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A Whole New World · Agrabah Citizen Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 59

Oh no,it's not an argument Smile

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You don't have to physically fight to be a hero but getting captured does make you weaker,and Jasmine wasn't captured in the movie,she got trapped but it's really not like how what happened to her in Garden Of Evil and Sultan Worth His Salt,in the movie she's strong and it's okay she didn't fought Jafar,and I don't count the series as chronology.
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AladdinsGenie · Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 3:42 pm Post subject:

See, I personally don't think getting captured makes you weaker. It's like saying if I get a D on my essay, it makes me dumber Laughing

. I can still be smart and have a bad grade, just like I think Jasmine can be captured (or enslaved and then literally trapped, if we're using just the first movie) and still be considered strong and a great fighter.

Meesh · Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:18 pm Post subject:

I'd call her weak (especially mentally) if she made no effort to escape or resist and if she cowered or gave up instead... Or if she put her own life ahead of her friends. Like said, "Take them not me!" or "you're on your own. this is too dangerous." But she never does that, so really she is quite strong.

I think iago can sometimes be weak in that aspect... But in several instances he is stronger.

Also, she always manages to escape/be rescued (usually with her assistance)

I think if she were physically as strong as Aladdin, they'd be equals.
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A Whole New World · Agrabah Citizen Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 59

You do have a point,also if she gets captured that also doesn't make her a damsel in distress or something,still,I don't think she should get captured Smile

,and yeah,Iago is a "Take them not me!" person.
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Meesh · Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:37 pm Post subject:

I personally like episodes when she gets captured because I'm a cornball hopeless romantic and love to see Aladdin rescue her.

Makes me want to be rescued <3 Smile

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A Whole New World · Agrabah Citizen Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 59

Why do you think getting captured is romantic?.
And I found this comment on the Streetrat blog (Great blog by the way Very Happy

) and I wanted to say something about this comment:

Meesh · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:37 pm Post subject:

I'm not sure that most little kids really grasp the concept of choosing a hero who has good morals (besides what their parents say). I liked Jasmine because she was pretty and didn't bore me like the other princess sometimes did. (The second part came a little later.)

And to answer your first question, I think the love interest getting captured is romantic because it demonstrates the desperate and/or unbreakable bond of love between the hero and the distressed.

And this goes both ways. I think immediately of Aladdin coming to rescue Jasmine (like in "Garden of Evil") and also of Jasmine coming to rescue Aladdin (like in "The Secret of Dagger Rock"). First of all, they are inconsolably distressed at the thought of losing the one they love. Then they are willing to risk anything to bring them back.

THAT to me is an epitome of romantic.
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