In the wake of Wonder Woman 3’s cancelation, there was a lot to mourn, a lot to critique, and a lot to celebrate.
Even though Wonder Woman 1984 was a miss for many fans, director Patty Jenkins’ original 2017 film delivered one of the most emotionally effective action scenes in the superhero canon and showed the world what fans already knew: that the legendary Diana/Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) is a multifaceted woman of immense dignity, empathy, and aspirational value.
Thankfully, that earnest complexity carried into the depiction of Diana’s homeland, the paradisiacal Themyscira.
In the hands of a less adept writing and directing team, an island of only women could easily have been depicted as hollow, surface-level diversity.
Worse, the script might have mocked the concept with cheap one-liners.
Instead, Jenkins’ Wonder Woman leaves fans with the memory of a community of indomitable, supportive, loving women.
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