Of course a David E. Kelly Wonder Woman is a good idea! What could possibly go wrong?

[seriousfic]

EVERYTHING.

I've never seen a project wrap around itself in its badness so thoroughly that it becomes nigh-indistinguishable from a parody of itself. If you asked a particularly cynical, incisive fangirl to write a satire of what the stereotypical clueless, out-of-touch, misogynistic male executive would come up with for a Wonder Woman TV show, I doubt at her most bitterest she could come up with "And then there's a fight scene set to Single Ladies. Bitches love Single Ladies."

The worst part is, this would still kinda work for a Power Girl TV show. Peej could have slumber parties (if Atlee dragged her into one), and sing along to the radio, and even pine over a guy. It'd be cheesy as hell, but it'd be truer to the character than Wonder Woman deciding to spend valuable superheroing-time as a nebbish loser.

Thank God Big Barda and Scott Free are safe in obscurity, where the bad men can't touch them.

Comments

[colonel-green.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't go quite that far; there are some things I like there. Kelly has at least read some of the right comics, ie, the presence of Cale. And living her main life in public is a surprise (albeit, "Diana Themyscira" sounds really dumb).

However, it really sounds like Kelly set out to interpret the WW mythos through the lens of at least four different popular things: Superman (ie, the traditional superhero dynamic with a secret ID), the Iron Man movies (the public ID, the conglomerate), CSI/crime shows (those support guys), and the standard David E. Kelly wacky dramedy stuff. It reads like something that will be very hard to stitch together into a consistent tone.

[seriousfic.livejournal.com]

Cale strikes me as a boring villain that could've been netted from a Wikipedia page. I get how she's a novelty after nth issues of Wonder Woman fighting mythological threats, but in the realm of adaptations, corporate raiders are pretty much go-to villains.

[escapay.livejournal.com]

Maybe we should send him so Peej comics from the beginning of the current run.