Wicked (theatre)/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

** [[Talking Is a Free Action|Singing is a free action?]]

* Why, oh dear Oz why wouldn't Elphaba take Fiyero with her to save her sister. Yes, setup for a big save, but that's a meta-reason. She isn't a soldier, and doesn't have any training at arms, and she has with her a big honking captain of the guard who can and will fight to protect her.

** More than that, why didn't Fiyero go with her when she made her escape? They could both have got on to the broom, it wasn't even like he needed to stand in the centre of the guards to keep his gun pointing at them.

*** This bugs just about everyone. Even the Glinda/Elphaba shippers. The only reason it really has is meta: He died in the book, and they expected the book lovers to love the play. While I don't think it really would be that big of percentage (What with having Idina and Cheno in OBC and Schwartz as the composer/lyricist) of the audience it seemed to be serious enough at the time of writing that Fiyero had to die, or at least [[Disney Death|seem like he was for a while]]. I managed to come up with a story explaining it, but it really grasped at straws that shouldn't be there.