Talk:John Lasseter/@comment-30820860-20141218235620/@comment-1672596-20141219001440

To be fair, the original story pitch might have had Ariel telling Melody about her past. But yeah, point taken, and he didn't even do a good job in regards to making Ariel's Beginning into a prequel, either, as most times, it gave so many out-of-character moments (most aren't even resolved in way of character development to tie into the original movie) and a large amount of contradictions to the original movie that even calling it a prequel would be a downright lie, as there's literally no way it could connect to the original film at all. Take the birth order of Ariel's sisters, for example. Even ignoring the TV series (which, BTW, actually did try to connect to the original film, unlike Ariel's Beginning), the original film already strongly implied the birth order in the Daughters of Triton number. The point of a prequel is to make sure it actually connects to the original film.