Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20170515015929/@comment-26159109-20170515180905

CoolDudeAl wrote: Farerb wrote:

CoolDudeAl wrote:

ChocolatEyes613 wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: No, it wouldn't have been. Emma is literally a fairy tale princess, and those always end "they lived happily ever after". Having her die would go against the basic premise of this show. Um.... have you read the original The Little Mermaid? I didn't, but as I understand it, even that has a happy ending of sorts, as the mermaid (who does not have a soul, and so can't have "eternal life"), is somehow granted being a being that does get an eternal life, so while she doesn't get the dude, she gets to live forever, instead of just dieing and becoming nothingness. Also, that's literally one story. Think of fairy tales as a whole, the ending is "and they lived happily ever after". That's a version of it. In the original she dies and turns into sea foam. Which was revised by Andersen to the version I mentioned. Even he thought his original sad ending sucked too much. XD

It is disputed whether Andersen was the one who revised it, most scholars agree that the story was bulding up to be a tragedy.