I finally watched Wonder Woman.

I did not think it was very good?

What were you all talking about.

I don’t really need to introduce Wonder Woman, because everyone was talking about it. It’s a superhero movie. It stars a woman, which is a positive change. It’s set in World War I.

And it really isn’t much more than action.

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I saw this go by on my Twitter feed today, as part of a larger tweetstorm.

Me saying things like, "Black people gotta have cornbread at Thanksgiving" had them like, "Why is everything about race with you?"

— Ashley C. Ford (@iSmashFizzle) January 28, 2016

My reaction: “The heck?”

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That’s really it for the “review” part of the review, but I’d like to point out the bit of problematic casting here. Weir’s book has a reasonably diverse cast, although that was largely for identification purposes.

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