10 Burning Questions We Nonetheless Have After ‘Depraved: For Good’

The extremely anticipated conclusion to Common Footage’ adaptation of Wicked has lastly hit theaters, tying collectively the story we thought we knew about Dorothy’s arrival in Oz. Nevertheless, we don’t get to see a lot of the teenager woman from Kansas after her home lands on high of the Depraved Witch of the East and she or he is distributed off to see the Wizard (Jeff Goldblum) with sneakers that don’t belong to her, due to Glinda (Ariana Grande) being petty.

Wicked: For Good shines sufficient on the unimaginable music and the highly effective relationship between Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda to distract from the way it very minimally grazes over the beats of L. Frank Baum’s literary traditional and MGM’s The Wizard of Oz. But, by the top there have been so many decisions made that left extra questions than solutions.

We’d hoped for an impressed take by visionary director Jon M. Chu, whose first Depraved installment arrange a complete new model of Ouncesaudiences all over the world have fallen in love with. Whereas the stage musical focuses on its good and dangerous witches, its cinematic launch centered Nessarose (Marissa Bode), Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey), and Boq (Ethan Slater) as a part of the ensemble. Together with them, so many setups had been left unfulfilled in ways in which made us wish to make a journey down the yellow brick street for a dialog with the Wizard.

Listed below are the searing questions that also hang-out and harm us after watching Depraved: For Good.

1. Who helps the Depraved Witch, really?

There’s not a lot clarification as as to if Elphaba’s efforts to free the animals have, no less than over time, garnered her any help in between the occasions of Depraved and Depraved: For Good. Ounceshates her for presumably stealing the Grimmerie and serving to the animals escape. However she’s additionally hated by the animals for serving to—specifically, the winged monkeys and the Cowardly Lion. In the meantime, Glinda and Fiyero associate with discovering her by means of the Wizard and Morrible’s narrative that she must be apprehended however don’t publicly rise up for his or her pal.

2. Why isn’t Dorothy’s story seen in Depraved?

Within the stage musical, it is smart for the Dorothy of all of it to be executed in shadowplay, contemplating it’s not a two-part story. The Broadway viewers goes in understanding that is an alternate tackle the occasions of The Wizard of Oz and doesn’t actually must be stuffed in. Depraved: Half One, nonetheless, builds out extra of the relationships, together with Elphaba’s sisterhood with Nessarose and the that means of their mom’s sneakers.

For some viewers, Depraved was their first introduction to the world of Oz, and the growth of the story would appear to lend itself to a retelling of Dorothy’s position as a means in to the entire drama between the three witches. That, and there are plenty of Dorothy dolls and figures in playsets that made it really feel like we’d get a bit extra in Depraved: For Good about how a teen from Kansas is unintentionally used as a pawn to kill Nessarose after which enlisted to soften Elphaba.

It’s actually a disservice to a personality who may have used a a reimagining by means of Chu’s inventive lens to get a brand new era of teenagers to narrate to her. I imply, teenagers getting used as political pawns? Evergreen. We get that she’s not a foremost character right here, however she may have been used to solidify Elphie and Glinda’s love for each other, and never as a field to test.

3. Why was Fiyero enjoying dumb round Tin-Man Boq?

Sure, Fiyero will get became the Scarecrow, who joins Dorothy on the yellow brick street with the lion cub he saved, who appears to haven’t any recollection of him however blames Elphaba for his cowardly nature, and his faculty pal, who has at all times been obsessed along with his girlfriend and now has a literal ax to grind. In Depraved: For Good, Boq tries to flee the distress of being caught with Nessa to cease Glinda from marrying Fiyero proper earlier than the Thropp sisters make him right into a monster, and his motivation remains to be to get to Glinda even after that. He stares actually arduous at her from a crowd whereas spouting off his grievances towards Elphaba for saving his life. In the meantime, Glinda most likely nonetheless doesn’t acknowledge Tin-Biq or her position in his male loneliness epidemic victimization. But, someway, we’re presupposed to imagine he meets this teen woman and out of the blue desires the Wizard to provide him a coronary heart? And doesn’t Fiyero’s guard swimsuit match the Scarecrow’s outfit? Or does Fiyero say he additionally hates Elphaba for turning him?

4. When do Fiyero and Elphaba hatch the plan to faux her dying?

The poppy subject that the Depraved Witch of the West enchants to lull Dorothy and the Lion to sleep (arrange at Shiz!) may have helped fill on this clean. There was no alternate between them—apart from possibly giving us a second of Fiyero seemingly turning towards her as a result of he’s “dumb” now to idiot the viewers and Boq—however that we may have later seen as the moment the place they shortly hatched a plan earlier than Boq got here into the image.

5. Is Boq nonetheless stalking Glinda?

This one haunts me probably the most as a result of even when he had a coronary heart, he was down dangerous for her, after which he will get one from the Wizard. So wouldn’t he simply return to being a stalker creep, however now trying extra horrifying?  Glinda, you at risk, woman. However in all seriousness: Boq not getting a decision after getting established as a core ensemble member doesn’t work.

6. Was the Wizard ever regarded as a fraud?

After he leaves Ouncesupon realizing he simply had his daughter killed, he mainly takes his balloon again sans Dorothy as per the e book. Everybody within the Emerald Metropolis is pleased to see him go, however why? It’s not as a result of they actually hated him; he used them towards the animals to create battle to bolster himself, however to what finish? Thanks for doing nothing, I suppose.

7. Did nobody clock Madam Morrible because the true dangerous man moreover Elphaba and Glinda?

Morrible puppeteering the Wizard to additional her trigger towards the animals by no means made sense. It may need had she gotten a backstory as to her hate of animals, possibly being associated to Physician Dillamond for being smarter than her, and information being extra revered than energy. That type of framework would have defined her really depraved must take it out on animal variety. Additionally, her punishment? Too tame. She enslaved animals and killed the mayor of Munchkinland. These monkeys had higher have flown her straight to Elphie for actual revenge.

8. Why does caging animals take away their capacity to talk?

Moreover the apparent symbolism, it’s by no means defined if the cages make the animals regular human-world creatures or if Morrible magicked away their voices. We see Dillamond return to Shiz on the finish to show, however there are not any phrases or any type of redemption of Elphaba in his class, no less than!

9. How does Dorothy get house?

Elphaba will get a complete track about how “there’s no place like house,” a mantra that will get Dorothy house with the tapping of the magic witch sneakers, most famously seen in The Wizard of Oz, however that’s weirdly arrange right here with no payoff. There may have been a reprise at Nessarose’s ft, the place Elphaba sees that house may by no means recognize her, which might a) clarify why she chooses to go away Ounceswith Fiyero, and b) may have been overheard by Glinda to assist her come to phrases together with her position because the Good Witch for the individuals. It might have been becoming for her to make use of these phrases because the spell to affirm herself as a brand new chief whereas utilizing it to magic the Thropp slippers to get Dorothy again to Kansas.

10. Why does Elphaba abandon the sneakers and Oz?

In Depraved: For Good, Elphaba’s motivation is to remain in Ouncesto defend it regardless of it pushing her out, then it’s getting her mom’s sneakers again, however after her heart-to-heart with Glinda, all of it is simply supposed to vary. It’s so odd to see her relinquish her battle to encourage her pal to make use of her fairly privilege for good and discover the magic inside herself to do what she couldn’t as a result of she’s inexperienced. Nevertheless it’s okay as a result of she’s bought her straw prince and walks off to a distant land, which can or is probably not the human world. Doesn’t matter.

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