Lot of talk in recent years about a Wonder Woman movie or TV show.
Will we ever see one?
Don't know, but, when DC redesigned Wonder Woman for J. Michael Straczynski's Odyssey a year to three back, I couldn't help but think of the following and how perfectly adapted the trappings of it already were for JMS's storyline. Just change a name or three, really ...
And, though I would not mind the chance to do so, the reviews I've read from people who DID see it makes me think I would probably be more than a little disappointed.
More than just the plot, too.
I hinted at this with you before; I think Palicki made a decision awhile ago that, as opposed to the way she was in her Smallville years, would have made her a bad choice for the role by the time the proposed Wonder Woman TV show rolled around.
To put it as delicately as possible, Wonder Woman is, or at least was, about empowerment. The healthy and natural sort. She was about being comfortable in your own skin. She was authentic.
Let me be clear that I am not saying Palicki is a bad person.
In fact, let me say it this way instead:
I truly wish casting calls went to women who were ... more truly comfortable with themselves, women who demonstrated what can ... naturally be achieved, women ... who have not and will not submit to the lie of Hollywood, women who have faith that barring extraordinarily pernicious circumstances ... striving for ... Nature's blueprint for their beauty is healthiest and best.
Again, Palicki isn't a bad person from what I can tell; Wonder Woman has to be natural. With all the power for good or ill that media and her image possess, all the influence on perception, Wonder Woman has little business being portrayed as a role model for young women if she isn't.
Ditto for any actress portraying her if live-action film or show ever come to pass.
Palicki as she was on Smallville, yes.
Fairly certain the fan photoshop was from those years, incidentally.
Not enough obvious evidence of that NOT being the case for me not to have included it in this thread, certainly.
Ah me ...
Reviewing that even here ...
To think what might have been, if history had taken only the SLIGHTEST different path ...
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Source: Justice League of America #24, Volume 2
Writer: Dwayne McDuffie
Penciller: Ed Benes
Date: October 2008
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Source: Justice League of America #24, Volume 2
Writer: Dwayne McDuffie
Penciller: Ed Benes
Date: October 2008
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Can you post the entire fight with Amazo and Diana instead of clips. Also, during that scene Diana was able to overpower Amazo...an Amazo that had the strength of Superman in his arsenal. Great showing for her. Shows what she is capable of when she doesn't hold back.
I'll give that some serious thought when I resume Photobucket, but, if I do, it will probably be in one of the other threads. The actual fight features too much of one Hollywood "element" for my tastes, one I want to keep out of my thread wherever possible.
Unfortunately, Amazo had a lot more than that.
Final resolution required the aid of Red Tornado.
This was a good showing for Diana.
She singlehandedly preserves the team, saving them from death at Amazo's hands. Twice.
A very good moment indeed.
But it is not THE moment.
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Storyline: "For Tomorrow."
Source: Superman #211, Volume 2
Writer: Brian Azzarello
Penciller: Jim Lee
Date: January 2005
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http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Superman_Vol_2_211
Better context of this encounter can be found by clicking the following link and reading the contents of the page it directs to.
Note that "For Tomorrow" had source material very different from the entries seen in this thread, which, on the whole are light, uplifting, inspirational, and/or more or less pure celebration of the character many have come to know and love.
Direct yourself and read AZZARELLO's background muse for what comic fans got only when you want some SERIOUSLY heavy stuff to think about. Talking in excess of Disney versus original Grimm Fairy tales juxtaposition there ...
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Storyline: "For Tomorrow."
Source: Superman #211, Volume 2
Writer: Brian Azzarello
Penciller: Jim Lee
Date: January 2005
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That was a wonderful illustration of how developing one's potential through exercise and education can enhance the lives of others, even to the literal SAVING of the lives of others, including, perhaps especially, those of friends and loved ones.
The best version of Marston's vision come to life, as far as I'm concerned ...
Thanks for letting me know, Zack; think I can yet preserve the text version of that story and its most noteworthy points and features here:
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(from Fox19 News and foxnews dotcom July 31, 2012) Lauren Kornacki learned CPR several times. For years, she's worked as a lifeguard.
And, just a few days ago, she attended a CPR refresher course - never knowing it would come in handy so quickly.
On Saturday, the 22-year-old Mary Washington graduate saved her father's life, Fox 19 reported.
Kornacki's father, Alec, was working on his car, a BMW 525i. The jack slipped and the car fell on top of him. Kornacki was on her way out the door when she came upon him, unconscious and crushed.
"As I go to open the garage door I hear a primal scream, like…'dial 911!'" said Kornacki's mother, Liz.
Kornacki said there was no tire, and seconds later, she did what most would consider unthinkable, she moved a car weighing a ton and a half off her father's body.
"I just lifted up kind of right here and just kind of threw it, shoved my body as hard as I could then I came back and dragged him out and started CPR," Kornacki told Fox 19. "It flashed like, 'I'm going to lose my dad. His eyes were open; he wasn't responding to me. I knew I had to get his heart beating again, and I had to get him breathing."
Kornacki said she opened up her father's airway to make sure he could breathe, repeatedly telling him to 'keep breathing.'
Alec Kornacki's life was saved, thanks to his daughter. He's in the intensive care unit today, and doctors said he has not experienced any permanent damage.
"I told him what happened," Liz Kornacki said. "He just, the tears just come to his eyes. He said, 'Thank you for saving my life,' and she just smiled her blue-eyed smile, and that was it."
Liz Kornacki said her husband was without oxygen and a heart beat for less than five minutes.
He has several broken ribs, some numbness and other fractures.
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