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THE main thing wrong with the new Wonder Woman is not that she is wearing too many clothes, or too few; or that her costume is too shiny. It is not that her breasts and hips are too large or too small; it is not that she is too sexualised for a television audience watching a remake of Wonder Woman in 2011. The problem with Adrianne Palicki, the new Wonder Woman, is that she is not Lynda Carter, and it is not 1979, and I am not four years old.
I loved Wonder Woman. On Saturdays we watched Wonder Woman on a black-and-white TV, and the rest of the week we dressed up as Wonder Woman, pretended to be Wonder Woman in the playground, imagined that when we grew up we would be Wonder Woman, and generally were so heavily influenced by her whips and hotpants that the idea of a woman having a secret identity in which she was a powerful, flying, crime-fighting machine became internalised into something like empowerment.
I know a lot of men say that Lynda Carter was their first crush, and I imagine they look back on Saturday afternoons as a time of sexual awakening; but I fell in love with her, too, the way I loved my nursery teachers, cousins, aunts, and all the other sensible, infallible women who were the infrastructure of my childhood.
When I see photos or footage of Carter I feel happy and comforted. I remember her as a calm, strong, safe presence. Her voice was deep and soothing, her hair was sensibly cut, her work clothes were on the side of frumpy. Even her glam rags were practical, in their way. Every part of the outfit had a purpose - the headband, the belt - and years of experience have since taught me that it's easier to run after villains in flat boots and knickers than in a knee-length skirt and a pair of court shoes.
There was no nonsense about her Wonder Woman; she was the kind of straightforward, unflappable hero that was all the rage at the time. She didn't have demons or moral confusion. She just got the job done - and then went on to be charming on the Muppet Show.
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I would love to see the revamp of super heros kept more to their origins and not turned into eye candy. Batman was the first to be made sexy not hard. Now Wonder Woman she was meant to be a picture of femin beuty and decorum but have the strength and hiden powers. The new costum isn't that for meWonder Woman Original First Draft Illustration
Artist: H.G. Peter
Year: 1941
Description: 13" x 18.75" page containing two first draft Wonder Woman illustrations (one profile figure, the other standing front on waving hand) drawn in ink and crayon. The costume design is a two-piece, made up of a blue skirt (with white stars) and short red tube-top (with eagle emblem). Wonder Woman is also wearing her bracelets, tiara and a pair of shoes that Peter refers to on the document as 'like a stenographers' and then suggested a Roman-style design to Marston. Peter's handwriting in black with Marston's comments in red. Heritage Galleries (the auctioneer) described this item as an incredible piece of comics history.
Damn right Aardy. That's why I always thought Michael Keaton was a good Batman.Aard Vark wrote: I would love to see the revamp of super heros kept more to their origins and not turned into eye candy. Batman was the first to be made sexy not hard. Now Wonder Woman she was meant to be a picture of femin beuty and decorum but have the strength and hiden powers. The new costum isn't that for me
loCAtek wrote:Adrianne Palicki is too skinny and looks winded from trying to run in a corset.
How's that for a starting point for the new WW? She is meant to be a littl kinky and have a few strange habits but don't all super heros?Although Wonder Woman was created in 1941, Dr. Marston, the psychologist who created her, was clearly influenced by many of the same popular ideas of the late nineteenth century. Wonder Woman was descended from the Amazons of Greek mythology, who now live on Paradise Island, a sort of tropical commune where they all wear pretty dresses, have wrestling contests, and lounge on the beach. They used a "mental radio" to communicate telepathically. Astral projection, spirit planes and various forms of "thought energy" turned up regularly in the stories; we are told that the Amazons' superstrength comes from learning to focus their mind power. Avant-garde methods of therapy also showed up often; in one story, people reformed by having "fun therapy", but usually therapy involved bondage and discipline. Incidentally, Dr. Marston's editor claims that had he allowed Marston to leave in all the symbolism and stuff he wanted to, the stories would have been even weirder. After you read a few 1940's issues of WW, the mind boggles. After Dr. Marston's death, a series of different writers with various interpretations of the character took over. None shared Marston's eccentricity and the character often became little more than a female Superman, but the fantasy of the all-female society on Paradise Island has lingered. Wonder Woman was the first female superhero who was not a spinoff of a male hero, and is the third longest-running superhero in comic books, after Superman and Batman
Fixed that for you...SisterMaryFellatio wrote:
IMHO she should be running around in a leather G, thigh high boots, brandishing a whip with handcuffs attached to her belt, whilst giving her husband a blowjob!
