Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20170403005926/@comment-25536775-20170403040737

This is one of those uncommon but more-common-than-they-should-be episodes where you just have to suspend your disbelief, because once you do that, everything seems pretty consistent. At least in Once's wonky logic.

The problem is, Once makes absolute perfect sense​, when it deals with the timeline of its regular characters (bar that stunt with Hook in Dark Waters, and sometimes, the Oz flashbacks). When you're talking about the minor characters who have made sporadic appearances on the show, we need to remember that between their appearances, years have passed. So it takes a bit more mental workouts to make sense of it. It's not unreasonable to believe that Ariel found, lost, and found again a necklace that could uncurse her. Ariel's storyline was the least problematic part of the episode overall.

What I'm really upset about is Jafar simply ​breaking ​the Genie curse. That can still be rationalized, but it really didn't make much sense? If he could get out of it at any point, then there was no reason for him to be so distraught with his fate.

As for True Love breaking Aladdin's genie curse, and not Will's or Cyrus', well, not every kiss by a True Love couple is a True Love's kiss, cue Rumbelle's multiple kisses, Snowing's kisses during the curse, that time David kissed Snow's head without waking her, and (​I begrudginly admit​ ​that for show purposes they seem to be TL) the CS kiss in 5x02. Jasladdin's kiss was a TLK, whereas Will/Anastasia's and Alice/Cyrus' weren't. (I might need to brush up on my OUATiW, so don't judge me if I'm mistaken).

On another note, can we ​please ​create the Mermaid Magic page now that it's been mentioned explicitly in the show?