It’ s not a story for people who like The Wizard of Oz. So who is it for? origin story for the Wicked Witch of the West, Wicked delights in subverting elements of the 1939 movie, and without getting into spoiler-y specifics will do so even more in the Act 2 sequel. And it’ s largely because of that that I’ ve never been much of a Wicked fan.
It’ s not a story for people who like The Wizard of Oz. So who is it for? origin story for the Wicked Witch of the West, Wicked delights in subverting elements of the 1939 movie, and without getting into spoiler-y specifics will do so even more in the Act 2 sequel. And it’ s largely because of that that I’ ve never been much of a Wicked fan.
If you like the Oz stories, Wicked can be a tedious story to engage with. It recasts the well-intentioned but fraudulent character of the Wizard as a malicious, discriminatory villain, gives bizarre and convoluted backstories to Dorothy’ s companions, and, by making the Wicked Witch a sympathetic and heroic character, it changes Dorothy from a character who inadvertently defeats an evil force through kindness to a pawn used against a misunderstood victim of an unjust system. It’ s not a
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