Talk:Ernesto de la Cruz/@comment-37975368-20191009030916

In the words of Youtube user, Annapple Goldfinch:

I honestly never liked how they made it so that Ernesto was a villain who poisoned Miguel's great-great-grandfather, and that's why he didn't return home. I felt like it oversimplified the story, and lost an opportunity to say something mature and nuanced about parenthood and marriage. Sometimes, two people can love and care about each other, but still not be compatible for each other, and have different life goals. There doesn't have to be a villain in the story for things to go wrong. Both parties can be perfectly decent people, and still not make it work. Also, Miguel's great-great-grandfather didn't have to be a bad person in order to be a bad parent. People who are bad at raising kids aren't automatically heartless or unloving, they're just bad at raising kids. They could have made it so that Imelda and her husband represented two legitimate lifestyles, and taught kids that while people might not be bad, they're not perfect and life won't always go the way you want it to. The important thing is to not let the bad things get in the way of what love and happiness you do have.