The Boy who knew her secret 1&2 More mind control from outer space in true 'Invasion of the Bodysnatchers' style. Diana Prince in a cowgirl hat which looks pretty great. These episodes are set in the town of Crystal Lake although I doubt it has any resemblance to the same town featured in the Friday the 13th series. Interestingly the aliens in this ep aren't actually evil, they're galactic law enforcers after a criminal and will free the bodies of those they've possessed unharmed once they're done. We also have a shapeshifter much like The Thing. The plot moves so damn fast it's pretty hard to keep up. Here we have Diana successfully hypnotised once more and forgetting that she is Wonder Woman. I'd love to have seen an ep where she loses the ability to transform and has to solve the case as just Diana. We have Skip at the end still in the knowledge of WW's true identity, I wonder if we'd have had a 4th season would he have come back? 7/10
4 Reviews
Don't like shows to break the rules too much
hollywoodshack7 August 2023
Every popular TV show and movie is built around a consistent character and premise that stays the same every episode. Radar doesn't imitate Groucho Marx or brew his own gin on MASH, that's Hawkeye's part. Superman and Wonder Woman never reveal their disguised character. But the last season comes, no one worries about the ratings, and it's always time to try something different. In the "different" episodes, it's sort of depressing to see Wonder Woman show up and look helpless while the bad guy gets away. So, I rated this show lower because it happened over so often. It's a nice parody of Invasion of Body Snatchers, but a bad misfit for the characters and it was too gruesome and violent for younger age groups, I thought. Plus, they could have avoided letting the guy think he knew Wonder Woman's secret from the way it ended.
THE BEST OF THE THIRD SEASON
asalerno1019 May 2022
The stories of aliens usurping bodies have already been done dozens of times both on television and in the movies, but they are always entertaining if they are done well. Here we have one of those well-told, well-made stories with some different ingredient that makes it different. To others. Diana travels to the town of Cristal Lake to investigate a strange phenomenon, the fall of 99 tetrahedrons from space. Upon contact with humans, these small pyramids seem to absorb their humanity and turn them into entities without will. This process is simple but quite terrifying since the suffering of the victims is noted when they are abducted against their will. At the end of the episode we have a cliffhanger where for the first time a human being is an eyewitness of the moment in which Diana transforms into Wonder Woman.
A near-perfect Wonder Woman story
cormackcarr17 June 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Apart from being well-made, gripping, and at times genuinely eerie (the tortured faces in the pyramids, and the soundtrack!), this is a rare Wonder Woman story in that it feels genuinely positioned as part of an ongoing story and character arc.
We have Diana's need to maintain her secret identity being compromised by Chip (and the alien baddie) both learning that she is Wonder Woman - and then we have her reference, towards the end, to the fact that she's likely to see more of Chip because she's about to be redeployed from Washington to L. A. (a clear set-up for the fourth season that never was).
What might have been...
We have Diana's need to maintain her secret identity being compromised by Chip (and the alien baddie) both learning that she is Wonder Woman - and then we have her reference, towards the end, to the fact that she's likely to see more of Chip because she's about to be redeployed from Washington to L. A. (a clear set-up for the fourth season that never was).
What might have been...
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