New Wonder Woman actress finally chosen
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Ed_Laprade
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She fills it very nicely, but her expression looks snotty to me. But that's just one photo. The more I look at it though, the more I'm dislikeing all the red stars. It made sense to have one on the original during WWII, but it rubs me the wrong way to have several very prominently displayed now. Gives the impression (to me) that someone wants us to think that Communisim is great stuff. Needless to say, I disagree.
John Crichton
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It's a silly costume and looks fine in real life considering how silly spandex supers costumes can look.
The Soviet Union, Vietnam & China all have/had yellow stars on their red flags. Cuba has a white star. How do red stars make her pro communist? And, Wonder Woman's alter ego on the show is supposedly a corporate executive.
And, indeed, California has a red star on it's flag.
El Mahdi
Muad'Dib of the Anauroch
I don't have a problem with the red star, but he was probably referring to these:
Chinese People's Liberation Army officers cap from late Cold War Era (1947-1991)
Chinese Peoples Volunteer Army officers cap from Korean War Era (1950-1953)
Ed_Laprade
Adventurer
Yep, its been there from the start, which is why I said that it made sense in a WWII context. The red star has always symbolized Communist Russia, regardless of what color it is on their flag. In fact, I'm amazed that anyone doesn't know that. I'd even be tempted to say that its more familiar to those of us who grew up in the 50s and 60s than the hammer and sickle, but only tempted.
Communists don't have a lock on red stars. It appears on everything from the flag of Washington, D.C, to Charles Darwin's coat of arms, to San Pellegrino and Heineken bottles.
Not to mention the flags of Alabama, New Zealand and Panama. A red star also topped the White House Christmas tree when Ronald Reagan was president as well.
