Talk:The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning/@comment-25041095-20130909231412/@comment-1672596-20140101031333

Yeah, and for a prequel, it actually conflicted with the first film quite a bit. Probably the only good thing about the film is that Ariel at least retained her rebellious streak (and that's largely because Jodi Benson pushed that she retained it. They actually planned to make her more "contemporary."). For one thing, why would Ariel not be band leader and wait a year to join for her role in Atlantica even having music being legalized? Especially when the first film implied that the concert she missed was going to be her debut appearance (and it doesn't help that her sisters were implied to be veteran singers). Heck, even Ariel wasn't completely intact (where's her interest in humans? There's absolutely no hint at her being interested in humans at all, which, BTW, is a pretty key component of her character, considering that interest of hers is her driving component in the first film), and considering Marina actually visited the surface, there isn't even a ban on surfacing, which makes Ariel and Triton's conflict in the first film nonsensical as well. Honestly, even Return to the Sea was better than this, and I didn't even like that film.