I'm no fan of the guy, but it's kind of a dick move to omit the detail that his mother just died and that's the stated reason for his leave.

What took you so long?

But his drives are!

I don't think of Wonder Woman as being cheesecake in the same way that, say, Danger Girl is. Though there's certainly some very deliberate sexual subtext to her.

I admit there were moments I couldn't help thinking "My God, she's beautiful." I like to think of it more as awe than slavering, but maybe it amounts to the same thing.

It didn't seem secret to me. It was about as subtle as…well, about as subtle as a Mad Max movie.

"C'mon, man" is often sufficient. Sometimes just a look can do it.

I understand the frustration with distilling something as complex as a movie review down to "good" or "bad", but I don't understand why people are acting like it's a new problem just because now we're aggregating dozens of critics' tomatoes instead of two critics' thumbs.

Accepted. I could have been less sarcastic. I've seen enough takes on making Batman "more realistic" that really weren't very realistic at all that that's kinda what I think of when people talk about "the real world".

Okay. You could have explained that a lot less verbosely and angrily.

It tried to bring Batman into the "real world"

I was actually thinking of Semple, not Dozier; I'll go back and edit my post.

Wakanda has no real world analog to tie us to.

Disagree. I think the problems with taking the most overtly feminist superhero and explaining that she is special because of who her dad is far outweigh the comic book silliness of a "made out of clay" origin.

The vibe I got from the trailer was definitely that he was a character from a completely different movie than everybody else. But I was okay with that, because I didn't want to watch the movie that everybody else was from.

a good origin story

The last act where she fights a big spiky guy who keeps shouting variations on "We're not so different, you and I!" seems like it could have been Snyder.

"Amazon" has certain connotations, and some comics artists have taken that to mean she should be taller than, say, Batman or Superman.

And in my dreams, I fly.

It helps that the scripts have been up to it. Friendly, upbeat Superman, with a genuine familial affection for Supergirl.