SafeAsMilk wrote:Lucy Lawless would have been a MUCH better choice.
Actually, I argued some time ago, that the reason for the emergence of
Xena: Warrior Princess, was because middle aged television executives wanted to return to the fondly remembered days of their teenage years, fapping to
Wonder Woman, but didn't want to shell out the large sums in royalties that they would have had to pay to DC Comics. So, to fill the gap, they created Xena, only for the show to become possibly
the most watched show by young lesbians on the planet.
When I first saw Xena appear on British TV back in 1997, that was my first thought - "The producers wanted to make
Wonder Woman, but didn't want to shell out the royalty fees". Why else did they have Xena wear a cleavage-boosting battle corset and twee little leather skirt showing lots of leg? Then of course there's Xena's favourite weapon, the Lesbian Death Frisbee. All good fun.
Now that someone's bit the bullet, and shelled out the royalties to DC Comics, we're going to see
Wonder Woman revived.
Though of course, as has already been noted, the trousers instead of micro-hotpants will almost certainly lead to much gnashing of teeth amongst the fanbase. Who will want to see lots of nice shapely leg exposed as well as bouncing cleavage.
Frankly, whoever tries filling the costume, is going to have to work
very hard indeed to match the iconic status of Lynda Carter. Matching
this:
let alone taking it a step further into fapland, is going to take more than squeezing some young hottie into a costume. Though I gather Lynda Carter wasn't that happy about being a pin up, and had some acid comments to deliver on the manner in which she was financially shafted during the series runs.
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Interesting post! 
