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Even if you don’t do a whole hercules watch I think you should try checking out hercules and the dream date to see the fracking animation. Like it was so far superior to the rest of the shows animation and so smooooooth. Like It’s amazing, I found it on youtube and was shocked at how good the damn animation was.

I will definitely put that on my list. The animation was a turnoff for me when I was younger because it was such a step down from the movie. For the longest time I didn’t even KNOW there was a crossover with Aladdin.

so that was a lie hahaha, so really, how have you been?

Yeeeeah it really was, and I apologize. Pretty much everything’s been on hold because I didn’t get any classes to teach this semester so I’ve been looking for work. The good news? I’m about to start training on a full time job, and I’ll be working from home, and the income is going to be so good that it’s literally going to change my life. Keep me in your thoughts!

One of my major problems with the Aladdin series is that it seems like Jasmine and Aladdin fight more than they actually show they love each other. In the movie, it seemed that they really liked each other’s point of view but in the TV show it seems like they’re always fighting and then make up for end-of-the-episode moment. :/

I’m not necessarily certain I agree, but I guess I can see why it looks like that. I’ve covered a few episodes recently where they start off fighting, but that’s the thing: they’re not perfect. They are going to have conflicting ideas. Even when they disagree and make each other mad they still love each other. Sometimes an episode will briefly focus on that, as well. In “Elemental My Dear Jasmine” Aladdin entertains the notion that because Jasmine is angry at him, she might decide to stop loving him, which can’t be further from the truth. “We may have our disagreements, but nothing can come between us,” she says to Saleen.

Been snooping your blog. Please explain how you enjoy the animation in this episode? They are all drawn poorly and horribly off their character sheets. The plot is enjoyable but besides that, this animation studio is up there with the worst!

I thought I had explained this already. I think the movements are very fluid, the characters very expressive, their rendering unique. I find it quite charming overall, in fact, and it’s among one of my favorite Mozenrath episodes with regard to overall animation.

I definitely don’t think it’s the worst or anywhere close to the worst. That distinction is reserved in my heart for “The Lost City of the Sun,” which is poorly animated to the point of being laughable, which is a shame because it features a big character reveal (for which they brought in another set of animators — for the whole ten seconds this takes place — and then switched right back).

You’re allowed to disagree with me, certainly, but just look at it.

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That’s not even a between frame. That’s how he looks for that whole shot.

I dunno, agreeing that Dagger Rock is among the worst animated because it looks different as opposed to actually sloppy (Lost City) would mean agreeing that different is necessarily bad, which it’s not. Take Mirage’s dramatically different design in “The Lost Ones” — different, not conforming to character sheets at all, but also? Superior. Cleverly animated, more expressive, unique, and just pretty to look at.

Your posts got me thinking – I always wondered how Jasmine managed to get from from being forbidden to leave the palace at all to going out on extremely dangerous adventures all the time. I’m surprised she doesn’t meet resistance from her dad about running off on dangerous quests more often.

I think he trusts Aladdin to take care of her at this point, and it’s as simple as that. And over time I also think he’s come to accept that she has been out in the streets of Agrabah and it’s done nothing but increase her ability to communicate and empathize with her people.

What’s your head canon regarding Mozenrath’s sexual orientation? Fandom’s all over the place on this one and personally, I think he’s bi and gives no fucks what other people think about it.

When I’ve RP’d straight from the end of the series I’ve always had him undecided on that point, because he’s “married to his work.” Necromancers in old folklore and stuff tend to be celibate, so I’ve always written him as celibate, especially toward the end of the series when the effects of the gauntlet weigh a little heavier on him. Especially devoted practitioners, depending upon traditions, would likely involve a lot of ritual and fasting, which if overdone can do things like kill your sex drive. (And yes I have written him recovering from that.)

Mozenrath is kind of a mixed bag and seems to dabble all over the place, so he’s not by any stretch of the imagination strictly a necromancer, but one thing we do know about his necromantic practices is that by the time his run of episodes is in full swing he is maintaining a pretty sizable contingent of Mamluks.

In the show, he’s only shown interest (read: been a creep at) Jasmine in any way that might be deemed sexual in nature, and that could be his genuine perception of things or one Hell of a front, since we’ve already discussed that he’s not a reliable storyteller.

However, based on all of that? I think it could go either way and have always tackled it in a rather ambiguous fashion in writing or RP, that way that anything that happened to him could happen organically, during the story. Hell, he could just as easily be asexual or fall onto any point in between. Sexuality, even if you take a dominant role, runs the risk of placing you in too vulnerable a position or at the very least reveals vulnerability. He’s too busy, too sensitive about being seen as anything other than powerful, and overall too untrusting of other people to take that chance with anybody.

Strictly from a series standpoint? I don’t think he’s interested enough in people to think about it. And I’d also posit that not only is he a virgin, but also that he wouldn’t know what to do with any person that expressed sexual interest in him. He might know enough to fake it for a while, so as not to lose face, but that flight’s gonna crash and burn sooner or later 😐

Episode requests: Sandswitch, cause that was one of my faves as a kid, the Seems Like Old Crimes two-parter because BACKSTORY, and Forget Me Lots, because Jasmine is quite possibly the most competent villain the show ever had.

I wanted to do Forget Me Lots before but I couldn’t find a video in decent enough quality. If anyone wants to PM me a link to an HD version that’d be great.