Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman is a woman from Paradise Island, an island that has been forgotten by the rest of the world, and by time itself. Wonder Woman and the women on Paradise Island are supposedly amazons from ancient Greece. They have super human strength and speed, the speed is used in an activity called bullets and bracelets where one person shoots a gun and the other uses their special bracelets to knock the bullets away. How a race that has been isolated for thousands of years not only knows what a gun is, but got a hold of one and developed a weird defense against it is beyond me. Wonder Woman is the daughter of the queen of the amazons, next in line to be exact.

The story begins with a German plot and American retaliatory actions during WW2. An officer, Steve Trevor, from the US army's plane goes down over the ocean, right by Paradise Island, and he washes up on its shore. Wonder Woman takes it upon herself to return him to his homeland (as there can be no men on Paradise Island) and returns him in her invisible jet (also.. how an ancient civilization managed this I'll never know). When she's there she eventually learns of the Nazis and decides that she had better stay where she is and help defeat the Nazis. She creates an alter ego for herself named Diana Prince, and works as the secretary of the man she saved earlier.

From that point on Wonder Woman find out about Nazi schemes through the war department office or when she's out with Steve, and then Wonder Woman will miraculously appear when there's trouble. As for the role gender plays in her superiority, Wonder Woman has a huge naiveté. She doesn't know anything about the present day and this often humbles her or gets her into compromising situations. From a not-so-accepting-of-female-independence perspective, it was ok that she was physically superior to men because she was really ignorant and still needed male guidance. This kind of thing came up several times in the show and was kind of annoying. For a princess she wasn't exactly regal. On the other hand, she was pretty pro-feminism for the time.

The pilot was very long and almost boring, with several parts dragging on and on, but the actual show is very watchable. It's not my favourite superhero tv show, but it's pretty good.