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Fiyero: …

Like, Fiyero is already having a doozy of a day and then suddenly there is this small child that his ex sent off to see The Wizard, who he knows can't help, and she's just so sweet and she just wants to go home and seriously Glinda what's with giving the child Nessa's shoes?

But, okay, I guess since she has absolutely no parental supervision I should go with her and make sure she makes it to the Emerald City, right? Maybe I can steer her towards Elphaba and she can come up with something? Right, good plan. This is a plan.

Oh how can I talk? That's...a good question. I came to be this way yesterday? Nope. No memory at all. Only straw up here. Actually, you know what? That's why I'm going to see The Wizard. Yep. No other reason.

And Fiyero does his typical thing of trying to distract from the bad by making other people happy because he really doesn't want to traumatize this girl more than she already has been.

But, slight hiccup in the plan, they run across a Tin Man who is...fuck...that's totally Boq.

And of course Dorothy, sweet girl that she is, wants to help.

Fiyero is going into a panic hoping Boq doesn't recognize him.

Oh he looks familiar? Huh, that's strange, he was basically born yesterday. Nope, can't say I know you. Nothing but straw up here.

So his plan is now derailed because Boq does still believe in The Wizard and no way is Fiyero letting this guy anywhere near Elphaba. Maybe we can ditch him and what do you mean there is a Lion here too?

Anyway, my point is, if/when we get another Wicked movie, this is the midquel I want.

Keep it as much in line with the 1939 Wizard of Oz as possible without contradicting what we know happens in Wicked. Since this is a Wicked movie, in terms of order of priority of continuity Wicked takes precedent but otherwise defer to Wizard of Oz. Have Jonathan Bailey come back to sing "If I Only Had a Brain". And just keep it as much in this man's POV as you can.

something different from the musical in the film — at the end of the song, the wizard tells elphaba that with her by his side the people “don’t need an enemy” referring to the animals. but in act one, he says nothing unites people better than a common enemy. he’s not contradicting himself; there will still be an enemy. it’s still her. there’s absolutely no way elphaba’s “rehabilitation” into oz would be played as anything but the wizard “taming” her with his “power”. he tells elphaba that if he tells oz the truth that he has no power, they just won’t believe him. and even if they would, he will never do that.

and the addition of glinda in the song just furthers the point that when you stand by the wizard, you really have no voice. everything glinda is in act two is by the wizard’s design. she knows the same things elphaba does, but she doesn’t say it because, like the people of oz, she doesn’t want to believe it. glinda has no authority, whether she is aware of that or not. she sees this as an easy fix — she marries her love, gets her best friend back; and on paper, yes, this is such a happy ending, but she doesn’t realize that she puts elphaba (and fiyero) in a position that limits them. and that doesn’t make her evil or vindictive, it just drives home the point that the wizard is a very convincing con artist.

and what will happen when elphaba tries to advocate for something that is against the wizards vision? they’ll try to silence her, say that she’s still “recovering from her wicked ways” or some bullshit. by the wizard’s side, she will never be taken seriously. and the wizard knows that. so yeah, he’ll let the monkeys go because it’s a small price to pay for having elphaba, someone with immense power, under his control.