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I am hoping for Wonder-Wear Woman. 
Wonder Woman headed to the small screen
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I agree that any crossover or continuity with Smallville is very unlikely. People are just randomly jumping to the conclusion that there will be Smallville connections for no other reason than that Smallville is the only DC-based show in live action at the moment. And there's really no logic to that.
I mean, heck, there was another DC-based show on the same network from the same producers -- Birds of Prey -- but it was in a different continuity from Smallville. Yes, there was a passing in-joke nod to meteor mutants in the BoP pilot episode, but when the Black Canary character later showed up on Smallville, she was completely inconsistent with BoP's version of that character. So if even two shows so closely related by network and staff were in separate realities, there's no reason at all to assume that a WW series from a totally different creative staff on a different network would have any continuity links with Smallville.
Then again, Kelley loves doing crossovers, largely within his own body of work but sometimes with other creators' shows as well. So you never know; he might decide to bring in a character from Smallville to do a guest shot or something. But there's no reason to assume it would happen by default.
And even when two shows do cross over, it doesn't necessarily mean their universes are truly compatible. Look at Eureka and Warehouse 13 this past season. They did a contrived crossover between supporting characters on both shows, theoretically placing the two shows in the same universe, yet the two shows' depictions of time-travel physics elsewhere in the season were mutually contradictory -- Eureka's whole arc this season involved people traveling back in time and altering history, while W13's time-travel episode adamantly insisted that the past couldn't be changed. So even if Kelley decided to drop in a Smallville character as an homage, it wouldn't necessarily have any lasting continuity implications.
I mean, heck, there was another DC-based show on the same network from the same producers -- Birds of Prey -- but it was in a different continuity from Smallville. Yes, there was a passing in-joke nod to meteor mutants in the BoP pilot episode, but when the Black Canary character later showed up on Smallville, she was completely inconsistent with BoP's version of that character. So if even two shows so closely related by network and staff were in separate realities, there's no reason at all to assume that a WW series from a totally different creative staff on a different network would have any continuity links with Smallville.
Then again, Kelley loves doing crossovers, largely within his own body of work but sometimes with other creators' shows as well. So you never know; he might decide to bring in a character from Smallville to do a guest shot or something. But there's no reason to assume it would happen by default.
And even when two shows do cross over, it doesn't necessarily mean their universes are truly compatible. Look at Eureka and Warehouse 13 this past season. They did a contrived crossover between supporting characters on both shows, theoretically placing the two shows in the same universe, yet the two shows' depictions of time-travel physics elsewhere in the season were mutually contradictory -- Eureka's whole arc this season involved people traveling back in time and altering history, while W13's time-travel episode adamantly insisted that the past couldn't be changed. So even if Kelley decided to drop in a Smallville character as an homage, it wouldn't necessarily have any lasting continuity implications.
I think that if the episode goes well that the "Blue Beetle" spin off series that was talked about earlier in the year and which the leaked footage finally debuted at comic con will be CW's next "Smallville" verse series. I'm thinking that "Wonder Woman" will be on ABC or Fox based on Kelly's previous shows with those networks but who knows it's still early in development and I'm sure there will be more news next year.
Dusty Ayres
Commodore
I am guessing Batman shouldn't dress like a bat?
Wanting to see our heroes look remotely like they do in the comics isn't a bad thing.
It's not automatically a good thing either. And Wonder Woman has had a variety of looks over the years, so she's got a lot more flexibility than Batman does. 'Cause there's also this, this, this, this and this. All of which have appeared in the comics.
Take a look at the thong butt shot front and center on the first picture and perhaps you can grasp why some of us who perceive Wonder Woman as more than a sex symbol might welcome something different from the traditional costume.
Which is why I said she should appear in the new costume in the series (if it ever gets made.)
^ I believe it was speculated in the new costume thread by many who thought that the new costume was designed on the cusp of a new live action project and a few months after it debuted we got the news of the new series so it's very possible Diana will where the new costume, which has grown on me by the way.
LOL.
Modern day Wonder Woman is what we're all thinking about right?
But then I thought to myself, what about a period piece?
'Cause fighting for women's rights these days is easy.
(Comparatively)
50 years ago however?
How about placing a new Wonder Woman TV Show inside the same 1960s as the Madmen?
Jumping tracks though their sets, wardrobe and stall of actors/characters?
or...
Forrest Gump her into many many different episodes of 1960's sitcoms that she can some how be at odds with Witches and Genies and THAT GIRL if not discover that she has been some how marooned on an island of idiots.
But then I thought to myself, what about a period piece?
'Cause fighting for women's rights these days is easy.
(Comparatively)
50 years ago however?
How about placing a new Wonder Woman TV Show inside the same 1960s as the Madmen?
Jumping tracks though their sets, wardrobe and stall of actors/characters?
or...
Forrest Gump her into many many different episodes of 1960's sitcoms that she can some how be at odds with Witches and Genies and THAT GIRL if not discover that she has been some how marooned on an island of idiots.
But, he's got to be all lawyered out by now.
Doctored out too.
She Hulk hasn't been a practising lawyer for an unfortunately long time.
Doctored out too.
She Hulk hasn't been a practising lawyer for an unfortunately long time.
Nope. He tried to get NBC to pick up yet another lawyer show (starring Kristin Chenowith) last season but they passed. And another new lawyer show, Harry's Law, is in production right now.
Actually, the Slott series is less than five years old.
More to the point, however, we are talking an adaptation here. The fact that a character may have strayed in the comics from a particular conceit doesn't mean that Hollywood won't look to the prior version. Hell, a sizeable chunk of Nolan's Batman movies are based on the twenty-five year old Frank Miller "Year One" books.
I loved it when Constrictor sued Hercules for Assault and battery.
**giggle**
**giggle**
In addition to the links you've mentioned Christopher, Boston Public's principal, Stephen Harper, played by Chi McBride, later appeared in an episode of Boston Legal. However, the actor who played his Vice Principal in Public, Anthony Heald, also appeared in Legal as an entirely different character (oddly, the character in Public had said that his brother was a lawyer and I always thought it a pity that they didn't make the character he played in Legal the brother of his BP character). Jeri Ryan was a regular in BP but played a different character in BL.
Then you had the likes of Peter McNicol and Armin Shimerman who were regular or recurring characters in Ally McBeal, playing different (if similar) ones in Boston Legal.
^Well, there's plenty of precedent for one actor playing more than one character in the same continuity. Look at all the characters Vaughn Armstrong played in Star Trek, not to mention Jeffrey Combs, Mark Lenard, Suzie Plakson, Diana Muldaur, etc. Armin Shimerman, Max Grodenchik, Tim Russ, Robert Duncan McNeill, and Ethan Phillips all played other characters on TNG before getting regular or recurring roles in its spinoffs. Patrick McGoohan played four different murderers on Columbo, and Robert Culp and Jack Cassidy played three each (with Culp making a fourth appearance in the revival series as the murderer's father).
And Chicago Hope crossed over with Homocide. Which crossed over with Law and Order, SVU (in fact, given that Det. Munch went from Homocide to LOSVU, one could argue that LOSVU is as much a spin off of Homocide as it is the original L&O).
Kevin Smith reuses the same actors all the time. It's not really a big deal and can be cool if done creatively.
Most filmmakers and TV producers use the same actors a lot. If you find someone you like to work with, you keep working with them.
Precisely.
Yeah I know but it would have been nice to see McNichol reprise his eccentric lawyer from Ally in Boston Legal or Shimerman play the same judge in both. As I said also, Heald's character from Boston Public mentioned a brother who was a lawyer - it would also have been nice to have given his judge in Boston Legal the same surname and fans could have assumed that this was the said brother.
The Tom Paris/ Nick Locarno situation presumably wouldn't arise as Kelley created them all.
Well off-topic here, aren't we?!
I was hoping that McNicol would have been invited on to Boston Legal during it's run, he would have been perfect. I could see him clashing with Denny and not handling Alan well lol.