I was just happy that Hollywood made a musical that didn't cut any of the songs, even the ones I consider bad or forgettable. Any song I hate is another person's sleeper classic. I'm sorry, but Michelle Yeoh cannot sing, luckily she only has one song.
But yes, even as a fan I think it's fair to say the plot of the show is... pretty bad! G…
I was just happy that Hollywood made a musical that didn't cut any of the songs, even the ones I consider bad or forgettable. Any song I hate is another person's sleeper classic. I'm sorry, but Michelle Yeoh cannot sing, luckily she only has one song.
But yes, even as a fan I think it's fair to say the plot of the show is... pretty bad! Grimdarkifying Oz and turning a humbug fraudster into an authoritarian monster is both preachy and pointless, unless the message we are supposed to take away is that it's bad to scapegoat a group of people for literally no reason whatsoever. But this is a world where literally everyone except the protagonist is either silly or evil and I generally do not like stories of that nature!
He is an authoritarian monster in both the Wizard of Oz and in Wicked. Did you watch the Wizard of Oz? What was the whole point of his character there? He was a huckster who became an authoritarian leader....I thought this was obvious.
He's a huckster and con man, but at no point do I recall him actually using his authoritarian power to do anything monstrous in Wizard of Oz. He appears to be completely laissez faire towards the lives of regular Ozians. I suppose his demand for Dorothy to bring him the Witch's broomstick is, well, kind of enlisting a young child for a special forces mission, but beyond that and having an intimidating false front he doesn't do anything monstrous. Once he's revealed, he is avuncular and well-meaning. He certainly doesn't display any bigotry towards sentient animals. The point of the character is that he's a light satirization of government figures.
(In the original book, he does make everyone wear green glasses when entering the Emerald City because the City is not actually green, so I suppose that's more of an authoritarian move, but that's just economic stimulus!)
I was just happy that Hollywood made a musical that didn't cut any of the songs, even the ones I consider bad or forgettable. Any song I hate is another person's sleeper classic. I'm sorry, but Michelle Yeoh cannot sing, luckily she only has one song.
But yes, even as a fan I think it's fair to say the plot of the show is... pretty bad! Grimdarkifying Oz and turning a humbug fraudster into an authoritarian monster is both preachy and pointless, unless the message we are supposed to take away is that it's bad to scapegoat a group of people for literally no reason whatsoever. But this is a world where literally everyone except the protagonist is either silly or evil and I generally do not like stories of that nature!
He is an authoritarian monster in both the Wizard of Oz and in Wicked. Did you watch the Wizard of Oz? What was the whole point of his character there? He was a huckster who became an authoritarian leader....I thought this was obvious.
He's a huckster and con man, but at no point do I recall him actually using his authoritarian power to do anything monstrous in Wizard of Oz. He appears to be completely laissez faire towards the lives of regular Ozians. I suppose his demand for Dorothy to bring him the Witch's broomstick is, well, kind of enlisting a young child for a special forces mission, but beyond that and having an intimidating false front he doesn't do anything monstrous. Once he's revealed, he is avuncular and well-meaning. He certainly doesn't display any bigotry towards sentient animals. The point of the character is that he's a light satirization of government figures.
(In the original book, he does make everyone wear green glasses when entering the Emerald City because the City is not actually green, so I suppose that's more of an authoritarian move, but that's just economic stimulus!)