the NEW new Wonder Woman costume!! (and Wonder Woman 608 preview)

[fifthie]

Doin' my first post here on this forumblogojournaling community of words and pictures for something that - to my ABSOLUTE SHOCK - I... actually mostly don't entirely dislike?!





WHOA okay now that everyone's put on their glare-resistant costume-viewing goggles

Things I like:

- Emphatically, unashamedly a SUPER HERO COSTUME. No muted colors, no "lol, jeans, hoodie t-shirt" shennanigans, pretty much as SUPER HERO as a super hero costume can get.

- Tiara, bracelets, lasso, gold chest-thingy/belt. I mean it's not like THE CLASSIC wonder woman costume but it's way more faithful than anything I expected

- PANTS. I am honestly pretty glad that they went with pants.

Things I don't like:

- I don't personally care about the boots but people are gonna be upset about the boots, I am not gonna be a person who faults anyone for being upset about the boots

- GLARE, jesus christ she is not gonna have to fight much after she has LITERALLY BLINDED her foes, I seriously hope they tone that down a bit on the show

- They probably could have fit some stars somewhere on there, I mean come on

There's some stuff I would think it would've needed, like... shoulder straps, I was legit expecting to be really annoyed by the lack of shoulder straps but... in practice it kinda works without 'em?

Overall honestly I think it still probably evens out to kinda terrible, I'm just surprised to see that it's so much less terrible than what I was expecting, and terrible in such a different direction from the kind of terrible they've done in every terrible superhero thing for the last like ten goddamn years.

I'm sure some (re: a lot of) people's reaction will be THAT SHE LOOKS LIKE A HOOKER but honestly that was probably basically inevitable no matter what they did so I am kind of glad the people who made this went like THAT'S RIGHT EVERYBODY, BRIGHT RED AND BLUE VINYL, WE D.G.A.F.

ARTICLE

'Wonder Woman': First look at Adrianne Palicki in costume -- EXCLUSIVE PHOTO

What’s different from what we’ve seen before? Well, how about those shiny blue pants? And blue boots instead of red ones? Compared to Lynda Carter’s get-up, this body-hugging extravaganza de-emphasizes the patriotism and seems to play up the comic’s Greek mythology. And a special shout-out to those bracelets!

Wonder Woman is being remade by Boston Legal writer David E. Kelley, who has incorporated the superhero’s signature lasso, cuffs, and plane in the pilot. NBC promises the project, if picked up to series, will offer a serious, non-campy take on the DC Comics character.

Along with Palicki, Elizabeth Hurley (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me) and Cary Elwes (Saw, The Princess Bride) have joined the cast. Hurley’s character runs a pharmaceutical company that is creating a drug that makes people stronger while Elwes plays the CEO of Diana’s company, Themyscira Industries.

FOR LEGALITY

two preview pages for Wonder Woman 608 (preview pages count for legality right?)





(David E. Kelley - at the very least, probably less likely to routinely kill off Amazons than J. PhilMichael Hesterzynski)

Comments

[thebigapricot]

If anyone cares, I gave my thoughts over at the blog.

[nezchan]

Huh, a tumblr that doesn't actively discourage comments. How wonderfully refreshing.

[thebigapricot]

"actively discourage comments?" Really?

[nezchan]

A number of tumblrs I've seen have been a lot like this one. Note how there's no comment space, only "notes" recording the activity of other people with tumblr accounts.

It's a relief to see someone who keeps that interactive functionality, rather than making it Facebook with longer entries.

Although I'm still a bit confused as to what's better about this than any other blogging service. I keep asking, but nobody ever says anything.

[schmevil]

It's easy enough to set up comments, but it involves a third party. That's probably why a lot of people don't bother.

Tumblr isn't better than a regular blog. It's the red-haired mutant stepchild of information networks (like Twitter), and traditional blogs. It makes posting incredibly quick and easy, and has searchable networked tags. (If we had that on the LJ/DW platform I would be so happy). Tumblr is better than a regular blog and also worse than a regular blog. It all depends on what your subject matter is and what kind of interaction you want.

[radioactivepiss]

I find Tumblr great for personal blogs where you're just sharing stuff you've made, or collecting stuff to look at, and not so great for anything that actually shares information and wants discussion. I have one that's mostly a personal fandom blog for graphics and it's great because it's easy to promote yourself and nobody minds if you post a million times a day. But anything text heavy just kinda dies.

[nezchan]

Hmm. If that's the case I might look into one for an art blog after a while. Probably when I'm done school next year, and start working on my own projects.

[fifthie]

As far as I understand the idea is that you're meant to respond to people's tumblrs via your own tumblr and then tumblr itself is what threads them together.

Which isn't a bad notion except that tumblr goes about it in a really opaque, clunky manner.

[nezchan]

Wouldn't the result be an utterly impossible to follow conversation a la Twitter, but without the character limits?

Sounds annoying.