Palmer, from Palmer’s world has quite a few positive things to say about Wicked the Musical, here is a small excerpt:

Let’s talk Darth Vader for a moment shall we? In the original set of films, Vader is set up as a menacing figure and there’s a touch of his tragic figuredom in Return of the Jedi. Then when the prequels came out, we see an entirely different side to Vader and it turns out that now people really feel sorry for the guy in the end.

I would like to say that the creator of Wicked took George Lucas’ idea and applied it to the Wicked Witch of the West. She definitely is portrayed as a tragic character in this musical (maybe the novel as well? I would assume so.) as she tries to battle a corrupt power in Oz. She tries to do good but in the end the only way she can achieve this is to become ‘wicked’.

Read Palmer’s entire Star Wars analysis of Wicked.

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