Originally Posted by
BiteTheBullet
Just because my avatar is from the 70's doesn't mean I want that version in the 2010's or 2020's. Sure, get me Lynda in her prime with today's special effects and all would be well. But that is neither here or there and should not be any form of counter to any argument that I made about her not being able to fly.
The fact is she couldn't fly in the movies because.....really, because why? Because the people in the DCEU wanted it that way. It wasn't until her WW2017 movie became a verifiable hit that they might even have thought of her differently, that she could make bank, and better bank than the big boys like Superman MoS. Didn't her movie make more than MoS? It was certainly more profitable since they did not put the money in it like they did for MoS. Yet they stripped her of powers like flight and great strength to make sure that the big strong men like Shazam and Supes had them. Just look at the complete clown job of a fight with Supes and the JL. Again, the league should be renamed Superman and his not quite great Superbuddies.
As far as her evolving, good thing it started in year 900 instead of younger like when puberty hit for her. Would make more sense instead of ham fisting it with the 'narrative'.
As far as the Carter series which I love, Diana is not the same as back then. This was the 70's, so any flying would have looked cheesy given the special effects, and their budget wasn't going to have buildings collapse from fights. She stopped tanks, picked up cars, stuff like that they could get away with. So for even Patty to think like that is just wrong.
I have said this before, but given that the Synder films as well as WW2017 or any DCEU movie seem to be replaying all the time on TNT or TBS as well as any of us that have HBO max, I think alot of people might think the same of poor old Wondy. "Hey, Wonder Woman flys in 1984 but not in modern times. Why doesn't she fly dad?" At least, that is the conversation going off in my mind half the time when the problem could be solved by her simply being able to fly. But Synder and the DCEU people at that time decided that Wonder Woman would be second fiddle and not make her a 'flying brick' because that is too much like Superman. Instead they went the Wonder Xena route.
Why do some of us not want our cake and be able to eat it too? Why do we get a watered down version that was flightless until she suddenly gains this in her second movie (4th overall)? Why do we get crumbs with her like jobbing to Supes and Steppenwolf and just accept it? Or crap villains like Max Lord and whatever that version of Cheetah was? I would think more people on this board would object to how she is portrayed, but instead many of you always go for the great story, so doesn't matter about powers trope. WW2017 might be a good story, but what about WW84? Horrible movie, she was depowered for most of it, and apparently she can't handle a really windy day. Not the greatest of showings for Wondy, and this was the revered Patty (to some) letting us know how powerful she is. "Hey Wondy, can you help us out with this impending hurricane", only for her to run away because of her weakness to wind!