{"id":16683,"date":"2017-06-27T16:47:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T21:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16683"},"modified":"2017-06-27T16:47:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T21:47:25","slug":"wonder-woman-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/27\/wonder-woman-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonder Woman Who?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As some of you know, I have a cat named Isis.<\/p>\n

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As a cat owner normally does, I flatter my cat, ascribing all sorts of super powers to the cat and whatnot.<\/p>\n

The other night, I said to my beautiful wife, “You know, there used to be a superhero Isis. She was on with Shazam!, I think.”<\/p>\n

So, today, I go to the library so my urchins can get some books (I have enough for now, thanks), and I see this DVD facing out from the children’s videos:<\/p>\n

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So, of course, I checked it out<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The cover is not very flattering to Joanna Cameron, who stars as the young science teacher Andrea Thoma who uses a magical amulet to summon the powers of Isis.<\/p>\n

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Somehow, the Internet is not full of Joanna Cameron vs. Lynda Carter<\/em> debates. Maybe there are on the DC Comics portions of the Internet. But I’m a Marvel fan, so I don’t frequent those. Funny, I don’t tend to frequent the Marvel sites much, either. But I digress.<\/p>\n

I watched the first couple of episodes with my children, who were stunningly unimpressed with the forty-year-old Saturday morning live action children’s program special effects, and they kept shouting their own solutions to the screen, most of which involved artillery and explosives.<\/p>\n

I, on the other hand, was swept away with nostalgia; somehow, I remembered the program from when I was five years old.<\/p>\n

At any rate, the 1970s must have seemed like the dawn of geek culture for a while: In the middle part of the decade, there was this show<\/a>, and as I remembered it bundled with the Shazam program (1975-1977); there were live action television versions of Wonder Woman (starring the aforementioned Lynda Carter), Dr. Strange, and Spider-Man; television also featured the bank-busting Battlestar Galactica<\/em>; the movies had Star Wars<\/em>. But the ball never really got going until the next generation came of age around 1999 or so.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, I have the urge to watch all those old 70s superhero shows (starting with this one). We own some of the Incredible Hulk<\/em> and Wonder Woman<\/em>, and the rest I’d probably have to order since they’re unlikely to be available at the video store or the library (although I did get ten episodes of The Secrets of Isis<\/em>, so who knows?).<\/p>\n

Before I start raiding Amazon, I’d best sit down for a bit. If I wait, these rushes of nostalgia pass as my short attention span moves onto something else, like an urge to read all the history books about the Near East that I can lay my hands on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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