Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6252544-20131015155830/@comment-6175354-20131114213444

GothicNarcissus wrote:

See the difference between Ariel and True North, Skin Deep or Red-Handed: in all of them some Snow White character plays a substantial part making them part of the bigger storyline, but the old ones do actually tale their own fairytale with an original and interesting twist and do focus on their own characters, while Ariel just seemed an all in all superfluous piece of the Snow White puzzle with its own characters totally squeezed in and caught in the crossfire – I would beg to differ.... if anyone was shoehorned into the Ariel flashback, it was Snow White herself. We knew since Skin Deep, that Regina would be involved in The Little Mermaid fairytale, somehow.

That said.... Ariel's romance with Prince Eric, in the flashback, could have been handled better. For goodness sake, they were the first Disney couple to go out on a real date.