corazon is alive and it's canon because I say so

I sincerely liked the inclusion of Glinda in the classroom scene with the lion because in the musical post-Popular she’s just not there when the lion cub is in the cage and Elphaba puts the class to sleep to save him with Fiyero but in the movie, Glinda is there, and she is put to sleep with the rest of the class while Fiyero isn’t, and it’s such a small but very significant detail of the progression of each character’s arc (Fiyero and Glinda) and how much Elphaba trusts them with. Seeing Glinda wake up alone was a gut punch, even if you understand why Elphaba didn’t trust her yet, even if it was an instinct on Elphaba’s part to exclude her, and it’s really cruel foreshadowing for the end of Act 2, when Elphaba and Fiyero once again leave Glinda behind and out of the loop with the truth of Elphaba being alive—and it enhances the tragedy because this time, at the end, Glinda’s character arc is complete and she should arguably be entrusted with that secret, but the seeds have already been planted so long ago, and now it’s too late

I don’t think we talk enough about how the entirety of Wicked is built on the irony of No One Mourns the Wicked. The musical exists because Glinda feels the need to tell Elphaba’s story, because she is in mourning and entirely alone in that. Glinda’s love is what creates the musical because no one mourns Elphaba except her, and that is an incredibly lonely place to be. She’s just lost two of the most important people to her, and all she’s trying to do is make someone, anyone else see how important they were.