In the end, no one could save Wonder Woman. How's that for irony? While NBC isn't officially announcing anything until next week's New York upfronts, sources confirm to E! News that the network has ultimately passed on the much-maligned reboot of the superhero franchise.

Technically, there is still hope for the rejected pilot—while NBC has passed on bringing it to series, other networks, including cable channels, still have the chance to pick it up. Though who, if anyone, would pick up a show that wasn't deemed good enough by a network that's, well, let's just say, not No.1, remains to be seen.

Let this be a lesson to costume designers everywhere.

In a world full of successful men of the Spider, Super, Bat and Iron variety, there is something sad about the failure to launch just one butt-kicking woman. But just as the presence of a top-billed female in a script shouldn't be an instant kiss of death, it likewise doesn't automatically make the whole shebang a worthy endeavor either. Did NBC give a pass to "Wonder Woman" because of that tricky-to-sell second word of the title? Or did the network brass simply remember "The Cape"? (Making them, by the way, the only people in America who do.)

The early and mostly negative buzz regarding "Wonder Woman" speaks far more to a network's justifiable skittishness about bankrolling a potential bomb than it does to the sorry state of women in leading roles. The fact that the world badly needs more female protagonists doesn't mean it needs more David E. Kelley-style ones. All the cleavage in the world can't save an ill-conceived dream.