I wanted to share this article here. Wonder Woman vs. George W. Bush by Max Gordon (excerpt) In the pilot episode that aired November 7, 1975, Wonder Woman has one hour to stop the Nazis’ plan to blow up the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the Nordon bomb site at the same time, while also having to reach a hidden location where Steve Trevor will be killed by midnight. She captures a female Nazi spy who tells her while tied to a chair by Wonder Woman’s golden lasso, “You may have me, Wonder Woman, but the Third Reich will never be through. It will go on a thousand years. We’ll get even with you. My people will send more agents.” Wonder Woman replies, “No. The Nazis don’t care about women. They let you fend for yourself. And any civilization that does not recognize the female is doomed to destruction. Women are the wave of the future and sisterhood is stronger than anything.” Watching Wonder Woman for the first time since the seventies, I am amazed to see how crude the production seems to me now, and that I was ever able to give myself over completely to something that looks at times stagy and false. It’s been thirty years since the first show aired, and most television from those years looks like that to me now, probably because as a child I absorbed everything, believed in everything. The producers had the wisdom, at least, to keep the first season of the series true to the comic strip: Wonder Woman saves America from the Nazis and the perils of fascism during World War II. Watching her flying over the U.S. in her invisible jet, preparing to land and face another group of Nazi bullies, it occurs to me that we are at war again, there’s a new fascism to defeat and we need Wonder Woman right now more than ever before. http://wonderwomanvsgeorgewbush.blogspot.com
