Wonder Woman #7-8
May. 17th, 2007 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreOk, lets forget the incredibly bad characterization and writing in general, and that this Diana reads more like a slightly older Cassie than anything else. Let's focus on her speech. For the last 20 years(I don't know much about pre-crisis WW) Diana has been portrayed as a woman who is always meticulously aware of what she says. Not one word leaves her mouth without her being utterly convinced that it is absolutely the best possible choice for the moment and situation. She's a warrior, a scholar and an ambassador and she understands full well the power of words. Now, she's portrayed as never knowing what to say and always saying the wrong thing.
When describing Circe, arguably her greatest enemy, a woman who has worked time and again to destroy Diana's life, a woman who supposedly stole a piece of Diana's dead mother's SOUL and put it into her own daughter, this is all Diana could come up with:
"She's uh, tall...fairly attractive...until you get to know her. I guess."
What, all those battles and she never got more than a glimpse of the woman?
Oh, and this is now Diana's preferred verbiage in battle:
"Go to hell."
"Shut your damn mouth."
Along with generic and trite superhero prattle...you know, the things that Diana would NEVER say.
Oh, and Diana now drops severely wounded men on their butts for making mildly inappropriate jokes.
Ok, seriously, when the campy(but in the fun and very enjoyable way) 70s TV show gets it better than the "acclaimed" writer does, you know you have a problem.
Oh, and let's not forget that, as of Amazons Attack, Diana now refers to Hippolyta as "mom?"
I should have read Zemo: Born Better #3 AFTER WW...save the guaranteed good read for last, you know? Ah well.
When describing Circe, arguably her greatest enemy, a woman who has worked time and again to destroy Diana's life, a woman who supposedly stole a piece of Diana's dead mother's SOUL and put it into her own daughter, this is all Diana could come up with:
"She's uh, tall...fairly attractive...until you get to know her. I guess."
What, all those battles and she never got more than a glimpse of the woman?
Oh, and this is now Diana's preferred verbiage in battle:
"Go to hell."
"Shut your damn mouth."
Along with generic and trite superhero prattle...you know, the things that Diana would NEVER say.
Oh, and Diana now drops severely wounded men on their butts for making mildly inappropriate jokes.
Ok, seriously, when the campy(but in the fun and very enjoyable way) 70s TV show gets it better than the "acclaimed" writer does, you know you have a problem.
Oh, and let's not forget that, as of Amazons Attack, Diana now refers to Hippolyta as "mom?"
I should have read Zemo: Born Better #3 AFTER WW...save the guaranteed good read for last, you know? Ah well.