Talk:The Little Mermaid (live-action film)/@comment-26423071-20190709194906/@comment-1672596-20190709215959

"Ariel's race isn't tied to her identity, or to the plot."

Actually, it kind of was tied to the plot and to her identity, considering Ariel tried to become human as a major part of the plot. And another thing, Ariel lived deep under the sea originally. It makes no sense for her to NOT have light-colored skin knowing that, considering that she rarely even gets sunlight (even moreso considering that Scuttle being changed to a diving bird specifically to allow her in underwater scenes would imply that Ariel's going to have even LESS time above water than before), and Eric in the original movie even mentioned something about a failed marriage proposal in Flowerhaven, which implied that the setting was located in or around Scandinavia (which is further supported in the TV series where Ariel saves Hans Christian Andersen's butt and thus was responsible for the original tale being written, and Return to the Sea where Atlantica is marked at Greenland based on that map Morgana gave Melody). And last I checked, all of those formed part of the plot.