Talk:Ariel/@comment-4487748-20140827143321

Why does Ariel and TLM in general get so much love and always makes the top of nearly everyone's favorites (especially her relationship with Eric)?

I find Ariel and Eric to be one of the most poorly developed couples in the post-classical era. Ariel sees the first good looking human she's ever laid eyes on and instantly decides that he is "the one". She then makes a deal with a known enemy of the mer-people, sells her soul for a man she doesn't know, and has three days to get the plot device known as Eric to fall for her. There was no chemistry between Ariel and Eric other than both of them being good looking. Hell, Eric's companionship with his dog and Ariel's relationship with her father were far more developed and interesting than their relationship with each other. God, the Triton/Ariel relationship is one of my favorite parent/child relationships in Disney when you look at it from Triton's perspective.

Eric is basically Prince Phillip, only a mariner instead of a horseman. Sees a pretty face with a beautiful voice, decides she's the one, and has a badass fight scene in the end. Hell, he also fights a dry-humored psychopath. Ariel is the caricature of a self-absorbed, teenage brat who decides that she wants something and she would go through any means to get what she wants regardless of the consequences. In the end, she does no growing as a character. She whined for what she wanted and in the end, she got it. Ariel put lives in danger from her own selfishness and that makes her my least favorite princess in Disney.