Summary: <a href="https://oncepodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Once-Upon-a-Time-in-Wonderland-1x04-The-Serpent-podcast.jpg"></a><br> A young boy named Jafar seek help from a Sorceress in order to get revenge from those who belittled him by learning dark magic, changing him in the process. Meanwhile, in Wonderland, Alice is faced with a complicated roadblock that forced her to do something she promised never to do.<br> Agrabah<br> It’s just the fourth episode but they are already giving us some nice backstory, and about Jafar’s staff at that (kind of like Emma’s bug in Once Upon a Time). It was also nice to see his backstory and see his flipping point. On the other hand, Amara, the Sorceress, looked the same even after Jafar grow older. How old is she really? Amara means everlasting or eternal, while Mara means bitter. Is Amara immortal?<br> At such a young age, Jafar appeared to already be filled with hatred; hatred towards his father, the Sultan, for abandoning him. Jafar then went to Amara to seek revenge and asked her to teach him dark magic so people will fear him like they did her. He also said that he hated his father with a fire of a thousand suns. Could he be seeking power as well? He is half-royal, after all.<br> On a more interesting note, is Jafar, somehow, Princess Jasmin’s half sister? Or is it another Sultan that he is referring to? Knowing the show’s creators, anything is definitely possible.<br> Knowing she couldn’t enact the spell by herself, Amara taught Jafar everything he must learn in order to fulfill the spell. Young Jafar seemed hell-bent on revenge, but the older Jafar looked the opposite. Jafar was also deeply grateful for what Amara did to him, but wasn’t grateful enough to turn her into what became his staff eventually.<br> Before Amara began teaching the Masking spell to Jafar, Amara said that they need a human liver, which they got from Akil, the man he poisoned with the wine he gave him for his good deed. Is the Masking Spell something that will allow him to somehow disguise as someone else? If not, then what is it for?<br> As for the Timeline, it looks like Jafar took the second bottle just a bit before Jafar went to the merchant from the second episode, Trust Me. Oh, and glad that Amara was not Jasmin; we sure don’t want to see one of our favorite princesses turning out to be evil.<br> <a href="https://oncepodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Once-Upon-a-Time-in-Wonderland-1x04-The-Serpent-Genie-Bottles.jpg"></a><br><br> As Jafar learns the dark magic, Amara showed him a book containing all the words of wisdom about genies. Amara also showed him a spell that only the power of the three genies would allow them to cast; a spell so powerful even her magic could not attempt to learn but with a partner, Jafar, would be possible. It requires both their powers because if they succeed, making them the most powerful sorcerers ever known, and allowing them to change the laws of magic and everything they desire will come true.<br> The book also showed the pictures of the exact lamps in Jafar’s lair. One of them looks a lot like Aladdin’s lamp. Is it the same lamp? Are each genie’s lamp different or others were kind of the same?<br> <a href="https://oncepodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/s01e11-lamp_with_green_gems.jpg"></a><br> When Jafar succeeded in getting the second bottle, Amara turned the bar man into a fate worse than death, turning him into stone. This somehow reminded us of the Evil Queen’s Sleeping Curse in Once Upon a Time.<br> Moreover, Amara said that only she loved Jafar but Jafar used a potion that allowed him to steal Amara’s magical essence and turning her into a serpent staff. Looks like Amara also lives a fate worse than death.<br> Will the serpent staff be turned into Amara again in the future? If she does, will she be willing to help Jafar?
