{"id":1592,"date":"2008-11-15T09:47:47","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T09:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2008-11-15T09:47:47","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T09:47:47","slug":"play_it_nobly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/15\/play_it_nobly\/","title":{"rendered":"Play It Nobly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure of the original provenance of the following quote &#8212; I got it from <a href=\"http:\/\/samuraifrog.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/throwdown-1114.html\">SamuraiFrog<\/a>, who didn&#8217;t post a link back to the source &#8212; but I thought it was worth passing along:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nGail Simon, current writer on <em>Wonder Woman<\/em>: \u201cIn general, I&#8217;m very skeptical of any fake irony when dealing with Wonder Woman. If we&#8217;re getting some kind of post-modern satire of the Lynda Carter series, I&#8217;d rather they just pass on the whole idea entirely. Christopher Reeve showed that the noble characters work best when played nobly. Winking at the audience insults everyone involved.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the record, I have no particular affection for the character Wonder Woman or the old Lynda Carter TV series (although Lynda Carter herself was &#8212; and still is &#8212; quite yummy). I just happen to agree with the sentiment being expressed. I dislike remakes in general, but I really hate the ones that treat the original source material as a joke&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure of the original provenance of the following quote &#8212; I got it from SamuraiFrog, who didn&#8217;t post a link back to the source &#8212; but I thought it was worth passing along: Gail Simon, current writer on Wonder Woman: \u201cIn general, I&#8217;m very skeptical of any fake irony when dealing with Wonder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}