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APK · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 9:24 pm Post subject: Some theories on TLM

Ariel keeps getting slammed by haters for indecent exposure. What's the big deal? She's a mermaid. Some depictions of mermaids in other works of art and literature have mermaids wearing nothing at all, with just their long hair covering them. Yes, Ariel is very skinny but she's still a good person. What should it matter what she looks like? And she's probably that skinny from living on a diet of seaweed...we all know she wouldn't eat Flounder Wink

Her father didn't even wear a shirt throughout the whole movie and nobody has anything to say about that. Does his naked buffness make boys feel insecure about themselves?

Ariel is wearing seashells when she's a mermaid (just like all the other mermaids) but when she's a human she's wearing very conservative clothing. So what's the problem? Perhaps in her society, exposed fins isn't a problem. But she follows all the rules in the human world. She's polite enough and open minded enough to wear their clothing.

Now that I've gotten that out of the way, I have a question.

Which do you like better? Ursula's wedding dress or Ariel's wedding dress?

I just noticed that Ursula's wedding dress looks more like it would fit in the 21st century. Ariel's dress is very old fashioned.

APK · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 9:34 pm Post subject:

I also have a theory on Ariel's quick marriage. I know 16 was the marrying age for the time TLM is set in, and Ariel's dad approved, but they both fell in love so quickly. But now that I think about it...

Ariel's father makes her human and gives her a great dress. You see her running to Eric in one shot, he twirls her, and suddenly she's in her wedding dress.

We all know they didn't get married 5 seconds later Laughing

And people just assume they were married the very next day. Some people give it a week.

But considering how long it took Aladdin and Jasmine to get married, maybe Ariel and Eric waited a while too.

Unless you get married in a drive-thru, it takes a long time to plan out a marriage. Considering that they're both royalty and Ariel is daddy's little girl they probably wanted a big wedding like the one in the end.

It takes a ridiculously long time and a great amount of energy to plan a wedding. Even with all the world's riches and a large staff to help you out, you couldn't plan a marriage in a week.

There's the location: A marriage under the sea or on land??
There's the invitations: and it must take a while to get two kingdoms of different species to find an appropriate time to gather. Without email and cars, other royalty and family members from far away kindgoms would have a hard time RSVPing
The service: and Eric's service doesn't look very reliable. Grimsby didn't know what to get the poor boy for his birthday, and the chef is preoccupied in chasing crabs like a madman)
The dress: Ariel has a big, traditional wedding dress. That must've taken a long time to make.

^ All of these things are just a few minor things to worry about when planning a wedding. There's a lot more involved in it. Sometimes it takes years.

Yes, it's just a fantasy movie and perhaps I'm looking too much into it. But it's impossible to get married 5 seconds later.

AladdinsGenie · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 9:47 pm Post subject:

Honestly, the amount of criticism Ariel and Jasmine gets is ridiculous. I mean really, they expect the girl to be swimming around in a t-shirt or something. YOU try swimming with all those clothes on and tell me how it works out. They can only use what they have down there and if it's shells, then it's going to be shells. If she swam around with a shirt, everyone would have been all "omgz, how did she get that?!1 not real!!1"

I don't see too many 'large' or 'plump' mermaids running around Atlantica either. At the rate they move and I guess based on what they eat, that would dictate how big they get. Her stomach should be *ripped* with all the movement she does. She's just 16 and the movie is called the Little Mermaid. I know that's not the exact meaning of that, but she's the 'little mermaid' for more than one reason.

And would they prefer what most mermaids in the original stories wore? Try NOTHING. Much like the mermaids in Peter Pan, they had NO tops. You're lucky to even get their hair long enough to cover their chests.
People need to lighten the hell up.

Ariel's sleeves and puffs on her dress so screams 90s Laughing

And I don't think they took that long to get married, although yes--it wasn't five seconds later Laughing

. Melody was born soon after and assuming nothing happened on land that we weren't shown Laughing

, it couldn't have been that far off I think. Maybe a week, but I can't imagine months.

APK · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 10:06 pm Post subject:

Syera · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 10:10 pm Post subject:

Excuse me whilst I blow one thing out of the water (pun intended)...

If it takes a week or more to plan a wedding, then how did they get everything set up for Ursula's marriage to Eric so fast?
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