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Time-delayed from the actual 50th anniversary of the show—referring, of course, to the time a broadcast takes to be uploaded to a PB torrent, then for me to get around to it—which meant so much in middle school, but now seems like any other Hollywood hokum. (This, from a middle-ager who digs what they’re doing on Arrow. It’s all Alan Moore’s fault.) Still, it’s nice to see Tom Baker acknowledged for his contribution, not only to the character’s universal appeal, but in the end, to my childhood imagination. “Who knows?” he asks.

Was on my way to Taco Bell when I began working on an idea I had for a Wonder Woman movie (which would explain why I forgot again that I could’ve eaten much better with $8.92 at Chipotle), coming to me, I suppose, after this screencap from Smallville and the portrayal of Diana as a Themysciran ambassador as in The Hiketeia. Oh, and the Black Canary character on Arrow focusing her fight for all women in trouble. Doesn’t seem to be that way in the New 52, but oh well.

Anyway, apart from a dalliance in WW2 where she got her Captain America-like style, she doesn’t bother much with the Western World nowadays. Why would she? There’s millions of women being raped in the Congo, and in comparison, being sexually discriminated at Prada hardly merits her or her Amazonian sisters’ attention. Instead, they show up in places like South Africa, nations under Sharia Law, and bring major whoop-ass on the evil men do, and are treated as goddesses by the survivors. Amy Adams’ Lois Lane (the sole DC crossover for this solo outing) decides to track them down and does, welcomes the princess to the United Nations as a symbol of women’s rights everywhere. She’s disdainful at first, but of course while she’s in town, discovers suffering even on a personal scale and gets to work bouncing bullets off her bracelets and what-not.