[ SECRET POST #2717 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2717 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Late day at work, sorry!

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[(Anonymous)]

This is only tangentially related, but I get similarly awkward when I see Ariel as a mermaid in, like, 90% of her merchandise. Even the Ariel dress that Disney peddles at Halloween time is always a mermaid outfit... It makes me kind of sad, because Ariel spends most of the movie wishing that she were human, but that's not what's cute and marketable. Better make sure that she's a mermaid on all of the merchandise, character growth be damned!

At least Elsa gets to be her "Snow Queen" self on all of the merchandise. That feels to me like her "true" self, like Ariel's human form, and it's comforting to see that little girls have responded to it so well. I just have a bad feeling that if Elsa's demure, pre-"Let It Go" self had been more popular, Disney wouldn't have hesitated to slap the gloves back on her for the sake of merchandising... Thank goodness her "true" self is covered in sparkles, it's practically catnip for the demographic!

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Thank goodness her "true" self is covered in sparkles, it's practically catnip for the demographic!

I'm gonna put forth a guess that Disney designed it for that purpose too...

[(Anonymous)]

Hahaha, why does it amuse me so much to imagine some chain-smoking Disney executive crying "MORE GLITTER, DAMNIT!" out of the corner of his mouth?

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Ariel didn't hate being a mermaid though. She just really wanted to see the human world. It's not specifically that she hated her body or hated her place in the world, but she was totally fascinated by the human world from which she was forbidden. The only way to visit it (and eventually Eric) was to be human. And she liked being human. That was really exciting and pleasing for her, but the movie never really expresses that she hates being a mermaid, just that she associates it with being held back and being a child.

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IDK, I felt that lines like "legs are required for jumping, dancing, strolling along down a--what's that word again?--street" emphasized how badly she wanted shed her fish tail. Also the way she stares utterly transfixed at her own feet (when she first wakes up on the shoreline after her transformation) always expressed to me that she was finally happy with her body, but I'll completely admit that it's a YMMV sort of thing. I could absolutely be reading into it.