Talk:The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea/@comment-1958304-20140515005756/@comment-1672596-20140929223054

Well, in that case, let's just say that after Ariel's Beginning retconned most of the TV series, made Flounder completely OOC (not to mention failed to even explain how he became a wreck by the first movie), dropped the ball regarding Triton's hatred of humans, despite setting it up fairly well with the prologue (and that reminds me, it actually conflicted with the implication that Athena was devoured by humans via a harpoon in the first film. I mean, come on, they ran her over and its not even clear if that was intentional), to such an extent that not only is his hatred of humans never actually focused on (if anything, MUSIC is what he hates for his wife being dead), but if Marina del Rey's ascension to the surface after her promotion is anything to go by, there isn't even a ban on surfacing at all (thus making Ariel and Triton's conflict in the first film completely pointless), shoehorning a completely pointless music ban into there when not only does the first film not hint at there even being a ban at all, but Ariel's role in saving music would conflict with the opening of the movie, where she missed out on what was strongly implied to be her musical debut (meaning she was effectively a rookie at singing, especially when her sisters were implied to be veterans), when such an action would make her band leader, not wait at least a year to join, they got Ariel's older sisters' birth order wrong despite even the first movie strongly implying their birth order, and Ariel's interest in humanity is non-existent. They probably would have done worse with Ariel like make her contemporary had Jodi Benson not intervened. Also, Ursula's banishment, heck, Ursula herself wasn't even covered at all, and Marina del Rey basically is an unlikely candidate to be Ursula due to being placed in life imprisonment, and you can probably see exactly why Ariel's Beginning is even worse than Return to the Sea.

But hey, don't simply take my word for it, try watching the film and see it for yourself. Really, the point of a prequel is to actually lead into the first installment, yet that movie failed to do even that. At best, Ariel's Beginning could only act as a prequel to the Atlantica sections of the Kingdom Hearts series.