meh.

Big fan of characters with abandonment issues so profound they leave claw marks in everything they touch but would sooner gnaw off their own leg than admit that they desire kindness and safety

ALAYM with gelphie would actually not be sexy at all, it would be a comedy sequence, because after being told she’s beautiful Elphaba would do her vulnerable little “You don’t have to lie to me” and we’d pan over to Glinda actively salivating, at which point she’d trip over her own feet like five times on her way over to the bed and start waxing poetic about Elphaba being literally the most beautiful woman in the world besides herself and then she’d finish it off with “But seriously Elphie if I ever see this hideoteous sex cardigan again I’m setting it on fire.” Then they’d fight about the cardigan for ten minutes.

elphaba supposedly having a romantic flashback in that field of flowers yearning for fiyero and it’s literally centered on glinda the entire time and elphaba is not even next to him

the problem with the catfight scene isn't that it's too much of a joke. because honestly the book version is 100x funnier. glinda and elphaba reunite after like two decades and elphaba's first words are "wow glinda you look terrible wtf are you wearing" and glinda gets so turned on her brain goes out the window and she starts being racist in like three different ways. then glinda tells elphaba about how she's given an important family heirloom to a random ass kid from the sticks but makes sure she draws attention to her pushed up bosom as she does it. and elphaba doesn't even care cuz she's pissed about the shoes and glinda's like "well those shoes won't make your father love you" and her dumb gay ass starts crying about how elphie abandoned her. the musical has nothing on that