Talk:The Beast Within: A Tale of Beauty's Prince/@comment-1677756-20151216041042/@comment-1672596-20151216134602

I can agree with you on one thing: This is definitely way better than Maleficent. That being said, I'm not sure it doesn't butcher anything in the slightest, though. Quite frankly, Valentino did try to make Circe seem good, but let's just say it fell flat as she came across as more selfish than selfless (besides, it's hard for me to take seriously that she had the best of intentions when in the Disney Comics, for example, she actually tried to harm Belle repeatedly, once when she actually WAS helpless, DESPITE being played up by Mrs. Potts as being a defender of the weak). And I'm not too sure about the book's implication of the film occurring around the time of Cinderella or The Little Mermaid. Wasn't it supposed to be late 1700s, or pre-Revolutionary France? TLM and Cinderella were strongly implied to take place in the 1800s. And why would Beast fall for Belle, when he spurned the Enchantress away for her being a Ranch hand?