LITTLE MISS MAGIC
Writer: Michael Cassutt

SUMMARY

After the Nomad suffers damage in a storm the crew is forced to stop in the City of Mists. Sindbad wins the 'Jewel of the City' in a card game, only to discover that the 'Jewel' is Serendib, a 15 year old girl with magical powers.

HILARIOUS SPECIAL EFFECT MOMENTS

 

QUOTES

Maeve: I'm not sure I like this.
Sinbad: You say that every time we make an uncharted stop.
Maeve: Yeah, and with good reason.
 

Sinbad: My ship was blown here by an ill wind. I seek strong laborers with... well, good hearts.
Lady: Ah, in other words, you're broke.
Sinbad: Yes.
 

Sinbad: Greetings, spirits… uh, we mean you no harm.
Serendib: They’re the demon guards—they keep us here!
Sinbad: Maybe they’ll listen to reason.

Maeve: Sea towns often built catacombs underneath the villages to serve as escape routes, in case of pirate attacks.
Serendib: No one’s ever thought of that before! (Oh my gosh… seriously?!)

Firouz: I was just admiring your—your sense of purpose. You just led us through a maze without a doubt whatsoever.
Sinbad: Is that what it looked like to you? I should have been an actor.
Firouz: Why do you say that?
Sinbad: Because most of the time my sense of purpose amounts to the feeling, “Gee, I wonder what would happen if I tried this.” It’s amazing what you accomplish that way.
Firouz: I can’t believe that with all your years at sea or  previous adventures, that anything could surprise you.
Sinbad: I’m surprised every day, Firouz. It’s half the fun of living.
Firouz: And the other half?
Sinbad: Wondering what’s going to surprise me next. LOOK OUT!

Sinbad: Alright, alright let’s talk! What do you want?
Rumina: Sinbad, so blunt. Where’s your light, romantic touch?
Sinbad: Well I’d like to buy you dinner sometime, but this doesn’t seem like the time or the place.
Rumina: Oh, you don’t like my little city?
Sinbad: I guess I’ve only seen the depressed sections of town.
Rumina: Well I rather like it.
Sinbad: You see, we’re a bad match, we just don’t agree on anything.

 
Rumina: Do you find me desirable, Sinbad?
Sinbad: In a suicidal kind of way.


EPISODE IMAGE RECAP

POINTS TO PONDER

It's kind of funny that Maeve sends Dermott to tail Sinbad almost immediately in The Beast Within, but waits awhile in Little Miss Magic. In the former, they’re in a busy, well-populated town, amongst friends, with no hint of danger in sight and no real cause for alarm or suspicion. But in the latter, they're blown to a mysterious island by an "ill wind", Maeve has a bad premonition just LOOKING at the place, and Sinbad thinks it's a great idea to disembark on his own despite the fact that it's completely COVERED in a creepy, unnatural mist. If I were Maeve the moment Sinbad left the ship, I would have said, "Dermott—go! The fool’s about to get himself killed."