10 Things DC Wants You To Forget About Wonder Woman
5. Not To Mention Lynda Carter
That 2011 pilot is as unlikely to inform the new Gal Gadot Wonder Woman as the previous, much more successful, TV series. Diana Prince had previously been brought to the small screens (and into the wider public consciousness) with the Lynda Carter show that aired from 1975 to 1979, which began in the World War II setting the character originated in before being brought into the present day to help boost ratings.
Looking back the seventies Wonder Woman is campy, cheesy, but a heck of a lot of fun, with the iconic theme song being brought back as recently as the latest LEGO Batman film. All of which is phenomenally out of step with the current DC trends, both in the movies and comics, wherein everyone has to be at least a little bit angsty and conflicted.
The nostalgia dollar of the original Wonder Woman show has been chased with DVD reissues and the like, but DC have rarely courted the cult audience it cultivated and instead positioned Diana as a violent, somewhat holier-than-thou warrior type who definitely wouldn't be caught spinning around to a disco track.