Originally Posted by
kjn
To continue on a bit, the Amazons aren't stone age even in late depictions, they're more iron age with a complex society (given their size and lack of ongoing outside contact).
I had little against the movie depiction of Amazon society, because to me they have a different background than Wakanda does, or the Atlanteans of Aquaman, given their direct and strong mythic connections. As long as they are shown as a healthy society that is well-adapted to their needs, I'm fine. To be frank, I had more trouble with that they were depicted as a monarchy than I had with their relative lack of technology, but at the same time I was aware that they only had little time to set up and show Amazon society. (The monarchy grated a lot more in Black Panther.)
Also, I don't understand why one has to go out of the way to make Amazon society flawed? It's intended as an utopic background for Diana to grow up in, and that she chooses to give up. That can still leave plenty of scope for stories, because you can still depict the Amazons as people with all the prejudices, quirks, personal animosities, and idiosyncracies that all of us have. Just like Gail Simone did with "The Circle": she examined the Amazon society and built a story around the fissures and tensions such a society would face.