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**** It's also likely that many of the fans of Wicked, in fact many of the fans of Wizard of Oz are solely familiar with the franchise through the movie. Most people probably have never read the original novel, and even fewer have probably read all the others, if they are aware of them at all. For better or worse, when most people think 'Wizard of Oz' they think 'Judy Garland' not "L. Frank Baum'. And the Movie-verse fits in fairly well with Wicked. And just as a personal question, can we tone down the venemous hatred of Wicked fans? like most fandoms, 90% of us are perfectly normal, non-insane people.
***** Interestingly enough, the ''Wicked'' novel fits in much better with the Book-verse. Ultimately, though, it doesn't really fit either, particularly noticeable if you examine Elphaba's confrontation with Dorothy at the end.
** I'm not going to bother spoilering, because if one is reading this, then one is likely to have read the book/watched the musical. You had some decent points until you started bashing all ''[[Wicked (
*** I (the person who started this thread) never meant to tar all ''Wicked'' fans with the same brush; it just bugged me the hatred some of the more "out there" fans, the ones driving you out of the fandom, directed at Dorothy. That's what bothered me, not sympathizing with the Witch, or what have you. Looking back on it now, I really could have phrased it better.
** I actually read ''[[
** Speaking for the Holmes stories for a moment, it's worth noting that in-text it's established that they're Dr. Watson's perspectives on events - as such, whilst Watson seems like a reliable narrator, there's no guarantee that things happened exactly as he say they happened. Even if we assume (and we've no reason not to, to be fair) that Watson is a reliable and honest person and that we can trust that his account of what happened is what Watson experienced, that's no guarantee that it'll be the full story. Watson has his viewpoint on the story, but then so does the criminal, the victim - hell, even Holmes' recollection of events is not guaranteed to be exactly the same as Watson's. There's a great scene in ''The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'', for example, where Holmes criticises Watson's version of "The Red Headed League" and acidly comments that "I'm sure I'll learn all sorts of things I didn't know about the case beforehand," and then accuses Watson of over-romanticising things a bit. Even if we assume that Watson is an honest recorder of events, there's still room for interpretation from another viewpoint.
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** Because villains can cheat. Here's what I mean. When a character does something clever, gets over on their opponent and does so stylishly, this creates viewer/reader interest. That's much, ''much'' easier to do with a villain than the hero, because we ''see'' the hero. We ''know'' what the hero has planned and what the hero can do. Case in point: [[The Dark Knight]]. There's ''no way'' the Joker could have snuck that much explosives into a hospital (a building that is operating 24/7). Especially explosives in the form of gasoline (his preferred bomb). But we can ignore that because he's the villain; we don't know what his resources are. The writer can play fast-and-loose with what he does. He cannot do so with the hero because the hero has too much screen time. Also, if the hero starts pulling things out of their ass, the audience is more likely to call them on it. In short, it's easier to make a villain look cleverer, because the villain can cheat.
* Is there an unwritten rule somewhere that says each and every pipe organ that appears in a work of fiction ''has'' to play Bach's Toccata and Fugue? Thank God for the climax of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
** No unwritten rule, just the usual [[Small Reference Pools]]!
** The makers of the fiction are aware of how much that melody (particularly its famous opening bars) has haunted popular consciousness ever since first being employed to provide a grim atmosphere in silent movies. They figure that you have to go with what works, and the Toccata really [[Incredibly Lame Pun|strikes the right chord]]. You'll notice, though, that it is neither played on organ nor for any sort of dark atmosphere in [[Fantasia]].
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