- I really expected this episode to be a “let’s seeing how many times and characters we can shoehorn into saying the phrase A Whole New World.” I was so prepared that I started a counter in my notes and . . . well they didn’t do what I expected. OUAT was oddly focused tonight.
The A Story- Emma’s Whole New World: Honesty
- Tonight, Emma leads Archie out into the woods to follow the red bird that is friends with the Oracle who started this whole thing. They find the Oracle dead and someone is running away, but not before Emma tackles the mystery person, that is none other than Princess Jasmine.
After being hauled down to the jail, and because Charming is co-sheriff, Jasmine tells the Charming bunch who she really is. Emma is stoked because she saw the movie Aladdin, but alas, nothing is ever as good in real life. Elsewhere, the Evil Queen wants to know what Emma is seeing in her vision and when Archie refuses to divulge the info, she turns into Archie to find out herself.
"Emma, you've been seeing dead people?" Archie
Oh, and she sent sent real Archie, bound and gagged, to be babysat by Zelena, since that is all she is good for this season. It takes no time for Emma to begin spilling secrets to faux Archie, before he/she followed her back to Chez Charming where Hook and Regina were also hanging out for some reason.
This season, we get double the Archie!
Faux Archie tells everyone Emma has a secret, forcing Emma to her everyone the truth. #SwanQueen worries about their future, so they make a date for later in Regina’s Vault. At the vault, Regina makes Emma a drink, that not only quenches her thirst, but will lead them to Aladdin.
The Charming Bunch!
It leads them to a cave, under the vault or somewhere, and they find the remains of Aladdin. Jasmine is distraught and Emma wants to mope. Then all of a sudden, Aladdin appears and gives Emma an out of being the Savior. Emma doesn’t want to literally sever her Savior powers, but Hook has other plans for her. Also, Aladdin is in longer a savior which is going to be a huge joke on Jasmine!
"It's a love potion-I mean will lead us to Aladdin!" -Regina
#SwanQueen
Sketchy Hook, plotting to cut Emma's Savior powers . . .
The B Story- Aladdin: Once Upon A Time Addition
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| Agrabah is literally out in the middle of the desert! |
- The flashback this week focused on Aladdin and it was nowhere near as good as the movie. We followed Aladdin and Jasmine on a quest to find the Diamond in the rough, which lucky for them was right next door in the only cave near their little town of Agrabah. They find it super easily but the stone is actually what gave Aladdin his Savior Powers.
Jafar appeared and gave Aladdin a pair of shears, showed him his future that was pretty much death, and told him that the shears would literally sever his magic from him. Aladdin doesn’t do that, yet, (and will later give said shears to Emma) but he goes on to defeat Jafar, save Jasmine from him hourglass prison and save the king from Jafar’s spell. Jasmine also friendzoned him, like three times before they parted as he went on the search for Jafar who was now on the lamb.
"Good thing your cave of wonders in right outside of town," Aladdin 
Like sands through the hour glass, are the days of Jasmine's lives!
*****Extra Tidbits*****
- Regina asks why is magic always literal on this show? As fans we want to know too!
- Henry could solve all of this if he just WROTE THE STORIES! Gah, Henry be useful for once.
Pretty sure Goldilocks is giving the Evil Queen her manicure! - I love that we get to see baby Robyn weekly, but where is Snow and Charmings grapefruit? Is he still with Blue? For that matter where are Blue and Granny?
Archie's last gig as a human (before being turned back into a cricket) is babysitting! - I love that when Jasmine told Aladdin Agrabah needed the savior, his exact words “yeah, about that . . .” and the scene cuts away! LOL!
- I really want to see the untold story of Aurora. Literally she, Maleficent and Lily are all still in town somewhere, presumably hanging out with the Giant and Hansel and Gretel.
- That’s it for this week. Next week looks to be a Hook episode as we tackle 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. (Sigh).
Street Rats
I'm already concerned...
This week on OUAT, Aladdin and Jasmine's backstory. All of it. In one episode. I guess.
Yeah, you. Your story.
Jasmine tracks down Aladdin, a thief, to help her save her kingdom from Jafar. To do this means to walk through mounds of dirt for hours to find a cave that holds the weapon that can defeat Jafar. Turns out that Aladdin is the real weapon and their little hike was probably pointless. Well, not totally pointless. They spent most of the time flirting/bickering, so a Charming would tell you they discovered true love.
Speaking of the Charmings, why does every guest to Storybrooke have to be bombarded by a Charming lecturing them on how they know best?
Poor Jasmine. Especially poor Jasmine because it's Henry. What am I saying? Is one Charming really worse than another? They all have the same agenda so it doesn't really matter which one you're stuck with.
There there, Jasmine. It'll all be over soon.
The guest of the season always ends up at the Charming loft at some point to brainstorm about plans on how to save the town (themselves) from the big bad of the season. In Street Rats, this is still the case, but unfortunately for them one of their trusted members is the evil queen in disguise and they spoon feed her their plan and information. It takes them a little while to piece together the clues of Archie's disappearance to figure out it was really the evil queen in their apartment.
Poor Archie, though. They figure out that he is missing, and they know that the evil queen is pretending to be him. They have to know this can't be good for Archie, wherever he is. They didn't seem to care too much, in this episode anyway, that he's gone and little do they know he was being held captive in Zelena's farm house, forced to baby sit Robin at times until they turned him back into a cricket. If it doesn't affect Snow, Henry, Emma, Regina, David, or Hook (listed as top priority within the group to lowest priority) you're pretty much screwed. The Charmings aren't gonna come after you right away.
Jasmine is lucky that Aladdin has something in common with Emma and they figured it out, otherwise her problem would have been knocked down on the list of priority issues of Storybrooke. The Charmings set out to find Aladdin for Emma Jasmine. They use magic and they find his remains and that pin thing Jasmine gave him at the beginning of the episode, so they all accept his death. Emma gets really mopey for a while and asks to be left alone, which really hurts Hook's feelings.
But then Aladdin creepily shows up from behind some wall.
He talks about some scissors that can cut one's ties with their savior status. Aladdin used them and then Agrabah fell and he blamed himself. Anyway, he gives the scissors up to Emma, who doesn't do anything with them until she consults the rest of the family.
Tender Full House moments every week.
They decide Emma won't use the scissors so she gives them to her most trusted companion Regina Hook, and he claims to have buried them below the sea.
NOT! They're really hiding in his leather jacket pocket. Hopefully he stores them somewhere a bit more safe, but we'll see.
Emma, you seriously should have given them to Regina.
Overall this wasn't my least favorite episode. Jasmine and Aladdin are not the most exciting characters with the most exciting stories, but at least some savior progress was made. We know Aladdin is alive and where he has been, although the timeline is so screwy in this show that I couldn't tell you for how long. We know that he is no longer a savior, and we know Emma could potentially give up that status if she chooses. We know that Emma is going to break up with Hook pretty soon. So, yeah. Not too bad.
See you next week for Dark Waters!
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