Well, Wonder Woman is a bust. (Sorry - lol!)

Because they don't treat it the same way they treat male superheroes. They don't give them respect and ALWAYS reduce them to sex. In this case? They made Wonder Woman into Ally McBeal (small surprise when they got the creator of the show to write for them) and I don't want to see a WW who spends her time painting nails and crying that no one thinks her tits are large enough. I want to see a WW who embraces her heritage, who can play the game like men can. Who doesn't wallow in a pit of "men reject me!!!" despair. Who is someone I can look up to.

The Birds of Prey show also failed to make the super women in their scripts believable. Helena is a crime fighter (who doesn't wear a costume at all, much less one I like) who ALSO is a bartender. At night. When she's working? Why can Dianah do EVERYTHING? Why does Barbra work at a freaking school and pine after a teacher when we all KNOW she is going to be with Dick Greyson?! (Plus bad writing, bad acting - from everyone but Barbra and Harley - and bad directing) It was just a bad show.

Had they given it the same chance that they had given Smallville it would have gone a lot better.

I feel like when people see strong women they think "Oh, that'll be easy, put some pretty women up there who want men and can hold a weapon and we're golden! Buffy and Xena did it, so can we!" without stopping to ask WHY it works. And what people want from strong women.

I liked Dark Angel. James Cameron knows how to showcase a badass woman.

Haha, come on now. It's really not his fault that he's a genius. People shouldn't hate him for it.

At least nobody has said he should be shot and killed as they did during Kubrick's day. Genius is always misunderstood.

Besides in Avatar he had Sigourney Weaver being a badass again. How can you not love that Sigourney?

That is an actual scientific term though. I agree it's not his best but personally I loved it. I saw it around 8 times in the theatre in 2D, 3D and Imax.

My favorite of his is Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies and Titanic 'cause I've been a Titanic geek since I was a boy.

I LOVE Aliens, and I really really really liked the first Terminator and Terminator 2 and The Abyss.

With True Lies and Titanic I have to admit that they weren't speculative fiction enough to hold me.

And I enjoyed Avatar, just felt he phoned it in (other than the effects)

Cameron isn't so great at writing and he easily admits that. Still, I thought there were definitely moments of great dialogue.

Col. Quaritch: "You are not in Kansas anymore. You are on Pandora, ladies and gentlemen. Respect that fact every second of every day. If there is a Hell, you might wanna go there for some R & R after a tour on Pandora. Out there beyond that fence every living thing that crawls, flies, or squats in the mud wants to kill you and eat your eyes for jujubes. We have an indigenous population of humanoids called the Na'vi. They're fond of arrows dipped in a neurotoxin that will stop your heart in one minute - and they have bones reinforced with naturally occurring carbon fiber. They are very hard to kill. As head of security, it is my job to keep you alive. I will not succeed. Not with all of you. If you wish to survive, you need to cultivate a strong, mental aptitude. You got to obey the rules: Pandora rules. Rule number one..."

Quite true. And I'll go one step further. As long as men write women characters as they want them to be, we'll have whiny, narcissistic, worried over a man's opinion of them women populating film and television.

Buffy and Xena scored with viewers because, while the characters wanted to have a relationship, their calling got in the way. And, while they might become a bit blue over a relationship gone sour, it wasn't the focus of their existence.

I'm sure that's not the reason the pilot failed; after all, most female heroes are accessible to the fanboys out there by how their roles are written (Trinity stands out as the perfect example). I imagine a bunch of suits sat around a table after screening the pilot and decided that Wonder Woman just wasn't fuckable enough to score with enough 16-30 year old men.

Yea, it's been a really rough month at work, and I may come off as a little sour. But I really think that was the basis for the final decision.

A drag queen Wonder Woman?

I agree with that. But it is possible to create a badass woman intentionally like Clarice Starling.

I wouldn't want to see this....

And yet, I sense you went looking for her, so...

I know, right?