Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-28837846-20160624190539/@comment-27060727-20160624231239

CoolDudeAl wrote: I'm leaning toward them being Aladdin and Jasmine for the time being. Sinbad and Scheherazade just seem so out of left field, especially considering how long people have been asking for them. And just because Cyrus/Alice and Will/Ana had some allusions to Aladdin/Jasmine, doesn't mean we shouldn't get them as actual named characters. OUATIW was really heavy with the references to the Aladdin tale though. Agrabah was one of the settings. Cyrus was basically Aladdin. Jafar was the main villain. There were multiple genies. Like I don't think they could bring Aladdin and Jasmine onto OUAT without referencing OUATIW. I know most viewers probably didn't watch OUATIW but some people have and events on that show are considered canon in the OUAT universe. That said, I do believe A&E have said somewhere that they plan on revisiting OUATIW stuff at some point, so maybe now's the time? (Or maybe it's a false tease like with Lily) Would actors like Peter Gadiot and Naveen Andrews be available in the next month or so? But like someone mentioned above, if they brought in a man named Aladdin, I personally would feel like the writers are recycling a character.