The DVD Fairy

Just a note: When you need to make an impression, add spiders. I now have no doubts that this man is evil.

“They’re baaaaaaaack.”

I really want to know how long he’s been living in this canyon out in the desert, because somebody should have taken note of this by now. (Then again the shopkeeper that sold the dragonfly didn’t seem to know there was a village down there either.)

Also how did he FIND the dragonfly? That’s the sort of thing that’s more likely to do the most damage in large numbers, like the beetles, but you don’t see any of them with the attack force. I doubt Mechanicles threw it out because it wouldn’t work. Like the Sultan he’d be able to tell exactly what’s wrong with it. Anyway, I’m thinking too much about it. On to our villain!

Where we also learn that you can’t have world domination without clean floors.

He also seems to have a problem with the villagers because they’re “disorderly,” or he just thinks “disorderly” is a good insult. It’s very likely that he wants them to flee the canyon so there isn’t a steady supply of people poking about there while he’s trying to build a mechanical army.

Also I love that his henchbug is named Scooter.

And I am impressed at the level of intelligence exhibited at least in THIS particular model of the beetle. It’s distinctive and has been given a name, so he put more work into it. But it could reproduce a perfect illustration of their enemies.

I’m still thinking that Mechanicles made a deal with Hades or something to make the AI work on these things. Because I simply can’t work out in my head how he could give all these creatures such awareness with only clockwork parts and no clear power source, beyond OIL.

Also this happens:

Just every now and again. You know he means business because of the spiral eyes.

Oh Charlie Adler, you have so much fun with your lines in this show.

And to be a good villain, you’ve got to have a clear agenda. He has this covered.

I’m not sure if it’s in this episode or another one that he announces he’ll take out the garbage after he takes over the world. But damn. That garbage is never gonna get taken out, is it?

ALADDIN STOP STARING AT IT AND DUCK!

This is also an entire episode of Jasmine being so done with Aladdin’s shit.

So the Golden Plague shows up, and Aladdin, predictably, sends Genie and Carpet to work:

And Jasmine is just like

“Get your ass out there before I roundhouse kick you in the face.”

Because she may be a princess and not yet a queen? But that also makes her a leader. And she knows what it takes to BE a good leader. And being a showoff who doesn’t recognize what MAKES a great leader – especially when you are going to be SULTAN one day? Is bad. So you knock that shit off, Aladdin.

So they mentioned the canyon but not the totally cool “swoosh” on top of it.

Welcome to the village of… “In a Bad Way.” Not even going to try to make it into a foreign sounding word. That’s what they’re saying. That’s what it is.

I’m actually going to pretend that the guy who said it gave that name to Aladdin so they’d seem more pitiable and because he thinks Aladdin is a chump.

Because he kind of is.

Also I CAN HEAR YOU, LEONARDO. You might think you can fool everyone else in the world but I know you’re really a Ninja Turtle.

I have to tell myself that the Sultan does this because he’s still learning to regard certain non-humans in the room as people.

Because he can be ignorant like that.

“We have poor people? (We’ll get to that episode soon.)

Seriously, Aladdin, you can be such a dick to your friends. I wonder if Jasmine complained to the network or something because this being addressed as a problem surprised me, especially considering that Aladdin has taken credit for the stuff that Genie and Carpet have done before.

Even Genie’s catching on to it.

Something tells me that this will probably be one of those episodes where one of Aladdin’s flaws is actually addressed for a bit. But whether he learns a lesson by the end or apologizes is up in the air because it has already gone both ways before.