Hiya kiddies I am back for day 3 of Superhero Week and man ‘o
man this one is a bit of a doozy. You
may have thought Wonder Woman was tough but what about a woman that controls
elements, the animals, superhuman strength and even the air. All that action packed notion in an outfit
reserved for cosplayers or possibly fantasy wheedling and begging for a
boyfriend. So grab your ankh, try to
follow the Egyptian hieroglyphs and legends.
This is Isis.
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| Power divine from the Goddess or is it Maybelline? |
Oh mighty spoilers come
forth!!!!
Prior to the awesome might of the Amazon princess Wonder
Woman as well as to the cybernetic powers of the Bionic Woman, There was
Isis! A woman imbued with awesome
powers from the goddess that was the protector of the death and goddess of
children. The daughter of Geb the god of
the Earth and Nut, goddess of the Sky, this protector sought an avatar of her
mighty powers and an amulet was given to Hatshepsut the first female pharaoh of
the Eighteenth dynasty in Egypt.
Centuries later on a archeological dig, school teacher Andrea Thomas (JoAnna
Cameron of How to Commit Marriage, Pretty Maids All in a Row, A Time for Love,
Night Games, High Risk and The Amazing Spider-Man) digs deep of the ruins of ancient Egypt a.k.a.
Chatsworth California. Back when there
were more desert and less X Games enthusiasts and pornography to uncover the
very same amulet that Lady Hatshepsut had and deemed worthy by Isis, is given
those same fantastic magical powers as was previously mentioned to stop evil in
its tracks.
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| Guess Cindy Lou was taken by the Woos. |
But hold up funsters, what is a superheroine without a
gaggle of zany sidekicks. Just ask
Wonder Woman and Buffy on this one. A
trio of her own students that somehow cannot recognize their hot teacher minus
glasses and in a flowing one piece and mini skirt dubbed themselves the Super
Sleuths. Too much Scooby Doo, pot and
mushrooms I am guessing for this teen gang and predictably they follow the
Jimmy Olson School of hard knocks and they are constantly tied up, slapped
around and held at gun point. Yeah this
eager beaver go getters cannot solve the mystery of why Andrea and Isis are
never arriving and leaving at the same time so clearly they are my choice of
Mousketeers. Isis was constantly rescuing several of her
own high school students because I think they were born with ransom notes or
possibly humanoid lemmings.
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| Blue screened and ready for action. |
Few facts of the show would help some of the readers
now. This was part of a companion show
known as Shazam! For that a few
crossover episodes occurred between the two series in order to validate them
both I believe given as they were not widely known comic book characters to say
the likes of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman.
One thing about this show which
became a running gag is Andrea/Isis was constantly breaking the fourth wall to
give a poignant speech to the viewers at home or to impart the lesson of the
day from all this action that could have been easily avoided if they only used
their heads instead of just winging it.
For you younger viewers, think of GI Joe knowing is half the battle cliché. Mind you while this heroine is dressed a
bit like the corner prostitute for cosplayers she had an almost unlimited
amount of powers such as: Flight, Superhuman strength, complete control of her
molecular density (She could phase through walls) gravitation field manipulation
and even stop and reverse the flow of time.
Some telepathic communication with her pet bird Tut as well but hey not
exactly sure that is deemed a big super power *coughs Falcon* but apparently
she had that is Andrea form. Was it
really a blow for feminism? As a whole,
yeah because you have a woman with more powers than Superman slaps around
baddies but the mercy to curb them getting out of hand.
I don’t think it spoke too highly of women empowerment but I
think that comes from the sexist tiny outfit they gave her so that is probably
my only real hang up. At the end of the
day I still think I could sit through these episodes fairly well.
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