Talk:John Lasseter/@comment-4165687-20140730211352/@comment-1672596-20141224150128

Okay, he basically rewrote The Little Mermaid III completely to become a prequel, and yet despite that, his rewrite managed to make so many plotholes and needlessly out of character moments that even calling it a prequel would have been a lie, as prequel would generally imply it actually does lead into the film it takes place before (and frankly, stuff like Ariel saving music in Atlantica and yet despite that still having to wait at least a year to even join the Daughters of Triton band while her sisters apparently were veterans by that point going by the musical number, Ariel not developing even the slightest interest in humanity during the film, despite it being a core element of her character, getting Ariel's sisters' birth orders completely wrong, not only getting Flounder's personality completely wrong, but apparently not even attempting to show how he became the worrywart from the original film, and lastly, not even doing much to actually show Triton had hated humans especially after Athena's death just shows how the film was utterly butchered by him. The only reason Ariel still retained her rebellious is because Jodi Benson pressured them to do so.). Honestly, lame crab pun and Moby Dick ripoff or not, I would have infinitely preferred the original TLMIII than Ariel's Beginning.