Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26443838-20160811151224/@comment-25926288-20161021025917

ItachiIshtar wrote: Eskaver wrote: ItachiIshtar wrote: However, now I'm curious as to why Jafar is the vizier for this Sultan, and what is his agenda here? Will it tie in to his mission to break the laws of magic in any shape or form? I would doubt it. I don't know why either. If we go timeline-wise.....

- Jafar turns Amara into his staff, after they have a small talk about finding the third genie (Cyrus).

- Jafar captures his father, kills Mirza.

- Jafar goes after Cyrus. Shortly afterwards (within weeks, or maybe months), Jafar is in Wonderland.

So, this Aladdin sidetrack will have to be after toppling his home sultanate and I believe Cryus has disappeared. So, maybe he decided he would have to do something else because he probrably didn't know where Cyrus went. So.....being the Chief sultan, Jasmine's father must have met with Jafar and Jafar decided to....act as second in command (trying to find a genie/ kingdom's secrets). Yeah, there's definitely room for gaps inbetween turning Amara into the staff and finding Cyrus in Agrabah, or inbetween after he failed to capture Cyrus and when he eventually tracked him down in Wonderland. If it's inbetween the first two events, Cyrus had already warned his master about Jafar looking for him, so they may have crossed paths before. Jafar could have failed to capture him at least twice. If not, there's plenty of wiggle room with the other gap mentioned. So I hope Jafar's motivations in the episode are clear enough, so that we can piece something together. I just hope they keep the whole "booky sorcerer type" he had going and not go too far off Naveen's Jafar. As far as I've seen, he's no nonsense and "dislikes" people like himself (lol, he was technically a street rat), but tbhen again, that's ONCE Villains. Just add a touch of humor.

They can probably sidestep his "genie" goal, depending on how they do it. In the premiere, they mentioned Aladdin "doing something" to Jafar, but I can't fathom what.