Christine Woods looks pretty good for the part and what they seem to going for in the pilot. She works for me. My guess is that they're going to go for someone fairly unknown and perhaps cast character actors around her.
Good one!Why is your gym destined to be cancelled?
It's starting to confuse me. I thought it was cancelled. What changed?
NBC changed their minds and ordered it to pilot.
Deadline Hollywood reports that Jeffrey Reiner is in final talks to direct the Wonder Woman pilot. McG had a scheduling conflict and couldn't take the job. Reiner has directed three pilots so far, all of which were ordered to series: Trauma and The Event for NBC and Caprica for Syfy (a cable sibling to NBC).
Crap, crap and boring....
Lasted a season, lasted a season, lasted a season...
He has a great record!
He does have a good record with pilots to date insofar as helping get them ordered to series. How a series develops beyond the pilot is in the hands of the producers, not the pilot director.
The Caprica pilot was good. Better Reiner than McGinty.
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I don't think this has been posted but another (lengthy)review of the WW script...
http://www.geekscape.net/david-e-kelley-s-wonder-woman-pilot-script-reviewed.html
That sounds a bit more interesting.
http://www.geekscape.net/david-e-kelley-s-wonder-woman-pilot-script-reviewed.html
That sounds a bit more interesting.
What an arrogant piece of tripe that "review is." 
^ Um? Why?
Interesting review though he seems het up about stuff that may well be to come in the series. You can't pack everything into a pilot. I, for one, don't necessarily mind the lack of Paradise Island early on (easy enough to bring in later, if need be), nor the lack of Olympian gods (ditto), nor the lack of heavy handed exposition about where her powers come from in the first hour.
At the same time, some of the things that concern him, concern me. Cheesy wigger talk and overused pop songs not only don't fit Wonder Woman - they're just stupid period. I'm with him on the feminist red flags as well. I said earlier that the love story set up sounded very Ally McBeal, a show I enjoyed while utterly despising the main character for being such a loser of a woman. Just a few sour notes can really undermine what sounds like a pretty good set up for a superheroine otherwise.
But, I always have to remind myself, bad versions of Wonder Woman are no surprise. What's shocking is that the character has managed to endure as the geek icon she is, given the environment both of comics and film/tv, where she's always torn between being a strong, admirable female character, and a male fantasy figure.
Here's hoping she can continue to triumph somehow.
At the same time, some of the things that concern him, concern me. Cheesy wigger talk and overused pop songs not only don't fit Wonder Woman - they're just stupid period. I'm with him on the feminist red flags as well. I said earlier that the love story set up sounded very Ally McBeal, a show I enjoyed while utterly despising the main character for being such a loser of a woman. Just a few sour notes can really undermine what sounds like a pretty good set up for a superheroine otherwise.
But, I always have to remind myself, bad versions of Wonder Woman are no surprise. What's shocking is that the character has managed to endure as the geek icon she is, given the environment both of comics and film/tv, where she's always torn between being a strong, admirable female character, and a male fantasy figure.
Here's hoping she can continue to triumph somehow.
Yeah. I wanna see this guy's Emmy collection. Sure, anyone on the Internet is entitled to post their opinion - but it helps if there's some reason to give a fuck what the writer thinks other than happening to agree with him/her/it or because he/she/it considers themself some sort of Master Fan of the source material. This one's pretty much just yappity-yap-yap.
I'm a fan of Kelley myself but I thought it was a fairly balanced and well-considered review (not having read the script myself obviously). He at least said what he liked and didn't like, why he thought things worked, why they didn't work.
Yeah, as an entertainment writer he's got a great future bagging groceries somewhere.
^ Harsh.
I thought it was a good analysis (granted that it's for a draft script), and the reviewer's hopes and concerns seem to mesh pretty well with my own.
Didn't you know? Only writers are allowed to critique writers. The great unwashed masses are supposed to passively consume and keep their opinions to themselves. Especially on a BBS devoted to discussion of science fiction and fantasy entertainment.
There was a show that happened to be playing on NBC while I was at the gym that is destined to be canceled. One of the actresses on there may be familiar to y'all from FlashFoward, she can hold her own with the action stuff, and I think she would actually fare pretty well as Wonder Woman:
Christine Woods
Hey, good call.