Jonathan Bailey Behind The Scenes Of WICKED

Fiyeraba shenanigan from the Fiyeraba chat

Based on this post here

only homophobes prefer fiyeraba to gelphie

ok that's not even true

Fine, you want to know what I love so much about Fiyeraba? I'll tell you.

Knowing Elphaba changes both Fiyero and Galinda. They're never the same again. Fiyero embraces that. He doesn't want to go back to not caring because he loves caring about her no matter how frustrating and difficult and painful it is. He's willing to run away for her through the entirety of act 2 and does it as soon as he's given the chance.

Glinda changes too, but she hangs onto her old dreams. She's so sure she can make herself happy with the things she used to want, even if she isn't happy she'll get there, she couldn't be happier, even if it isn't true YET it WILL BE because she will MAKE IT SO...

That's the difference. Both of them are never the same again for having known Elphaba, and both of them love her, but Fiyero is the one who makes the sacrifice. He's the one who embraces it. Glinda wants to, deep down, and her tragedy is as much her own fault as any other events of the musical.

She and Elphaba sing For Good, of course. Glinda acknowledges the change in the end and is a better person for it. But not before she loses everything and everyone that really matters to her. That's her tragedy and I could scream and cry about it all day.

Fiyero runs off with her. Maybe it's a rash choice, but it's the one he knows he has to make. He can't do the whole "life is painless for the brainless" thing anymore so he embraces the pain because even if love hurts, he's willing to let it hurt if it means experiencing all the joy that comes with love.

That's why fiyeraba > gelphie for me. And don't get me wrong, I ADORE Glinda. She's probably my favorite character, because I relate to her in a lot of ways (me too, Glinda. I would cause my own tragedy in that situation too) and her story is aafgjsdfkgjsdfhgkjshkjfgsf i could lose my mind over it. But as a ship? Fiyeraba. That's where the romance is at. He's the one who deserves her, not because he's a better person than Glinda, but because he's willing to act on having become a better person, while Glinda clings to the threads of a dream that will never be fulfilled, because she'll never be the person she was when she dreamed it up.

the german version of as long as you’re mine is so much more direct than the english one tho

the english version has some subtle implications whereas the german one is basically like ‘yeah let’s have some hot sex lmao’

JONATHAN BAILEY as FIYERO in WICKED (2024) dir. Jon M. Chu

CYNTHIA ERIVO as Elphaba and JONATHAN BAILEY as Fiyero in Wicked: Part One (2024)

Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero Tigelaar and Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba Thropp in WICKED (Part 1)

CYNTHIA ERIVO AS ELPHABA THROPP WICKED: PART ONE (2024) dir. John M. Chu

Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero Tigelaar in Wicked (Part One)

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2x01 I 2x08 I 3x07

I think one of my favorite parts of the new wicked movie is how "dancing through life" shows the problem I have with pride as a concept.

When Fiyero is singing it, he's not being proud. He's just living his life! Being happy! Having fun! He's just some guy, he gets to dance through life, doesn't he? Nobody would have a PROBLEM with him dancing through life, it's just how he's supposed to do it! He doesn't have to defy anything, he doesn't need to stand his ground. He gets to just be a person.

But Elphaba doesn't.

She doesn't get to just be happy, or just be deserving of respect, or, for that matter, just BE. So she needs to try, over and over. And over. She needs to approach people every single time, see if this time, they'll let her be a person. And the night before the club, she just had Glinda show her two gestures of friendship- with Nessa and the hat. So she got to think, will I get to be one of them for once? And she came to the club, to dance, just like everyone- but nope, still not a human. They laugh at the freak, the green freak with the pointy hat. So she has to be proud. She'll put her hat down on the floor and make up a dance for it. She'll put the most upsetting parts of herself on full display as an act of defiance, she'll spin for all those people like a preformence because that's what they turned her onto. Might as well make the best out of it, might as well be everything they hate her for, might as well dance in the ten-feet circle of repellency that her essence seems to project and let them watch, if her dancing at the club is something to gawk at, then let them gawk! If that's what they make her into, then that is what she'll be! She's not gonna cry, or run, or stutter, she'll dance! This is her war.

But then Glinda comes and dances with her, and you can see her pride melting away. As she finally gets a friend, finally gets to put down her guard, finally gets to be accepted. She doesn't have to be proud. If she can be accepted, if she can be safe, then she won't have to fight anymore. She, too, can dance through life.

And in a way, that's true. You can see how throughout the movie, she stops directing her anger at everyone who looks at her wrong, because she comes to terms with the fact that she CAN find people who love her. It doesn't need to BE about her. Society has fundamental problems that need to be fixed. Cruelty and pain are symptoms, not the essence of the problem. She needs to defy the very gravity keeping her down.