Talk:Ariel/@comment-25464031-20140503011643/@comment-1672596-20140730213758

"Yes! That was just some dumb style back then, to have "Love at First Sight." Today, it's pretty much gone, and I expect no other movie's going to feature it after Frozen teaches children that Love at First sight is really just loving people for their looks. That's why I hate Ariel, (I like the movie though) Because she ran away and changed her SPECIES and even gave up her VOICE just so she could be with some boy she literally just looked at for like 2 minutes and hasn't even spoken to!  well she did get to know his looks! :P XD "

(facepalm)

First of all, Ariel did NOT just like him for his looks, she also witnessed him being polite about his dislike for the statue, being kind to his manservant, his bravery in taking on the storm, and heck, him saving his dog even when it was very likely to have cost him his life in the process. And considering he did all that without his even being AWARE of Ariel's existence, much less interacting with her, that's an insight to his true nature. You know the old saying, "a person's true nature is what they do when they think no one else is watching."

Which brings me to my second point: unlike Ariel and Eric, Anna and Hans actually interacted with each other. In fact, the reason why Hans managed to seduce Anna wasn't even his looks, but his charm. That's how he succeeded in exploiting her, not simply his having a handsome appearance. That's in fact how sociopaths operate, they try to charm you by acting nice, exploit vulnerabilities in you to get you under their command and sway you to them, and then once your usefulness has ended they throw you away like a broken tool. That's a pretty big difference between Ariel's love for Eric and Anna's love for Hans. And having charm doesn't require having a handsome physical appearance. Jean-Paul Sartre, for example, was absolutely hideous in appearance, even by his own admission, yet he managed to seduce and bed countless women, many of which were his own students, and then threw them away cruelly, and making disparaging remarks about them in his letters. And it doesn't even require love at first sight to fall for that trap. Don't forget, the triplets for Beauty and the Beast obviously loved Gaston for his physical appearance, and if we go by the Marvel Comics, they were like that since they were KIDS, meaning it clearly by the time of the film was not love at first sight. That's a far cry from what happened between Eric and Ariel in The Little Mermaid, and you know it.

And she didn't give up her voice either, since she got it back. And actually, she can still interact with her family, or have you forgotten that the place she and Eric are governing is... I don't know, right next to the ocean, on the shore in fact?! At least be glad that they didn't have her falling in love with Eric only because he looked like a statue of hers (which, BTW, was exactly how she fell for Eric in the original Hans Christian Andersen tale).

Now, were we talking about Kingdom Hearts II Ariel, I'd agree fully, as she literally only found Eric while surfacing, apparently after a storm.