I’ve got multiple requests for Power to the Parrot, so I’ll look into finding it.
I can’t address Night of the Living Mud until I’ve done Mudder’s Day, which I’ve been kind of dragging ass on. I’ll get to it eventually!
Totally agree about Action!Jasmine getting her own doll. Also agree that Aladdin and Jasmine should have gotten more badass episodes like this one. So what’s next?
God, I want that doll D:
I’m actually not sure what I’m doing next, but I actually want to eventually get to Black Sand just so I can yell at it.
But before I do that one I have to do Love At First Sprite and Lost City of the Sun (which I will also yell at).
Requests are still welcome!
I just want to point out, with a certain amount of satisfaction, that Jasmine is once again the one who figures out how to beat Mozenrath.
She notices that Scirocco only acts when Mozenrath commands him to (and he’s just commanded him to kill Aladdin). And Iago’s off in the background mimicking him because talking is something he does well, and we’ve known from movie one that he could do this.
Jasmine decides they can use that.
So suddenly, Scirocco hears his master’s voice telling him to get lost.
Aladdin catches on quickly and because apparently Mozenrath is very good at getting caught in this position he’s able to keep him quiet until Iago’s commanded Scirocco to fly to the furthest corner of the earth and never return.
No seriously, that’s the second time this episode that Aladdin’s caught him like this.
This is the first episode where Mozenrath’s been manhandled by anyone but Jasmine, period, so maybe he’s just surprised. (Edit: Well no. Aladdin pushed him onto a table in his first episode. Whoopee.)
(That’s right, folks. Jasmine kicked Mozenrath in the face before Aladdin ever so much as threw a punch at him. Think about that.)
Aladdin, you’re not helping.
An often-referenced moment in the series. I’ve discussed it myself when asked about what I think regarding Mozenrath and his sexual orientation. He’s…guys, he’s not interested in getting a girlfriend. He’s not interested in sharing his spoils with anybody, and as I’ve mentioned in previous posts – regardless of creepy, threatening behavior – I just don’t think it’s something he thinks about that much. I still sincerely doubt he’d know what to do when it came down to it because he’s had no reason to.
Backtracking a little to discuss Mozenrath and Jasmine
Because I brushed past it and we really shouldn’t ignore prime examples of Mozenrath being a creep. Because he was being an enormous creep during this.
The interesting thing is that they didn’t play up him being a creep as something to piss Aladdin off, this time. His exchange with Jasmine in this scene is just between the two of them. He regards her as a threat in her own right now.
Bear in mind that in Dagger Rock her presence was pretty damn incidental when he kidnapped Aladdin. This was between the two of them, and until Jasmine actually showed up at Dagger Rock, he refused to even entertain the idea that she would get involved.
He knows better now, and he now has a grudge against her that is completely separate from her association with Aladdin. (Which makes the chin-touching and the pet names that much more creepy, because he’s deliberately being physical and faux-affectionate as a means to get under her skin, to threaten her.)
That’s creepy. I seriously can’t comprehend how people ship these two, because that shit is creepy.
I have mentioned on numerous occasions that I don’t like how villains threaten Jasmine as a means of hurting Aladdin. Especially when it comes off as borderline hints at sexual assault. And it happens way too much in a show aimed at children. This is only different in that it’s not about Aladdin, for once. He’s doing it specifically to hurt her. To anger her. To scare her. Because she defied him and threw him into his own trap, defeating him in a fairly humiliating fashion.
And I don’t think the writers addressed this often or made it the focus of a single episode because they know that shit is creepy.
This is one of the very few villains in the show who develops grudges against main characters other than Aladdin for reasons other than being one of Aladdin’s friends. But recognize that this guy is a bad guy for a reason.
“It was worth getting up early for this.”
Mozenrath, you’ve literally been up all night waiting for UPS to deliver that crate and then you bopped all the way over here. You did not “get up early.”
Pictured: how Wal-Mart erodes small businesses.
Oh look. The writers made the noxious fumes and gasses part for a few minutes so that they could make their crappy trap work.
I am so irritated right now.
Anyway, apparently “the brat who would be king” (as Iago calls Mozenrath) has MOST of his bases covered.
Apparently he didn’t count on Abu being useful.
At this point I almost expect each episode featuring Mozenrath to include just one character in Aladdin’s entourage that Mozenrath doesn’t take seriously enough, who then gets to do something to prove he should probably take equal precautions with everyone.
Oh right. And this episode takes a second to shit on the Sultan some more.
Let me be specific: I would have no problem with things like this if they were consistent. The point is that they’re not. There are a million episodes in the series alone that contradict that the Sultan is as absent-minded as the writers seem to often want us to think he is. I just want them to go one way or the other with it. It’s so exasperating.
Aaaand then Moze lost me at the death trap, but it’s actually not his fault.
There’s a giant diamond in the dome. Presumably when the sun hits it, it will burn everyone to death.
I’m gonna come right out and say it: this is an ill-conceived scheme. Ill-conceived on almost an Abis Mal level. But it’s not because Mozenrath planned it badly. It’s because the writers forgot that the sun doesn’t shine very well in this part of his kingdom.
Now I know what you’re thinking: Most of the episode has taken place at night, so it is naturally dark and creepy, and dawn is approaching, still!
Well, that’s all fine and dandy, but this is what the Land of the Black Sand around the Citadel looks like during the day:
THERE IS NO WAY THIS DEATH TRAP CAN WORK.
Writers, I am not angry. I am disappoint.
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