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Who else hated Ariel?


I just hated her character! I don't know why her and Ren got together at the end (even though it was so predictable). Her stupid little comments and actions just ticked me off for some reason lol

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She was important to Ren's character though. She was EVERYTHING that Ren was accused of being. Plus she was the cement that proved to us that the ban wasn't working at all.

Lori Singer though....gotta go.

Not many hotties from my favorite films in this era. Margot Kidder, blech...Molly ringwald and Wynona..no thanks.

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Margot Kidder? No one ever thought she was hot.

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It wasn't just Ariel a lot of the kids in that town were everything Ren was accused of being & more.

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I think slot of the hatred comes from the fact that a lot of people knew a girl like her, and they usually were a bitch. Yes she had some bad things happen to her, but she is an attention grabber, doing things to make her the focus of everyone. I'm actually she wanted e nice guy Ren, bc normally those girls stay with the bad boys who treat them bad and laugh at guys who would do anything for them. Perhaps she had enough of those guys treating her bad. Usually those type of girls don't go to a nice guy until they have had enough of butt heads treating them bad. I found her annoying but also sad bc she brings a lot of the things on herself and doesn't even know it.

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Her father didn't like Ren & he was a bit of a rebel himself so that could have been part of the attraction.

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Her father didn't like Ren & he was a bit of a rebel himself so that could have been part of the attraction.


That's an excellent point. Nothing like rebelling by going for a guy your dad doesn't like. I missed that one somehow so I'm glad you pointed it out!

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I don't hate her. I just don't like her character.

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yeah. i was on chuck's side. especially during their fight.

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THANK YOU!

I thought I was the ONLY one who was on Chuck's side during the fight and was really hoping he would have run Ariel over with his truck as he sped off, then reversed course and ran over her dying, mutilated corpse again and again.

I never understood the supposed attraction Wren had for Ariel. Maybe it was because she seemed like the only girl who would even talk to him in that whole town.

But still.. She was just an unlikeable person, and in no way worth getting into trouble over.

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