Wonder Woman!

drkrash · Post by **drkrash** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 5:25 pm

Here's an official photo of the new Wonder Woman. Honestly, I have to say that for a TV superhero show, I think this costume looks pretty great, but I'm expecting piles and piles of hate for it for all the reasons that fire up nerdrage.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/03/18/wonde ... icki-photo

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 5:36 pm

It's better than the clubbing jacket get-up they have her wearing in the comics. Wonder why they didn"t have the boots be red?

Artbod · Post by **Artbod** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 5:39 pm

Not bad. I also wonder why no red boots thought. Not sure about the material either. It looks a lot like a shop brought costume your girlfriend refuses to wear!

drkrash · Post by **drkrash** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:25 pm

Some of the comments on the EW forum said that it looks like a costume shop costume also. But you know what? That can't really be helped; why do you think such costumes exist? Because they're supposed to look like superhero costumes.

But I understand you're specifically talking about the material. If they didn't go this route (which seems more "glam" to fit the common perception of the character), they would have likely had to do the leather thing, which I honestly think would have looked worse. Only so many skintight fabric options!

The article mentions the boot color specifically: they wanted to remove any of the old specifically American references in the costume and change it up. I like them blue, because, despite what I said above, I think it would have looked a bit campy with the red boots and they said the show is going to be non-campy (which I am both thrilled by and assuming will be the kiss of death for it).

bloodshadows · Post by **bloodshadows** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:51 pm

The costume took me a minute to get used to, but I like it. While it does have that Halloween costume shine to it, I remember watching the original Wonder Woman, Batman, and Incredible Hulk tv shows as well as the Spiderman tv movies that were made. Those costumes were on par with most Con costumes seen today and as a kid, I loved them!

I'm really hoping WW does well and gets a following. Seems like little girls could use a superhero role model since the boys already have so many.

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 8:49 pm

Artbod wrote:Not bad. I also wonder why no red boots thought. Not sure about the material either. It looks a lot like a shop brought costume your girlfriend refuses to wear!

My wife would wear it...

Um, I think I've said too much.

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:23 pm

I really don't see how shiny blue boots are any less camp than red ones. I can only assume there was some practical film-making reason they went this way as they look ugly to me, they really need something to break the color up.

Well, this series isn't being aimed at me, and I agree that it's time younger girls got better acknowledgement from the comics guys.

That said I still think it's a shame that something specifically for adults hasn't been considered. An HBO version of Wild Cards would allow me to die happy.............

drkrash · Post by **drkrash** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 12:54 am

I'm over 40 and I'm pretty sure the show is being aimed at me just fine. (I really don't mean that to sound as lascivious as it sounds - I just mean "comic geek").

dugfromthearth · Post by **dugfromthearth** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 2:25 am

I'm one who says it looks like a cheap store costume of WW, not an actual WW costume.

If the pants were a different material than the bustier it might work.

Samuraidad · Post by **Samuraidad** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:11 am

Agreed, other than the lack of red boots (which is kind of strange that they omitted them when the rest of costume adhered to much of Wondy's classic look).

But yes, MUCH better than her WW's recent jacket look.

Artbod · Post by **Artbod** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:27 am

it's not too bad thought all in all. Much better than other costume designs that think black is the only color in the world. As for the actress playing her, she does look the part.I'm assuming that trying to avoid the patroitism of the costume also means that the origin of her finding the american flag on the shore of amazon island along with the Trevor guy will also be ommited.

drkrash · Post by **drkrash** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 11:55 am

Interesting thought I just read. (First, I re-iterate that I like the costume and don't care about the shiny or the blue boots.)

On another site, someone flat out asserted that the image wasn't real at all; that it was merely a photoshop creation to test public responses.

For your consideration. FWIW, on all the forums I've raed about this, comic book fans have generally been cautiously supportive, while non-supers fans have mocked it mercilessly.

If it is true that this is only a test image, we can expect it to change. But I'd be happy with it as is.

Boost · Post by **Boost** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 2:50 pm

I reserve my opinion until I have seen a few other pictures under different lighting. Right now it looks too shiny and campy. But like I said, it could be lighting.

If they didn't go this route (which seems more "glam" to fit the common perception of the character), they would have likely had to do the leather thing, which I honestly think would have looked worse.

I feel quite the opposite, as an Amazonian warrior, it would have made sense for her to wear something that provided actual protection. And wouldn't have looked too bad, just look at what this fan poster for a movie looks like:

That being said, I don't have much hope for the show.

Samuraidad · Post by **Samuraidad** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 6:10 pm

Boost wrote:I reserve my opinion until I have seen a few other pictures under different lighting. Right now it looks too shiny and campy. But like I said, it could be lighting.
If they didn't go this route (which seems more "glam" to fit the common perception of the character), they would have likely had to do the leather thing, which I honestly think would have looked worse.
I feel quite the opposite, as an Amazonian warrior, it would have made sense for her to wear something that provided actual protection. And wouldn't have looked too bad, just look at what this fan poster for a movie looks like:

That being said, I don't have much hope for the show.

Cool alt costume. I'd be ok w/ that one too!

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 6:59 pm

I'm over 40 and I'm pretty sure the show is being aimed at me just fine.

That's cool, I don't want to kill your buzz.

For the sake of honesty, I actually thought the Birds of Prey tv series was disturbingly watchable, and that wasn't aimed at me either (well except for all the hot chicks). So I will, reluctantly, give WW a go I guess.

And call me backwards, but I would have preferred Wonder Woman to run around in the bikini, armor plated or otherwise.