Takeaways

• Out of every couple Ashley and Jesse have covered so far in Hot Disney Summer, they agree Aladdin and Jasmine have the best shot — because they're evenly matched, not because the story is realistic.
• The whole relationship kicks off as a trauma bond (he saves her, she's "beholden" to him) before it becomes something real, built on both of them feeling trapped and craving freedom.
• Aladdin's whole courtship is built on a lie — he never tells Jasmine he's not really a prince — and Ashley and Jesse dig into why he thinks that's the only way to get the girl.
• Ashley gets unexpectedly personal, tracing her own "unrealistic idea of love" — the fantasy of being captured, secretly admired, and saved — back to not feeling outwardly loved as a kid.
• Jafar isn't after the princess at all. Ashley and Jesse lan ...