It's hard to believe we were close to having a Wonder Woman television series but it got struck down at the first hurdle.With just a pilot made and the show not picked up by any network we'll never know if it would have lasted.At a guess I'd say no, in fact I'd say hell no.Adrianne Palicki does her best and is a decent enough actress but what she's working with it would have taken a miracle to be considered decent entertainment.Shoddily written, highly paint by numbers and just all round bad. What makes it worse is it's a prime example of why Hollywood has updated characters costumes to make them more realistic. Here Wonder Woman looks ridiculous and I failed to take her seriously at all! Can you imagine if for example Jeremy Renner played Hawkeye in his original comic book attire? Exactly.What makes it worse is that this doesn't feel like the pilot, this isn't an origin story and just drops you straight into the world of Diana Prince and what a crappy world it is.I'm glad this failed as I could imagine it damaging the careers of everyone involved.The Good:Adrianne PalickiThe Bad:The suit really is terrible in live actionShow logo is tackyPoorly madeThings I Learnt From This Pilot:Wonderwoman never said to merchandise her titsWonder Woman has no issue killing

Wonder Woman starts out with her chasing a shaved guy (shaved head, shaved eyebrows) down a street. In order to "make this chase exciting" they use a horizontal line effect which makes the video look amazingly worse than most effects used in 1970's TV.We get introduced to Diana Themyscira (Die Anna The Mascara). She is the CEO of Themyscira Industries which survives on the sale of a plastic action figure doll. And that's the high point of this series. There is a subplot about some black guy getting a college scholarship and then dying from the anthrax spores they included for free in the envelope and something plotwise about "steroid-growth hormone" drugs killing six boring people. Which is an excuse to do even more jump cuts on the irritating TV Pilot. Every time Wonder Woman commits a crime (Slander, Physical Assault, Violations of Airspace without Flight Plans, Breaking & Entering, etc) she smirks... slowly... and then we get more jump cuts.What do you get for tolerating watching this series. JUMP CUTS. ENDLESS JUMP CUTS. If you watch this, you will be unlikely to be able to find a whole 20 seconds of filming without a jump cut. It is frankly nauseatingly repulsive. The series gave me a throbbing headache from 10 minutes in.Like all lousy CW NETWORK Superhero DC Comics series, the dialog is snippy, dull, like a lousy soap opera, boring as the wretchedly stupid CSI series (every scene ends with an accusation or DUHN noise tone). In terms of production values this series pilot is more confusing than inviting. The set decoration is not horrible, but it is confused. The flying scenes are, for lack of a better word, inane rather than interesting. The female hair is good. The special effects for the warehouse fight is so desperate to match the fighting style of "The 300" movies it is embarrassing. There's a scene where she argues with one of her employees over the size of the tits of her action figure and that is just so amazingly stupid on so many levels if I were watching this on TV, I would have switched to anything else, even an infomercial to purge this lousy experience from my brain.The costume isn't the worst Wonder Woman outfit (the Batman & Superman movie is going to get that dishonor with her leather sack). She is probably the worst Wonder Woman actress so far in terms of lack of charm, lack of making the audience feel invited in, lack of being anything but irritating (the obsessive frantic jump cuts are mostly the guilty party though). Gal Gadot is probably going to steal "Worst Wonder Woman" title pretty easily though (scrawny stick-girl with boobs and no personality). So there's that level of forgiveness for Adrianne Palicki who probably did the best she could with the crappy TV Pilot with the CW Channel style of spastic jump-cut-every-10-seconds that was handed her. And this TV Pilot at least wasn't as horrible as ego-mooch Halle Berry's 2-hour enema of a "CATWOMAN" insult movie.

I will start my saying I own and have read pretty much every Wonder Woman comic. I also own all the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman DVDs.I saw this unfinished Pilot and liked it a lot. Kelley read the source material, he took the best and interesting parts of Wonder Woman Mythos and ran with it. The result is an interesting story which left a lot of unanswerd questions which is a good thing for a show expected to run at-least 3 seasons. Wonder Woman in this seemed very familiar to me but not so familiar that I could perdict her actions in future episodes.Kelley drops us smake dabb in Wonder Womans world this is not an origin story. Based on the publics reaction to Wonder Woman she has been on the scene for a while and people love her which gives her certain advantages when it comes to doing her job.Wonder Woman is un-questionably a vigilante but by definition all superheros are. The difference is that she does not hide from this fact. She identifies criminals and annonces her intentions to the public. Nobody stops her because she is extremely loved and has done so much good for the world. Her symbol is the lasso of truth which plays well in a world full deceit and corruption. The rich are protected while the poor suffer. Wonder Woman tackles this issue as only she can. No other superhero does this. Kelley illustrates this well.The fact that Wonder Woman is bold and completely transparent in her illegal vigilante actions calls into question some constitutional and legal issues of her behaviour. Which is a very good plot point for this show had it been picked up.This was a pretty good pilot which left me wanting more.

Fair enough, as a bloke in his late thirties I admit it's probably impossible anyone would be able to totally fill Lynda Carter's red boots as Wonder Woman for me. However when I saw the pictures of Adrianne Palicki in the outfit I laughed.And several months later when I had finished laughing I decided to check out the pilot. Turns out I had been a bit unfair on Ms. Palicki for, although no Lynda,for me she is the best thing about this pilot.Let me rephrase that - for me she is the only good thing about this pilot. Oh, O.K. the action isn't bad.But the rest is just really really depressing. The dialogue is truly awful,the plot terrible, the supporting cast stinks. I'm not a major fan of David E Kelley so I expected to have to put up with people banging on about the law a lot (they do). What I wasn't prepared for was Wonder Woman's total disregard for the law. But the thing is this isn't the character of Wonder Woman that anyone - anyone - would recognise.I had never seen Adrianne Palicki before but thought she had both presence and charisma.I suspect I shall see her again in the future. And with the success of the Avengers re-igniting talk of Wonder Woman on the Big Screen, maybe best for all concerned we just pretend this didn't happen...