Talk:The Bimbettes/@comment-9614551-20140309011714/@comment-1672596-20140625140022

Yeah, I agree. It also doesn't help that, the little of them we do see of them in the actual film, their crush on Gaston aside, they actually may have been more internally beautiful than Belle herself was (which kinda destroys the entire point of the moral of internal beauty, as the point of a main protagonist is that they are supposed to be different from the rest because they followed that moral, or learn that moral at least), and attempts to give them flaws have actually been done fairly poorly due to it conflicting with the film material (for starters, with Marvel Comics they gave them a conniving and jealous view of Belle as flaws, even going as far as to alter a flashback to the beginning of the film to depict the triplets as being jealous of Belle's attention from Gaston, yet they are directly conflicted by their actual actions in the film, such as their reacting angrily to Belle's refusal in such a way that implied they were in fact willing to sacrifice their chances with Gaston to give Belle a chance at him [which makes jealousy extremely unlikely as jealous people generally don't do that while jealous], not to mention crying up the perfect storm when Gaston was revealed to be the groom instead of doing what they tended to do in the Marvel Comics and try to spoil the wedding somehow out of spite for Belle upon finding out).

As for what made me think they had more internal beauty than Belle did? Well, their actions in their few scenes led to this conclusion:
 * As noted above, their reaction to Belle's refusal would imply they were willing to give up their happiness of having Gaston to let Belle have a chance at him. That would qualify for selflessness. Plus, considering it was implied they had just arrived when Gaston said "like me" regarding his telling Belle to focus on more important things than books, they may have missed the bit where Gaston threw the book in the mud, and likewise they probably thought he was offering to help Belle up and possibly clean her book. We also don't even hear them mocking or otherwise laughing at Maurice's alleged "loon" aspect, or the explosion in the cellar.
 * In addition, the failed wedding scene, aside from implying they were practicing Christians, also implied something very interesting as well: Based on their reactions when Gaston stepped out and said "I'd like to thank you all for coming to my wedding" (briefly smiling and content with setting up the champagne table, only to react with some shock at Gaston's arrival, Laura whispering something into Claudia's ear, and then Claudia putting her hand up to her mouth in shock, Laura looking nervous, and Paula [who most certainly had been in high spirits beforehand] looking horrified and devastated, even clinging to Laura's arm), they didn't even know Gaston was going to be the groom. That made it extremely unlikely they were attending, not to mention personally help set up the wedding for Gaston's sake, so logically, the only other person they might have been doing it for was Belle (everyone else, except for the Priest who looked like he really didn't want to be there, was obviously doing it for Gaston). This would strongly imply that they did in fact value Belle as a friend, even possibly being her only friends in the village. That's saying a lot when the opening song strongly implied that she was considered the town outcast for various reasons.
 * The tavern had them also giving comfort to Gaston, despite his cruelly keeping them in the dark about him being the groom. This would suggest they forgave him of that transgression. And it's not like they simply weren't aware of it, considering they were pretty blatantly shocked and devastated by the discovery, and that kind of betrayal is not exactly something that's easily forgivable.
 * In addition, after the Gaston song, the only time they appeared in the reprise (especially when the ending of the first song implied that they had gone for the back room, due to their absence in the pan out and Paula was clearly on her way back with a silver platter) was right when Gaston and LeFou, in reference to their plot, exclaimed "Let's Go!" which means they most likely didn't even know Maurice arrived at the tavern and warned them about a beast and got thrown out, much less that Gaston was planning on blackmailing Belle by incarcerating Maurice under false pretenses unless she married him (probably one of the few people in the tavern at least, if not the entire village to be innocent of conspiracy, the same can't be said about the others who were there the whole time). In addition, some of their behavior, assuming they weren't animation errors, subtly implies they may not have even supported the little of the details they did hear about even among everyone in the tavern who wasn't either LeFou or Gaston (or Gaston's four lackies), as they were seen not actually looking at Gaston at all when he and LeFou basically commented that the former was good at taking cheap shots and let slip that they were planning to persecute harmless crackpots, and during the chorus they aren't actually shown singing along at all (their teeth were clenched shut with no animation at all on their mouths, while the rest of them did have their mouths moving mouthing the lyrics), which is further supported when they weren't even present among the mob late into the film. Keep in mind they most likely weren't even aware of Belle being the main point of their plan, so they couldn't have objected due to Belle's role in the plan, so they most likely didn't like the fact that Gaston was planning on inflicting a cheap shot or persecuting someone who was a harmless crackpot.

Probably the only thing that counts against them is their crush on Gaston (though even there, they were at least shown to be faithful to him up to that moment where he blurted out his plan in front of everyone), their anger at Belle (though only because they reacted in anger, as their reasons for being angry are actually somewhat justified), and possibly their squirting LeFou (although even then, that was pretty clearly an accident due to not even being aware of his being nearby and being distracted with Gaston).