Talk:The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning/@comment-4165687-20141022205657/@comment-1672596-20141023004735

OOC = Out of Character.

Basically, Flounder was basically acting completely the opposite of how he behaved in the first film, even beatboxing and hyperconfident. I would have forgiven it if they actually gave a hint that he was starting to become a worrywart.

And I get Triton was horrified about the death about Queen Athena, but the problem is that there was no indication he even hated humans for what happened. This, alongside Marina del Ray (who, BTW, was the daughter's governess, meaning their nanny, not a stepmom) even surfacing and encountering Scuttle made the conflict in the first film regarding Ariel's surfacing and breaking Triton's ban repeatedly pointless.

Speaking of which, Ariel doesn't even seem to develop an interest in humanity in this film at all, not even a hint, and that was actually one of her key elements of her character, arguably moreso than her rebellious nature (which they fortunately kept thanks largely to Jodi Benson as they originally planned to make her contemporary). This conflicts with the original film which implied that the incident with the sunken ship was not the first time she surfaced at all.

And honestly, Ariel aside, they got the birth order of Triton's daughters completely wrong. Even if we are to ignore the TV series, we've still got the Daughters of Triton song strongly implying, if not outright stating the sisters' birth order.

I'm sorry, but this was definitely not one of their better sequels (or prequel in this case).