Twelve year old kid at 28?


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. :/

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I..I... I think this is a cartoon....

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While generally correct, it's actually closer to mid 1800s, maybe late 1840s at the earliest. Remember, Ariel was apparently the reason why Hans Christian Andersen wrote the original tale if the TV series is to be believed, meaning the original film had to take place at least on 1836, if not 1837 (thanks to the writing and publication dates).

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Did you take into account Mozart Frankenstein.s publish date and Beethoven?

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I don't know about Frankenstein or Beethoven being mentioned at all in any of the TLM mediums. I do know Mozart had a cameo in Calliope Dreams, but I don't think it was stated in various episode trivia whether this was during the present or Triton's flashback.

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Mozart supposedly NEVER traveled on a boat BUT my point is that he died before 1800

Scuttle gave Beethoven the famous notes for his Fifth Symphony in the Scuttle ep The Fifth Symphony was written 1804 to 1808 Beethoven was born 1770

And The episode with the mad scientist which by the way pays homage to MANY a Roger Corman flick Frankenstein's Monster as a book was written in 1818

PLUS in the film Bride of Frankenstein there is a MERMAID! (doll sized and in a jar)

Electricity was being used in 'mad " experiments at the time

Personally I alsways thought that Disney's version took place in 1789

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1. Was Mozart's cameo during Ariel's time or during Triton's time, because the articles I read never actually said when exactly the cameo occurred (since Triton did have a flashback to when he was a kid).

2. I might be mistaken since I've only read up an article on it, but I'm pretty sure Scuttle's debut episode doesn't even mention Beethoven at all, much less that Scuttle played a role in his fifth symphony.

3. And unless they directly mention Mary Shelly's Frankenstein in the episode, I really am not going to use any similarities an episode has to the book as a reference to it regarding time periods.

Either way, the problem is that the Hans Christian Andersen thing actually played a huge role in the plot and was not merely a cameo.

EDIT: Never mind, I read up one of my sources again, and it DID mention he made a cameo, though it was put in quote marks which suggests the cameo may have been dubious at best.

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Mozart was in The Calyape ep he lost his piano and bath tub Ask the seaclops when he awakes

Scuttle Beethoven was in Scuttle ep

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I know the episode, and I actually edited my post to reflect the Beethoven bit. However, the question with Mozart still stands, as we still don't know if it was during Triton's childhood or Ariel's present day in that episode (though considering that it was Ariel's playing of the Sea Calliope that woke the Seaclops and not the piano or bathtub, and the Seaclops apparently woke up earlier during Triton's childhood and blew up the Sea Calliope, I might be forced to assume that it was the former, especially when Triton, unlike Ariel, was strongly implied to be a good player at the Sea Calliope and thus probably wouldn't have woken the Seaclops with the Calliope playing).

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You're... you're putting an age on a cartoon character.

Yeah, no, she's totally animated so that she can't be any more than 28. XD

Also, so what anyway.

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Whether they find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.

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The time period was in the 1800s.

Back then, being married and having kids at 16-17 was the norm for women.

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Agreed. Different time period. And some shows and animated work aren't afraid to depict that.

In an anime I watch that takes place in the 1800s. Nobody gets pregnant.

But this guy here is a ladies man.
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/silverfang2/29185537/761280/761280_1000.png
We don't know his age. But we can say he's at least 50, if not older, given some clues and hints.

And he's attracted to the girl in this pic, who's 16.
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/silverfang2/29185537/755527/755527_1000.png
His student yells at him that it's a crime. And he replies that 16 is a grown woman. lol

Different time periods had different laws and standards. Yes, it's Ariel - the same Ariel who lusted after him and worshiped a statue of him. lol No secret her feelings were not just innocent and platonic. lol

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Agreed. Well, aside from your inference that Ariel was lustful of Eric, she wasn't. You want lustful, look at Claude Frollo in Hellfire. Heck, look at the wolf from Red Hot Riding Hood.

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There's no guarantee that the time period fit the length of time to took to release this sequel (10 years).

In Home Alone, Kevin was 8 in the first movie but 10 in the sequel, which is an inaccurate mistake.

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But do they even state Ariel's age in this movie?

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