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[Spartan Girl]

I don't know if this has been done before, but I thought it would be cool if one of us picked what episode of Aladdin they like the most and start a discussion about it. Anyone can pick an episode and set up their own post for their discussion.

Well, even if it is just me that does this, I thought it would bring something new to this forum, anyway.

So I wanted to talk about "The Prophet Motive." I don't really know why I like this episode so much. Using Carpet to make a ship magically fly was a pretty creative idea, and a story about a prophecy is always suspenseful because the characters try to do everything to prevent the event from happening, as was the case with Aladdin.

I'll admit it, when I saw this episode as a kid, I got scared when Aladdin was "killed." It was kind of moving to see how upset the others were; even IAGO was crying! You notice that in almost every story/Disney movie, there's a very sad scene when the hero is apparently dead and the friends are sad? It does seem kind of cliche, but I'm a sap and I fall for it every time.

Just one thing bothered me: I know it was because Fashoom was loose and could have crushed them at any second, but why didn't we see a more emotional reaction (other than surprise) from Jasmine when it turned out Aladdin was faking it? In almost every other episode, they find an excuse to cuddle in a dangerous situation--what was so different about this situation. Maybe I'm a hopeless romantic, but after seeing Jasmine crying and holding Aladdin in her arms, I kind of expected something more.

If I'd been in her place, I would have started making out with him

Anyone else want to share their thoughts?
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[Emmlei]

I don't remember this episode that well, and while it's not one of my top favs, it does have it's good points. For example, spreading Carpet's magic to the boat was pretty neat. I liked the introduction to the episode. And, in hindsight, I like it because it introduces Fasir, the cryptic initiator of events (I say intiator because over the course of the series the prophecies don't always go verbatim, but the crew still acts on them; and, he provides explainations for things, prompting action as well).

[Mariposa79]

Oh I was so fooled that Aladdin was going to meet his doom.

when they use magic carpet the to fly the boat. Somehow I thought of tinkerbelle when she flew the ship back to London.

[Syera]

[Mariposa79]

[AladdinsGenie]

Or we could have just gone through the whole thing with Aladdin as a ghost. That would have been interesting

[Syera]

[Nez]

It might sound stupid, but what's PTB?
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[Syera]

Power/Powers That Be. Anyone in charge of production.
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[Nez]

Ah.
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[Emmlei]

[Syera]

As The Netherworld Turns, I believe it was.
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[Calluna]

The Prophet Motive occupies a special place in my heart because it's the first episode I ever saw. For a long time I thought it was meant to be the first episode *ever* but the production numbers proved me wrong. Oh well.

I wasn't suprised that he lived, not because he's the title character but because I remembered the Rescue Rangers episode this was based on. It was very similar: they had a gypsy moth instead of Fasir but she also went into a trance and told a prophesy about Chip's death in the form of a poem, and everything about it came true except that he didn't die. The last line also had a double meaning, like "meet your doom upon the stones" was about gemstones not rocks. In the Rescue Rangers version he was supposed to be crushed by a trunk; they thought it meant an elephant trunk up until the end when it turned out to be a chest.

I don't really mind that though because it wasn't really the plot I liked about it, it was all the extra things: Fasir, all the Abismalisms, Haroud.

Now that I'm thinking of it, this is one of the few episodes where Carpet screws up. How often does that happen?

Oh, and has anyone else noticed that Fasir seems to have a lot invested in making sure Aladdin doesn't believe in fate? Which is kind of strange when you think that he never really believed in it in the first place.
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