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“When you see bad things in the world you can either do nothing or do something.” – Steve Trevor

Gah. This kills me. It kills me a lot. And anyone who says Gal Godot can’t act wasn’t really looking because look at her eyes. Look at the fourth gif, I would wager you anything it’s a similar look just before she reached the trenches of No Man’s Land. 

It’s more contained now, tempered by her experience and time, it’s been a long time since she was that young woman on the steps of the dais with her mother a step above her and Steve Trevor described the victims of the supposed War to End all Wars. And, yet, Diana can’t look away. 

She can’t help but watch, riveted to the screen, and perhaps at that moment, after seeing the picture with Steve Trevor and her old friends, she remembered his words: ‘You can either do nothing or do something.’ And, for a bit, maybe Diana tried doing nothing. She’s tried doing nothing now. 

Then that shift in the fifth gif, that resolve, finally giving in to that part of her screaming: ‘do something.’ wins.

Like seriously. that shift, with nothing more but a tightening of her jaw, that brief blink, and then that steely resolve. She doesn’t even care that there might be cameras pointed. 

Diana is going to help because protecting mankind is her sacred duty. 

I just noticed that she is flying Turkish airlines. We know the island has to be somewhat near Turkey because that is where Steve was flying from. Are we assuming that she was flying home to the island?

I noticed the airline but didn’t make the connection until now! 

What if Diana was flying to look for Themyscira? She seemed to be on a quest to look for parts of her past in BvS, what if part of that was searching for her way back home? What if, Diana is retracing Steve’s steps hoping it would lead her back to home?

In the new Rebirth arc under Greg Rucka’s run, Diana’s on a similar quest to find Themyscira. Maybe that’s what Hippolyta meant when she told Diana ‘she may never return’, without magic or a guide Diana can’t find Themyscira.

Oh but you know what that would mean? If she’s been looking for a way home then choosing to go help save humanity again would basically mean giving that quest up. Because it’s not like going to this battle would be a short side-trip.

Going means, choosing humanity once again. It means picking up the mantle of that faith for justice again (which is something I can’t see her having abandoned, but can see her having felt weighted by, especially when humans are just so… hard to root for).

Going would mean that Themyscira would have to wait. And it might have to wait for a 100 years again.

The best thing about seeing her in this after watching Wonder Woman is realizing when Gal filmed this she didn’t know the story behind her character yet in the universe. She just played off her imagination and off what she thought it was the character was going through. And her reactions are perfectly in line with what she experienced in WW.