The version I’ve seen isn’t great quality, and is missing the finishing effects that would make it broadcast-ready, but in essence, it’s complete. There was a very cheesy aspect to the seventies TV show, which never really took itself seriously, which is where this pilot diverts almost immediately. Oddly, in this incarnation one mild mannered alter ego isn’t enough. She’s got two. Other than being Wonder Woman, she’s also the CEO of a non-profit organisation, cutely called Themyscira (her real name, Diana of Themyscira), that, among other things, makes money selling Wonder Woman dolls, and she’s also the lonely Diana Price. Ah. But where this all really goes wrong, and I can understand why they didn’t push on this full production, is that after watching it I was struck by how depressing it was. The whole overarching theme of the show is that, while she’s out fighting crime, everyone around her is worried about the legal implications of everything she does! The threat of any enemy isn’t that they’ll create a super power-enhanced army, but that they’ll set their lawyers on her. This might be the sad truth of modern America, but it’s not something I’d want to see played out on TV each week. Wonder Woman saves the day, but the court case rumbles on for a decade after. Given how they’d approached it, I was almost surprised that Wonder Woman wasn’t arrested for some sort of public decency issue, or for copyright infringement. In respect of Wonder Woman, this is actually even more annoying, because there are aspects of the pilot that work, and work well, better than some shows that made it into a first season. What we’re left with is Wonder Woman as she describes herself in the show. “Wonder Woman is perfect. Perfect tits, perfect ass, perfect teeth. I mean, look at these teeth.” Yes, those are really amazing, but problematically for Warner, TV viewers actually want something more than that, and Wonder Woman: The Legal Eagle wasn’t it. Follow Den Of Geek on Twitter right here. And be our Facebook chum here.
