Image
Comments
| Yurp #1430858 1 month ago |
 |
| Anonymous #1430862 1 month ago |
The original stories are always better than the bastardized Disney versions! |
| Saint_Braeburn #1430864 1 month ago |
I thought she was turned into Sea Foam in the original. |
| Gundlach #1430876 1 month ago |
Doesn't surprise me at all. |
| Offensive #1430885 1 month ago |
Weren't her "legs" also just her tail split down the middle? |
| Anonymous #1430890 1 month ago |
Remember, girls! If you can't get the man you recklessly sacrificed everything for because he's already married you only have two choices: kill yourself of him!
Yeah, even though the Disney version isn't so much a good moral compass, it's better than that unless a very significant mitigating detail has been left out (such as Ursula/the sea witch's spell requiring her to either win his heart, kill him, or die, in which case she was an idiot for ever taking that deal for a man she didn't even know). |
| Glord #1430904 1 month ago |
I think that would have made a much better movie for young girls. |
| Anonymous #1430914 1 month ago |
FUCK DISNEY
 |
| sigh #1430937 1 month ago |
I thought she dissolved into bubbles? (insert Nostalgia Critic joke here) |
| rafasilva #1430939 1 month ago |
@sigh
Isn't that just an elegant way to say "She kicked the bucket" |
| candrew #1430946 1 month ago |
It's apparently what happens to dead mermaids, the whole turning into seafoam thing. |
| Anonymous #1430995 1 month ago |
It is generally considered to be a metaphor for conversion to Christianity. The mermaid wanted a soul, not having one herself, and the way she went about gaining one was to marry the prince. She fell in love with him anyway and didn't want to kill him, hence killing herself. The "turning into seafoam" thing was meant to be her reward, as a form of immortality. |
| Anonymous #1431121 1 month ago |
hans christian anderson had a warped mind. |
| DoctorDreidal #1431130 1 month ago |
@Sigh, sorry but
"FUCKING BUBBLES!" |
| Shaky #1431147 1 month ago |
There are tons of Fairytales which have been changed over time.
In Sleeping Beauty the prince originally raped her. In Cinderella the Ugly Step Sisters cut off parts of their own feet in order to try and fit into the glass slipper. And I thought Fluffy Pony stories were gruesome. |
| Everypony #1431210 1 month ago |
more fluttershy says |
| Anonymous #1431289 1 month ago |
If there is someone who really didn' t know i' m gonna flip my table so hard is gonna spin for half an hour...
Fucking Disney... |
| Anonymous #1431373 1 month ago |
#1430890
Yeah, one of the moral lessons of this story is to make girls aware they should not blindly follow their crushes doing something crazy for someone they don' t even know very well, cause things can go shit without a remedy. Instead the Disney version follow the modern "reassuring" trend "put your heart and soul into it and you will succeed". Between the two the second one look much more nonsensical and idiotic. Originally fables where an instruments for the elders to hand down their knowledge to the youngers, many times they had a bad endings cause those tales were not made to be successfull or enjoyable. Those were made to make people aware of the dangers of the world. The little mermaid is this: the story of a girl falling stupidly in love with a pretty prince she just met, then run away from home and doing something stupid to try to win his heart, and finally paying the obvious consequences for her idiotic behaviour. If you think the original is about: if you cannot win the love of the guy you have fallen in love, you must kill yourself. You have not understood anything. |
| hyourei #1431642 1 month ago |
 |