Talk:Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World/@comment-24518762-20140710172801/@comment-1672596-20150718125439

If it's of any consolation, the one silver lining of this sequel is that Ratcliffe was far better written as a villain in the sequel than he was in the first movie. I mean, let's face it, he was poorly written, similar to the Ferengi from the early seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation, his motivation is pretty much "find gold just to get some popularity," and quite frankly, he really doesn't cross into the threshold of evil until late into the movie when he tries to shoot the Indians (and ironically, they didn't arrest him for trying to breach the treaty, but because John Smith got in the way of the shot). He had even more shallow characterization and poor-writing than Gaston did in Beauty and the Beast, and considering he's the guy who literally gave away enough details of his evil plan in public to all but ensure his arrest yet got cheered on instead, not to mention only seemed to do his actions because Belle was the so-called "most beautiful woman in the village," despite the triplets outranking her in that category, that's saying quite a lot.