Diana's Biggest Fans, Right Here

Step One in getting me to do things that make no sense is to clean the entire living room without being asked. Step Two is to remind me at JUST the right time. The right time, for the record, is when I'm searching for a bridge because a certain toddler has found her Annoying Gene. Good grief, that kid can turn it on when she's in the mood. While she was performing some expert-level psychological warfare, Alexis slyly mentioned that she had been super helpful and there.

There it is.

That's how it came to be that I took Alexis to see Wonder Woman on Friday night.

There are several things wrong with that whole situation. I don't do movies. It's not an exaggeration to say that I've seen maybe 5 of them in the past several years, as long as you exclude Disney movies. They don't count for all of the obvious reasons, but mostly because they're short. I can handle about 90 minutes of sitting and staring at a screen, and even that is a stretch. I also don't do superhero anything because *yawn*. Look, it's awesome that you have seen every superhero everything that has come out in recent years, but while you were doing that, I was doing absolutely anything else because *YAWN*. Not my thing. Oh, and that "Friday night" thing? WHAT IS THAT? I like to do exactly one thing on Friday nights and that is collapse in a puddle of tired.

I go to bed earliest on Friday nights. It's because by the time we get to Friday, I'm toast.

So THAT is how difficult Mila was behaving on Friday. She was behaving so ridiculously that I volunteered to take Alexis to do something I didn't want to do at a time when I'm better off sleeping.

And that was the plan. I figured that if I took Alexis to the movie, I would get to take a nap while she happily blissed out.

It didn't work out that way. It turns out that it's not that I don't like superhero movies, it's that I don't like bad superhero movies. I stop paying attention after a few minutes because they're boring and awful and predictable.

Wonder Woman is a little predictable, but there's nothing awful about it.

Basically, I stayed up past midnight to watch a movie that I would happily pay to watch again and again. it was SO good, you guys.

The best part, though. The best part was a moment during butt-kicking sequence number 18. I happened to glance over at Alexis, who has declared it the best movie ever, and her face.

You guys, her face.

I've never looked to movies for strong female leads because it's just not my thing. It never occurred to me that they're ... missing. Later Alexis and I talked about it, and when she asked if I could think of a single movie with a strong female lead not made by Disney, I couldn't. (They may exist - remember, I don't do the movie thing often.) She couldn't think of one either. Disney Princesses are in many ways the only strong female leads Alexis has seen on the big screen.

So I suppose that explains her face. It was filled with a look of wonder and joy that I've not seen before. It was the face of someone who is seeing something she previously thought impossible. And while it is all fiction, it very clearly left her with dreaming of all of the nonfiction possibilities.

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[Mary]

Fun Fact - I went to high school with Allan Heinberg who wrote the screen play for Wonder Woman. He also was a show runner for 'The Catch'. Which has been cancelled.