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Now that I've watched part 2

I have to express my just, disappointment with Wicked

I'm so sorry like

I couldn't be more sorry because, I genuinely feel like

watching Cynthia Erivo perform

and hearing Cynthia Erivo sing has genuinely

like with no exaggeration

given me a new lease on life,

it has really given me something to aspire to.

I would love to be at good as writing

as Cynthia Erivo is at singing and emoting.

Like, her voice gives me like a physical reaction in my body

it is STUNNING and I think her performances across both of the Wicked films

were truly like, they were heartfelt, they were sincere

they were measured, they were- they were deep.. there was like a fountain-

there was a deep well of emotions there.

And I feel like she really pulled from them, and I really got that in the performance

I also feel like it- cinematography

everything it looked absolutely BEAUTIFUL.

It looked SO aesthetically pleasing and-and Paul Tazewell -

my goodness, those costumes were magnificent.

The storytelling does not exist in these two films.

I'm really really really really really really really really sorry.

And it started off with the first film

after you watch the first film in the cinema

and you watch it like two- another

like by the second or the third watch,

you're like huh like..there's not actually much.. that happened here.

But I wanna talk about part 2, because I literally just watched it.

There was a lot of story missing, and by that I'm not saying that they didn't follow the

the play. I'm not saying that um and I did watch the play once when I was a kid, um

the musical and I really enjoyed it

but that- like- the people that I went with to see-

to see the film told me that this

part 2 is in line with what happens in the musical

and what happens on stage

and I was like okay if that's the case then Wicked isn't as great as you guys have been saying

because where is the story?

Where is the drama?

Where? Like where?

What was Elphaba doing all of those months learning magic? Like where was the trying and failing to learn magic?

Where was the depression from the solitude?

Where was her doing her darnedest to convince the animals that - actually - she isn't an opp?

Even though she did do that to uh Chistery and co? She's actually on their side and that's why um Oz and the Wizard of Oz is against her?

Where was that scene?

Where was us, you know, reflecting on her treatment? And reflecting on how actually

while she was being bullied at Shiz, Nessa never showed up for her - and that's why

it was easier for her to make that decision to not return when their father died

do you know what I mean

like even in the year and the- and then that scene

having that scene in there would be um-

would still fit in with the story because guess what Nessa betrayed her- again! EXACTLY, EXACTLY.

where was the-the private reflections of Madame Morrible after every

uh- not after every announcement but  at least after one announcement having you know memories of of her and Elphaba bonding?

Where was the- Where was the-

Where was the back and forth? Where was the... what's the word? Where was the duality?

Like.. where was the Judas of it all? Do you know what I mean like, is it me Jesus?

Like is it me ? YEAH! like you were her teacher you like- where were those memories?

Where was like even Madame Morrible maybe she was happy to drop Elphaba in it-Elphaba in it

because she realized how powerful she was

As stated in the first film when she said I can't-I can only read but a few words of the Grimmerie, here comes Elphaba first crack out of the book.

Like where's the memories of her looking at Elphaba "actually

you're actually a little bit too powerful for me and, if I ever need to take you down I will." Like where was that thought? Where was that scene?

Like for Madame Morrible to turn on the dime..?

Why does Madame Morrible hate the fucking a-animals so much? Did an animal kill her mum?

What are we talking about?

And I fucking HATE I hate allegory

I hate allegories for racism for slavery

I- cause you guys you never do it well

that's why I fucking hate robots by Channel 4

I HATE THAT SHIT. It's so fucking racist because there isn't any actual heartfelt- there's like- it you can just tell, the people that are using this allegory

have- they you've like you

like- the marginalisation that black people

and Africans specifically have had to face in the western world

you've never experienced that emotion and you DON'T know how to tell that story.

In the first um film, we should have seen Elphaba trying to assimilate beyond a hair flick like

have you never met a black girl in your life?

it's so ANNOYING. It's so annoying and it's so fucking disappointing, it doesn't make any fucking sense. It doesn't make any fucking sense and d'you know what? Elphaba, maybe she should have come up with a little wig!

She was- she- she- maybe she should have come up with a little straight wig.

Like, as like, and like if we're gonna go there - then let's really go there let's do ASSIMILATION.

Let's do Elphaba acting like she's no longer i-intelligent

acting like Gli-Glinda in that regard as well. Being in class like "oh

what's going on?" do you know what I mean?

Like, let's do fucking assimilation, if we're gonna go then then let's GO.

Let's do- let's do the thing, let's tell the story.. 

And what is the time frame because as as Elphaba's younger sister

When did- what-what age did Nessa Rose become the governor after her dad died??? What are we talking about?

And speaking of Nessa Rose- give me more give me MORE..GIVE ME MORE.

I feel like one of the things that is missing from the story is

INTENT.

Where was everyone's intent from the apart aside from the fact that she had green skin?

Jealousy, envy- envy is green hello?

let's like, hello?

Hello? Hello?

I'm just- I'm- it's just so hard

it's just so hard to not be like perpetually wound up about this

because I don't have the fucking money to IP

Wicked and REDO IT

but you guys had-according to fucking Bowen Yang got a gaji-

a gajillion dollars, you had a gajillion dollars

and this is like I'm-oh my goodness..

And this is another thing in the second film

why the fuck is Glinda like so fucking innocent

it doesn't make any sense

like the irony of the second film is

they paint Glinda as being genuinely good

and it's like if Glinda was genuinely good

then she would have joined Elphaba's cause

how do you not see that

what we needed to do was have the veneer that they were

they had they had put on for her

that Madame Morrible and the Wizard was

was pumping that you know

press machine for her and behind the scenes

it's all got to her head

she's a compulsive liar

she's a fucking raging narcissist

and she is actually terrible to her staff

she's terrible to her friends that work for her

and she actually doesn't give a fuck about anything

but looking GOOD like Madame Morrible said

like this idea like I'm sorry

I APOLO-GISE

but all of those moments and scenes of Ariana

Grande's eyebrows furrowed

and her crying

that isn't like it like definitely emotional

but it doesn't it doesn't make sense

like it doesn't flow if you were so CUT UP

if you were so cut up

you would side with the actual powerful witch

and this is the thing

Elphaba is the one with the actual power

look how she was able to save Fiyero

oh my gosh speaking of Fiyero

the fact that there isn't a timeline that's clear

I don't know what 12 um

tidal moons or tidal waves that have turned

I don't know what that fucking means

the timeline comes into play with Nessa

being the governme- governor

and Fiyero

like still holding this much of a torch for Elphaba

without us you showing us him longing for *HER

and him actually being off put by Glinda's character

okay yeah

the the the marriage was a surprise

it was a surprise proposal

but if Glinda's so good if Glinda genuinely her heart

she wanted to do everything that she could

she did she never meant for any

any of this to happen

then there had to be something that repulsed Fiyero enough

enough for him- WITH THE WORLD AGAINST HER

with the world against her

given that he wasn't there

when this whole shit started

with the wizard

for him to turn against Galinda and be like

actually

that's the love of my life

I'm gonna stick beside her

she- like and then you gave us one scene

you gave us one scene

one little flashback of when Nessa

Rose Boq

Fiyero Glinda and Elphaba were hanging out in the field

oh my gosh I just one of the things that I

I actually I can't

I can't do it like the lack of storytelling is

is that I that's why I STAY- like

I don't watch much TV but if I do

it's going to be a reality TV show

or it's going to be a fucking K drama

because those people- and not the romance ones

I do not watch romance K dramas

I don't need you guys to build up a romance

give me the family dramas

give me the mother wound dramas

give me the slice of life dramas

people trying to make it through their everyday

give me the Hello My Twenties-

we're 20 and and

and we're 20

and we're living in our 20s and it's difficult

and we're navigating all sorts of things

give me a "this rich family ruined my life

so I'm back to ruin theirs"

give me that every single day of the week

because guess what?

they're gonna explore people's parent wounds

they're gonna explore um power

they're gonna explore wealth

they're gonna explore narcissism

they're gonna explore losing the will to live

having the will to live

they're gonna explore what the poor will do

to get into the graces and

and not just the graces

but the positions of the rich as well

like you guys you always give me fucking nothing

you give me fucking nothing

and it does my fucking head in like

we can't just keep watching white people look good

it doesn't make any sense and speaking of which

oh my goodness why was Glinda's lashes so dark

and the hair was so blonde

it didn't make any sense

it didn't make any sense it didn't make any sense

it didn't especially because tha- oh my goodness

it didn't make any sense it didn't make any sense

it didn't make any sense

don't get me wrong

Ariana Grande performance of her life

she really committed she really committed

I don't feel like the second performance was as strong

as the first but she she bled for that shit

I fear she really tried

I think the first film she was Oscar worthy

given Oscar standards you were you Ariana Grande

you deserve that Oscar and so did Cynthia

I just feel like

there were so many things where you can tell

a storyteller has not been involved here

which is impossible for me to think

and the people that I went with are saying

oh well

it followed the script of

of the um

of the of the play

it followed the play and it's like

well the first film didn't

and actually the play doesn't follow the book

because I tried to read the book and it was PERVERTED

so I actually put it down

and so and the play didn't follow the book

so why can't we have some artistic license in the film

in a film where you can do all sorts of takes and cuts

like oh my gosh

it upsets me so much guys

it upsets me so much I just don't understand

like go on girl

give us NOTHING and I say that keeping in mind

I've said Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivro

they gave us everything Jonathan Bailey ate down

I do feel like

Fiyero should have been played by somebody else

I say that with so much respect

because he really did do the part

as much justice as he could

but also

Cynthia being the only black woman in the main cast

ugly ugly

ugly especially

when the people who can relate with Elphaba the most

based on having skin

a skin colour that's different from everybody else

who's that gonna be black-

exactly African women

exactly exactly exactly...

and when did Chistery learn to speak?

EXACTLY EXACTLY

why didn't you give us more

why like

I'm like

why did you not give us a scene of Elphaba pleading

her case to the animals like guys please

I'm not I'm not wicked

I didn't mean to do that to dem man

they tricked me like

we had that

when they were going down the Underground Railroad

which some one of you took fucking Keke Palmer's slave

hymn joke a little too far, that was dark sided

but I needed that because I was shocked

me as the watcher of

I watched the I watched the first film the day before

like yesterday before I watched this second film

I was shocked that the animals saw her

and they weren't shook up

they weren't shaking

they weren't they weren't run away

oh my gosh its Elphaba oh my gosh

she's gonna kill she's gonna kill us

she's gonna give us wings

she's gonna torture us I was like oh

you guys must be cool

you guys must be cool and how old is DulciBear? 

because you guys made DulciBear seem hella old

when Elphaba was a was a behbeh

so what was all of that about

why did we didn't need you guys

they tried to tie up so many strings

that didn't need to be there

first of all:

the Wizard of Oz you ARE the father- didn't need that

I actually didn't need that

I didn't need that and and and then them being like oh

it's because she's from both worlds

both worlds in what regards

her mother wasn't a witch and neither was the Wizard

so what are you talking about

it doesn't make any fucking sense

and it doesn't make any fucking sense like

and what was Madame Morrible's problem

and and this is another thing about the animals

why were they

why were they chosen as scapegoat in the first place

did one of them kill Madam Morrible's mum?

you need to give me some background like

I hate

and this is what I was saying about the allegory

if you're gonna do it

then you better fucking do it but

but don't ever make it seem like

there always has to be a scapegoat

in this world

there always has to be a scapegoat and oh

to bring people together

there's always gonna have to be somebody to hate

and then not give a reason for the hate

I'll expand African people music melodies

beauty food culture vibes intelligence

carpentry joinery

Yorùbá people skipped the Bronze Age

and went straight straight to iron EXACTLY

exactly

I know why Europeans are jealous of West Africans

in particular

because that's where they did their their

their nastiest work

you can't just say oh oh yeah

let's just give them the animals but

and the animals were in your society

was it that oh

the animals actually animals have this secret

they have a a small power

or one of the animals killed eh Madame Morrible's family

also with um it like

it just it like

you have to give me fucking something also

going back to Glinda

it doesn't make sense and like I said

she needed to be narcissistic

mean abusive behind closed doors

and she needed to be in Munchkinland knock

knocking on people's doors being like

I heard that you you've got herbs for potions

I someone said that you saw a ghost

dedede you need to give me your power do I mean like

oh like it

like not like it like

the fact that the film was about Glinda

and none of it made sense

it pisses like it pisses me off so much

it pisses me off so much

because you really gave us nothing

like if you wanted us to make

if you wanted to make the film about Glinda

then you should have given us that

make it about like where was the

what was the tussle between good and evil

you've just kind of made her as this vapid

shallow babe who is on Elphaba side but

and who is good and innocent

but not good enough to actually fight for good

shut the fuck up shut the fuck up

shut the fuck up shut the fuck up

and Fiyero who doesn't give a fuck about anything

doesn't give a fuck about anything

was singing about how why try

like why try why pay attention

all of a sudden now he's in the military

where he has to follow the RULES

after being expelled from several SCHOOLS?

get the fuck out of here get out my face

get out my face get out

get out get out

get out

and if you were gonna do that

have him show up late

to whatever that fucking first scene was

when they were tap dancing for Glinda

have him show up late

his uniform is messy because guess what

he has ADHD but also he hates RULESSS

what was that big number FOR?

oh my gosh OH MY GOSH

like what reality are people living in

what reality are you-

like how could you genuinely have me sit down FOR WHAT?

two and a half hours FOR WHAT?

it doesn't make any sense

it doesn't make any sense

it doesn't make any sense

it doesn't make any fucking sense

and you've upset me actually

again Cynthia Erivo

YOU OWE ME NOTHING, YOU OWE ME NOTHING

Michelle Yeoh ate

and you looked good you looked good

I wish they gave you some more

but you did great Jonathan Bailey again

not my first choice for this role

you gave it you gave it some ate

definitely Ariana Grande do you know what

I can tell those were real tears

every time you cried you gave your soul for that

congratulations to you

all the best set designers Paul Tazewell

the sound in the cinema that I was in wasn't great

but you know the musicians

everybody that came together for the music

I also didn't like the music in the second film

I honestly I feel like you guys have lied about Wicked

and anyway but

you know everybody involved

all the assistants

everybody that put the contracts through

negotiated the deals grateful

glad that you got the work done

Jon M. Chu 

exactly exactly

I'll leave it there exactly