Now I've seen a lot of obscure nonsense in my day. Some were bad and some were more or less entertaining. When I found out that they were going to reboot Wonder Woman, I was kinda excited. I remember watching a few episodes featuring Lynda Cater and I've practically seen every episode of Justice League and Justice League Unlimited when Cartoon Network wasn't much of a sellout. There was even a direct to DVD animated movie that I also liked. The thought of an empowered woman that can kick ass, but has the sense of humility I find that intriguing. Wonder Woman, out of the Trinity which consist of Batman and Superman is surprisingly the most grounded. She's hard, beautiful, able to land the perfect woop ass, but is able to say with a straight face “it's for the good of mankind,” All of that went down the shitter in the supposed pilot of the reboot series.
Wonder Woman starring Adrianne Palicki, Elizabeth Hurley, Tracie Thoms, Justin Bruening, and Robin Hood as Diana's male assistant. Now note that this series head writer and wrote the pilot was David E. Kelly.......Yes, Ally McBeal David E Kelly. And he also done a lot of court shows.......WHHAAAAAAT!!!! What the fuck network? This guy probably hasn't even read a Wonder Woman comic book, seen an episode of the Carter series, or Justice League. Well it shows!!! Okay, let me pull myself. Collect myself. Because its just wrong what they've done here.
We open up with a young man being excepted to college and once the cheers were done, he started to bleed from the eyes and the mouth. Kinda what I felt like later. The next scene we see a skinhead bastard running through a crowded street in I want to say Los Angles. And he's being chased by Wonder Woman played by Adrianne Palicki. And I must say, although there was a big controversy about her costume. I really liked it. Other then her boobies were oversized, it worked.....Well, she chased skinhead dude, subdued him and took a sample of his blood and was intercepted by cops. Wonder Woman doesn't like cops especially these toys. So she turns over the punk over to them and walks away with a cheering crowd.....Right. She then takes a miniature jet fighter which looks like one of those bug ships from the mini-series Frank Herbert's Dune and lands it on top of a corporate building of Themyscira Industries. Where she is welcome by her assistance Etta played by Tracie Thoms and Henry played by Cary Elwes..........Wonder Woman is CEO of this fictional corporation!?!?!?! Okay, David E Kelly must of saw Iron Man, took the whole premise of Tony Stark coming out to the world and revealing that he's Iron Man mixed it up with Wonder Women and hope to shit that it worked. NO IT FUCKING DIDN'T!!! Wonder Woman doesn't need to vanity herself or make herself the face of a company. She's a PRINCESS...well a very humble princess. She left the amazonian(Heaven if you're a sick bastard like me) society that is Themyscira to live in 'man's' world. To blend in to see how we live , in what she only heard of in stories where she came from. The whole purpose of Wonder Woman is how can a superhuman woman live in a civilization of an complete opposite of an utopian society. Holy mother of God this is bad. She even has her own toyline!!! And she bitch about that in a board meeting about the breast size was too damn big...Well honey, you do have some big ones. The only thing I give this in some respect is the separation of Wonder Woman-CEO, company face, and Superhero to the meek and Diana Prince( just her wearing glasses. Hmmm, that sounds familiar) she's only that when she's outside the company. She goes to her apartment with her cat watching The Notebook. Yes, ladies and gentlemen David E Kelly made her a total chick.
Well it turns out that Veronica Cale played by Elizabeth 'I need a paycheck really bad' Hurley who is head of a pharmaceutical firm which is really a cover for making super soldiers. Okay Mister, you called out Iron Man and now mixing in Captain America....I don't want to continue but I must. Wonder Woman found out that the guy from the beginning and the skinhead are connected and she wants to take them down, so Cale send off a group of beefcakes to take down Wonder Woman. I was saying to myself “she eats niggas like them for breakfast,” and she delivered the smackdown with wires(literally) and brought Cale to justice. And the episode ends with Diana going back to her apartment sitting next to her cat with a beer looking at the news of her latest exploits.
Final thoughts about Wonder Woman. They needed a better writer, not a guy who has done nothing but court dramas. A character like Wonder Woman you need somebody that understands the character inside and out. Wonder Woman doesn't need to be a company face, a CEO, an action figure. How is she going to be part of 'man's' world and we see her as a God-like figure that's part of a corporation. We would fear the bitch to be honest. I enjoyed Palicki's performance as Princess Diana, she's hot, look incredible in the costume, and able to throw a punch. She didn't do a bad job as the title role but was given a bad script. I would like to see her again playing Wonder Woman in a proper reboot, tv movie , or possibly THE MOVIE. Unlike another comic book going to the small screen that was cancel before it's time of a given chance Mercy Reef aka Aquaman, this version of Wonder Woman was rightfully so should be cancel. It disrespects the whole origin of the material and ultimate bad writing. For something I've been excited for I was highly disappointed. Total fail!!!!
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