Grumpy RPG Reviews: The Wonder Woman Pilot

Episode 43: The Failed David E Kelley Wonder Woman Pilot

  • Grumpy and Acererak are stealing Hippolyta’s tsipouro. Don’t tell nobody.
  • Grumpy says the pilot had, on paper at least, great talent on both side of the camera.
  • However, the pilot suffers from a crippling lack of focus, a bewildering plot and at best mediocre camera and lighting work.
  • Kelley seemed to try to write Wonder Woman as both Jack Bauer and Alley McBeal at the same time.
  • Acererek says Jack Bauer once beat a pizza delivery guy with a telephone book.
  • The performances of the actors – particularly Elizabeth Hurley and Adrianne Palicki.
  • Who the :):):):) thought a mopey Wonder Woman was a good idea?
  • The pilot gets a 5 on a d20 and mostly serves as an example of what not to do.

Note: I was trying something different with the microphone… and it did not work the way I wanted, so the audio quality is less than what I wanted it to be. However, overall I am satisfied with how this episode came out.
 
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"Kelley seemed to try to write Wonder Woman as both Jack Bauer and Alley McBeal at the same time."

I have no idea what this is about, but that line made me laugh...
 

David E. Kelley, the man behind Ally McBeal, the Practice and Boston Public, wrote and produced a Wonder Woman pilot. In terms of story and genre, the pilot seemed like it was trying to be "24" and "Ally McBeal" at the same time - which didn't work.
 

"Kelley seemed to try to write Wonder Woman as both Jack Bauer and Alley McBeal at the same time."

I have no idea what this is about, but that line made me laugh...

McBeal was a smart but crazily neurotic and emotionally unstable lawyer who worked in a law firm populated by equally crazy fellow lawyers.

Bauer was the intense, take no prisoners lead in 24.
 


Combining them would be very odd, yet that is what the pilot tried to do.

I was initially excited about them bringing Wonder Woman back to TV - Lynda Carter on the original show was one of my first boyhood crushes.

However, I knew it was going to be trouble once I saw that David E. Kelley was going to be involved. I don't need Wonder Woman to be an emotional basket case like McBeal. (Ally McBeal was funny at times, had some good writing and was loaded with attractive women, but it quickly became tiresome.)
 

Pure Frikkkin' WIN!!!!

The GC really nails this one! My favorite line "Wonder Woman does not sit on a couch moping, nursing a beer and lamenting the lack of p**** in her life!" Classic!

Pretty much called this, DOA thankfully we'll never see this on air.
 


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