Monday, January 31, 2005
i got around to watching the entire first season of Wonder Woman including the two-hour pilot movie titled "the new original Wonder Woman". so if you do the math, and i so hate doing the math, that's 15 (fifteen) hours of Lynda Carter saving the world in her satin tights fighting for your rights.
these are the little things i would like to point out about the show:
now keep in mind, the show is about 30 years old, so i'm positive these have been mentioned before. this is just my twist on things.
1) Lynda Carter's stuntwoman looks nothing like her.
2) Wonder Woman can deflect any number of bullets shot at her, survive any physical battle, yet... she falls victim to the horrors of chloroform repetitively.
3) the male hero, Steve Trevor, played by Lyle Waggoner, is constantly hit in the back of the head or knocked out cold somehow. the amount of damage caused to his brain must have been tremendous.
4) it takes place during wartime in Washington DC. and according to the show, 1 out of every 2 people in America at the time was a nazi spy. example: if there were two scientists working on a secret formula to win the war, one of them was reporting back to berlin.
5) although Wonder Woman left paradise island to help stop germany from becoming an evil world power, she spent all her time saving Steve Trevor (you remember, he's the one constantly losing consciousness) if Steve was in trouble she would come-a-runnin! i'm sure the Americans fighting on the frontlines really appreciated her efforts to end the war faster.
Captain America would never hide out in the states while there were American boys in trouble!!! he was right there in front, yelling, FREEEEDOM!!!!! yay, Marvel!
6) Wonder Woman changes her clothes by spinning really fast, nothing ultra new or special about that, i just thought it was wierd that she checked to make sure her belt stayed on during the ordeal.
7) one power that W W has that is just amazing and wrong is that she had the ability to imitate anybody's voice. it's kinda creepy, i understood it when the terminator did it, he was a killer robot sent from the future.
8) she can't fly, she can jump really high, and i wish i made that sound effect when i jumped!
9) every show ends with Lynda Carter's signature smile and usually the phrase," that's just what Wonder Woman said" and then...freeze!
10) the invisible jet was flown by a doll. AND IT'S HEADED STRAIGHT FOR THE SUN! (sorry, had to throw that in there.
11) in order to stretch out the thin plotlines into an hour long episode, they often repeated dialogue as much as possible. it makes me shake my fist at the TV.
12) Wonder Woman's power was at a point in the show stored in her bracelets, later in the season it was in her belt and lasso. i guess the writers wanted to figure another way to incapacitate her besides a rag soaked in chloroform.
13) anyone, and i mean anyone, can walk right into the war department. it was a wonder we won the war.
14) the bad guy's never get shot or killed outright. they get thrown. and of course, they get knocked out upon landing on the hard, hard ground. plus, with all these war criminals being captured instead of (gasp) dying during wartime the prisons must have filled up rather quickly.
15) besides the fact that Lynda Carter was about 7 feet tall give or take, she still had the great disguise... big glasses!!! heck, worked for Superman. people in the DC universe are just plain dumb. yay, Marvel!
um, i'm done.
these are the little things i would like to point out about the show:
now keep in mind, the show is about 30 years old, so i'm positive these have been mentioned before. this is just my twist on things.
1) Lynda Carter's stuntwoman looks nothing like her.
2) Wonder Woman can deflect any number of bullets shot at her, survive any physical battle, yet... she falls victim to the horrors of chloroform repetitively.
3) the male hero, Steve Trevor, played by Lyle Waggoner, is constantly hit in the back of the head or knocked out cold somehow. the amount of damage caused to his brain must have been tremendous.
4) it takes place during wartime in Washington DC. and according to the show, 1 out of every 2 people in America at the time was a nazi spy. example: if there were two scientists working on a secret formula to win the war, one of them was reporting back to berlin.
5) although Wonder Woman left paradise island to help stop germany from becoming an evil world power, she spent all her time saving Steve Trevor (you remember, he's the one constantly losing consciousness) if Steve was in trouble she would come-a-runnin! i'm sure the Americans fighting on the frontlines really appreciated her efforts to end the war faster.
Captain America would never hide out in the states while there were American boys in trouble!!! he was right there in front, yelling, FREEEEDOM!!!!! yay, Marvel!
6) Wonder Woman changes her clothes by spinning really fast, nothing ultra new or special about that, i just thought it was wierd that she checked to make sure her belt stayed on during the ordeal.
7) one power that W W has that is just amazing and wrong is that she had the ability to imitate anybody's voice. it's kinda creepy, i understood it when the terminator did it, he was a killer robot sent from the future.
8) she can't fly, she can jump really high, and i wish i made that sound effect when i jumped!
9) every show ends with Lynda Carter's signature smile and usually the phrase," that's just what Wonder Woman said" and then...freeze!
10) the invisible jet was flown by a doll. AND IT'S HEADED STRAIGHT FOR THE SUN! (sorry, had to throw that in there.
11) in order to stretch out the thin plotlines into an hour long episode, they often repeated dialogue as much as possible. it makes me shake my fist at the TV.
12) Wonder Woman's power was at a point in the show stored in her bracelets, later in the season it was in her belt and lasso. i guess the writers wanted to figure another way to incapacitate her besides a rag soaked in chloroform.
13) anyone, and i mean anyone, can walk right into the war department. it was a wonder we won the war.
14) the bad guy's never get shot or killed outright. they get thrown. and of course, they get knocked out upon landing on the hard, hard ground. plus, with all these war criminals being captured instead of (gasp) dying during wartime the prisons must have filled up rather quickly.
15) besides the fact that Lynda Carter was about 7 feet tall give or take, she still had the great disguise... big glasses!!! heck, worked for Superman. people in the DC universe are just plain dumb. yay, Marvel!
um, i'm done.
