Talk:Ariel/@comment-24238780-20141211180549/@comment-1672596-20141218022524

"Your "explaination" is only your mere opinion, nothing more... I've already expressed my own opinion, and it's that Ariel is one of the dumbest brats in the DP franchise, while Belle is the exact opposite; smart, mature and resourceful, period."

No, the explanation is a FACT, verifiable in the film, not an opinion at all. This was explicitly shown in the film, and considering that Belle had in fact deduced Gaston was blackmailing her, it wouldn't be a stretch to realize that Gaston would try to kill the Beast if he even gets the slightest hint that she likes the Beast better than him, something even a little kid would deduce easily, yet she didn't seem to even think that the villagers would go after the Beast (gee, Belle, what exactly did you EXPECT they would do if you exposed the Beast? Sing kumbaiyah by the campfire?!). And BTW, a mature girl would NOT enter a childish argument with the Beast, twice, and basically say she didn't want anything to do with him even though the Beast did try to make amends earlier. Ariel isn't mature, but at least I admit it. Besides, at least Ariel does take Triton's claims into consideration (she did verbally think Triton may have been right about her being a freak just before Part of Your World, something Belle clearly didn't do regarding Beast).

And being resourceful means you make decisions predicated on making sure that you keep casualties down and are extremely efficient with the evidence and factors available you can deduce (and with Belle, that would especially mean taking fully into account Gaston becoming jealous of her or the fact that there was a mob present), none of which match up with what Belle did by exposing the Beast. That's even what's in the dictionary.

Believe me, if I were to give an opinion, I'd basically say Belle was a guy, a strapping male, just because, hey, it's my opinion, even when it's clearly false. There's even a good comparison to opinions, and that's "the boy who cried wolf." If you're thinking that I'm implying that opinions mean lying, yes, that's EXACTLY what I'm implying. I go by cold raw facts.

And if Ariel was actually dumb, she wouldn't have been reluctant to go to Ursula at all (and her entire interactions, even explicitly refusing Flotsam and Jetsam when they tried to ask her directly the first time around, made clear she was indeed very reluctant to give Ursula a shot). Actually, she'd be more like Jafar (hey, your favorite villain), who stupidly took Aladdin's advice to wish to become a genie without even thinking it through about the possible rammifications of said action, clearly not being hesitant to make the wish at all (even Iago called him out on the action). Naïve, sure, I'll agree with you there, but she's NOT dumb. Nor is she a brat. She may be somewhat rebellious of her father, but she isn't a brat. I've seen brats, and they aren't like Ariel at all.