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⌈ Secret Post #5660 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I've always argued that Little Mermaid was really a story about a girl's independence from her father not necessarily the romance itself.

I always get annoyed at those people who talk about how they're sooo grown up now and side with Triton when Ariel says she's not a child anymore . Triton was destroying her possessions to maintain control over her

Honestly with how violent he was when he was angry , it's only because it's a kid movie that he didn't harm Ariel herself.

Truth be told as a kid I had a hard time watching this movie because Triton terrified me.
Honestly the dude kinda gives off "would commit murder/suicide of his family" vibes a bit.

She had good reason to want out. When you're young , a parental figure doing something like that to violently destroy your possessions.... It may not just make you feel angry but actually feel unsafe.
So yeah I'd argue after that she was right to leave. Maybe not making a deal with Ursula but leaving? Yes

Triton needed a wake up call

[(Anonymous)]

I pretty much agree with this. I mean, I don't really think the authorial intent was to imply Triton was a terrible, abusive father, but disregarding authorial intent, Triton was an autocrat (to his familiars, if not to his people), and the scene in Ariel's grotto was absolutely and unambiguously abusive parenting.

I do roll my eyes when Ariel says she loves Eric, whom she watched for like half an hour and has never even spoken to. But that doesn't make Triton's manner of parenting any more justified.

And yeah, TLM is a coming of age story about independence, autonomy, and personal desire, first and foremost. It's also subversive in the way it flips the trope of the mermaid as an evil siren of seduction, and instead makes Ariel's voice the tool she uses to save the fucking monarch of Humanlandia.

TLM definitely has some bits that I find a bit cringy from the vantage point of 2022, but overall I still think it's a good movie, and there's actually a surprising amount of progressive stuff in it, too, once you look past the most obvious, "She risks it all for a guy, and it ends in teen marriage" aspect of the story.

[(Anonymous)]

I do roll my eyes when Ariel says she loves Eric, whom she watched for like half an hour and has never even spoken to.

And that's the other thing, too - yeah, we scoff at her insistence of love, but it also makes sense that she would talk like that about Eric despite barely knowing him at that time, because, well, she's sixteen, and it's normal for her to behave that way when speaking of him, because that's how a lot of teenagers tend to be when it comes to romance and crushing on someone in general.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it's not OOC for someone her age. It's ridiculous, but it's ridiculous in a way that a lot of teenagers ARE about such things, and that's okay. But Triton responded like a damn tyrant, rather than, oh, a parent.

But I don't blame people for violently rolling their eyes, because it is in fact really silly. Some times you gotta roll your eyes at the foolishness of youth. What you don't have to do is destroy your child's most loved possessions in a fit of rage.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, god, YES, the scene with Triton destroying Ariel's possessions freaked me out so much as a kid. I just could never imagine my own parents destroying things I loved like that.

[(Anonymous)]

Just blasting away is definitely a shitty way to handle the situation and made everything worse, but I feel like Triton acted more out of fear than a need to control Ariel. From his point of view he basically stumbled onto his daughter's hoard of nazi paraphernalia. He genuinely believed humans were evil and that admiration of them was dangerous.

[(Anonymous)]

This, honestly. Good intentions but he definitely handled it in the worst way.