Once again, Marston was ahead of his time when he showed that different Amazons had different skill sets:
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Once again, Marston was ahead of his time when he showed that different Amazons had different skill sets:
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The funny thing is that the ancient Greeks reported the Amazons as wearing pants--which was weird to those Greeks because they themselves wore skirts--but the reason the Amazons wore pants was because they rode horses. Horses loom large in their legend--thus names like Hippolyte and Melanippe. Wonder Woman's culottes probably come close to what they wore. Yet this progressive style of the Amazons is completely abandoned by modern designers.
Ooh. Got another....
They are not vambraces, gauntlets, or bracers ( look 'em up!)
They are bracelets, and they are an important religious symbol akin to important religious iconography of the major religions, that should be worn by all Amazons. That they also are used in deflection of projectiles is secondary.
Funny how perspective is everything.
To me (and many others) the insistence [from a vocal internet minority] in making a mockery out of the very serious real-life issue of rape by calling a ridiculous, harmless movie trope (that nobody complained about when Tom Hanks, Zac Efron or Lindsay Lohan embodied it) "rape" revealed some pretty frightening/disturbing things about certain members of the WW fandom.
None of this stuff whatever side you're on informs much of anything about a person. Neither side is frightening or disturbing, its all hyperbole. All it speaks to is that some people don't care about the completely fantastical Steve subplot because its so unrealistic and just fiction, its not frightening and does not mean that they support rape. Nor is it frightening that for some people it was uncomfortable and not enjoyable. That's just as valid a point of view, as each person's enjoyment of a product is their own. If an aspect takes them out of it for whatever reason, this case a moral issue for them, that's perfectly understandable and not disturbing. Problem is the two sides begin to argue and all of a sudden shade about personal character starts to show up.
"They can be a great people Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you. My only son." - Jor-El
Yeah, I think the body swap stuff is creepy and shouldn't have been in the movie at all. It deserves to be called out, but within reason. It's impossible for such a thing to happen in real life, so reading problematic qualities in other posters just because they can roll with it seems OTT.
And it makes the Amazons feel like individuals and not a collection of interchangeable characters.
Thanks for this. I knew about their connection to horses, I didn't know about the pants thing. I guess Hippolyta's pants in Rebirth had some basis and not just a modern day design element.
Off in limbo land, probably.
I'm so sick and tired of people treating Diana as like a slightly better then average amazon. She's just doing stuff that Deathstroke could do in his sleep, its a total fall from grace honestly. We already have the role of "better than average amazon" flled by Artemis, do we need to drag the rest of the wonder fam down to her level? And yes I'm complaining about power levels again, its a comic book, I wanna see the powerful lady do the powerful things; But lifting cars, running kind of fast, not flying, being kind of weak, and not that strong.... bores me, heck its why I stopped my subscriptions all together.
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This is why I liked Martson's version. Diana could have lost. This is why I dislike her being the only kid or her being a demi goddess. It doesn't give her the fair fight. I like the idea of her not growing up alone. It gives the whole she is the queen's daughter but she also doesn't have any special attention that makes it seem she is too spoiled
Diana with curly hair > Diana with straight hair.