Jeanie Bottle 339
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on November 24, 2015
at 12:00 am
and modified on November 26, 2022. at 1:14 am
Chapter: Story 08: I Dream of a General
Uh oh… genre savvy Boss Hogg sounds dangerous!
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Uh oh… genre savvy Boss Hogg sounds dangerous!
She may not like it, but I think Jeanie is going to have to cough up those wishes.
Why wouldn’t you take your bottle back? Unless you can’t. But trying probably would have been smarter than leaving it in someone else’s hands.
Have we ever seen a genie handle their own totem? I’m not sure if we have. Maybe they’re not able to?
Comic #1, panel #4. I haven’t checked for any others.
That was immediately after Jean became Jeanie, through a process that required him to be holding onto the totem in the first place. So I doubt it counts.
Jeanie is seen leaning against her totem, after having shrunk herself, a few pages later. So she can at least touch it. Whether she can pick it up, though, is unconfirmed.
Aracelli holds the bottle for a panel after it becomes her Totem during the great bottle swap. Other than that, it is always someone else holding the bottle.
Hogg is not QUITE stupid enough to fall for Jean’s attempts to fool him. Let’s hope that he doesn’t wish for anything world-shaking, and instead just for stuff like getting his petty revenge on the Duke Boys or on getting a lot of wealth.
Boss is more about power than wealth.
That’s why he stays in Hazard county.
Yes, but what sort of power? If he is petty, he will just get his revenge on the Duke Boys and others who have bothered him. If he thinks a little bigger he might want to be Governor or Senator. If he thinks really big he may want to be a King. (Cue Jean transforming Hogg into an Elvis impersonator.)
Looks like old Boss Hog might have pissed off a Genie. Next stop is the pig pen for him.
Maybe, but before he his made his three wishes.
Well, as we’ve seen, Jean can get *VERY* creative when it comes to granting wishes that she doesn’t want to.
There’s a series of fantasy novels and in one of them the third wish gets *YOU* promoted to genie.
It also has the genie and their lamp intangible to each other.
In the Disney Aladdin Genie was shown holding the lamp *AFTER* he was freed.
In the River Of The Dancing Gods, you get one wish free. You can have a second wish granted, but you get to be the new genie.
Let’s just hope none of his three wishes involve rubbing something else.
What does that mean?
Something not rated PG.
Actually, Jean doesn’t have to grant any wishes; I doubt she’s been locked up for a full moon, and thus the “new master” rule doesn’t apply. Neil is still her master, and therefore she isn’t required to grant wishes for anyone else.
Funny how Hogg is genre savvy enough to figure out that she’s a genie but not genre savvy enough to remember that genies almost always twist wishes.
Maybe he’s been watching too much Disney?
This is something I wanted to address in a filler, but I don’t think I’ll get the time to do it. So I’ll clarify in the comments. There’s 2 kinds of containment. In the totem and in something else.
When someone takes possession of a Genie Totem. That person becomes the Genie’s master. Even though the Genie already HAS a master.
So whomever has the Jean’s bottle is Jean’s new master.
Now when a Genie is contained in something that’s not the Genie’s totem. (For example a moon safe). The Genie’s master remains whomever has the Genie totem, until the genie has been locked up for a full Moon (don’t ask me how long that is). THEN whomever opens the vessel containing the genie, becomes there new master.
So if Jean is locked up in a Moon Safe for less then a full moon, Neil is still her master. Longer then a full moon, whomever opens the moon safe will become Jean’s new master.
(And if you want to know, why I’m using a Moon Safe as a example… Well, go watch the show IDoJ Season 3 Ep 19, and you’ll see why)
So boss gets his wishes but Neil is still her master?
I think it means Boss Hogg is now Jean’s master.
It means that Jeanie is required by the Genie code to grant Boss Hogg three wishes before she can leave and not have Boss Hogg rub the bottle to get her back. If Boss Hogg does a clean get his three wishes and goes. He may or may not get away from Jeanie in good shape. But, If Boss Hogg try to mess with her the way that Greek Captain did, then you can expect almost anything to happen and probably will happen.
But, considering who Boss Hogg is, I would expect him to pull something grandiose with his wishes and I would expect Jeanie to screw it up for him. But, that just a guess.
Other wise Neil would still Have Jeanie in a Master/Genie relationship and not Boss Hogg. Boss Hogg is just the current bottle holder that has three wishes coming to him.
I’ve been wondering what happens after 3 wishes. Does the bottle return to Neil, teleport to a random person, remain in the person who got those 3 wishes till they pass it on to someone else?
If the last could you just keep getting more and more wishes “Wish 1-3” pass bottle onto friend they make “wish 1-3” and pass the bottle back you make “wish 1-3” and so on.
I also can’t post a reply to the bottom post for some reason.
Wanted to post this . . .
I remember one story where there wasn’t a restriction on wishing for more wishes and a spoilt prince figured it out. He just kept adding wishes and adding wishes then after an incredible poker game he wished he could live that last half hour again and he did including the wish to live that last half hour again over and over. In the end they just shoved him into a basement somewhere as they figured out his stock of wishes was going to last 90 odd years. So protection against bad wishes isn’t such a bad idea. Especially with the TG standard “I wish X was a hot girl”
I’m not sure if you did mean “genre savvy” or if it was a typo and you meant “genie savvy”, but they both surprisingly fit the situation.
I did actually intend to say “genre savvy”, but I think you’re right that “genie savvy” is even better in this context.
It looks like we’re going to be seeing Boss Hogg in those Daisy Dukes.
Would one wish used for insurance offset the risk of three bad wishes?
“I wish I knew how best to use my remaining wishes”
Good old Ben Franklin had it: To be Healthy, Wealthy and Wise.
Aren’t those three wishes?
hey Robert, don’t you and CD mean comic will be delayed this week?
Yeah, that message on top should be “comic will be delayed this week”. But I can’t figure out where that message is set up, so I can’t fix the typo.
The dangers of spell-checking…
But at least we get Jean under some mistletoe. 🙂
where’s the update? it’s Saturday evening and still no update.
It’s coming.