@RumplesGirl wrote:
@AngieBelle wrote:
Didn’t Adam and Eddy actually state that we won’t see Ariel until next season because they had taken too many toys out of the toybox this year?
I could be wrong, but think it’s too late in the season to introduce Ariel. The last two episodes are about Neverland- I don’t think Ariel would be in Neverland because last year in “Skin Deep” Regina says something to Rumple about a certain mermaid. Ariel ought to get her own story- not appear as a cameo in someone else’s.
This has been brought up many times so I’ll just give the highlights of the argument.
1) Mermaid Lagoon in Neverland makes perfect sense for Ariel
2) Mermaids can exist in many lands and the “certain mermaid” doesn’t have to refer to Ariel.
3) Phee postulated that water can be a portal, or have portal like things in them, that would allow for cross land travel for mermaids
4) We think Ariel is going to play a huge role in S3 and introducing her now is a way of doing that. It may just be a quick glimpse of her before we get into S3.
Pretty sure the “certain mermaid” line was a deliberate Ariel reference- I thought I remembered them stating as much.
In the Disney mythology at least, the Neverland mermaids are all girls, and they are mean. They almost drown Wendy! Ariel lives in a whole ocean kingdom with a father who forbids human contact. The Neverland mermaids bask at the surface all the time and adore Peter Pan.
And while I might be able to buy Ariel being in Neverland, I would be hard pressed to imagine Prince Eric there.
I suppose this new character *could* be Ariel. I’m not saying it’s completely out of the realm of possibility. I’m just rather skeptical.
Incidentally, if you ride the Peter Pan ride at Walt Disney World, they did paint one of the mermaids at the lagoon to look like Ariel!