the little mermaid 2 is actually one of the best Disney sequels hate how much hate it gets I get that there’s so part that don’t make sense but overall with ariel never knowing her mom and having to try to figure how to be a mom and trying not to make the same mistakes as her dad and seeing ariel and eric as parents is everything and melody is the perfect mixture of them hope disney starts to acknowledge melody as a character in the future ☹️
(continued) also turning red and the little mermaid 2 have parallels if you haven’t seen turning red yet
I sometimes find it hard to judge TLM2, since it came out when I was 7, so I have a lot of nogstalia for it. But yeah, in general people go too hard on this sequel.
A lot of people claim it "makes no sense" Ariel raises Melody the way she does, even though it's a proven fact parental abuse is a cycle that's hard to break out of. Not to mention she literally witnessed her newborn baby about to be eaten alive. If that's not traumatic, I don't know what is (people stop ignoring the fact parents can also suffer from unresolved trauma challenge).
Speaking of, this sequel proves people care more about hating Ariel than genuinely having a problem with the things she does. Because even they acknowledge TLM2 Ariel "does the same thing Triton did" but then don't aim any hatred towards Triton...
Just like how Triton had to go through this arc in the first movie, Ariel had to go through it in the sequel. but I guess to some people it's only a problem when a mother goes through this arc and happily give the fathers a free pass (even Eric doesn't get hate for it despite actively raising Melody like this, too).
And yeah, I've seen Turning Red. The parallels mainly come from both being a mother-daughter story, which have been becoming more common lately.
