Thread:Hey1234/@comment-26167218-20150323203654/@comment-1672596-20150323205623

MiCKEY MOUSE (since 2001) wrote: Hi, Hey1234. Lately I've noticed this wiki is trying to give in-universe information based on loose logical deduction. Since this wiki is about a company that often bends the rules of logic in its fiction, we really should not be doing it unless we give ALL of the possible alternatives for something. We have to be careful, because there is a fine line between giving possible answers and lying to the reader. We must be clear on whether something is purely assumption, or directly stated by The Walt Disney Company.

YOUR PAL,

MiCKEY MOUSE If you're referring to the bit about Ariel, there are some problems regarding some of your alternate explanations: 1. The original ending for The Little Mermaid made it unlikely that Eric even understood speech from sea-life (Flounder from his POV was making squealing sounds). Besides, we don't even know if Eric actually heard Sebastian's full sentence or just heard a sound from him that sounded slightly like "Ariel" (not to mention Sebastian's use of the term sounded like "Aryelle" rather than "Ariel"). 2. For the bit about her learning how to walk, if a person is caught in a very bad accident, they do in fact take weeks if not months to regain the ability to walk even if they have a mature brain (in fact, my mom after she had leg surgery actually needed therapy to even regain the ability to walk). And 3. Regarding Vanessa/Ursula's spell, the problem is that if she used her magic on Eric and not Ariel's voice, then it truly wouldn't even matter if Ariel managed to get her voice back, as Ursula still would have Eric be firmly under her control, and in fact, the only way to actually break the spell on Eric is to kill Ursula (don't forget, Ursula's death is what resulted in the merpeople regaining their true forms, and that was also caused by the same kind of magic that resulted in Ariel's voice being taken away.). And please don't claim that's lying. It came directly from either the film or the supplementary materials.