Hello, hello everybody. Welcome back to a many episode of Fluently Forward. I saw Wicked and I have so many

thoughts and takes, not really hot takes, but you know, a little bit of bathtub water. And I just wanted to

share it with you guys because I saw Wicked. I didn't have the Wicked bug. Like I've never seen it on

Broadway and I saw the movie and I've been

seen all of these TikToks. And it is layered like an onion. Which, by the way, green character

in both Shrek and Wicked. Interesting. Maybe that's why I liked it. And I just kind of want to talk

about all of these thoughts that I have had on it. A, because I want to get my thoughts out there

before somebody else

has the same thought as me and puts it on TikTok, like so many opinions and everything about Wicked,

and also B, I want to hear your thoughts about it. Just to start at the top, movie was great. Was it

too long? Yeah, it was two hours and 40 minutes. That is too damn long.

It was really well done, though.

You could tell, like, you've been hearing all of these things about how the field of

tulips was like individually actually planted tulips, and they built that whole shiz,

which why did they call it shiz?

But, you know, the boarding school for all of the

people of Oz, as you can tell, I don't know much about the lore, but it was beautiful.

It was really beautiful.

It wasn't as washed out as we were scared it was going to be.

Ariana Grande did.

She both kind of scares me sometimes.

I'm like, I look at her a little bit. Like,

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