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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 251720" data-attributes="member: 5079">I have hugely mixed feelings about WONDER WOMAN (75-79).&nbsp; It was one of my favorite shows as a kid, watching it in reruns in the 80s; somewhere my mom has a fan/love letter that I wrote to Lynda (and/or Wonder Woman) when I was maybe seven.&nbsp; I have the Wonder Woman insignia tattooed on my left ankle and, as I write this, I&#039;m sitting with a framed photo of Lynda in the WW costume on the wall behind me.&nbsp; Yet I have never made much of an effort to re-watch the show as an adult, as doing so would take those nostalgic memories and flush them down the drain.&nbsp; When it was first released on DVD I gave it a go, but lasted no more than a half dozen episodes.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ll admit it: I&#039;m a modern era TV snob.&nbsp; I find most American TV made more than, maybe, 15 years ago to be a wasteland of grind-it-out mediocrity.&nbsp; To start with the good, the show had a maddeningly infectious theme song.&nbsp; Sometimes I just watch the opening credits on Youtube and it never fails to make me grin.&nbsp; Lynda herself was perfectly cast, more so than any other live action superhero.&nbsp; She looks like she sprung straight from the pages of the comics.&nbsp; Even better, she played the role devoid of any Adam West campery.&nbsp; And that, alas, is the extent of what I enjoyed as an adult.&nbsp; Maybe it&#039;s not fair to judge on only a handful of episodes but, knowing the TV of the era, I certainly have no reason to think it got better along the way.&nbsp; The plots seemed typical of the time, working around limited budgets and static writing.&nbsp; It was mostly the guest actors that killed it for me.&nbsp; While Lynda was playing it straight, the guest stars all seemed to think they were on the old BATMAN TV series and hammed it up shamelessly; Cloris Leachman did schtick as Hippolyta.&nbsp; Once I got to Robert Reed and his lousy acting, I was done.&nbsp; As an addendum, I find it interesting how Lynda has embraced the role in recent years.&nbsp; There was a time when she distanced herself quite strongly from the series; I recall a magazine in the 90s celebrating the character&#039;s 50th anniversary noting they hadn&#039;t been able to get Lynda to give an interview and that she preferred not to speak about the character.&nbsp; Undoubtedly she left the series with the fear of being reduced to in-costume supermarket openings, like Adam West and Burt Ward.&nbsp; I guess somewhere along the way she reconciled that, like it or not, everything else she has done will be overshadowed by her 3 seasons as Wonder Woman and to make the best of it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson, post: 251720, member: 5079"] I have hugely mixed feelings about WONDER WOMAN (75-79). It was one of my favorite shows as a kid, watching it in reruns in the 80s; somewhere my mom has a fan/love letter that I wrote to Lynda (and/or Wonder Woman) when I was maybe seven. I have the Wonder Woman insignia tattooed on my left ankle and, as I write this, I'm sitting with a framed photo of Lynda in the WW costume on the wall behind me. Yet I have never made much of an effort to re-watch the show as an adult, as doing so would take those nostalgic memories and flush them down the drain. When it was first released on DVD I gave it a go, but lasted no more than a half dozen episodes. I'll admit it: I'm a modern era TV snob. I find most American TV made more than, maybe, 15 years ago to be a wasteland of grind-it-out mediocrity. To start with the good, the show had a maddeningly infectious theme song. Sometimes I just watch the opening credits on Youtube and it never fails to make me grin. Lynda herself was perfectly cast, more so than any other live action superhero. She looks like she sprung straight from the pages of the comics. Even better, she played the role devoid of any Adam West campery. And that, alas, is the extent of what I enjoyed as an adult. Maybe it's not fair to judge on only a handful of episodes but, knowing the TV of the era, I certainly have no reason to think it got better along the way. The plots seemed typical of the time, working around limited budgets and static writing. It was mostly the guest actors that killed it for me. While Lynda was playing it straight, the guest stars all seemed to think they were on the old BATMAN TV series and hammed it up shamelessly; Cloris Leachman did [I]schtick [/I]as Hippolyta. Once I got to Robert Reed and his lousy acting, I was done. As an addendum, I find it interesting how Lynda has embraced the role in recent years. There was a time when she distanced herself quite strongly from the series; I recall a magazine in the 90s celebrating the character's 50th anniversary noting they hadn't been able to get Lynda to give an interview and that she preferred not to speak about the character. Undoubtedly she left the series with the fear of being reduced to in-costume supermarket openings, like Adam West and Burt Ward. I guess somewhere along the way she reconciled that, like it or not, everything else she has done will be overshadowed by her 3 seasons as Wonder Woman and to make the best of it. [/QUOTE]

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