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Whenever I read this (when the Charmed Circle were planning to go to the Philosophy Club), I will think that Fiyero was nursing a crush on Elphaba when they were in Shiz.

Whoever sent this (and if it’s one of the two people I think it might be, hello, friend!), you know me too well!

It’s a toss-up between two scenes:

1) The entirety of the lion cub scene. Because we see both of them get suddenly vulnerable without even meaning to, like they’re ARGUING and at the same time vaguely amused by each other and then she grabs his hand and it’s like oh. So that’s what’s been missing. It’s such a tiny moment, but it’s so beautiful.

2) I love the exchange right after ALAYM, because it starts out with Elphaba’s insecurity (”I wish I could be beautiful, for you”) but not even self-oriented anymore, it’s about wishing that she could be beautiful because he “deserves” someone beautiful. And then it goes right to him reassuring her that she is beautiful in his eyes. But the next line is what I love best: his next instinct is to reassure her that she and Glinda will make up. He knows her well enough to know that her comments about beauty aren’t just about her insecurities, but about comparing herself to Glinda, and the guilt she feels, and he seeks to comfort her, even though thinking about Glinda can’t be easy for him either.

Day 5: Act 1 or Act 2

As much as I love Act One, what with I’m Not That Girl and The Wizard and I, Act Two is just incredible.

The exposition and events in Act One really add to the second act, the character arcs in particular. Glinda rises to new heights of popularity, but soon realises that even a privileged life can be hollow; Fiyero finds that his facade is only serving to hurt him and others and follows his heart, later paying the ultimate price for his sacrifice; Elphaba leads the Gale Force in a wild goose chase until she faces off with the Wizard for the second time, choosing her own happiness for once before losing what little she had.

For me, while Wicked Witch Of The East is complex and links the musical to its source material with ease, events really begin to get interesting after Wonderful. After years of running and chasing and pining for each other, Elphaba and Fiyero come face to face, and then Glinda runs in and makes things even more complicated. Fiyero’s moments of brainlessness - ‘well, it was…but it wasn’t’ - are humorous, and Glinda’s subsequent reaction brings an element of shock to the situation, though at the expense of her character likability.

The reprise of I’m Not That Girl flips the premise of the song on its head - the idea of the green outcast falling in love with the boy in love with her popular best and only friend, the boy she can never have - and segues into As Long As You’re Mine seamlessly.

As Long As You’re Mine is incredibly passionate and romantic, which sets the wistful and dejected I’m Not That Girl off very effectively, though it does carry some dark undertones, the two being fugitives and traitors of the government.

I mean, that’s debatable. Gregory doesn’t exactly describe her as “attractive”, in fact he uses words that are similar to ugly a lot. But coincidentally, he also describes her in a situation like, say, lying on a bed lit by moonlight wearing only a scarf. And certainly, we have people like Fiyero who find her beautiful. 

She’s basically described to be very thin, with very sharp and angular features.

And obviously green, but a green that is (and I quote) “not an ugly color”. 

So is she supposed to be conventionally beautiful? No. But I think, even in the book, she’s not supposed to be necessarily horribly ugly, at least I never got that impression. 

Like that scene where Galinda calls her pretty while she’s wearing one of her hats, or how Fiyero finds her beautiful—she’s also described to have beautiful hair, and a pretty figure.