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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 437676" data-attributes="member: 5079">I genuinely don&#039;t know how much those changes were made at Lynda&#039;s insistence versus producer driven changes around her. I&#039;ve mostly assumed the later.&nbsp; In a 50+ year career, I haven&#039;t heard any negativity around Lynda.&nbsp;&nbsp; The decision to make Diana Prince a 70s babe, at least, seems like typical producer wrongthink. &quot;Why make our sexy leading lady look frumpy for half the episode?&quot;&nbsp; Lynda isn&#039;t the first or last TV star to be mollified by being given incongruous singing interludes.The Steve Trevor situation is more complicated. I have no idea if Lynda was fully or partially responsible for phasing the character out, but Steve has a long history of being sidelined.&nbsp; He&#039;s wildly unpopular with large segments of Wonder Woman fandom and the character is often killed off in comics. &quot;Male Lois Lane&quot; isn&#039;t that easy to pull off, as a plucky man constantly needing to be rescued by a woman rankles a lot of norms.&nbsp; Once the series jumped to the 70s and the character became Steve Trevor Jr, he didn&#039;t serve much purpose.&nbsp; The rather vague romance was dropped entirely and no one was tuning in every week to watch The Adventures of Steve Trevor Jr.&nbsp; The character was more of a plot impediment than asset.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson, post: 437676, member: 5079"] I genuinely don't know how much those changes were made at Lynda's insistence versus producer driven changes around her. I've mostly assumed the later. In a 50+ year career, I haven't heard any negativity around Lynda. The decision to make Diana Prince a 70s babe, at least, seems like typical producer wrongthink. "Why make our sexy leading lady look frumpy for half the episode?" Lynda isn't the first or last TV star to be mollified by being given incongruous singing interludes. The Steve Trevor situation is more complicated. I have no idea if Lynda was fully or partially responsible for phasing the character out, but Steve has a long history of being sidelined. He's wildly unpopular with large segments of Wonder Woman fandom and the character is often killed off in comics. "Male Lois Lane" isn't that easy to pull off, as a plucky man constantly needing to be rescued by a woman rankles a lot of norms. Once the series jumped to the 70s and the character became Steve Trevor Jr, he didn't serve much purpose. The rather vague romance was dropped entirely and no one was tuning in every week to watch The Adventures of Steve Trevor Jr. The character was more of a plot impediment than asset. [/QUOTE]

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