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Great Hera!

The Wonder Woman Pilot Has Not Been Picked Up For A Series

by Megan Arellano | 1:14 pm, May 13th, 2011


Wonder Woman, we hardly knew ye.

Oh wait — yes we did.

That’s why we’re not too sad that Entertainment Weekly has reported that NBC passed on the revamped Wonder Woman. Is this a jab at all the women-in-something-arms across the nation? Well, we’ve decided not to take it that way. So why did they pass?

NBC isn’t saying for now, but scuttlebutt reveals the pilot earned mixed reviews at test screenings. And then there was all the online blow back about the costume – which seemed to de-emphasize the patriotism and play up the comic’s Greek mythology. Ultimately, the wardrobe department went back to the drawing board but that didn’t seem to save the project.

Wardrobe? Look, if what you wore saved the day, I would change out of my t-shirt right now. It’s not all about what she was wearing; it’s about what it meant. Slapping fans in the face with those PVC blue pants said “We’re not really concerned with accuracy, per say.” Hiring David E. Kelley, famous for penning Boston Legal and Ally McBeal, said much the same. The original television show was scripted by Stanley Ralph Ross (also famous for writing Adam West’s Batman). In an age when even Jonah Hex gets a superhero movie, NBC couldn’t find someone with a little more comic cred? Seems improbable.

Sure, in place of Wonder Woman will probably be Celebrity Apprentice 3000: Robot Edition or something equally stimulating. (Wait no — Robot Celebrity might actually be cool.) But we’re not mad at NBC, not when they gave it a try. Anything that brings our buddy Diana Prince into to the limelight for closer inspection can’t be all bad. And props to NBC for showing the restraint to pass on something that earned “mixed reviews”.

I’ll miss you Wonder Woman, but hey, there’s always the funny pages.

(Entertainment Weekly)

Megan Arellano also writes for Washington City Paper.

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  • http://www.extremelydissatisfied.wordpress.com Adam R. Charpentier

     If they can’t get it right, better not to try at all. Besides, Wonder Woman was already made a few years ago. Properly. It was called Xena.

  • Claude Parish

    Remember the first Wonder Woman TV movie with Cathy Lee Crosby?
    It was nowhere near the source.
    The only thing it had in common with the comic was the name.
    Like this one.
    Bazinga! 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1395721720 Mark Plemmons

    Celebrity Apprentice = Fail. Robot Celebrity Apprentice = Awesome.  Though I demand it must be hosted by Crow T. Robot.  :)

  • http://fngkestrel.myopenid.com/ Russ

    It doesn’t seem like they could win.  This post criticizes the PVC blue pants, while the post that was linked to praises the pants.

    But I agree with what you say about accuracy.  I’m still annoyed by the ending of Watchmen.

  • http://twitter.com/AbelUndercity Abel Undercity

    I personally look forward to the Dalek getting fired, mainly because it’ll fire back.

    (Yes, yes, cyborg, not robot. You think the Donald even knows the difference?)  

  • http://twitter.com/infamy_infamy Margo

     David E. Kelley’s TV shows always drip with misogyny, between that and the fact that the wardrobe department couldn’t cut a decent outfit – whichever way you felt about the rebooted costume, that was shoddily made clothing, the poor actress – I’ll stick to Gail Simone’s kickass interpretation. 

  • http://apprenticefeminist.blogspot.com/ Maggie

    Sorry, I am an itchy pedant: it’s “per se”, Latin.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Fremen-Omar-H/1633159392 Fremen Omar H

     Uhm no, that wasn’t Wonder Woman.  

  • http://www.extremelydissatisfied.wordpress.com Adam R. Charpentier

    Lies. 

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