Much like, it seems, many of you, I went to see "Wonder Woman" over the weekend. I saw after a good portion of my Twitter feed had told me it was about love (yay!), it was really a World War I movie that contained a superhero (fair), and that the island contained a realistic array of women, who had lines and personalities (true).
I watched the TV series featuring Lynda Carter back in the day, but have generally not done much to further my Wonder Woman education in the intervening years. I am also a person who may not have seen a superhero movie in theaters since "The Incredibles". (I did try to watch "Iron Man" once on TV. I fell asleep.) I watched a bit of "Gotham" and of course some "The Flash" and "Supergirl". So I have seen non-cartoon superheroes. But my interest is less in the building smashing.
There is some building smashing in this movie. I had a not good for movie knitting project with me, and worried that in general a two plus hour movie was bound to have moments where my attention would stray. In fact it did not. There were things that felt they could have been developed more, but honestly, we didn't need the movie to be longer, so, in the end it was satisfying, it had a good superheroey type lesson about life and love, it had a group of protagonists that had clearly defined skills and personalities that were distinct in a useful way, not in a and that's the guy with that accent way.
In an interview with Felicia Day, I remember her talking about in the 1990's there were a bunch of movies featuring strong woman characters and then that faded away. So, my hope for this year, where we have seen "Hidden Figures" and "Wonder Woman" do great is not only that more things about women get greenlit, but that in another 30 years we think woman centered movies are normal, instead of a fad.
