I cried so much while watching this

You're amazing

Thank you writing an amazing love letter to one of my favorite games, one of my comfort games, and an amazing game I always feel many misunderstood

I feel like the vampirism is more like a parasite that reproduces in the next host. It takes some traits of the host and some of the demon, and creates the vampire which takes over the body. It seems like the original intent of the demon who started the whole vampire thing was to slowly retake the earth as a demon world by spreading vampirism and feeding off off the living.

"What if somehow Tara had survived" I'M IN ❤

He's gone total soul eater in this one, good man.

I need to watch this show

This was really well written. And gave me a lot of food for thought

Que análise linda e detalhada, parabéns. Aprendi uma coisa ou outra sobre 'social power', amor e propósito.

You mean mutually as people. You should never see yourself as a victim, because being a victim allows you to disdain others, feel entitlement for yourself (you are owed something), allows you to be perceived as weak by some (therefore easy to exploit or unsuitable to be trusted), and removes the need to see each other as an extended family. All humans are related, therefore are family. Acknowledgement of this even in smaller forms is powerful and for the already powerful it is dangerous since it can not only undermine their power, it can undo it.

Another great material .Thank you.

Thank you so much for this material.

This is probably the first person ive seen put what weve all felt, while reading the books or watching the movie, to words. I felt like ive always known this subconsciously, but its different having someone explain the cruelty and empathy of the games directly to you.

I mean we actually see her about to Go join elfie In this version but then the guards capture her so she was hesitant, but decided to go for it, but then couldn’t bc she was held back. It’s a split second scene but it did happen

1:56 let’s take a moment to appreciate baby Adora… (ADORAble…)

thoughts on cinna? there's a theory that he comes from district 2 and i think it's really interesting

👍 great video!

I joined the She-Ra excitement alittle late but I just finished the series about a month ago and OH MY GOD. Anyway this video, along with your other videos about this beautiful show, was so heartfelt and amazing, I was speechless Good work!

glinda did think elphaba could've dismantled the system from within and achieved what she wanted in the long run - but did she think she'd be able to do it without elphaba? did she even have the same goals as elphaba? I don't think she cared about the animals all that much. the animals' cause was something elphaba deeply cared about and that was the only thing of importance about the animals to glinda: they mattered to elphaba. while elphaba is around, she thinks of achieving elphaba's goals which just happens to include helping the animals. what I'm trying to say is, I don't think glinda joined the wizard with the intention of dismantling the government from within. she wasn't waiting to "pull the strings", she was simply conforming to it all. she assimilated into the system. she simply couldn't resist - after all, who could right? "I hope you're happy you've hurt your cause forever" says a lot but so does "you've grovelled into submission to feed your own ambition"

I agree that glinda's power is people and since she had no magical powers, she probably felt insecure about how much she'd be able to contribute to elphaba's cause. so it makes sense that she stayed. BUT. I think it's important to note that she was wrong to think so - just look at elphaba's other allies: does fiyero have magic? do the animals have social status? no, but they still chose to stand against the wizard. glinda may have felt helpless, yes, but she wasn't.

This is such a beautiful thesis on these beloved characters. Thank you!

i love this series so much, every time i revisit it, i find something new i didn’t pick up on last time around. this was such a well done analysis!

What a full and beautiful explanation. I love your video essays

The topics discussed in this video remind me of a non-fiction book called *A Paradise Built in Hell* by Rebecca Solnit. It challenges a common notion of chaos, panic, lawlessness, etc following natural or man-made disasters. In examing recent and historic natural disasters and personal accounts of the situations that follow, it paints a picture of a humanity not just capable of true empathy and cooperation, but a humanity naturally inclined to do so. I would go further to posit that what such calamitous natural disasters can do is destroy either concepts and objects that highlight divides among us, or at least, our capacity to entertain them. The Hunger Games was intricately engineered to maintain and reinforce divides among the peopke of Panem, but it was always in danger of destroying itself because it fostered the sort of dire survival situations that force out our sometimes latent capacity for cooperation and compassion. Inevitably a person like Katniss would encounter a person like Rue and show how good people can be to one another in the face of horrible circumstances, and inevitably that act would spawn more such acts in response, forming a domino effect, thus going against the game designers' desired effect of pitting districts against one another.

I hate that I can't finish the video cause I don't want spoilers... but I'll be back

"Fiction is an exercise in empathy and critical thought." WELL SAID

this video is an AMAZING analysis!!! havent read the books in so many years, im gonna re-read them now.

Catra is one the most complex characters I had ever seen on a show. I understood that Catra was abused by shadow weaver, that she tried to gain power by playing the big bad villain because that is all she knows, that she was ready to let the world and herself burn and that once she was in a place where she was shown compassion and love, she started to heal. But I was missing this crucial piece about feeling safe. When I watched the show, Catra's actions made sense to half of my brain but not to the other. She feld eratic and inconsistent yet consistently destructive. Your video helped understand her fully and to lover her even more.

0:23 Not even a minute in and that joke made me laugh. I respect your pun hustle. Your punstle, if you will.

Yesss!!! Amazing analysis. In the end, it’s both approaches that were needed to make change. It is Glinda who ousts Morrible and the Wizard and is in a position to help the Animals, because she spent years working within the system. But those changes wouldn’t have happened if she hadn’t met Elphaba and been taught to feel empathy and compassion. They need each other! That’s the whole meaning behind For Good. Ones not right and ones not wrong, just like ones not Good and ones not Wicked. Change wouldn’t have occurred without both of them and the bond they formed

I think people forget that humans are both. We exist simultaneously at both ends of the spectrum, with a propensity for evil and violence and at the same time a propensity for empathy, compassion and love. Both exists within every person and can be pushed forward or suppressed by ourselves and by others. It’s not either/or. It’s both/and.

Currently at 5:45 of the video so I am not sure how far this will cover. From my interpretation of what was shown in the movie, after their major duet part of Defying Gravity, Glinda was willing and was going to jump with Elphaba on the broom but she was caught by the guards and Elphaba cannot really risk being caught herself so while consciously being aware that Glinda was willing to go with her, she had to escape by herself and in that way, one of them at least gets away than both of them getting caught. However, I believe that upon seeing Elphaba fly, Glinda realized she will never match up to what Elphaba is capable of doing at that moment where she has a lot to lose and very little to gain. I think she was right to know that Elphaba was currently having delusions of grandeur and Glinda is very real and realistic to know that. There's nothing much she can do right now, so she had to let Elphaba go by herself.

in another world where it isnt specified that glinda never sees elphaba again, they find eachother along with fiyero and live a happy rest of their lives together (also love the vid)

ive watched this probably 10 times over and it makes me cry by the end every time. I think you captured glinda so perfectly, everyone who considers her “the villain” of wicked needs to watch this so badly.

I really wanted to scream so bad when you finally showed Aang and Zuko because I kept thinking about them the moment I clicked on your video

Imagine a AU story where the watchers aren't a collection of intellectual dipshits and actually sought out Angel to have him give them help on protecting humanity

god it'd sure be a shame if sammuel reindeer compleely assasinated her character then fridged her-

I love how the HG is FILLED with symbolism and like literally every single thing in it can be its own 20 min video

It's genuinely impressive that someone can spend 40 minutes describing the "perfect" cruelty of the games without so much as a mention of the fact the entire scheme is just a sanitised, child-friendly depiction of modern capitalism

Love the video, excellent script!!!

It's a story for a 13 year old

Historically, systems change has only come through violent conflict against the structural powers. Thanks for this video - It's been a very common take lately: "Galinda right, Elphaba wrong / Galinda long-term and Elphaba short-term..." I know that's not your take here but its disappointing to see so widespread - while it is perfectly fair to respect who Galinda is and how she responds to this situation - but its just not accurate to suggest her response is the "correct" response as though that's how the world works - it isn't. Historically, it takes a martyr (or many) who is well loved dies before a conflict begins. Long-term, that martyr is remembered. Whether inside or outside the system that person will suffer, greatly. I think people are so in love with her character that they are fooling themselves into believing that one can simply risk nothing and remain safe and go along with things and they can still make a huge difference without having to be hated or hunted - only in a fantasy. Never happens that way. Back to the movie - one of the things I love about defying gravity is that Elphaba does weigh the odds "til I try, I'll never know" She can't fly when she goes to Emerald city - she learns to fly because she must - in an instant she unlocks power that she never knew that she had. I feel like the last song is telling us to take risks and not to doubt how much power we might have.

This show had so much good in it and it was wasted by bad writing in later episodes

Tactical or naive was such a perfect title! They're both naive in their own way and that's why they're perfect foils. Arianna played the nuance in no one mourns the wicked so well its easy to miss if you're not aware of the story

Historically, most major movements required both Elphabas and Glindas to accomplish their goals. Without an outside agitator, the insiders would get passive and become complicit. Without insiders, the agitators can be shut out of the process and mostly ignored by the system they fight. While this isn’t the way the story goes, because it had to lead into the eventual Wizard of Oz canon, it would have been interesting to see a more cunning approach to the conflict from the two of them using their own positions and skill-sets.

Excellent video, very well put and tightly edited. I have to rewatch She-ra later down the line, and this convinced me to bump it up my priorities. Keep up the good work :)

Yep. 100%. And that’s why WICKED is the ONLY WLW love story that ended in tragedy that I liked. Nay loved. Because that’s what feels authentic. That it is tragedy. That’s what makes these 2 lead female characters incredibly multi-faceted in both their storytelling and representation even without any explicit romance involved between them. It’s not necessary to represent the dimensionality of themselves and their relationship. It’s meant to be a tragedy and it works best as tragedy. Well done once again. You never miss with your studies.

Hey Five By Five I just realized something but Marti Noxon sabotaged season six and seven. Like she literally ruined the last two seasons but why? Did she hate Gellar? Did she hate Whedon? My guess is that she didnt know what she was doing and just let everything fall apart.

I feel like someone sabotaged season 7 and made it something it wasnt because it's mighty weird how the first six seasons have a cohesiveness and the last one dont. So the question is who sabotaged the final season?

I have wondered if Snow wanted to capture Pete not Katnis as the 75th hunger games went to sh*t for him because if he saw Lucy grey in Katnis, did he see himself in Peta. Is that why he is so aggressive with Gale. Gale reminds him of the ex boyfriend of Lucy Grey. He is the boy she once loved. Is he on some level feeling he is saving Peta by taking him hostage and torturing him.