“Wonder Woman” gets a new costume

I am so glad that NBC changed Wonder Woman’s costume. The one on the right was the original, and the one on the left is the new and improved version.

The original costumed looked too much like one of those weirdo-porno costumes from an episode of CSI when they let the junior writers write a show, just wrong.

Most likely, I’m not going to see this show until its up on NetFlix or on VOD at my mother’s house because I’m terrible at keeping up with television shows. But when I do see it, I’m glad I won’t be seeing that horrid latex costume.

I hope this show ends up being good, its a good opportunity to shake up primetime television and their lack of creative show ideas.

I Wish I could Love ‘Glee’

When Fox’s Glee first premiered earlier this year, I was in love with the show. I loved the original story content, the drama, and most of all, the way the show cared to really incorporate the musical content into the story line. I was a super Glee fan, I watched it every Tuesday night, then the second half of the first season happened and I was a Glee fan no more.

The quality of writing on Glee started to decline during the second half of the first season, and by the time season two started, it had seriously plummeted. Glee started out as a comedy-drama with musical elements, it is now a series of music videos stringed along with a bit of a story.

Sadly, the show has already seen its prime, and that was the first half of the first season. Episodes like “Wheels” and “Sectionals” had the best writing and song integration the show has ever seen. I’d say that the first 13 episodes of the first season are the strongest of the entire series. That was the prime, when the characters had dimensions and stories to tell, when the music propelled the story and moved the audience.

Now, Glee is a series of music videos stringed along by a “story”. The Britney Spears episode is the clearest example of the type of crap the writers try to pass off as a show. I was actually excited for this episode, instead of recording it to watch later (which is what I usually do with this show now), I watched the show as it premiered. I think Britney Spears is a great pop musician and I love her music, its my shameless “guilty pleasure”. Anyways, I was excited to see this episode and the way they would incorporate B Spears into the show. I cannot even express in words how disappointed I was of the show. The musical number were great, and the performers did one hell of a job dancing and singing along to BSpears. However, the story was such bullshit, the writers were so uncreative that all but one of the Spears numbers were hallucinations generated from a visit from a dentist. The writers did not put any care into the show content at all. So much could have been done with integrating BSpears music, the writers just didn’t think hard enough. The BSpears episode was a poor excuse for an episode, they should have just released the mini-music videos online.

Anyways, I wish I could love Glee and look past its obvious flaws. But I just can’t. This show started out with so much promise and I wish it could have retained the quality of the first half of the first season. But Fox couldn’t maintain it, and it has opted to go for cheap entertainment in form of music instead of pushing Glee to its highest potential. When Glee gets good again, I’ll be more than happy to watch it.