Better Worlds

Wonder Woman is a significant milestone for superhero movies: a DC movie that all three of us were interested in talking about.

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Pre-Show / Followup

• Netflix
  • There’s a licensing deal for every new Disney movie to come to Netflix.
  • Rogue One is coming to Netflix on July 18.
  • Moana is surprisingly good.
• Star Wars: Battlefront II
  • Sounds like the campaign is going to be central to the game; not just a minor piece.
  • Correction: There is a starfighter-only PvP mode in the first (rebooted) game.
• Marvel’s doppelgänger fest thing.
• Why DC UNIVERSE REBIRTH Is A Gutsy Work Of Comics Criticism
• The plague of Issue #1s
• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, LMDs, and HRDs
• Listener-Submitted Finland Facts
  • How Joulupukki, the Finnish Santa, went from naughty to nice
  • How It’s Made: Saunas
  • 99% Invisible: The Mind of an Architect

Main Topic: Wonder Woman (24:40)

• Spoiler-free discussion of general impressions.
• Spoiler horn (46:04)
• Broadway costume designer Amanda Weaver tweets about Wonder Woman’s costumes. (It’s >30 tweets, and tweet-threading can be unreliable, so here’s an alternate link with screenshots of the whole tweetstorm.)
• Director Patty Jenkins on Diana’s costume as wish fulfillment.
• The alleged leaked Wonder Woman script by Joss Whedon.
• A brief digression on Lord of the Rings.
• Racist caricatures.
• The nature of war.
• The nature of Wonder Woman.
• Another digression on Lord of the Rings.
• Wonder Woman’s place in history.

Post-Show (1:48:27)

• Superhero movies as not-a-genre.
• Female-led superhero movies.