Talk:Ariel/@comment-13112974-20141030220237/@comment-1672596-20141114093538

Have to agree with you there. I also think that the complaints about Ariel's character, specifically her loving Eric, resulted in Belle being ruined by being made into a huge jerk in her film, even though the original screenplay handled it well enough to not need fixing, all because Katzenberg in part insisted on a "feminist take" of Beauty and the Beast largely because critics viewed Ariel as "cloyingly sexist." A lot of those critics also conveniently forget that Ariel already had a fascination with humanity and desired to be among humanity anyways, and Eric if anything just acted as the final push.