David E. Kelley: Wonder Woman

[Sylph]

Returning to TV: http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/wonder-woman-returning-to-tv-as-series-written-and-produced-by-david-e-kelley/

[DRW50]

So one of the most anti-female writers and producers in TV is going to write Wonder Woman?

That says it all.

I guess her golden lasso will force all women to develop eating disorders and all men to have weird sexual fetishes.

[All My Shadows]

I'm glad he's doing something...you know...different. But this has fail written all over it. The 90s are over, and so is his career.

[Sylph]

Oh, it will probably never really get made... He basically wrote the same show with minor edits and embellishments.

But how exactly is he anti-women?

[Soapsuds]

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I can't wait! I have all the seasons on DVD. I hope this one is just as good but I doubt it. Id love to see The Incredible Hulk redux.

[Soapsuds]

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[DRW50]

Ally McBeal, not to mention the way that set was supposedly run.

[Sylph]

Ally McBeal was an anti-female show?

[DRW50]

All about pathetic, twitchy, incredibly shrinking woman who can do nothing but flail about.

The show also seemed to cause every woman who stayed around to become a lollipop head.

The writing for most of the women on his other shows that I watched weren't very good either. I still remember when poor Leigh Taylor Young's character on Picket Fences had to be punished for enjoying sex.

[Ann_SS]

I loved Wonder Woman. Like Knight Rider and Bionic Woman, I expect it to fail. I think that these hit series are too socially and era specific.

[Soapsuds]

Bionic Woman is coming out on dvd in a couple of weeks.

[DRW50]

The original shows were made for a purpose, and effort was put into them. The remakes are remade solely to be remakes, and there is little effort made. A show that has to jerk their entire identity and cast around midway through, in their first season, is a disaster.

[All My Shadows]

I think it's less that than it is this need to inject season-long arcs and other current trends into these vintage shows that work best without them. For me, the main purpose of remaking a show should be to take the original's shows basic premise, tone, and general feel and adapt it to what the world is like today. Real-life society has changed enough so that there isn't a need for radical changes within the premise of the show. Too many of the more recent remakes just come off as knock-offs of currently popular shows but with names, locations, and other things recycled from tried and true old school shows. They're remakes in all of the superficial ways (West Beverly!! KITT!! Hawaii Five-O theme song!!), but not really in the deeper ways (character interactions, storylines, etc).

And a lot of these crime dramas that they're remaking and thinking about remaking were originally self-contained shows. Trying to outfit them with ongoing plots and serialized stories just kills whatever resemblance to the original that's left. They're always whispering about doing some sort of Charlie's Angels update, but I just can't accept the idea of the Angels going on La Femme Nikita/Alias-esque missions all over the world because that's...not what the show was about at all.

But maybe this will be different. They have more room to do what they want considering they're most likely not remaking the 70s show as much as they're just adding another chapter to WW lore. It's as easy as...just don't f!ck up the characters, and it'll be fine.

[Khan]

"Yes" to a WW tv reboot, but "WTF?" to David E. Kelley being the one to develop it. I'd much rather see Jane Espenson ("Buffy," "Battlestar Galactica," etc.) handling this one.

[quartermainefan]

I am a big comic book geek, but this is a tough sell. WW is a tough sell in comic book form, and now she has to try and be ironic and modern too? The TV show was fun, and certainly the theme song is a classic, but I can't even imagine what anorexic waif they will cast in the role. Lynda Carter would be told today to drop 20 lbs.

And then there is the matter of the costume. WW currently has been redesigned into something deemed more modern. Now she looks like Sam McCall on GH

and for an oddity, before there was Lynday Carter there was Cathy Lee Crosby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izz4OdHxyJo