Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-24863788-20150712021406/@comment-1894786-20150712052321

Anubis16 wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Andrew Robbins wrote: So, why would this season be different? Maybe the next princess will be introduced in Season 5B, since there's a lot going on in Season 5A with Dark Swan, Merida and Camelot, but, if we get a new princess this season, who do you think it's going to be? OUaT has yet to adapt Aladdin.... so, I would say Princess Jasmine. Actually, Aladdin has been 99% adapted. Literally the only thing missing is Aladdin himself and Jasmine.

You have Aladdin's two genies, the one in the ring (which would be Sidney, since his mirror frame is a ring) and the one in the lamp (Cyrus). You have the sorceror that messes with Aladdin (Jafar), as well as the brother of the sorceror who disguises himself as a woman to gain Jasmine's trust (Amara is a very loose adaptation of this character). You have the setting of Agrabah (even though the original story takes place in China), and you even have the Cave of Wonders transformed into the Well Of Wonders.

And while Aladdin himself isn't present, both Cyrus and Will are massive allusions to him, with Cyrus being the one who tricks Jafar into becoming a genie and Will being a street rat who's in love with the royal woman Jafar claims for his own when becoming all powerful.

Which leads to Anastasia and Alice being allusions to Jasmine. Anastasia wearing red, slinky clothing and tricked into loving Jafar with magic, and Alice has the fraught relationship with her father, the free adventurous spirit, and the friendship with the giant feline (Rajah for Jasmine, Chesh for Alice).

So while Aladdin and Jasmine would be nice to have on Once, their story's already been told and they'd be pretty much irrelevant to the Wonderland side of events as well as Storybrooke. I could see them as part of Mulan's story since Aladdin originally takes place in a small village in China, which if A&E play it right could be very awesome. But you can't do Aladdin without ALADDIN! They kind of already did. :P But I do wish they had named Cyrus Aladdin and Anastasia Jasmine. That way, we wouldn't have the whole "how does Anastasia fit into Cinderella's story" mess and we would've had Aladdin and Jasmine.