I'm not enraged or anything, just irritated. Sorry if I scared you there. XD
Yeah, her decision was stupid even by teenager standards. But I don't think she really "loved" Eric, despite what she might have blurted out to her dad. She was in love with humans, their world, their things, and their culture. Eric was just her justification of getting there. THAT is selfish, I'll give you. But I think it started out as curiosity and turned into an obsession and a longing to leave her world behind BECAUSE her father forbade her from getting closer to the human world for reasons that were, to be blunt, racist. He and Ariel were equally at fault here: the writing just never made it clear since Ariel ends up getting everything she wanted while Triton has to just suck it up and deal with it. And to be fair to Ariel and Eric, they did get to know each other better over the course of the two days we see them staying together. And Ariel couldn't even speak then, so that's quite the accomplishment.
I think things playing out differently from how she wanted and expected them to SHOWED her that it was a bad idea in the first place, especially when the person she made the deal with was explicitly showing that she had an evil plan behind it all along. Ursula was getting what she wanted at Triton's expense, and Ariel had helped her. I can totally buy that she WAS truthfully sorry for everything at that moment. And before the shit hit the fan, the last time Ariel and her dad had interacted, he was a big jerk to her and destroyed her entire collection. She most likely thought she hated him at the time and naturally didn't give a crap if she was worrying him. Serves him right, she'd think. (This is just how she felt at the time, though, not how she REALLY felt deep down.) Sure she was an inconsiderate jerk, but only because her father had been an inconsiderate jerk to her. In the end, I sympathize with them both, which I think I'm meant to.
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Date: 2013-04-15 02:31 am (UTC)Yeah, her decision was stupid even by teenager standards. But I don't think she really "loved" Eric, despite what she might have blurted out to her dad. She was in love with humans, their world, their things, and their culture. Eric was just her justification of getting there. THAT is selfish, I'll give you. But I think it started out as curiosity and turned into an obsession and a longing to leave her world behind BECAUSE her father forbade her from getting closer to the human world for reasons that were, to be blunt, racist. He and Ariel were equally at fault here: the writing just never made it clear since Ariel ends up getting everything she wanted while Triton has to just suck it up and deal with it.
And to be fair to Ariel and Eric, they did get to know each other better over the course of the two days we see them staying together. And Ariel couldn't even speak then, so that's quite the accomplishment.
I think things playing out differently from how she wanted and expected them to SHOWED her that it was a bad idea in the first place, especially when the person she made the deal with was explicitly showing that she had an evil plan behind it all along. Ursula was getting what she wanted at Triton's expense, and Ariel had helped her. I can totally buy that she WAS truthfully sorry for everything at that moment.
And before the shit hit the fan, the last time Ariel and her dad had interacted, he was a big jerk to her and destroyed her entire collection. She most likely thought she hated him at the time and naturally didn't give a crap if she was worrying him. Serves him right, she'd think. (This is just how she felt at the time, though, not how she REALLY felt deep down.) Sure she was an inconsiderate jerk, but only because her father had been an inconsiderate jerk to her. In the end, I sympathize with them both, which I think I'm meant to.