Joanna Garcia officially cast as Ariel

[kfchimera]

Said fans obviously haven’t spent enough time contemplating the awesome potential for various storylines by making her an adult. Also, have they forgotten that this show flashes back to times when the characters were younger?

So true! My only worry about her is that they don’t have her lined up for a long enough arc!

[Phee]

I’m optimistic that she’s gonna get a decent amount of screentime, for several reasons, but one of the main ones is that The Little Mermaid is being re-released on DVD/BluRay only a month before 306 is due to air. Ariel’s the fave Disney Princess of a crapload of people, who will be high on their new DVDs and ready to eat up anything and everything Ariel related. The character could potentially bring in a bunch of new viewers. It would be a waste for them to not capitalise on her popularity.

Perhaps they’ve only publicly confirmed 2 eps so far because they’re anticipating a whole lot of chatter in the media and social media when it comes time for the ep to air, with everyone wondering what their version will be like. Then once it does air, and everyone’s freaking out over how cool it is to finally have Ariel on the show, that will be the more sensible time to reveal that she’s gonna be around for longer. Allows for articles published after 306 to say, “She was such a huge hit with fans that we’re happy to confirm that you’ll be seeing a lot more of her in the future.” Gets everyone hyped up all over again.

They wouldn’t have gone to the trouble of shooting the promo for Comic-Con if she was only gonna be in 2 eps total.

If she was gonna be an insignificant bit part, they wouldn’t have had someone in mind to play her pretty much since the show started, and they wouldn’t have waited until that particular actress was available.

[RumplesGirl]

Because Ariel isn’t traditionally in NL it makes more sense for them to introduce her, capitalize on her popularity, like Phee pointed out, and then hold off on really bringing her into the fold until after the PP drama is finished, which will probably be 311. Then Ariel can help with whatever the repercussions of the first half of the season happen to be.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[Josephine]

They did that with Neal. Gave a us a tease in the premiere and then didn’t show us him again until Tallahassee. I can see them doing something along the same route with both Ariel and Robin Hood.

I’m so happy that they’ve cast Ariel older. I don’t think the younger fans that are upset realize the plot implications, like other have mentioned, if Ariel was actually 16 years old. Heck, at that young age, they’d be limited to her being a schoolgirl and interacting more with the lost boys and Henry. Meanwhile, us older fans are envisioning a whole bunch of other possibilities.

Keeping my fingers crossed her story is in the past and she didn’t get her happy ending like in the novel. Come one Adam and Eddy, break away from the Disney mold!

Keeper of Rumplestiltskin's and Neal's spears and war paint and crystal ball.

[Slurpeez]

I would have liked Ariel to be about 18, since that way she’d have been old enough to handle some mature themes like romance, but still young enough to still defy her father. The entire conflict in the movie is that a little mermaid, forbidden by her father from going above water, nevertheless falls in love with a human. At 30 years of age, is a woman really bound by the rules of her father? It seems like that main theme can no longer be used. I know there was Belle, who was still under the thumb of her father and fiancé in FTL, but do the same rules apply in NL? Perhaps this portrayal of Ariel will exclude King Trident entirely and just make Ariel a mature, capable woman whose independence leads her to rebel against her kind, who have a reputation for being vicious sirens when it comes to humans. I’ve come around to Ariel being older, and I like what I’ve seen of Joanna Garcia.

"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy

[Lauren]

i’ve watched JG in Privileged this week having known she was cast as Ariel and it’s like that was a mini interview its funny there’s a scene where this guy calls her a disney princess and her room is full of sea shells and she even uses one at one point as a weapon made me laugh cos she actually is now and Ariel of all people.. funny how the world works huh 🙂

#BOOM #Swanfire #Always #Pancakes #Haven #Fate

[RumplesGirl]

Slurpeez’s raises a good point, but I wonder if Ariel’s conflict with her father will have anything to do with “his rules” about humans. I’m more inclined to think that instead of Triton banning Ariel from interacting with humans, the merfolk of NL have sided with PP against humans, killing those ones that fall into the water. Ariel alone doesn’t want to hurt anyone. So it doesn’t have anything to do with a willful teenager defying her father. But that’s my headcanon.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[Lauren]

what if they twist is an have Ursula be her step mom or would that mirror to much the evil queen? i no they have quite a few similarities which is why people have said Lana should play Ursula too.. maybe they won’t even cast Triton maybe they have it that Ursula married him then killed him and turned all the mermaids against the humans and it made her even happier because it made Ariel miserable :S

#BOOM #Swanfire #Always #Pancakes #Haven #Fate

[RumplesGirl]

At D23 they said we’d meet Eric and Ursula (they never said who they would be, though, if they are people we already know) but they never mention Triton. So it could be that they are doing away with her father altogether and focusing on Ariel, Eric, and Ursula. I suspect that they may make Eric or Ursula someone we’ve already encountered. Now, I now my Hookriel ship is coming out but my headcanon is that Eric is Hook and Ursula has taken over Ariel’s kingdom, forged an alliance with PP to help destroy any humans who try to come to NL and rescue the boys. The merfolk get to kill anyone who enters their waters

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[TheWatcher]

So does that mean Ariel will not be a princess? 🙁

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