It was more prejudice than full-on racism, and yeah he did have good reason to distrust humans, but he crossed the line into being completely unreasonable about it. When Ariel says "You don't even know him", as a concerned parent, the PROPER response would have been "Neither do you!". THAT would have won him my respect. Instead, his response is "I don't HAVE to know him: they're all the same!" That is just a very ignorant, generalizing comment that showed me he was being irrational about the whole thing, so he actually lost my respect at that point. He more than made up for it in his later scenes, but still...
Also, people harp on Ariel for trading her whole life for a man she never really met. Well...how else could see "meet" him when her father was forbidding her from getting any closer to the surface world all the time?
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Date: 2013-04-15 05:42 pm (UTC)Also, people harp on Ariel for trading her whole life for a man she never really met. Well...how else could see "meet" him when her father was forbidding her from getting any closer to the surface world all the time?