Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Three costumes for Wonder Woman

Or so the president of NBC says.  So she'll have the ugly light blue pleather thing, the rodeo queen star-bedazzled redesign, and the Lynda Carter original.

Also, he says that the redesigned costume wasn't becuase of fan feedback.

“There was an initial outcry about the long pants – you know, skintight pants as opposed to those little shorts [worn by Lynda Carter in the original TV series],” Greenblatt concedes to TVLine.com. “But the shorts were always planned. They are actually used in the final confrontation when she beats Veronica Cale (played by Elizabeth Hurley).”

Why are TV executives (or movie executives, for that matter) so cocksure about the changes you've made to an idea you don't own, and which has been around for seventy-plus years?

“We haven’t made any changes from what was planned,” the NBC boss reiterates. “But it’s always good to hear the feedback. I’d rather have people really passionately engaged in conversation, even if they hate something, than be kind of bored.”

Sure...I welcome your feedback, John Q. Public, but I'm not going to listen to you!  Get angry about what we're doing!  That means you'll TUNE IN!  Muahahahahaha!

No, I'm not jaded at all.  Not in the least.

You can read a more professional run-down of the latest Wonder Woman news here.

2 comments:

SallyP said...

Yeah I read that little comment. I loved the "up yours, we'll do whatever we want! Losers!" attitude.

That isn't exactly what they said...but that sure seemed to be the gist of it. Then when people don't go, they'll say it's because it had a woman as the main character and THAT'S why it lost money.

Sorry, sorry...feeling a bit jaded today.

Eyz said...

Kinda the attitude this sort of answer implies...

Well..at least it will be a tiny bit better to what we saw earlier, right?