So a lot of interesting unexplained stuff is happening in this scene. Aladdin, Abu, and Iago have wandered into this alley because Aladdin is lost. In a city he’s lived in all his life. All seventeen years of it, which he clearly says in this scene. For those wanting a definitive number to go by, this episode gives you one.
This episode was written after “Forget Me Lots” – which I’ll cover at a later date. Significant because of Jasmine’s badass costume and because it’s their one-year anniversary of their first date.
Back to the weirdness of this scene.
Specifically, he says that everything seems like it’s been moved around.
Then, this guy shows up.
Fasir is a character you likely recognize from multiple other episodes, a blind seer. If you’re like me, you knew his name before this episode because this is probably one of the LAST episodes you saw him in.
He offers to help Aladdin, and Aladdin kind of bugs the Hell out of me because he assumes this man in extremely plain dress, picking his away around with a cane, who is seemingly blind, just wants his money.
I’m sure nobody ever treated you like that before, Aladdin. There is no reason why I’m extremely annoyed at your behavior right now.
Anyway, Fasir offers to tell him the future and Aladdin’s about to leave him when the old man suggests he might be afraid to hear it.
And this is enough to send Aladdin into full-on Marty McFly mode.
Nobody. Calls me. Chicken.
So he gets his prophecy, from a spirit that Fasir channels called the Mouth of Mammon-Rah.
You race to save a friend so thin.
The dark ship flies; you cannot win.
A pick you’ll find among the bones,
Then meet your doom upon the stones.
Fasir himself predicts that Iago will weep over Aladdin’s motionless form. Aladdin calls bullshit and storms away, only to find himself back in the marketplace as though he had never been lost at all. Iago and Abu are visibly shaken from the encounter, however.
So we get a first look at what Fasir can do in this scene. He was able to fully obscure Aladdin from the real world in order to lead him to a place where he could speak with him away from prying eyes. He communed with a spirit that told Aladdin the future and could produce visions himself. He then had the power to send Aladdin back to the living world.
This is all important to bear in mind if only because this character is kind of elusive and he’s never intensely explained.
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