Smallville’s Lois Thinks She’s Wonder Woman On David E. Kelley’s Harry’s Law

Erica Durance, who played Lois Lane on the CW’s Smallville, has just been cast as Wonder Woman. Sort of. David E. Kelley, you know, the guy who tanked his Wonder Woman televisions series? He’s chosen Durance to play “a psychologically infirm woman who retreats into the persona of the DC Comics heroine to help wreak revenge on perpetrators of domestic abuse,” on his dramedy Harry’s Law. David, slowly back away from the Amazon Princess. 

Durance donned many a costume in her Smallville days and came as close as the show would go to giving us Wonder Woman by having Lois dress as an “Amazon Princess” in a convention episode (and the costume was leagues ahead of the one they gave Adrianne Palicki). Fans appreciated the effort but many still just wanted the actual Wonder Woman.

The actress is now set to guest star in the 11th episode of NBC’s Harry’s Law, which stars Kathy Bates as criminal-defense attorney Harriet “Harry” Korn, as a women who thinks she’s Princess Diana. The series was just picked up for a second season and is co-produced by Warner Bros. so there won’t be any legal issues if they want to have Durance show up in the iconic outfit.

As fan-servicey as this casting may be, I find it a bit odd that Kelley is daring to go near Wonder Woman after the horrendous pilot he gave us. And the fact that he’s depicting the role of a female empowerment character as someone who’s mentally ill I find slightly problematic as well. What are your thoughts?

(via Spinoff Online)

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Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."

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