What if Jeannie's sister was not into Tony?

[TheLittleFaerie]

I wonder how Jeannie and her sister's relationship would have been if Jeannie's sister hadn't been into Tony? When her sister first arrived that was the closest to a normal conversation they ever had before she spotted Tony's picture in the bottle.... I wonder if they would have gotten along decently?

[kentauros]

The character of Jeannii (Jeannie 2) had likely been as she was depicted in the show for all of her life. Jeannie's character never changed in 2,000 years, so I would guess her sister's never changed, either. Same for that of her mother and all of the other djinn in her family and friends as they were presented in the show.

So, even if Jeannii had never fallen for Tony, I doubt that she and Jeannie would have developed their relationship as sisters any more than it was already. Jeannie was forever hopeful that her sister would come around to her kind of thinking, and ignored how she acted for the most part.

Jeannii always looked down on her sister and she enjoyed playing magical pranks on her. For that part of her character alone, she might have hung around just to play more such pranks on the humans in Jeannie's life without any desires to turn any of them into her next Master. So, Jeannii might still have done the same things she did in the episodes, just without the ulterior motive of stealing Jeannie's Master away from her (or making any of the other people in the show into her next Master).

[TheLittleFaerie]

Originally Posted by kentauros

The character of Jeannii (Jeannie 2) had likely been as she was depicted in the show for all of her life. Jeannie's character never changed in 2,000 years, so I would guess her sister's never changed, either. Same for that of her mother and all of the other djinn in her family and friends as they were presented in the show.

So, even if Jeannii had never fallen for Tony, I doubt that she and Jeannie would have developed their relationship as sisters any more than it was already. Jeannie was forever hopeful that her sister would come around to her kind of thinking, and ignored how she acted for the most part.

Jeannii always looked down on her sister and she enjoyed playing magical pranks on her. For that part of her character alone, she might have hung around just to play more such pranks on the humans in Jeannie's life without any desires to turn any of them into her next Master. So, Jeannii might still have done the same things she did in the episodes, just without the ulterior motive of stealing Jeannie's Master away from her (or making any of the other people in the show into her next Master).

So, I watched I Still Dream of Jeannie the other day, and at that point, Jeannie's sister seems to be over her Tony obsession, she is basically just trying to get out into the plane of reality. I thought she showed MAYBE a SMIDGE of humanity.... at one point she traps her nephew, Tony Jr in the bottle, to distract Jeannie with him being missing so she won't find a master.... but T.J. breaks out of the bottle and when Jeannie2 finds him missing she says, "Now I have to find him, I can't have him wandering around all alone!" as they were in the mountains..... so it sounded like maybe she was at least a LITTLE concerned with her nephew's safety. Or else she knew if T.J. got hurt on her account, she would be in for it with Hodji and her sister also.

[kentauros]

Originally Posted by TheLittleFaerie

So, I watched I Still Dream of Jeannie the other day, and at that point, Jeannie's sister seems to be over her Tony obsession, she is basically just trying to get out into the plane of reality. I thought she showed MAYBE a SMIDGE of humanity.... at one point she traps her nephew, Tony Jr in the bottle, to distract Jeannie with him being missing so she won't find a master.... but T.J. breaks out of the bottle and when Jeannie2 finds him missing she says, "Now I have to find him, I can't have him wandering around all alone!" as they were in the mountains..... so it sounded like maybe she was at least a LITTLE concerned with her nephew's safety. Or else she knew if T.J. got hurt on her account, she would be in for it with Hodji and her sister also.

Be that as it may, the writing of both movies wasn't nearly as good as even the worst episodes of the show. It's hard to gauge character when they aren't written well, so I tend to use how they were set up in the original series versus anything that came later.

Yes, she might have had a change of heart in the second movie, though it's safer to figure that she is doing it solely for selfish reasons, to save her own arse and not for any real concern of anyone else.

For example, in the first movie, she happily gives the commander of the shuttle a back injury so he can't command it and Tony has to take his place. She never blinks him cured, either, so she has no issue pranking humans even to bodily injury.

I have to admit I didn't care at all for how Jeannii was portrayed in the second movie (she was closer to established character in the first movie), so I don't remember lines or motivations anymore. If she voiced some kind of concern for TJ, my guess, in sticking with her normal character, was that she was more afraid that he would somehow contact Hadji and get her in real trouble. She has only ever cared about herself, her feelings, her life, and no others. Any feelings for family or friends has been an act. Isn't that how narcissism is defined?