Talk:Ariel/@comment-10252860-20130609114130/@comment-1672596-20130709031446

Agreed with pretty much everything you stated except for one bit:

"As a mermaid, Ariel couldn’t survive on land, same as Eric couldn’t survive under the sea as a human."

Unlike Eric surviving in water, Ariel doesn't exactly have the limitation of surviving on land as a mermaid: The scene showing the aftermath of the storm where she saves Eric's life shows it to be morning, and it was implied that Ariel pretty much spent the entire time on land watching over Eric's comatose body (the beginning of the scene showed it to be early evening, judging by the position of the moon, possibly 9 PM, or 21:00 hours, 8:30/20:30 at the earliest; it was about daybreak from the scene after the storm, as could be told from the skies, meaning early-to-late morning. That's approximately 9-12 hours on dry land, and the ship crashing on a huge rock indicates it was pretty close to land.). Had she been incapable of surviving on land, she certainly would not have lasted that long (think along the lines of the length of time a fish that's beached on land lasts without water. I can assure you fish do not last hours on land).

Everything else, I completely agree with. Heck, if they want a very good example of selfishness, one only needs to look at the family from Malcolm in the Middle (especially Francis.) and how depraved they were, especially Francis. Heck, his penultimate words in the show were his getting into an argument with his mom where he shouts at her "You just can't stand that your son is still a free spirit!" (And keep in mind, he kept the fact that he's got a decent job a secret from his mom specifically to cause her angst). Ariel would have to at least meet the bar with Francis before she could qualify.

And trust me, the complaints you're addressing are COMPLIMENTS compared to some of the hate I've heard about the character. I remember Fall of 2011 where my Film Professor briefly commented that he hated TLM's main character and made sure his daughter didn't emulate her, and he... Well, he basically said his reason for hating her was that she effectively sold her soul for a "v-word" (Trying to keep it tasteful for any little kids who are accessing the site). Then again, that professor was a flaming hard-leftist and overgrown 1960s-era anti-Vietnam War protestor who during the second half of the class really lets it loose regarding his leftist sympathies, one of his favorite films in fact being that anti-American propaganda documentary piece "Hearts and Minds." I've heard similar tasteless comments elsewhere, as well.