Ugh I could rant endlessly about the Gal Gadot casting, while I'd love to see a female bodybuilder get the part (though I think Denise would actually be a little too big unless she's slimmed down the past couple years), at least get a woman with some real muscle and athleticism to her body like Demi Moore in G.I. Jane.
I think they're trying t play catchup with marvel, and are cramming as many characters i as they can, and using this as a chance to do a "reboot" of the entire DC movie-verse. I'm still curious to see if they're going to connect it to Arrow, especially now that the Flash just joined the show, or if that will be it's on little corner of the DCU like Smallville was.
Also, I terrified that they might draw most of their inspiration for the characters from New52, which would be terrible because DC seems to have been trying to systematically destroy anything good in their comics since the New52 reboot (with a handful of exceptions, but I think they may actually have a policy against well-written, non-sexist female characters at DC now).
Yeah, both Denise and Alina are "beefier" than I recall the comics
ever portraying WW, a quirk no doubt of a male dominated media that determines that super powered guys need the "guns" to show it, yet their female counterparts don't.
I agree that Marvel (Disney) seems to have done a much better job at continuity in their comics and in the films. Someone had the foresight to tie in all those movies of individual Avengers characters (and no doubt, contractually, the actors as well or at least most of them. I didn't miss either of the original actors who played the Hulk, as Ruffalo's version all but made you forget who else
ever did).
As for DC (W.B. Time Warner), THEIR continuity SUCKS, big time and always has... a "continuity nightmare" - what with their many attempts at revising/rewriting their major characters, trying to bring 40's characters into the present, infinite "crises" on infinite earths (ad nauseum), and ridiculous imaginary "what if" stories, their characters MUST have been "super" - just to survive all of their writers' best efforts to
destroy them.
And from what I've been hearing (I stopped actually
buying comics back in the early 70's, but still have most of the 600 or so I amassed - they're in horrible shape, so not worth a dime) this so-called "New52" has only made matters worse.
As for "Arrow"...shhhhhhh...don't tell me about it!
When season ONE aired we hadn't seen any of it. Then one day found the entire "bit" on Netflix, and watched all twenty three episodes over the course of a week. This show was HOT!
Great acting! Great actors! Great action! The guy playing Arrow (Stephen Amell)
looks like he can do
half that stuff (and clearly he does some of his own stunts).
Add to that multiple plots, subplots, twists, and turns, and absolutely drop dead BEAUTIFUL women (ahhh...I guess the guys are hot too) plus a bevy of bad guys from the D.C. universe (it was fun looking up each of them - I'd not heard of most ... remember, I stopped reading the books
long ago).
In short, for a character who was FAR from among my favorites, it was FULLY entertaining. Problem being, by the time we finished watching the whole shebang, season two was already underway and we'd missed several episodes. And CW doesn't have view on demand on our local cable TV provider. Bummer.
So we're waiting to watch all of season two when it comes to Netflix (or wherever). Good news? We won't have to watch a
single commercial. :wink: