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Hi, everyone. And welcome back to one of your favorite segments 【The sound of musicals】欢迎回来【曲外之音】. Hi, Oliver.
Hello.
So today we’re gonna continue to talk about Wicked.
Yes. We're gonna keep going. And you did the impossible, in the last episode by summarizing a brief summary of the story. There's a lot to it.
Of a very long story.
It is. It is. I think it's only fair that I take the lead in this part as we move on to talk about the themes because there are a lot of themes and quite powerful themes, really all the way through this musical Wicked.
Yeah. It's one of those things, isn't it? Like on the surface. It's still quite lighthearted. It's probably based on a children's book.
But there are many big themes, heavy themes.
There are, yeah, definitely, there's a quite a few things to talk about. I mean, the most obvious one straight away is good versus evil. This idea of is someone completely good and somebody else completely evil in any situation. It's one of the most obvious ones I feel.
Yeah. Hence the name Wicked, wicked means evil, right?
Yeah. It does. It means evil, not very nice, maybe not completely evil, but certainly they do bad things. Yeah.
So Oliver, do you think Wicked - it does - because obviously Elphaba is called or tagged as the Wicked Witch of the West?
What do you think of Elphaba the character?
I don't think she is wicked at all. I think that the way that the musical shows her is she did do a lot of things with good intentions. That's the thing. To be evil and wicked, you have to have bad intentions. And I don't feel that Elphaba did. I feel that she was trying to make the best of a situation in a way. And, it didn't go her way, which is a little bit tragic really, it's quite sad that these things as they unfolded turned against her.
There was a lot of discussion about whether good intentions but still bad ending. Does that make you wicked? Does that make you good?