Wonder Woman

I almost can't believe that Wonder Woman was such a relatable series a good 20 years before Xena. It’s equally funny, fresh, ironic and of course with a very well-balanced portion of good and evil. Finally, Princess Diana aka Wonder Woman herself is an amazon from an idyllic island that hasn't seen a man in 26 centuries... and now, in 1942, she arrives just in time to fight the Nazis. So yes, there's a bit of poetics, but mostly I understand the Double Dare documentary, which in 2004 linked the fates of Wonder Woman and Xena. Her crown acts as a chakram, and her lasso makes her opponents speak the truth, just like Xena's legendary knowledge of pressure points. Wonder Woman may use a similar alter ego to Superman, but Xena, in turn, also made a visit to the 1940s (alongside a female Indiana Jones). Moreover, the two heroes share a bond with Greek mythology and some episodes of both series are like a mirror of themselves. Now all I need for perfect happiness is the same positive attitude of Lucy Lawless toward her heroine that Lynda Carter has had toward hers for years. After Wonder Woman also come to Hollywood during the war, the Wonder Woman aka The New Original Wonder Woman series on ABC ended. (31.03.2019)

It was the hot summer of 1942, with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini spreading the wings of war over Europe. So what hasn't happened in our beloved fundamentally democratic USA? Wonder Woman, the DC Universe's most glamorous heroine, has seen the light of day, dressed in a chic costume with stars and stripes. Long live Lynda Carter and her cutest smile on 1970s TV! This divinely entertaining pilot episode put all the tricky attempts to bring Wonder Woman from the comics to the small screen behind it and glued audiences to the new series for the next three years. It’s wonderful even with the hindsight of years, playfully overshadowing a similar piece from the 1990s - Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. (10.09.2011)

The next season, the series moved to CBS under the new title The New Adventures of Wonder Woman and the storyline shifted to the then-present 1970s. Diana thus had to overcome the time shift at first, but then life was back to normal. Instead of Hitler, we now just need to keep nuclear war within limits. Or perhaps a danger from outer space. Lyle Waggoner is still present as Steve Trevor, but there's no spark between him and Diana anymore because they're a generation apart. On the other hand, he is her supervisor and she works as an IADC field agent and their mutual friend is the IRAC computer and Rover, the mechanical dog. In the second half of the season, everything is more focused on Wonder Woman's solo action, which is conditioned by the "Diana Prince in distress" situation - and thanks to this, Wonder Woman has more opportunities to show off her abilities both on land and underwater. Unfortunately, no continuous plot is resolved, so the only real tension comes from the stories that are a continuation of Wonder Woman's adventures during World War II. Still, there is a certain contemporary charm in the details of each story that makes the tension between the TV and comic book worlds of Wonder Woman stand out today. (31.03.2019)

While Lynda Carter played her Diana incredibly elegantly on TV, whether she was covered from head to toe or just wore a bathing suit, the comic book version had just returned to the Justice League after some very tumultuous events, but thankfully 70's fashion wasn't all turtlenecks and ridiculously large glasses ;) Perhaps a hinted-at move to L.A. would have helped Season 4, but sadly that never happened. (31.03.2019)