Again, I'm not talking about what might be done in the future, I'm answering what I interpreted to be a question about the prior sexual orientation of Wonder Woman in the comics. How much clearer do I have to make that?
Huh? Did you mean "Bog-Standard Heterosexual"?
^ LOL! Indeed, what a mistake. Gonna go back and correct that now.
Right. I was extrapolating that it's possible that won't necessarily be a factor in the future despite the overwhelming evidence of the past.
Right. I was extrapolating that it's possible that won't necessarily be a factor in the future despite the overwhelming evidence of the past.
At the time that was huge and ridiculous.
The suits from network gave Joss these parameters for season 4.
1. You're not allowed to tell the audience that they're gay directly.
2. You're not allowed to use the word Lesbian or girlfriend.
3. You're not allowed to show them making any physical contact.
Which is why Joss had to use metaphor's about "witchcraft" and the Camera always pulled away or willow would look worried rather than answer a direct question.
The "success" of the relationship, no noticeable backlash, meant that by season 5, Joss could say "go fuck yourself" to those rules.
The suits from network gave Joss these parameters for season 4.
1. You're not allowed to tell the audience that they're gay directly.
2. You're not allowed to use the word Lesbian or girlfriend.
3. You're not allowed to show them making any physical contact.
Which is why Joss had to use metaphor's about "witchcraft" and the Camera always pulled away or willow would look worried rather than answer a direct question.
The "success" of the relationship, no noticeable backlash, meant that by season 5, Joss could say "go fuck yourself" to those rules.
Heh, yea, LOGO channel (The Gay Channel) plays the heck outta Buffy reruns, and their commercial has Willow saying, "Hello...Gay Now"
Why didn't this work with Batman and Grant Morrison?
I kid, of course. I know he has his fans...
I don't see any reason for it to be closed so long as people are still talking about it.
They didn't like what they watched and perhaps the test audiences didn't like it either.
People are talking about Wonder Woman in general now. Not the pilot. Discussing a characters sexual orientation is not pertinent to why the pilot was dropped or anything else to do with the character.
NBC's strategy is to appeal to the upscale female audience. WW doesn't fit that strategy.
Who can say? It's one of about ten pilots that NBC passed on this year, versus eight pilots that they did buy. This is the way TV works. Lots of producers pitch ideas for TV series. Most get rejected, but some get approved for pilots. Pilots are basically auditions, and quite a lot of them, even the majority of them, don't succeed. It's a competition, a competition for a limited number of time slots and a limited amount of network funding, and so there have to be winners and losers. The Wonder Woman pilot just wasn't strong enough to win the competition.
^ Those are quite nice.
I know one of the networks used to have a show made up of pilots that weren't picked up. Does anyone know if they still have that? Because I could see this being high profile enough that they might want to show it. Or maybe they could pull an Aquaman and post it one ITunes.