FAN ART: How Disney's 'The Little Mermaid' should have ended.....

[brendala]

I love this film as much as any other girl who was raised on a steady diet of Disney princess movies. However, upon watching it as a grown up, it becomes clear that Ariel is a totally stupid, selfish, awful person (er, fish or whatever species she technically is). And I have my doubts that her relationship with Eric would survive the resolution of her "Daddy Issues".

Sorry for ruining your childhood, everybody!

[Deviant Art Link]

Comments

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

I love the Disney flick, but as a kid, I loved the story of the tragic Japanese special better... the princess seemed nicer :P

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Technically, she's supposed to die but gain a soul through her sacrifice, but that doesn't make for a happy ending in our current society. And...I guess I never saw Ariel that way, and I still don't. Young and naive, maybe, but we all were once! I'm going to be marrying my first real crush from back in the day, so I can't say anything. :p

[rezo-eris.livejournal.com]

Errr no. Ariel is not a stupid, selfish, awful person. If she was stupid, she wouldn't have such vivid imagination and be able to think for herself. If she was selfish, she wouldn't eventually try to say "Daddy I'm sorry!" when Triton was at Ursula's mercy, and save Eric's life twice! And if she was awful, she wouldn't be the fucking protagonist! She's just a naive, headstrong teenager. I hate hate hate hate HATE it when people misinterpret that and make her out to be Bella Swan. Things were more complicated then that: it's just that Disney didn't really make it entirely clear in the writing for the script.

No, this didn't ruin my childhood. But it's just another "bawww, Ariel's a terrible role model!" cry, the kind of thing Doug Walker has spoken out against. I am very disappoint in you, Brenda. -_-