Disney Duster wrote:
Ok, well I'm glad that you, as a big fan of your favorite Disney movie, don't have problems with these. As long as you wouldn't make a deal with a sea witch to be turned into a miserable polyp for the rest of your life if you didn't get love from someone you didn't even know loved you back! lol I wouldn't do it. For King Triton I wouldn't do what he did, either, but he has the tougher call. Do you save one person because all life is precious, or do you protect the rest of the world and lose one person? The "kill the witch" thing can just be a bad message if you read it one way.
I never got to know Ariel's other sisters. I never was interested in the Little Mermaid comics unless they had Ursula in them. Or were they novels, not comics? Can you give me a link to what you are talking about? I never saw enough of the show to get a sense of the sisters, or maybe I just didn't care about them enough to notice, and if I did notice, I would have some favorites. Attina has an awful design, yes, lol.
Lol, that is sound advice. I agree that Triton was put in a tough position and probably for the sake of his kingdom, he made the wrong choice. I don't really see why the "kill the witch" storyline is so panned now because if Ursula was male, that wouldn't suddenly make Ursula's actions unacceptable or make Ursula a toxic character all of a sudden. And TLM shouldn't be criticized for this when Snow White and Sleeping Beauty (and Cinderella too to an extent) featured similar "witch" characters who met grisly ends.
The sisters were barely present in the show. Arista was the most prominent one as she had two episodes dedicated to her rivalry with Ariel which is also why most fans tend to like Arista the most because the other sisters were basically ciphers. Alana has one episode with Ariel where they go to Eel-ectric City but she had no personality or presence. The books I was referring to are these.
http://cbl.orcein.net/thelittlemermaid/ ... novels.htmI picked them all up on Amazon second-hand and I really enjoyed them. A lot of them don't focus on Ariel (although she's always in the story) but are from the point of view from one of the sisters and a few books focus on all the sisters equally which was great. I think every sister ended up having a book with a prominent role except maybe Aquata. Ursula appears in one of the books (take a guess which one lol).
I've read both comic series for the film as well. The original four-issue Peter David one and then the second series which was created by Marvel Comics and tied-in with the TV series so it had characters from the show like Urchin, The Evil Manta, Pearl, the Crab Scouts, the Lobster Mobster, etc.