More Wickedness (and spoilers)
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mellicious(possible spoilers because I'm talking about the book vs. the movie - excluding the Broadway version only because I never actually saw it, although I know about the twist ending)
OK, Wicked is turning out to be my obsession of the moment. But anyway, now I've picked up the Wicked book again - I had re-read a good bit of it before I went to see the movie the first time, and I was already to the part where Elphaba is a wanna-be insurrectionist and is having an affair with Fiyero. (I like the actor who plays Fiyero in the movie, but aren't Winkies supposed to be painted warriors? Couldn't they have given him some tattoos or something, enough to at least suggest that?) Anyway, I got past the part where Elphaba is in Kiamo Ko* with his widow, some years later - honestly, I had completely forgotten the existence of that part. It's been quite a few years since I first read this book. But now she is back in Munchkinland with her father and Nessa, and Nessa is now the Eminent Thropp which I guess makes her effectively the Witch of the East, right? I really remembered much more about the first half of this book than the second, and I'm still not done, so whatever else I've forgotten, I'll have to talk about later, but really the spoilery thing that I'd forgotten that I wanted to talk about now was that Fiyero was dead at all. That had definitely gone right out of my mind. I remembered that Elphie was dead, in the Maguire book as in the Baum story - of course she's not Elphaba in the Baum story, but she's still the same character - but I didn't remember that Fiyero was too. So it's two characters that the musical had to resurrect, not just the one.
(And I confused things by bringing up Baum, because Fiyero doesn't exist there, although the Winkies do. The musical we're talking about is the one based on Maguire's book, not Baum's, though!)
* I had to check the wiki to see if I actually spelled that place-name right, but I did! (Also I just realized that I was looking at the "Wicked Wiki" which strikes me as funny. Although what else would you call it, at this point?)
OK, Wicked is turning out to be my obsession of the moment. But anyway, now I've picked up the Wicked book again - I had re-read a good bit of it before I went to see the movie the first time, and I was already to the part where Elphaba is a wanna-be insurrectionist and is having an affair with Fiyero. (I like the actor who plays Fiyero in the movie, but aren't Winkies supposed to be painted warriors? Couldn't they have given him some tattoos or something, enough to at least suggest that?) Anyway, I got past the part where Elphaba is in Kiamo Ko* with his widow, some years later - honestly, I had completely forgotten the existence of that part. It's been quite a few years since I first read this book. But now she is back in Munchkinland with her father and Nessa, and Nessa is now the Eminent Thropp which I guess makes her effectively the Witch of the East, right? I really remembered much more about the first half of this book than the second, and I'm still not done, so whatever else I've forgotten, I'll have to talk about later, but really the spoilery thing that I'd forgotten that I wanted to talk about now was that Fiyero was dead at all. That had definitely gone right out of my mind. I remembered that Elphie was dead, in the Maguire book as in the Baum story - of course she's not Elphaba in the Baum story, but she's still the same character - but I didn't remember that Fiyero was too. So it's two characters that the musical had to resurrect, not just the one.
(And I confused things by bringing up Baum, because Fiyero doesn't exist there, although the Winkies do. The musical we're talking about is the one based on Maguire's book, not Baum's, though!)
* I had to check the wiki to see if I actually spelled that place-name right, but I did! (Also I just realized that I was looking at the "Wicked Wiki" which strikes me as funny. Although what else would you call it, at this point?)
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