Comic book movie about a Woman from a mythological race gifted with the powers of the Gods. Her speaking English should be a low priority.^ A childhood bilingual education can foster strangeness such as creativity and critical thinking.
Wonder Woman (2017)
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If they are "powered" by the gods, it's possible that Amazons are not speaking English, which just sounds like Universal Translator hoo har, but Zeus could have easily asked/demanded for an exemption from that Tower of Bable bull#### for his favourite humans, and if Diana is speaking the pre-Bable language, then everyone can understand her, she can understand everyone.
In a Doctor Who audio story, UNIT mentioned a detection grid across the planet to look for localities where persons who usually do not speak the same language can suddenly understand each other perfectly, because that's a sure sign that the TARDIS or a TARDIS has landed nearby.
In a Doctor Who audio story, UNIT mentioned a detection grid across the planet to look for localities where persons who usually do not speak the same language can suddenly understand each other perfectly, because that's a sure sign that the TARDIS or a TARDIS has landed nearby.
Maybe Caprtain Kirk brought his universal translator to the island of the Amazons?
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400 women alone on an island for 4000 years.
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In an earlier draft, I had a paragraph of text after that, which was about those four hundred lesbians raising Diana together. They were all her mother, in a "it takes a village" sort of way. So when Diana awakened sexually, it's highly unlikely that anyone who had baby sat, or changed her diapers, which is all of them, would be in the slightest interested in this woman as a sexual partner.
Didn't completely trust that to go over so well, but Jeeze Stardream, you took a leap off the deep end into grubby locker room talk.
Didn't completely trust that to go over so well, but Jeeze Stardream, you took a leap off the deep end into grubby locker room talk.
In an earlier draft, I had a paragraph of text after that, which was about those four hundred lesbians raising Diana together. They were all her mother, in a "it takes a village" sort of way. So when Diana awakened sexually, it's highly unlikely that anyone who had baby sat, or changed her diapers, which is all of them, would be in the slightest interested in this woman as a sexual partner.
Didn't completely trust that to go over so well, but Jeeze Stardream, you took a leap off the deep end into grubby locker room talk.
You note that I deleted it.
I thought you were going in the silly direction of one man being entitled to all those women but thought better of it, and you.
Thank you for thinking that I never said that.
Diana met the first person that wasn't someone she had known since birth.
It doesn't mean she has to fall in love with him, but it does mean that it's not incest to look at someone's bum finally.
And in the movie that we haven't seen yet, she doesn't go after Steve's bum, she asks him to take her to more bums... Also, are we sure that Diana is sexually awakened? Arrested development. As there was no one to fall in love with, there was no reason to build that part of her personality. Diana could have decided to go to man's world for any numbers of reasons, that we won't hear about until we buy our movie tickets.
"Sigh"
I should have quoted you.
Preserved your smack talk forever.
In the 1990s, DC address the lesbian question by someone asking Wonder Woman what it's like to be on an island with no men her whole life, and she replies "There's a reason they call it paradise."
It's an island of lesbians.
They don't need men, and if they wanted men, it's not that hard to leave.
If anything they'd leave to get more women to bring back.
4000 years with a dating pool of only 399 other people, who are in the process of pairing off for maybe centuries?
(The island's population is a variable depending on the need of plot, and so is how long they've been living there as immortals with super powers.)
Diana met the first person that wasn't someone she had known since birth.
It doesn't mean she has to fall in love with him, but it does mean that it's not incest to look at someone's bum finally.
And in the movie that we haven't seen yet, she doesn't go after Steve's bum, she asks him to take her to more bums... Also, are we sure that Diana is sexually awakened? Arrested development. As there was no one to fall in love with, there was no reason to build that part of her personality. Diana could have decided to go to man's world for any numbers of reasons, that we won't hear about until we buy our movie tickets.
"Sigh"
I should have quoted you.
Preserved your smack talk forever.
In the 1990s, DC address the lesbian question by someone asking Wonder Woman what it's like to be on an island with no men her whole life, and she replies "There's a reason they call it paradise."
It's an island of lesbians.
They don't need men, and if they wanted men, it's not that hard to leave.
If anything they'd leave to get more women to bring back.
4000 years with a dating pool of only 399 other people, who are in the process of pairing off for maybe centuries?
(The island's population is a variable depending on the need of plot, and so is how long they've been living there as immortals with super powers.)
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In the comics, the Amazons had advanced technology which let them observe and learn of the outside world. Maybe there's a bit of the scene that isn't in the trailer, where Steve speaks first and Diana recognizes his language as English, which she knows because of her super-inclusive Themysciran education.
Or maybe it's the usual "Everyone speaks the same language" conceit used in thousands upon thousands of works of fiction. Heck, at least Steve and Diana come from the same planet.
Or maybe it's the usual "Everyone speaks the same language" conceit used in thousands upon thousands of works of fiction. Heck, at least Steve and Diana come from the same planet.
The island isn't in another dimension, and English speaking people have been traversing the ocean for centuries. It's entirely possible that one of these ships visited the island, or shipwrecked near the island. It's also possible that the Amazons occasionally send a few of their numbers to the outside world to see what's going on, what's changed, etc.
Sure, as I originally said, there are plausible fantasy explanations. Seems to me, though, that it'd be not only narratively sensible but also dramatically effective if there was an initial language barrier, what with Diana's society being an isolated island nation and all.
The amazons have super advanced horse-riding technology, with high tech short-sword weaponry.
Setting it during WWI does make them riding horseback less ridiculous, since WWI was the last war where horses had any relevance. I mean the Polish calvary did fight in WWII...against Panzer tanks. And by "fight" I mean "were used by the Germans as light target practice".
Setting it during WWI does make them riding horseback less ridiculous, since WWI was the last war where horses had any relevance. I mean the Polish calvary did fight in WWII...against Panzer tanks. And by "fight" I mean "were used by the Germans as light target practice".
Grain of salt
An ex-employee at WB has written an open letter, the highlight of which is this:
http://www.pajiba.com/think_pieces/...hara-about-layoffs-zack-snyder-and-donuts.php
An ex-employee at WB has written an open letter, the highlight of which is this:
http://www.pajiba.com/think_pieces/...hara-about-layoffs-zack-snyder-and-donuts.php