A Wonder Man Season 2 that never staffed a room and one that was three weeks from staffing a room are the same season viewed from opposite sides of a decision nobody at Disney has explained. Guest gave fans a timeline rather than a reason, and the timeline does plenty of work on its own. Even though the room had not started, Guest said, he had written the first episode of Wonder Man Season 2 himself and the team was holding an outline for where the rest would go. Then arithmetic changed somewhere above the show, and every commitment stacked on that announcement came apart at once, which makes Wonder Man Season 2 the cleanest available look at what Marvel’s newer discipline costs at the production level. Guest’s outline for Wonder Man Season 2 is sitting in a drive somewhere beside a premiere script nobody will ever read, and Abdul-Mateen II is still on this year’s Emmy ballot for a series with no second season behind it.