Headscratchers / Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier

• Did Ja'far get four wishes instead of three or did one not count? Becoming the sultan, becoming a sorcerer, moving the palace, and becoming a genie.
  • Exact Words: he didn't wish for the palace to be moved, he politely asked the Djinni to do it. Since the Djinni is about as bright as his canon counterpart, he didn't count it as a wish.
• In the animated film Aladdin does not use a wish to escape the cave, wishing to become a prince and to be saved from drowning before freeing the Genie. Here, Aladdin does not nearly drown so he does not use his second wish, so why does he say he has only one left?
  • Either the Genie deducted a wish on the grounds of Aladdin trying to break the rules by asking to remove the Princess's ability to refuse him, or Aladdin can't do math.
  • Since this version of Aladdin seems less competent than the original (eg. relying on threats of violence for theft rather than a distraction, living with his parents until he was orphaned at 33) it's possible he used his first wish to escape the cave, rather than tricking the Djinn.
  • It probably did happen, we just didn't see it. Ja'far had already sentenced Aladdin to death for the people he killed, after all.
• If the Captain saw Aladdin during the latter's encounter with Prince Achmed, why didn't he arrest him?
  • A number of possible explanations. 1) It might have been within a large crowd 2) The captain was already exhausted 3) The Captain by that point felt he was too dangerous to take on without a larger posse and 4) The captain does seem content to blame things on Ja'far so maybe he doesn't want to take responsibility for his job.
• The Princess is supposed to be kind, but she also apparently regularly poisons (or tries to poison) Ja'far to get his attention. Poisoning people isn't very kind, and unlike her not understanding that she owns slaves and has massive amounts of privilege compared to most of the Magic Kingdom, which we can chalk up to naivete, trying to kill Ja'far can't be chalked up to that.
  • I've watched the musical two or three times in short succession and don't recall the Princess poisoning Ja'far. This could be chalked up to the fact that, either A) there is quite a bit of characterdevelopment in the second half on the part of the Princess or B) Ja'far has a strong tendency to see the best in people. People speak to him relatively horribly in the show's second scene, so compared to them, she's not so bad.
  • It's also Fridge Brilliance. The Princess became kind when Ja'far followed the golden rule and treated her like a woman with all the potential in the world. He sacrificed for her freedom. She then became a better person because of that event.