#early draft

But one aspect was the same: the rewrite of the novel's ending to have Elphaba fake her death, Fiyero become the Scarecrow through Elphaba's magic, and the two of them leave Oz together.

I was surprised to see this. Somewhere I had read that in the musical's earliest workshops, Elphaba really did melt. But I guess whoever made that claim was misinformed, because this outline predates any workshops, yet Elphaba lives.

Since I read it, I've been thinking. At this early stage of the show's creation, Glinda's role was much smaller than it ultimately became. Kristin Chenoweth obviously hadn't been cast in the role yet; from all I've read, it was really only with her talent and charisma that Glinda was enhanced from a supporting character into the co-lead and the whole plot was retooled from just "the story of Elphaba" into "the story of Elphaba and Glinda's friendship." While the '98 outline doesn't revolve around Elphaba's relationship with any one person, I will say that in this early concept of the show, her most important relationship is her romance with Fiyero. (Although her relationships with Nessarose and Dr. Dillamond also get more stage time, which was reduced in favor of more Glinda time in the final script.)

This makes sense of what I've read elsewhere, that "As Long As You're Mine" was the first song Stephen Schwartz wrote for the show. The outline suggests titles for several of the songs, but "As Long As You're Mine" is the only song that already has its final title, and the show's finale was originally going to be an "As Long As You're Mine" reprise. The whole show was more Fiyeraba-centric.

(Just for the heck of it, I'd like to hear some fans record a rearrangement of the finale replacing the "For Good" reprise with "As Long As Your Mine," just to hear how it sounds intertwined with "No One Mourns the Wicked" – or rather, with "No One Loves the Wicked," as that song is called in the outline – and create a sense of what this different finale might have sounded like.)

I'm always interested in subtle inconsistencies (or what some people think are inconsistencies) within works of fiction, and looking at possible explanations for them (multiple writers, multiple drafts that changed the story, etc.) I've been thinking of how a certain subset of Wicked fans find Elphaba's ending to be frustrating and unsatisfying. Even knowing that it's supposed to be bittersweet, how can she choose to leave in the end with a man whose relationship with her has been so much less important and less emphasized than her bond with Glinda, without even letting Glinda know she's alive?

In an early script for the movie, apparently Alan was gonna use the raptor vocal chamber that Billy made to sic the Velociraptors on the Spinosaurus during the films climax

This ending ended up getting scrapped, that said it would end up getting repurposed for the climax of Jurassic World when Own sics his raptors on the Indominus Rex.

early skuul sketches (2023)

there's a few cut lines in this scene that I find very interesting. the confirmation that kirk was in fact forced to beat himself unconscious in the commercial break and is only regaining consciousness now. the implication that he and spock have been communicating somehow in a way the audience doesn't see. spock's "I've been thinking of nothing else" is so brutal -- he can't allow himself to act on anyone's terms but his own. I always felt it was another kind of indignity for the platonians to treat them like dress-up dolls, and I like the choice here to draw attention to it in the script.

I am fascinated by the crossed out paragraph. who edited this? why is it such an absolute no to see them patching up their injuries?

interesting that the women should "enter" rather than beam in. and very interesting that scotty should come too! he gets paired with uhura in the later performance scene, while the character of yeoman lennox is paired with kirk. my dad always told me there was a fandom rumour that spock was the one who was supposed to kiss uhura but shatner wanted more screen time and took the scene himself, so it's very interesting to me that it's scotty here. notably, scotty and uhura don't kiss in this scene. they sit together and he scratches her back, which is an odd choice to substitute a kiss, but I guess they were trying to play it safe for censors at first.

and I don't remember the kironide affecting spock in the episode, but in this version, he, kirk, and scotty beat parmen together.

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OH sHOOT!!! I forgot to post these. Ment for these to go up a while ago, however life had other plan so naturally I forgot... uuuh woops...