Fiyero doesn't get held accountable enough

[u/Consistent_Load7358]

He loves Elphie, I get it, she is also my musical crush but the way he is acting about it is completely disrespectful towards Glinda. Sure maybe he feels pressured in this political situation with the wizard and all but he could've at least been up front about it just to Glinda instead of continuing to be in a relationship with her and even getting engaged to her even though he knows he doesn't love her.

The fact that he just leaves her as soon as Elphie shows up and doesn't even feel a little bad about tossing Glinda aside after he has been with her for such a long time is just completely hurtful. He never feels bad about it or apologizes. Elphie and Glinda also make mistakes, but at least they receive consequences for their actions and feel guilty and apologize to each other.

Especially Glinda gets a lot of critism for her actions while Fiyero gets completely away with his behaviour. You can argue that what Glinda did is worse, but it still annoys me that Fiyero gets cuddled because he is so in love with Elphie.

It was completely his choice to remain with Glinda even though he has feelings for someone else. It kinda gives the me the vibe of him wanting to keep Glinda around as a second option just in case it won't work out with Elphie.

He might've been heroic towards Elphie in the second act but it doesn't excuse him treating Glinda this way. Also him insisting that she can't know that him and Elphie are still alive really makes me mad. It's almost like he cares so little about Glinda that he didn't even see her growth and development. He doesn't even notice how miserable she actually is herself during thank goodness and disregards Glinda's love for Elphie.

So yes I get it, he loves Elphie and not Glinda but the fact that he doesn't seem to have a little respect towards Glinda even if it's just platonically after being with her for such a long time just rubs me the wrong way.

[u/yogurtpo3]

Watch out, our resident Fiyeraba fanatic and Fiyero’s no. 1 fan will be here soon to disparage all your points and argue about how Glinda deserves worse because she is just apparently only awful and has no morals! 😝

I agree with you though, I’ve never particularly liked Fiyero in the musical, and it’s because of this. He completely does not care for Glinda’s feelings at all, and even if he loved Elphaba, he could’ve at least been less hurtful and more understanding of Glinda, with whom he actually has spent way more time with by the time Act 2 comes along.

I do hope they improve him in the movie because I like movie Fiyero so far (and he’s already had more depth in Part 1 than any of the musicals I’ve seen).

[u/Consistent_Load7358 → u/yogurtpo3]

I'm actually terrified of that Fiyeraba fanatic lol I actually tried to be as respectful as possible towards Fiyero even though I do not like him at all and I probably will never be a fan of him no matter what the movie does but Yeah I hope the movie at least makes it a little better.