Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6252544-20131015155830/@comment-5106672-20131115014907

ChocolatEyes613 wrote: 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. Well yes, Snow plays a rather marginal role there, but that's not exactly what I meant. It was more like, while Regina sets in motion the whole Hansel and Gretel story, then ruins the Beauty and the Beast happy ending, and Snow helps Little Red Riging Hood to have another chapter, those tales go by themselves, Regina and Snow's interventions only include them into the bigger picture. Here the story was: Regina is chasing Snow White, period; the whole Little Mermaid tale was just a marginal detail of this. That's why it was so poorly developed. It felt like, rather than taking a fairytale and rewriting it to include the feud into the story, here we had the feud first and then wrote the new fairytale into it. It's a subtle difference, but it's there.