Talk:Melody/@comment-32425280-20170629193034/@comment-25563752-20190826124116

"Why did an adorable baby turn into a whiny, disrespectful brat?" That's a going a bit far, but as for why she acted the way she did, lets see...

1) She's been different her whole life from everyone else, making it hard to make friends.

2) She can talk to sea creatures, which was probably very confusing, but she couldn't talk to anyone about it since they'd probably think she was crazy.

3) She's always being bullied by others because she was different.

4) She was lied to all her life about who she was and why she was the way she was.

5) She was walled off and banned from the sea, despite her love for it.

6) Her parents constant lies and overprotectiveness likely caused tension between them.

7) She was hurt and humiliated at the time she was acting "whiny and disrespectful", not to mention she just found out a major secert about herself that her mother had been keeping from her.

8) She was also probably going through puberty, so hormones were likely flying everywhere.

Those reason enough? I've got more, but those are the biggest ones. And besides, many fans, even those that hated the movie, really liked Melody. And at least Melody had more character compared to some other Disney princesses, like Cinderella, Aurora, Snow White, etc. I mean, what did they have? They were pretty and nice. That's it.

Also, it seems like those that hate Melody compare her to Ariel, putting her down while praising her mother. But lets look at this. Melody left home because she was on a journey of self discovery to find answers about herself. That was it, the other stuff happened during her journey, not to mention she could talk to sea creatures who would be able to help her. Ariel left home by herself with the full intention of leaving her family and life behind for a boy she barely knew, while signing her voice away and risky having Ursula own her soul in 3 days if she couldn't get the boy she was crushing on to fall for her. So which one was more irresponsible and irrational? You can't put down Melody while praising Ariel. And besides, Melody was much younger than Ariel too.

One last thing, a lot of people put down the movie because it was "just the first movie in reverse, and we aready saw that story". But you know what, I don't remember hearing anyone put down FInding Dory, which was the same story as the first, just with Dory, or any of the other sequel movies that are almost carbon copies of the first. There's also the movie premise to consider. The first movie is a romance story, but the second is about self-discovery and family drama, so it's not just the first movie in reverse.

TLM 2 really gets an unfair rep, and is disliked by many who haven't even see it simply because it's a sequel. Was it as good as the first movie? No, of course not, but few are. Did it have flaws? Yes, of course. But it was still a good movie all the same, and it was a lot better than several of the other crappy Disney sequels that came out. And even if you didn't like the movie, Melody is still a great underrated character who is unfairly hated on and deserves better.