I’ve been a little apprehensive about this one, because there’s a vibe that it might have gotten away from the director, but the latest Wonder Woman trailer has some nice bits in it. Female main villain and main heroine? I think that makes a certain amount of thematic sense, particularly if the villain is also an Amazon. And the kid version of Diana is pretty endearingly pugnacious.
Guess we’ll see. June 2nd…
Well, almost nobody wants to see watch a man hit a woman. It’s a major reason why Wonder Woman’s rogues gallery kind of sucks.
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I’m more confident in it now than I was.
As I understand it, someone else is the big bad, but Doctor Poison could be considered the face (no pun intended) of the bad guys.
We shall see, I suppose .. although unless it’s *really* good, I’ll wait for it to turn up on cable.
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Wonder Woman has the same basic problem as Thor .. they’re based on **fantasy** tropes, while Tony Stark, Bruce Wayne, Ant-Man, and even Superman are more rooted in **science-fiction** tropes.
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Dr. Strange suffers from the same problem, although a “mechanical” magic system (“It’s like another layer of physics only not everyone can perceive it”) is a sufficiently common way to slot magic more or less neatly into sci-fi tropes.
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It’s the intersection points, where Thor or Wonder Woman or Dr. Strange do something “magical” where the problems come in.
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That, by the way, is likely the answer to the puzzle in the Thor thread – they made Asgardians super-sciencey because that way they don’t have to deal with magic *as magic*.
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Invoke Clarke’s Law, and it all works! (Except it doesn’t.)
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I thought the Young Justice season one episode featuring Dr. Fate handled the dichotomy well.
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Mostly, it’s kept at one remove. John Constantine can help Batman (and vice versa), Batman can help Cyborg (and vice versa), but Constantine cannot help Cyborg (or vice versa).
I liked Thor. And I don’t buy that as a valid dichotomy. Nor did I ever really think Superman was ‘sci-fi.’ Batman as cyberpunk? Yeah, I could make that comparison.
Wonder Woman’s basic problem, as noted above, was her rogue’s gallery was pathetic. Worse than Supes, which is saying something.