Interesting review. It sounds like they refined the pilot script by, basically, filtering out most of its David E. Kelley-ness. As though he started out doing his usual thing (the neurotic female leads, the pop culture references, the long political speeches) but had to learn to tone it down for a different kind of show like this. Maybe that was a learning process for him and he could've gone on to find a different, effective voice for himself if the show had gone to series; or maybe it just goes to show that he was a less than ideal choice to produce a Wonder Woman show to begin with. Or rather, to produce an adaptation of someone else's creation, which is maybe the wrong kind of project to give to someone known for bringing his own very distinctive voice and style to his creations. (I'm reminded of ComicsAlliance's recent review of Tim Burton's Batman, in which they basically agree with my view -- that it's a fairly good Tim Burton movie but a lousy Batman movie, too great a departure to constitute an effective adaptation. Goodness knows, I'm always going on about how adaptations should be free to adapt, to make changes from the source rather than slavishly copying, but the goal is to capture the essence and spirit of the original, translated to a new medium. The details can be changed all you want so long as the core of the character/premise is preserved. It's when that core is lost that you really have problems.)
The main thing that bothers me about this description, and others I've heard, is how violent and ruthless Wonder Woman is in the action scenes. That's one thing they really should've fixed. That sense of danger the review described could've been preserved, but with the threat of her becoming a killer kept potential, a source of underlying tension that could be paid off later in a story where Diana crossing the line and killing someone (a la Maxwell Lord) was an actual plot point. Having her kill bad guys as a matter of routine, though, is just gratuitous excess.
