So we know on this Summer’s Big Brother, what happened with Rachel Reilly and the show. Literally, for the first time ever outside of a first episode, elimination, had somebody eliminated from the show without any vote taking place, and that was Rachel Riley.
She had to finish that puzzle in less than what, three and a half minutes, and she couldn’t do it, and that sent her home. I already forget the name of it, but it was a bad idea. Nobody seemed to like it. Purists of the Big Brother franchise hated it. And as I said, outside of people who got eliminated in the first episode, nobody from this show had ever gone home without being voted out by the rest of their castmates, housemates, whatever you wanna call them, until Rachel.
Well, something happened in Australia over the weekend, big Brother Australia, that you really hope that Allison Groner, who is the executive producer behind the US version of Big Brother. Wasn’t paying attention to this and hasn’t written it down as a future idea for the US version, because this sounds awful.
From what I’ve gathered, there was a double elimination. Someone got eliminated because of votes. They were voted out, but the second elimination of the night, they called the show called a random fa. So there was three people up for eviction. One of ’em got eliminated because of votes, and now there were two people up and rather, I don’t know, the rest of the housemates voting them out.
The show called a random fan and said, you get to cast the sole vote to evict. And oh yeah, that person ended up evicting the only person of color in the house this season. I mean. Guess the BB Australia crowd is going nuts. They’re hating this, and geez, just being here in the United States, I would hate it too.
I think that’s a horrible, horrible idea. Calling somebody, calling a fan and saying, Hey, you get to eliminate whoever you want right now. It’s between these two, but you get to make the deciding vote. How in the world did any producer think that was a good idea? Allison Groner. Better not steal that from BB Australia for BB 28 next summer because there might be a riot outside of the CBS studios if she does.
And finally, I’m gonna talk about Wicked for Good right now. So if you haven’t seen it and you don’t want to hear my thoughts on it, which are gonna include plot lines and spoilers, by all means, I would check out right now. ’cause this will be the rest of today’s podcast. So I went into it and even though I saw it on Friday, which was the first official day, it was out, I think nationwide.
They do the early releases and media did get to see it on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of last week. So I had seen some spoiler free reviews of it before I went into it and. Most of the reviews have been negative, and after seeing it, I wouldn’t necessarily say it was negative. I don’t have a negative review of it, but you also gotta remember, I did not read the book and I did not see the musical, so I have nothing to compare it to.
Well, I say I did not see the musical. That’s a lie. I saw it. I don’t remember a thing about it. Including the main thing at the end of the movie and was also at the end of the musical. Like if you haven’t checked out now, for the spoiler alert, it’s coming in 3, 2, 1. I had no fucking idea that Feba lived.
The wicked witch of the West never died in this movie and in this story, she didn’t melt. She faked her own death and she ends up running off with Fierro. I had no idea about that. I’m glad I stayed away from that. I did not know that I stayed away from every spoiler for the last year, but it was an interesting twist that I did not know.
But overall, is it better than the first movie? No, not in my opinion. And I think most people that watched for good agree. It wasn’t as good, but you also gotta remember, this isn’t two movies. This is kinda like the Back to the Future Trilogy. It’s one long movie. They just split it up into two parts. Back to the Future is literally one long movie that they split up into three parts.
It’s all connected. Wicked was not, oh, let’s make a sequel after first one did. So good. No. This was the story. They just took a two and a half hour play that was a musical and turned it into a four and a half hour, close to five hour movie and split it up into two parts. So with that said, I can’t compare it to the book and I can’t sit here and be like, well, the book said this and the movie said this, and the musical did this, and the movie did this.
So maybe I’m not the greatest critic. But I will say the first one was just better because the songs were better and it was more positive, it was more upbeat. But that’s the story. Everybody that has seen the play and seen the musical has basically said the second half of the musical is just a lot darker.
So the movie wasn’t gonna completely change the whole plot line from the musical. Of course not. So with that said, remember how for a year I was like, it’s just so confusing to me because I don’t understand how Dorothy and the Scarecrow and the Tinman can even be involved in this, since that was a dream of Dorothy’s in the Wizard of Oz, the movie, and I understand that, you know, wicked was written in the nineties.
I understand that, but I was like, how is this incorporated? Well, I got my answer. And the answer is wicked really has nothing to do with Dorothy and her journey. It’s background noise. Wicked is about alpha and Glinda and their journey and their friendship and the push and pull, the tug of war of power in.
You know, Elphaba wanting to expose the Wizard, Glinda being on the wizard side, but then seeing his evil ways. It’s all about that. About halfway through for good is when we get to Dorothy’s story, but we never see Dorothy’s face. Like I thought that was a big thing going in. Now I know. No, like I thought we were gonna be revealing who played Dorothy in this movie.
They’d never show her face. We clearly know it’s Dorothy. They show clips of her. They show her meeting the Wizard Wizard, telling her, go get the wicked witch of the West. Bring me the wicked witch of the West broomstick. We see her throwing water, but it’s all done without showing her face. And come to find out at the end of the movie, it was just some actress.
Who is a theater actress in London and they just made her Dorothy, but we never see her face. Her face is now on Instagram. ’cause she posted, but, and we saw her name at the end of the movie and the credits. But for some reason I was building up the whole, for the last year, thinking that when we see Dorothy in for good, it’s gonna be, they’re, they’re keeping it a secret and we’re gonna be wowed by who the actress is that plays her.
No, not at all. But I’m fine with it. I just didn’t know if I would’ve known that going in, it wouldn’t have bothered me nearly as much. But now I’m fine with it. This is all about Glenda and Alphabet, that’s all this movie is. This two part movie is about them. I thought Ariana Grande was excellent in the second one.
I thought Cynthia Arrivo was excellent. And again, I can’t compare it to the musical, the second part of the musical, I can’t compare it. To the story, but yeah, for good is a lot darker than part one and rightfully so, just because if you know the story, it makes all the sense in the world why the second part would be darker.
It’s basically the consequences of one’s actions and they just played so well off each other, Cynthia and Ariana, that I could never dislike the movie. But again, you have to compare it like, Hey, which one was better? Even though it was one long movie, if they showed it as one long movie, when it was released last year, I would’ve just said, yeah, the last half of the movie was a lot slower and a lot darker, and the songs weren’t as good.
But still, it was a really, really powerful story. And I think that’s what people are tuning in for, especially if you love the musical. I don’t know if people who love the musical are gonna see this second half and be like, Ugh, hated it. I don’t think most people hated it. The critics don’t seem to like it.
But I think the critics, I don’t know, maybe they all were comparing it to the first one, I’m not sure. But I definitely didn’t dislike it and I’ll probably go see it again. But is it a little bit slower? Does it not have as many good songs? And is it darker? Yes. Yes and yes. So just know that what would I give it grade wise, B plus A minus First one I gave an A, so wasn’t a huge drop off.
And I just now know the story that I didn’t know before last year when I saw the first one. Now I know. And. My anticipation for the whole, how are they going to incorporate Dorothy and the Scarecrow and the Tin Man and the lion into this? It’s like, well, they didn’t really, ’cause they have nothing really to do with it.
It’s more about background noise of, Hey, yeah, the Dorothy stuff was happening during all this. But this story of Wicked is about Elba and Glenda’s relationship. Anyway. Thank you all for listening. I really appreciate it. Follow me in Apple Podcast. Also, rate and review, but you gotta hit play. It’s the only way it counts is a download Sports Daily coming up in an hour from now, so go check that out.
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