I know what Genie is trying to do here but it’s kind of his fault that Jasmine’s engaged to the evil undead, too.

Genie does reverse psychology and agrees that everything is Aladdin’s fault. To make Aladdin angry. 

“How was I supposed to know giving Jasmine a gift was going to unleash that guy?" 

MAYBE IF YOU READ THE WARNING LABEL ON THE BOX. OR PAID ATTENTION WHEN THE JEWEL STARTED SMOKING. OR WHEN THE BAD WEATHER CAME UP. 

You had every opportunity! All of you. Everyone at that site dropped the ball on this one. You suck. This is your fault. Now go fix it. 

Remember when I said I don’t like it when allusions to sexual assault are used to make female characters feel more threatened?

Back in this post?

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That’s pretty much

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the ENTIRE

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EPISODE. 

And this is just one reason why I don’t like this character and am dragging my ass finishing this liveblog. And with a premise like this I suspect this is why the animators made him so cartoony to begin with. To make him seem less threatening. But he is. He is threatening. And the style of the character, which isn’t really consistent with the background, is jarring, not comforting. 

And if I’m not mistaken this is pretty much why this character, when he appears later in the series, is pretty much no longer dead set on getting Jasmine. 

Because this shit is creepy and it’s not okay.

Also there’s a B-plot with Iago and the Genie selling off the magic spice by lying about what it can do. I found this tedious so I won’t be covering it. The only thing you need to know is that they sold it all before Aladdin could stop them.

In which Aladdin admits something is his fault. This happens maybe three times in all the movies and episodes combined.

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Of course he thinks it’s JUST that he had to give the necklace to Jasmine and not that he’s the kind of reckless archaeologist that Indiana Jones would sooner ditch than work with, who doesn’t read the warning labels.