe the Jet is, but you canât tell since it is invisible.
Gwendoline Christie has ruined me, I will accept nothing less. I just donât buy these lingerie-model warriors anymore.
The problem with Gwendoline Christie for the role is that nobody would ever be foolish enough to assume sheâd be easy to take in a fight.
Lucy Lawless would have been perfect for the role if theyâd made the film about 10 years ago. Sheâs even voice-acted the part for an animated movie.
As long as it isnât as bad as that godawful TV Pilot that got leaked a few years ago Iâll be happy. Or at least not completely mortified.
I didnât watch the pilot, but the production stills made it pretty clear that the Wonder Woman costume they used for the recent reboot effort appeared to be of lower quality than many off-the-shelf halloween costumes.
Yeah, it had a nice âPleatherâ or vinyl look to it. Plus, spandex leg covering. They want to go spandex they need to go âtactical kevlarâ like Black Window. After all they have science on Paradise Island. The stealth Jet! I love that it is stealth for everything but her. I would think they could make a material out of the bracelets light enough to work, but different colors for the legs and chest.
The pilotâs costume was a joke. Take a look at these two screenshots and guess which one is from an honest to god network TV pilot, and which is from a low budget porn parody:
Holy cow. I see two costume designers who need to trade jobs.
