Anonymous – Page 2 – The DVD Fairy

I’ve been reading through your account, and your post about where Sadira could have come from (since she’s apparently new in town) made me think: What if she’s from Getzistan? It’s essentially Las Vegas, so there’s probably a well-developed seedy underbelly with organized crime and such. Perhaps her family lost their wealth to gambling/somehow ran afoul of organized crime, and Sadira was forced to the streets- likely at a young age, which I think would help explain her initial ruthlessness.

It’s certainly a debatable point. I wish they had developed more on other locations in the Seven Deserts, for reasons like this.

Good to hear! I hope the move goes well! So will you be resuming our last scheduled broadcast, or maybe do Hook and then return?

I’ll probably resume the episode, but Hook is in the near future, I think.

How you feeling since Robin’s passing? No pressure to come back, return when your ready! <3

Much better, actually! But right now I’m in the middle of moving, so I’ve been kinda focused on settling. Still not finished yet!

But thank you so much for asking.

Hugs Completely understandable. Maybe take a break and do an episode where Genie’s absent or go back to Return to Oz for a bit?

I may do this. When I’m feeling a little better and I’ve finished the episode, I am also considering doing a liveblog of Hook as sort of a farewell tribute.

I don’t understand the getshistan pun? how is it racist?

It’s the name puns in general. They are taking (usually) Arabic names and making puns out of them because “lol arab names sound funny” and it’s no less racist to do that than introduce Native American characters in a show with names like “Chief Premise Running Thin” or making a joke about a pilot on a crashing asian airliner being named “Sum Ting Wong” (among other names), which an American news channel actually did.

…That said, Getzhistan is kind of a stretch. But considering I’ve been tripping over bad name puns since I started doing these liveblogs, it’s not like it’s new? In fact I pretty much expect it, but it bugs me every single time.

Do you buy the headcanon that Aladdin and Mozenrath are brothers, either half or in full? Personally speaking, I’m totally on board with the idea that they’re half brothers via their father.

It was intended for the third movie before they got Robin Williams back and the writers were told to distance the film from the series as much as possible. I think that the way King of Thieves is written negates the possibility unless some other things were at play, because Cassim would have mentioned another son.

In RP, I have played Mozenrath as having been Cassim’s firstborn son, and he has actually been with Destane so long he can’t remember anything from before a certain age, so he doesn’t remember his family or the circumstances that brought him to his mentor. In my longest run playing him (some four or five years of continuous writing), he had magical abilities from a very young age that he couldn’t control, making him especially dangerous because the family had a new baby, too. Around four years old he took ill and Destane appeared, claiming to be a healer. He switched Moze’s body with a glamored mamluk and took him back to the Land of the Black Sand, basically telling him his parents couldn’t take care of him anymore because his magic would inevitably hurt the new baby.

Before I put that character’s timeline on hold he had recovered some memory from closer to that time, so at present he believes his parents gave him to Destane because they didn’t love him anymore, but he can’t remember anything about them or that he had a sibling.

Re Hercules. Icarus’s harassing is iffy but the one thing I do like is that Icarus and Cassandra don’t ever get together and she never expresses romantic feelings for him. She’s gotten fond of him as a friend despite herself. And that’s it. And there’s no awkward triangle with them and Herc, thank goodness.

I think I get you!

Could you try doing “The Wind Jackal Of Mozenrath” next?

It’s on my list. After Dune Quixote I’ll definitely tackle it!

Not jealous exactly she gets to a part of her scroll about friendship and feels guilty about yelling at him is more what happens. Because you know harassment is what you look for in friendship?

The “pursue the girl you want relentlessly until she says yes because it’s romantic” trope is an unfortunate staple in our media.

About Hercules the show, the two main character besides Herc are Icarus and Cassandra and Icarus is always harassing Cassandra no many how many times she tells him to fuck off. Like in any episode that has the two of them you’ll see that. I suggested The Dream Date epi and I think I should warn you about that before you jump into an episode of that show.

I vaguely remember that and I recall it being played for laughs. If I’m not mistaken there’s an episode with Circe (voiced by Idina Menzel), and Cassandra gets jealous when Icarus starts following after her instead. All part of the formula.