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AmethystFae · Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 11:43 pm Post subject: Hercules & the Arabian Night

Ya know, where to post this topic was very confusing, since the episode had Aladdin in it.

Anyway, since we're all Aladdin fans here, I want to know what everybody thought of the episode.

Personally, I thought it was a funny episode, but there's just one problem. Hercules was around BEFORE the Aladdin story took place. Even if we're talking Disney, I still think the Hercules story happened centuries before. (I think a year might have been mentioned in the movie, but I'm not sure.)

Any thoughts?

~Hikaru
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Calluna · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 1:20 am Post subject:

Eh, I think it's Aladdin-related enough. Wink

Anyway, haven't actually watched it before, but I've read the transcript and heard audio clips and from what I saw it's pretty funny. I don't really consider it "canon" though because of what you mentioned; can't work out the time difference. Sad

The one theory I've seen to try and explain that is that time doesn't work the same way in Hades's realm, but that doesn't really explain everything.

The only Ancient Greek who showed up in the actual series was Mechanikles, but, then, he was insane. He might have been a Byzantine who just thought he was from Ancient Greece. Laughing

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AladdinFan92 · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 6:54 am Post subject:

Even if the time periods were messed up,I always loved that episode.It was nice to see an episode where Al and Jas were already married (they mention it somewhere),and the comedy between Jafar and Hades was hysterical! Very Happy

AladdinsGenie · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 10:35 am Post subject:

See, you're annoyed by the time difference and I'm constantly annoyed by the fact that Hades knows of Hercules's existance

They meet after KOT in our canon, but then meet in the middle of Hercules while he's training with Phil on the island in their canon. The whole thing is whacked in time difference, but it's a funny ep because Hades and Jafar were great with their laughing

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Syera · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 10:41 am Post subject:

*Feels anachronistic shock coming on... forces self to stop thinking about ridiculous crossover*
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VampireNaomi · Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:00 am Post subject:

I haven't seen it, but I consider it canon when it suits my fanfics. I think Mechanikles loses a lot of his charm if he's not really a Greek. So, the episode pretty much works as a "Disney did it, so I can do it, nyah nyah!" thing for me.
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AmethystFae · Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:02 pm Post subject: