@AngieBelle wrote:
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!
That’s one of the reasons I think it’s highly likely that Ariel will be in Neverland’s Mermaid Lagoon on the show. It would make perfect sense to give Ariel a brief intro at the very end of this season when they introduce Neverland, but not actually show her story until next season. Would actually be a smart business move, because fans of the show have been wanting to see her since day 1, and if they give us a little tease of her now, that gives everyone something to eagerly anticipate more of in the lead up to season 3. Even casual fans who may have stopped watching recently may tune in for the finale and then be enticed back next season by the promise of The Little Mermaid.
@RumplesGirl wrote:
That’s a huge part of the Little Mermaid mythology, actually. In the original tale, the sea witch actually cuts out her tongue (Ariel also dies, but Disney took a decidedly more positive route) and in the Disney version Ursula actually steals her voice and then uses it to entrap Eric, the Prince.
The Hans Christian Anderson version (you can read the whole thing here: http://hca.gilead.org.il/li_merma.html ) is actually quite depressing. Not only does she die after the prince marries someone else, but as well as the sea witch taking out her tongue, part of the deal is that the transformation into a human will feel as though a sword is passing through her, and once she has legs she’ll be a beautiful dancer but every step will feel like blades slicing her feet open. Fun. Will be interesting to see how they mash up the Anderson version and the Disney version with their own additional ideas.
@RumplesGirl wrote:
And while I might be able to buy Ariel being in Neverland, I would be hard pressed to imagine Prince Eric there.
Unless he’s an orphaned lost prince *wink wink*
Please let it be so! Barrie said that Captain Hook’s true identity was some big, scandalous secret. I’ve cooked up this headcanon where a young Prince Eric’s parents are killed, and he only just escapes being killed too, then runs off to join a pirate ship’s crew and changes his name to Killian so that whoever killed his parents can’t track him down. There’s a 99% chance that my headcanon is totally wrong, but I’m enjoying it while it lasts. 😛