If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood...

[selenak]

New Wonder Woman trailer, which is nifty. I must admit to not having read a single Wonder Woman comic in my life; the most I know of her is that in one continuity, though not the current one I hear, she's Lyta Hall's mother. (Lyta Hall from Sandman.) So the trailer is enough to get me curious... though it has one massively distracting aspect

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[lilacsigil]

I will be interested to see if the writers have any understanding of WWI, because "Young Diana tries to solve things by picking a side and fighting, helps a small number of people, sees everyone else die, learns better" would be a very cool movie.

[selenak]

We'll find out...

[ffutures]

My cynical guess is that they think that Marvel has a lock on WW2 with Captain America and want to do something different. And will probably fail to some extent.

[selenak]

"Damm, Marvel already did WW2! Well, we'll just do WW1" was my suspicion as to the motive, too. However, over at Dreamwidth it was pointed out to me that it would make comics canon sense if Ares is revealed as the villain driving the conflict from both sides, and that Diana gets involved to stop him. Now that sounds better!

[reverancepavane]

Although that said it does look like German forces did seem to invade their Amazon home first since the implication is she does not know what a rifle is and needs to be rescued by her rescued American flyer.

Although technically the only Central Powers forces down there Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire. And much more likely to be Allied forces opening fire on Greek citizenry (the Royalist faction wished to remain neutral, and Greece only declared war once King Constantine was forced to flee the country (in 1917, after US entry to the war).

Another possible reason was that it was increasingly unlikely an island of Amazons would have remained undiscovered by the start of WW2. But with aviation in it's infancy...

But Americans are always the good guys, aren't they?

[zahrawithaz]

I confess that I am no Wonder Woman expert, but my understanding from early fandom discussions is that a big part of WW's identity is being a peacemaker and solving conflicts instead of escalating them, and that many fans were expecting this to end up with her condemning the fighting entirely, with WW1 being ideal for that setting. (As you know, WW2 is still the great Good v. Evil conflict in US mythology.) That could of course be entirely too starry-eyed, but one can hope!

A+++ for the Wilfrid Owen quote!

[lokifan]

That makes sense to me given that although I haven't seen it myself, my understanding is that Batman vs Superman-era!Wonder Woman says she hasn't been involved with humans for 100 years because they suck, basically. Although that makes it sound like it's going down a realistic but super-depressing track.

[redfiona10]

>>I noticed in the trailer there's the obligatory German villain declaring "we could rule the world"<< Oh Marvel, I'd been so hopeful after you had a German actor playing a relateable villain in your last film.

I don't know about the American part of the Anglosphere, but there was a huge pushback in the UK over Gove's comments because, yes, it's still very much the worst World War in the British conscientiousness.