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kiara :
dude i was so confused when elphaba apologized to glinda😭😭😭 mama she was a horrible person who did you so dirty 😭😭😭
2025-11-23 12:11:24
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Careinn :
I'm still hung up on how Elpheba and fiero are gonna live in that wasteland...
2025-11-22 04:59:12
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Hayley :
I can agree that the movie’s portrayal of Glinda welcoming the animals back is overly simple and cheery in a naive and tonally-disjointed way, but I do think the musical has always implied that Glinda coming into power is a movement in a positive direction and she will take steps to help the animals. Glinda at the end of the show is absolutely still undeserving of power and very flawed and self-serving, and the system still has wickedness, but it’s suggested that Glinda will at least cause less harm than the wizard, largely because she has been impacted by Elphaba, and that’s more than nothing. Maybe as an audience member experiencing Glinda’s character throughout the musical you don’t feel convinced she is able cause any positive change, and that’s fair, but the musical tells us Elphaba believes she can. “You can do all I couldn’t do… now it’s up to you”. That’s why Elphaba is adamant that Glinda doesn’t try to clear her name. Elphaba has accepted that Oz is still too backwards to fully give up their scapegoating, but she has faith that by feeding Ozians the narrative that “The Evil” has been defeated they can now be guided towards a more equal society. It’s very far from a perfect happy ending, and arguably the movie tries to force that too much, but the musical has always presented the idea that positive change can be made and is worth fighting for, even within deeply flawed systems
2025-11-22 01:26:31
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Thotgoth :
My partner who hasn’t seen the musical said the ending was confusing because “Glinda still doesn’t seem like a good person” and I was like yeah dawg she’s not! But i do like that in this ending she gets everything she ever wanted, status adoration and even magic, but it cost her everyone she loves
2025-11-22 19:17:45
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Nadine :
This has been my favorite review so far. I’ve always seen Elphaba as a resistance fighter, trying to dismantle an entire system and liberating those around her. Glinda is the pretty face behind a corrupt system. Sadly Elphaba goes into exile, never really getting justice.
2025-11-22 00:48:47
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dani :) :
Dude for REAL galinda is a villian a PAWN who is so selfish and people not understanding that is such an issue
2025-11-22 01:51:13
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Jess :
I think this is a very shallow take on the movie. While yes in the show, she doesn’t gain magic, the movie isn’t really about Glinda becoming worthy of magic, it’s about her becoming a better person because of Elphaba’s influence. Glinda wasn’t the same Glinda she was at the beginning of the movie as she was at the end.
2025-11-23 16:30:51
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aj ᖭི༏ᖫྀ⋆｡˚𖦹 🦌 :
i thought that the ending was elphaba opening the grimoire to let glinda know she’s okay and not dead
2025-11-22 01:06:08
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Kassandra🏳️⚧️ :
Hollywood is and always has been an agent of the US government, and the US government has always been an agent of the Billionaire oligarch class
2025-11-21 22:43:58
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. :
I hated the ending morally but I see it play out everywhere in real life so I appreciated the nuance. Elephaba loses her home, her loved ones—she’s the one who fights for a better oz and still is the only one forced to leave permanently. Even the other animals she advocates for get to skip out on the work of fighting back and reap the benefits of her resilience. All of elephabas good deeds do end up giving enormous payoff for everyone BUT those who deserve it most (her and fiyero) and that’s devastating but reflective of reality and how scapegoat dynamics play out.
2025-11-23 12:47:02
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Brendis :
YES !!! I think they spoon fed the audience too much to make Glinda less terrible than she really was. I love Glinda but she did horrible things to support a system that led up to her friend being “killed.” I think they made it too fairy tale esque and lost a great message along the way. It’s not a happy ending. The gift was the friendship but their endings are so sad. And this made it too Disney
2025-11-22 21:15:14
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Crystal Justine :
I agree. I prefer the stage ending. I love the darkness of the second act & they tried to make it a “happy ending”.
2025-11-21 22:42:54
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westafricanwhit :
I thought Elphaba had remotely opened it for Glinda to comfort her but that was my takeaway
2025-11-21 22:36:42
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KidTrigger :
I gave it 4/5 the part with Glinda imitating Elphaba’s evil laugh was one of the hardest laughs I ever had 😂😂😂
2025-11-21 22:25:56
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Alex Spiral :
Glinda's end should be seen as a punishment for her, now she has to make amends for her wrongs while supporting the wizard, not even able to clean her friend's image and forced to keep up with a lie because whst matters is the future of Oz
2025-11-22 02:48:27
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Jeannine (Elcee Bee/Writer) :
Totally get what you’re saying but I read it as because of her standing, she’s carrying out Elphaba’s work for her since she can’t. not that she’s worthy to, just that with the circumstances of the world the best Glinda can be is a vessel for all the good elphaba wanted to do
2025-11-22 03:23:51
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megbroph :
My interpretation was that Glinda literally was changed for good by the end. The two movie length allowed for Schwartz to add The Girl in The Bubble, which expands on Glinda realizing how she has to change her ways in order to find true happiness. I don’t think Elphie just automatically gave her full powers, I think she just gave her the ability to learn it. She even tells her she has to LEARN to read it. So I think this is just the first step towards Glinda becoming a good leader that dismantles the system from within.
2025-11-22 07:12:14
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tif 📖🛜 :
It definitely felt rushed and undeserved
2025-11-22 23:54:51
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Yasmine :
For me the ending of the movie felt like, Glinda doesn’t deserve the roll she was given, yet she’s still given it which is unfair, but at the same time she’s forever stuck in the dream she wanted so badly with the harsh “reality” that her spineless/selfish behavior killed her friend and she can only attempt to make up for her sins, like freeing the animals. Elphaba should’ve never been exiled, but at the same time she’s got away from everyone that hurt her and in the end found more happiness then Glinda even tho Glinda got what she she “wanted”. And I too think it was elphaba messing with the book
2025-11-22 06:59:57
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Iniyan :
Exactly. Felt like they were building up(with elphabas plotline/dialogues) a message that the whole system is broken and would need to be torn down and built back up and then in the end it’s all sunshine and rainbows under the leadership of Glinda who spent the whole movie upholding the status quo because it was to her own benefit
2025-11-22 01:45:31
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TJ :
I interpreted the movie as the system isn’t broken, it’s society that’s broken. The wizard said it himself “I could tell them I’m lying, but they wouldn’t believe me”. Blindly following people is dangerous regardless of who you’re following. Glinda wanted to tell them the truth, but she saw that they wouldn’t care nor would they believe her. SOCIETY is the problem.
2025-11-22 03:16:14
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Rusty Jones :
I took the book opening as Elphaba doing it to tell Glinda she was ok, which was something she wanted to do.
2025-11-22 02:47:01
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drewatticusrule :
Okay but like. Are people not allowed to grow? Why does everyone expect characters and people to stay the same? Why is growth seen as a fake veneer? Why is Glinda transforming into goodness instead of performing goodness a disappointment?
2025-11-22 10:53:59
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user286293 :
Jon Chu ALWAYS misses the point of everything he adapts
2025-11-27 14:41:14
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CHRISTINE ⭐️ :
Thought the Grimmerie opens for Glinda because right before it, Elphaba told Fiyero “I wish Glinda knew we were still alive.” Then it immediately flashes back to Glinda and the grimmerie opening to a page of hands. Then flashes back to Elphaba smiling and walking away.
2025-11-23 02:13:45
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