20ish years ago, I read Wicked, and loved it.

[aethernaut@mastodon.art]

20ish years ago, I read Wicked, and loved it. It stayed true to Baum’s story, while expanding and deepening the world, and made me sympathize with Elphaba while keeping her a villain.
Then I learned about the play, and from snippets and summaries judged it harshly for missing the point.
Then my wife, whose opinions I respect and often agree with, saw the play, and enjoyed it very much.
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[aethernaut@mastodon.art]

Between then and now I came to understand a couple things. 1, I am generally not the target audience for musicals, which has no bearing on the objective value of musicals. 2, a film or tv adaptation of a book can be its own thing, and should not be evaluated on how closely it adheres to the source.

Yesterday I saw the first Wicked movie for the second time....it is its own thing, I am not the target audience, and also it totally misses the point of the book.
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