This isn't sounding great but I've liked most of Kelley's work (apart from the later Ally McBeal). I'll thus give it a chance, unless the reviews and word-of-mouth are appalling.
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I know you're smarting from the certain cancellation of The Cape, but is there anything NBC could have differently? The ratings just aren't there. It sucks that they're not, but a network can't keep running a show that there just isn't enough of an audience for. I mean I really wish Caprica had been renewed and Haven cancelled, but I don't rail against Syfy for doing the opposite because they just did what made sense based on the ratings.I just hate NBC right now.
Well the pilot was rushed and the quality of the eps have improved from week to week...my personal opinion. I think a 2 hour "Pilot" and then "Tarot" would have been better...I am not the only one who thinks this.
There is nothing on NBC right now that appeals to me...The Cape was it and I have talked to a few people who are in the same boat I am...but whatever.
With Wonder Woman...the brand will carry a little but with NBC...is Heroes still around? It will take alot for it to be a hit and I just don't see it right now. JMHO.
^ Heroes was cancelled during season 4 (IIRC) but I'm pretty sure the ratings had plunged since season 1. I gave up early into S3.
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I gave up on Heroes half way in S1...it started great and then when it returned in Jan(?) I was like 
Just me though...I can see after S1 it was only a matter of time.
Just me though...I can see after S1 it was only a matter of time.
Yes, Heroes ran for four seasons. The ratings were very strong through the first season, and the second season started to big numbers, but the ratings declined thereafter.
I'm certainly not saying the show was a success from beginning to end, just that we had the usual predictions around here that it would be cancelled within 13 episodes and those predictions didn't pan out.
I'm certainly not saying the show was a success from beginning to end, just that we had the usual predictions around here that it would be cancelled within 13 episodes and those predictions didn't pan out.
Lynda Carter broke the mold when it comes to Wonder Woman.
I'd like her to break my mold, if you know what I mean...
^ Are we talking in the sense of the infamous plaster casters?
True, but the summary of this script reads like a "Catwoman"-level trainwreck. It's a horrible mish-mash of "Ally McBeal," "Buffy," the "Iron Man" movies and "Sex in the City."
Lynda Carter broke the mold when it comes to Wonder Woman.
I'd like her to break my mold, if you know what I mean...
So it's been so long you've got mold growing?
Yikes, that does sound pretty bad. Some of that stuff I don't really mind (the nerdy helpers, the corporate job, the unrequited love for Steve Trevor), and in general I like the idea of making Diana a slightly softer, more relatable character. And I don't have a problem with the occassional use of a pop song either.
But overall, there's just WAY too much cheesiness going on there at once, for one episode.
There are some things in there that I like: the public ID as her primary one, for instance; and I like the presence of Veronica Cale, which suggests Kelley has at least looked at some of Greg Rucka's stuff.
However, as a whole it sounds like a mish-mash of about four different "popular" things: Superman, Iron Man, CSI, and the standard David E. Kelley girly dramedy template.
However, as a whole it sounds like a mish-mash of about four different "popular" things: Superman, Iron Man, CSI, and the standard David E. Kelley girly dramedy template.
Correctamundo.
But being a superheroine and being a corporate magnate are both full-time jobs. It's hard enough to believe she could find time to juggle those two identities without tacking on a third. It feels like they're trying to have it both ways, pre-Crisis Diana with a Clark Kentish hidden identity and post-Crisis Diana as a global celebrity with an open identity. Seems like overreaching.
I have to say, I'm getting REALLY bored with the nerdy helpers... It's such an easy go to....
Anyway, I hope there are some rewrites because this doesn't sound very interesting...
Eh, rerun the original and get a few million viewers. No need to spend too much on production to cancel a new show after few seasons, same amount of success.
Where did someone post here the statistics indicating TNG is getting higher ratings now than it originally did in syndication? Give the old stuff a chance for the nostalgia and ease factor. Better than pissing a whole new generation off by destroying Wonder Woman.
Where did someone post here the statistics indicating TNG is getting higher ratings now than it originally did in syndication? Give the old stuff a chance for the nostalgia and ease factor. Better than pissing a whole new generation off by destroying Wonder Woman.