Wonder Woman: The Series

Okay, I had some thoughts about this left over from the Power Girl post, so here goes. Basically, this should be everything Peej isn't. Whereas Power Girl is a little campy and fun... think Charlie's Angels... Wonder Woman should be played mostly straight, even arch. Just as the world of Middle-Earth should be treated seriously in an LOTR movie, you can't have Wonder Woman run around fighting monsters and then wink to the camera about it.

Basic premise, everyone knows it. Steve Trevor crashlands on Paradise Island, Diana leaves to fight Ares in Man's World, sexy results. So, there's your pilot right there. The series itself needs more of a story engine. Diana isn't a local crimefighter. Her helping out the LAPD with bank robberies would be like Stephen Hawking teaching first-grade math.

So, focus on Diana the ambassador/political activist. She travels the world, talking about peace and feminism and blah blah. However, this is (to some extent; she really does want to save the rain forest) a cover for her investigations into mythological threats, Ares and otherwise. That makes sense, right? If Batman shows up in your town asking questions, you'd be like "Ho shit, did the Joker escape? Is the Joker going to kill us all?" But if Diana shows up and says "Hey, where can I get a nice ice cream sundae? Oh, and what's with this string of unexplained disappearances?", you'd be like



You could even go really meta with this and have Diana be not only a goodwill ambassador, but the star of her own reality show. Hey, if people would tune in for Sarah Palin's Alaska, imagine how many people would watch a travel show hosted by Princess Diana. Kinda like a Ghost Hunters where they actually have to fight ghosts...

( And then she has a sleepover with her girlfriends, where they talk about boy superheroes. )

ETA: If Lucy Lawless were Hippolyta, would Lynda Carter as Athena be weird?

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