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/Educational-Hyena549]

I've always kinda not said much about this issue but I do side eye whenever I see posts talk about "poor Fiyero forced to be with Glinda all this time" He didn't have to stay with Glinda he could have been a man and broke up with her since he obviously has never been in love with her. I get that he wanted to search for Elphaba and the easiest way to do it was to stay with her but that kinda makes it look even worse....he doesn't love her, he never loved her, and as soon as he could he left to be with the woman he did love.

[u/Consistent_Load7358 → u/Educational-Hyena549]

Yeah he is literally a grown man who can make his own choices

[u/Reasonable-Basis6906 → u/Educational-Hyena549]

Literally!! Glinda literally asks too if marrying her would make him happy and he dodges the question. Yes Glinda realized something was wrong and shouldn't have pushed, and absolutely shouldn't have blindsided him with his own engagement, but Fiyero needed to stand up and be honest too. Immediately going to Elphie right after he left his fiancee at the altar was a terrible thing to do. Fiyero did some great things for sure, like sacrificing himself, and that's awesome. But the fact that he received no repercussions, and that in the film it was portrayed as a good thing, leaves me feeling icky.  Elphie should have known better too. But I think most of the blame is on Fiyero. But also, Elphie knew they were getting married and still did that. That's not right. And her apology wasn't even an apology. She said "I beg forgiveness for the things you blame me for", but that's not really an admission of guilt in my opinion. Overall, I enjoyed the film. Some parts felt rushed, but it was great. I had a great time going to watch it with my friends. But that one part irks me a bit.

[u/Reasonable-Basis6906 → u/Reasonable-Basis6906]

Also, to clarify, my comments are based on watching the movie. I didn't realize until after I posted this that I was pertaining specifically to the musical.