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Friday, May 10, 2013

Wonder Woman Extra: “Beauty, Brawn and Bulletproof Bracelets: A Wonder Woman Retrospective”


This is the short documentary included at the end of the Wonder Woman First Season DVD set, and it’s a fitting, informative look at the conception, execution and legacy of the now-classic TV show. Much of this is repeated information from the audio commentary by Lynda Carter and executive producer Douglas S. Cramer on the pilot episode, but we also get much insight on the character from historians, comic book artists and others involved with the show. Carter herself has the most incisive reflections, on topics ranging from her initial discomfort with the “bullet-bra” (“pre-Madonna,” she tells us) to her unsolicited role as feminist hero to women of all walks of life. Ruefully, she also discusses her only misgiving with the character: that WW never had love in her life. Sorry, Lynda, that’s the lot of a superhero’s life; that’s why they’re not mere mortals, like us.

Oh, and she doesn’t like the invisible plane theme – you know, that cool jazz number. Am I the only one…

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