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[quote="Meesh"]Just got back from a vacation and I'm gonna respond to AG and then ZG:

Yeah I was approaching it from a "let's redo it between RoJ and KoT" and you (AG) sound like you're doing post-KoT. I'm down for either TBH and am going to switch gears into your post-KoT idea for the sake of this discussion. It's a less complicated idea and leaves a lot more room for ideas.

[quote="AladdinsGenie"]New outfits[/quote]

YES

[quote="AladdinsGenie"]New mythical creatures from MENA history to explore... to infuse this universe with more MENA culture to make it more Middle Eastern/Northern African and less Americanized[/quote]

YES

[quote="AladdinsGenie"]We are putting the official stamp on what the kingdoms of the seven deserts are. Each place is getting an episode just so we know-know this time. [/quote]

YES

[quote="AladdinsGenie"]I can't decide if I want to see some of the old villains again[/quote]

IMO we can't avoid tying up the Mozenrath and Mirage/Fasir open ends. I'm okay with not using the others.

[quote="AladdinsGenie"]And some I know would almost HAVE to make a reappearance again (uuuugh, Mozenrath :lol:)[/quote]

Is this an actual "ugh"? Are you tired of Moz?

[quote="AladdinsGenie"]Adding some new villains to the canon would be fun as well, but I'd be mostly looking for episodes where the drama doesn't always have to come from a baddie. [/quote]

Agreed!

[quote="AladdinsGenie"]If it's the people that make Agrabah great, let's meet some more of them![/quote]

YES

[quote="AladdinsGenie"]It should take place a few years after KOT. but I can't decide if I want the Sultan around or not.[/quote]

We should kill him... EVENTUALLY :) Make it a whole thing. Make it good. If the series has a tone of "The writers are taking this show seriously" with a good mix of risk, heart, and levity, it could be done.

But not before he gets some more development and there is, like you said, plenty of him showing Aladdin the ropes and stuff.

[quote="AladdinsGenie"]Him being dead would mean Aladdin is Sultan, and that might restrict what he and Jasmine can do as the future Sultan and Queen[/quote]

There's gotta be a new royal vizier too. That can open a can of worms for a new character or development of an old one. They would NOT be a bad guy, although there could be some interesting exploration of the notoriety and/or trust issues of giving somebody that position post-Jafar.

But a new vizier could be in charge of the kingdom while Al + Jas travel etc.

[quote="AladdinsGenie"]Also, not sure about them having kids yet. I'm leaning towards no cause Disney never handles that correctly and I simply don't want to deal with that [/quote]

*laughs in 2004 fanfiction*

Agreed. I'm open to the idea of kids, and after KoT I almost feel like we owe it to Aladdin to explore his complicated relationship with the idea of fatherhood.

If we do the whole journey from finding out, to pregnancy, to giving birth (I'm nervous-laughing just typing this sentence), THAT could be cool but near impossible to do without it being wayyyy too adult and tonally off.

Like you said "I simply don't want to deal with that :P "

[quote="AladdinsGenie"]I'm actually okay with the series not having a serialized plotline. Mostly because in this day and age of tv shows getting canceled after 1 season with no warning, that leaves the potential for cliffhangers galore[/quote]

Eh we already have cliffhangers from the original. What's a little more? :lol: Give each season its own through-line, tie it up at the end, and leave it open enough for another season without having a literal cliffhanger.

[quote="AladdinsGenie"]...Disney content today feels empty despite being technically gorgeous is because their worlds have been sanitized to death[/quote]

I agree with this. Not to keep bringing it up, but I think the Tangled series really nailed it with tone and balancing darkness with levity.

[quote="AladdinsGenie"]Like Disney today would never make a movie featuring a character singing about how he has to steal to survive and has to constantly avoid the cops as a result of committing the ultimate crime of being poor and living in poverty without there being a beat-you-over-the-head follow up about how stealing and lying is bad and law enforcement is actually your friend[/quote]

Gonna poke Tangled again here haha. Flynn has a history of thievery, and it is HEAVILY referenced, joked about, and practically utilized in the series.[/quote]

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