Talk:Belle's Sisters/@comment-31633345-20171105181139/@comment-1672596-20171125120924

Maybe, but it really came at the cost of Belle having no foil at all regarding the moral. The triplets were terrible characters to use as a foil for Belle relating to the moral (well, the 1991 film versions were that, anyway. The 2017 versions definitely did well as foils.), especially when they had zero indication of even being nasty or having inner ugliness.

If they truly couldn't keep the sisters, they could have at least used substitutes to push the moral on her end. After all, the original tale did have Belle learning that lesson as WELL as Beast. Leaving Belle with absolutely no foil at all was a mistake (besides, Belle in the first act basically came across as being too similar to her sisters anyway, certainly closer to having inner ugliness, which isn't exactly a good way to depict her, and there wasn't exactly much development in Act 2 showing she purged those negative elements.).