Haidyn!!

this shot is the funniest thing in the world, because imagine you’re on a first date with this girl. it’s going really well: she’s charming and fun and willing to indulge your ideas.

i love the deconstruction of the moral messaging of fairytales and the potential for reconciliation shown in the show, but the addition of little red breaks it a little. like, the rest of the characters commit actual crimes: theft, manslaughter, kidnapping, child abandonment, etc., then little red is like “i shouldn’t have strayed from the path” which is odd enough even before you take her actual interactions with the wolf and his predatory manipulation into account.

yeah almost as if the ENTIRE POINT OF THE SCENE IS THEM EACH DOING SOMETHING KIND THAT CHALLENGES THEIR PRECONCEIVED NOTIONS OF THE OTHER

Elphaba got Galinda into that seminar because, from her perspective, Galinda has just set her sister up on a date and given her a cool gift. She’s responding to what she perceives as an olive branch and an indication that Galinda isn’t as awful as she thought. Galinda just has that exact same experience. Elphaba going to Madame Morrible shows her Elphaba’s kindness, which also changes how she sees her. This change does make her feel guilty for treating her badly, and also makes her want to extend a real olive branch in response.

AND ALSO

public humiliation and abandonment are glinda’s worst fears (see: the scene between her and dr. dillamond about her essay and name and the train station scene where she changes her name), and elphaba leaving with fiyero in the middle of the engagement ball/wedding (depending on what version of the story we’re talking about) combines them both, especially given that she thinks they’ve been having an extended affair. just like someone getting hurt because of her is elphaba’s worst fear (see: her guilt over mother’s death and sister’s disability and her reaction to the monkeys transformation), and glinda (sort of inadvertently?) getting nessa killed realizes that.