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Wonder Woman(NBC) *Spoilers!*

Christopher said:
Again, the networks' priority here is not to be faithful to the comics. Smallville certainly wasn't.
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Smallville has the basic story of Clark Kent/Superman down, and it's done a pretty good job of throwing in a lot of details and homages from the comics and filmed works. Sure it's taken a few liberties here and there, but so has every other version of Superman. Even the comics have been reworked and updated.
 
Agent Richard07 said:
Christopher said:
Again, the networks' priority here is not to be faithful to the comics. Smallville certainly wasn't.
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Smallville has the basic story of Clark Kent/Superman down, and it's done a pretty good job of throwing in a lot of details and homages from the comics and filmed works. Sure it's taken a few liberties here and there, but so has every other version of Superman. Even the comics have been reworked and updated.
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I'm surprised what a short memory people have. It's only in the past four years or so that Smallville has really embraced the comic-book characters and situations. For the first half of its existence, it was avoiding those things as much as possible and focusing mainly on teen romance, school, and kryptonite mutants.

And whether an individual show has been more or less faithful is not the point. The point is that each different production team for each different network is going to have its own different goals and priorities for how to adapt a comic book into a television series. If the CW had commissioned a Wonder Woman show and told its developers to come up with something like Smallville (or like Smallville is now, which is a radically different show from what it was like in its first few seasons), then that's what they would've done. But this WW show is for a different network, from a different showrunner who's well-known for his own distinctive voice, and is coming along in a different media landscape, a full decade after Smallville began. So it stands to reason that they're going to be two very different shows from each other, regardless of their respective fidelity to the comics.
 
Christopher said:
I'm surprised what a short memory people have. It's only in the past four years or so that Smallville has really embraced the comic-book characters and situations. For the first half of its existence, it was avoiding those things as much as possible and focusing mainly on teen romance, school, and kryptonite mutants.
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It was, and I understand that it was supposed to be a teen drama first and foremost, but even then, the core concept of Superman's story was there. Clark, raised by the Kents on a farm in Smallville, with a girl at school named Lana Lang. Given that the show was about Clark's formative years, you didn't need much else. If anything a lot of the familiar Superman stuff was brought in earlier than expected. I don't mean to get off topic, I just take issue with the idea that Smallville is some ultra radical departure from all things Superman to the point where it's a completely separate story. Not that you went that far with your comment, but a lot of people do feel that way and I think it's overblown.

Anyway, I can see this new Wonder Woman show taking a similar path if it gets a long run. It'll be a David E. Kelley drama that just happens to feature the Wonder Woman character and some of it's supporting material. And should it progress, I can see more and more elements of Wonder Woman lore brought in and brought to the forefront, such as Paradise Island and maybe some more fantastical villains, but done in a more grounded way. It could very well evolve back into "Wonder Woman" as Kelley and the audience become more comfortable with the material.
 
^That would be a reasonable way of approaching it. But it would still have its own distinct flavor and identity. It's not going to be another Smallville.
 
I just skipped to the last page of the thread so I don't know if this has been covered yet, but there was a bit about the show in TV Guide, and it says she'll have 3 identities: Diana Prince, Diana Themyscira CEO of Themyscira industries and Wonder Woman. It also says that she's trying to find her way back to Paradise Island. So it sounds like Paradise Island will at least be a part of the backstory, even if it doesn't appear at first.
 
Samurai8472 said:
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The last picture is the stand in for Adrianne

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/04/01/exclusive-wonder-woman-shots-taking-down-a-bad-guy/


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...-Adrienne-Palicki-struggles-stay-costume.html
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Could use a little muscle tone on her...but I'll watch the Pilot of it makes it to the screen.

RAMA
 
The more I see of the costume, the more I start to like it. I just realized, if this makes it, it'll be the first comic book superhero(ine) show on one of the big networks in a long time.
 
Don't write off the first shiny costume so fast, folks...
http://spinoff.comicbookresources.c...der-woman-will-wear-three-different-costumes/
Spinoff online said:
When the first photos of Wonder Woman star Adrianne Palicki emerged from the pilot’s set a couple of weeks ago, it seemed that NBC had reacted to the outcry over the initial publicity still and swapped the shiny vinyl costume for, well, something far less shiny.

But that isn’t what happened at all. Oh, the network heard the criticism; it just didn’t respond to it. Instead, it kept to the plan, which apparently is for Wonder Woman to wear three costumes: the shiny one that virtually everyone hates, the one we saw in the set pics, and one that will be … slightly more familiar.

“There was an initial outcry about the long pants – you know, skintight pants as opposed to those little shorts [worn by Lynda Carter in the original TV series],” NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt tells TVLine. “But the shorts were always planned. They are actually used in the final confrontation when she beats Veronica Cale (played by Elizabeth Hurley). [...] We haven’t made any changes from what was planned. But it’s always good to hear the feedback. I’d rather have people really passionately engaged in conversation, even if they hate something, than be kind of bored.”
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