Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20161024005929/@comment-25926288-20161024030449

Avatar Beta wrote: Eskaver wrote: Avatar Beta wrote: Very underwhelming, particularly when they hyped this for so long. Why is Aladdin Sav ior? Where does his magic come from? Emma is a product of the most powerful magic in thr show's universe, but he was apparently just born with it and all he did was fire energy blasts? And not even a reference to a genie? I honestly do hope there's more to this because otherwise, this ep was pretty subpar. Well, I rather they not do Live Action Disney. Plus, they said they won't do Genie. They could still have A genie, like Sydney for example? Here's a better Aladdin backstory: Long ago, the Genie of Agrabah met a female genie who lived in a ring, they fell in love and ended up having a child. This was forbidden by genie law and maybe that Nyx woman erased their memories and send Sydney's lamp to the shore of Leopold's kingdom. But the child lived and grew up poor on the streets of Agrabah, where he used his inherited magic to steal and survive. Jafar attemps to slowly gain power after becoming frustrated with the genie scheme by controlling one of his father's territorial governors, also called "Sultan." That would have been toold far in the past as the timeline wouldn't add up. Jafar and Aladdin's story is likely a year or so leading up to the curse, in my estimate.

Removing the genie, besides being original, matches their plan for what a Savior is. Aladdin having magic and a genie would be quite redundant. Plus, your example shows a flashback primarily about not-Aladdin. I do think that Jafar's power scheme could have been away to show how great and powerful a son he could be before heading of to find the third genie, but alas, I'm not too sure.

I think the story is set in stone. Aladdin is the Savior (prophesied magic blaster) to save Agrabah, with Jasmine as princess,etc. Will there be a genie? Yep, I'm betting it'll be Jafar.