Wonder Woman starts out with her chasing a shaved guy (shaved head, shaved eyebrows) down a street. In order to "make this chase exciting" they use a horizontal line effect which makes the video look amazingly worse than most effects used in 1970's TV.
We get introduced to Diana Themyscira (Die Anna The Mascara). She is the CEO of Themyscira Industries which survives on the sale of a plastic action figure doll. And that's the high point of this series. There is a subplot about some black guy getting a college scholarship and then dying from the anthrax spores they included for free in the envelope and something plotwise about "steroid-growth hormone" drugs killing six boring people. Which is an excuse to do even more jump cuts on the irritating TV Pilot. Every time Wonder Woman commits a crime (Slander, Physical Assault, Violations of Airspace without Flight Plans, Breaking & Entering, etc) she smirks... slowly... and then we get more jump cuts.
What do you get for tolerating watching this series. JUMP CUTS. ENDLESS JUMP CUTS. If you watch this, you will be unlikely to be able to find a whole 20 seconds of filming without a jump cut. It is frankly nauseatingly repulsive. The series gave me a throbbing headache from 10 minutes in.
Like all lousy CW NETWORK Superhero DC Comics series, the dialog is snippy, dull, like a lousy soap opera, boring as the wretchedly stupid CSI series (every scene ends with an accusation or DUHN noise tone). In terms of production values this series pilot is more confusing than inviting. The set decoration is not horrible, but it is confused. The flying scenes are, for lack of a better word, inane rather than interesting. The female hair is good. The special effects for the warehouse fight is so desperate to match the fighting style of "The 300" movies it is embarrassing. There's a scene where she argues with one of her employees over the size of the tits of her action figure and that is just so amazingly stupid on so many levels if I were watching this on TV, I would have switched to anything else, even an infomercial to purge this lousy experience from my brain.
The costume isn't the worst Wonder Woman outfit (the Batman & Superman movie is going to get that dishonor with her leather sack). She is probably the worst Wonder Woman actress so far in terms of lack of charm, lack of making the audience feel invited in, lack of being anything but irritating (the obsessive frantic jump cuts are mostly the guilty party though). Gal Gadot is probably going to steal "Worst Wonder Woman" title pretty easily though (scrawny stick-girl with boobs and no personality). So there's that level of forgiveness for Adrianne Palicki who probably did the best she could with the crappy TV Pilot with the CW Channel style of spastic jump-cut-every-10-seconds that was handed her. And this TV Pilot at least wasn't as horrible as ego-mooch Halle Berry's 2-hour enema of a "CATWOMAN" insult movie.
We get introduced to Diana Themyscira (Die Anna The Mascara). She is the CEO of Themyscira Industries which survives on the sale of a plastic action figure doll. And that's the high point of this series. There is a subplot about some black guy getting a college scholarship and then dying from the anthrax spores they included for free in the envelope and something plotwise about "steroid-growth hormone" drugs killing six boring people. Which is an excuse to do even more jump cuts on the irritating TV Pilot. Every time Wonder Woman commits a crime (Slander, Physical Assault, Violations of Airspace without Flight Plans, Breaking & Entering, etc) she smirks... slowly... and then we get more jump cuts.
What do you get for tolerating watching this series. JUMP CUTS. ENDLESS JUMP CUTS. If you watch this, you will be unlikely to be able to find a whole 20 seconds of filming without a jump cut. It is frankly nauseatingly repulsive. The series gave me a throbbing headache from 10 minutes in.
Like all lousy CW NETWORK Superhero DC Comics series, the dialog is snippy, dull, like a lousy soap opera, boring as the wretchedly stupid CSI series (every scene ends with an accusation or DUHN noise tone). In terms of production values this series pilot is more confusing than inviting. The set decoration is not horrible, but it is confused. The flying scenes are, for lack of a better word, inane rather than interesting. The female hair is good. The special effects for the warehouse fight is so desperate to match the fighting style of "The 300" movies it is embarrassing. There's a scene where she argues with one of her employees over the size of the tits of her action figure and that is just so amazingly stupid on so many levels if I were watching this on TV, I would have switched to anything else, even an infomercial to purge this lousy experience from my brain.
The costume isn't the worst Wonder Woman outfit (the Batman & Superman movie is going to get that dishonor with her leather sack). She is probably the worst Wonder Woman actress so far in terms of lack of charm, lack of making the audience feel invited in, lack of being anything but irritating (the obsessive frantic jump cuts are mostly the guilty party though). Gal Gadot is probably going to steal "Worst Wonder Woman" title pretty easily though (scrawny stick-girl with boobs and no personality). So there's that level of forgiveness for Adrianne Palicki who probably did the best she could with the crappy TV Pilot with the CW Channel style of spastic jump-cut-every-10-seconds that was handed her. And this TV Pilot at least wasn't as horrible as ego-mooch Halle Berry's 2-hour enema of a "CATWOMAN" insult movie.