WOAAAH wait up, in this film Melody is 12, yes? and Ariel looks 28 AT THE MOST! IN TLM1 She's 16........mich means.........oh dear god......that sweet naive little girl had a BABY as soon as she married Eric?!? DEAR GOD THATS WRONG i dont even wanna think about it, its too horrible. i have nothing against young mothers. its just the fact its ARIEL we're talking about. and at 16. :/
shareWOAAAH wait up, in this film Melody is 12, yes? and Ariel looks 28 AT THE MOST! IN TLM1 She's 16........mich means.........oh dear god......that sweet naive little girl had a BABY as soon as she married Eric?!? DEAR GOD THATS WRONG i dont even wanna think about it, its too horrible. i have nothing against young mothers. its just the fact its ARIEL we're talking about. and at 16. :/
Who said she had the baby at 16?
shareAh most of us were just concluding that Ariel was probably still only 17 or so at the beginning of TLM 2, when she introduces baby Melody to her grandfather, King Triton.
Logistically & historically that is possible too since it was set in the 1800s (or so) long before real birth control, Ariel was fresh newly human, and of course royalty usually had heirs ASAP. (Actually given that, I'm surprised the movie didn't show them with a few more children...but I guess the screenwriters didn't want to complicate the plot even more. lol!)
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And possibly the ability to lay eggs. Ha ha.
Ew...that's kinda...weird...
. . . . Doesn't really mean much, when you think about it.
16 year olds have been having babies for as long as there has been sex.
Juliet was twelve, for goodness sake. :)
I never knew Juilet got married at age 13 in Romeo and Juilet, but I haven't read that far since I already knew the story. But I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought about this cause Ariel did mention that she was 16 years old in the first one and now if Melody is 12 years old (cause remember this sequel came out in 2000) then Ariel would have been 27 not 28 when she had her, but the orginal one out came in 1989 so wouldn't that mean Ariel had Melody already unless the mix the years around. I could be wrong but this is very confusing.
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Ever see the movie Flesh and Blood, with Rutger Hauer from Blade Runner? The girl in that movie is supposed to be 13, and that is supposed to be normal! I don't see what's wrong with Aerial having sex with Eric at 16...
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So what? This is a fairy tale. Not real life.
According to H.C Andersen's original story, Ariel was 15 when the first movie took place. Remember though that young ages are common in old stories. Just look at this:
Ariel: 15 yo
Snow White: 7 yo
Sleeping beauty: 15 yo
Rapunzel: 12 yo
my mom had me at 16 and now im 19 so it is possible...
shareThis is how I looked at it.
The first film was released in 1989, she was 16 then...the second film was realeased 10 years later...making Ariel 26 years old when she gave birth to Melody...then 12 years later when Melody became a mermaid Ariel would have been 38 years old.
That's the way I always thought it was...even when the film came out when I was a kid.
Seriously, who cares when the film comes out?
No sequels took place X years after the original when they were released X years after it.
Okay, maybe Aladdin and the King of Thieves, because it's logical that the movie happened 3 years after the original.
But Return of Jafar, Brother Bear 2, all the sequels to the old movies and the midquels of course...
This is a ridiculous theory. There's no way Ariel was 38 years old in the second film. It was supposed to take place right after the first. Just because a sequel comes out so many years after an original film, doesn't mean the same amount of years have passed.
Actually, I'm not even sure they ever actually said when the beginning took place. It could very well have been twelve years or 24 years after the first film, for all we know.
Admittedly, even with her possibly being 28, she still looks like a sixteen year old, barely even aged a day, so I probably wouldn't be surprised if she has an extremely low rate of aging. I think Merpeople were sometimes stated to live for hundreds of years.
I have a cousin who is 17, who had a baby at 16.
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I know this is four years too late but uh...Seriously?
A lot of people have kids when they're young. My aunt had my cousin when she was 14, my mom had me a week after her 18th birthday, I have a friend who's sister had her first kid at 14...
Yeah it's Ariel but...big deal.
A lot of people have kids when they're young. My aunt had my cousin when she was 14, my mom had me a week after her 18th birthday, I have a friend who's sister had her first kid at 14...