Asha fits the princess mold sort of without having royal blood, and audiences didn't take to her. Isabela Madrigal is dark skinned but people DO love her. She also gives off princess vibes.
@@kipolem53 more like ppl didn't take to the entire movie, the character aside. Maybe if Disney didn't just crap this movie out in 90 days, it would have been better...
The original Ariel is one of the most iconic character ever. Disney is now trying to rebrand Ariel with a new design. In theory they have to revamp all their the little mermaid stuff in their parks. Imagine the costs of this redesign, because little kids get confused because the tv show has a different looking Ariel than the one in the parks.
The funny thing is this comes out AFTER the Lorcana set known as Ursula's REturn, where she is very much still a villain, in fact Hans works with her as a negative presecne to do smething dastardly. There is also supposedly some other board thing where you use a Lorcana deck to defeat Urusla. I find it odd that theyr'e using a villain's name to head a TCG set, I mean there's no Giovanni's Retibution or Lysandres Fury in Pokemon, I mean what, will there be a future set called Mirabel's MIracle?
@@loonytunescrazy the OG movie... left Ursula's nature and past highly nebulous. But has major hints. the main one is she actually CAN wield the power of the trident. So she IS someone of the royal lineage. Also, she has that angle of seemingly thinking she is in the line of succession, but.. it's not clear just how close to the top. So... it would seem that she was a close relative of Triton. Hard to say HOW close, but close enough as the saying goes. At any rate the aunt angle isn't the problem, it's the angle of rewriting her as a non-villain...
I know right it really is all over the place since the Disney Movies wouldn't happen without the Disney villains. You can't have the plot of the Disney Movies happening without the Disney villains otherwise how else would the movies still begin?
@@animezilla4486by that logic they might as well make little mermaid XX Rated. As hey its their stuff right? Like come on dude, this entire thing is lazy. Don't even try to defend it by saying that hey, its their franchise. as i sure as hell don't like Disney at this point. But i surely don't want to see Disneyland Burn to the ground because the CEO wants to Make the Largest bonfire to roast marshmallows on. As no, i don't care if it is their shit, their are things you just don't do with it.
@@animezilla4486Well, people would be quite upset about it if it was flipped the other direction.. so that's the point, not whether or not they own the rights to do it
They’re not forgetting anything, this shift has been in the works for decades. This is why iger is fighting so hard to keep Disney out of the hands of Peltz. It’s a propaganda studio to help normalize kiddie rides, inch by inch by giant leap until it’s a reality that we all accept via incremental changes to how we think. Social engineering 101
@@michaelwills1926 Where are your sources on this? You've been spam commenting this and liking your own comments talking about how this shift has been in the works for decades but fail to give any evidence, then proceed to praise Iger, so you're either a bot or a pixie duster shill. Iger only cares about himself so you can stop kissing his ass.
Not only have they forced Afrocentrism into the Little Mermaid, they have even gone as far as making the traditional villain as some kind of mentor in their Disney Junior adaptation???? Dude, that is messed up in all the wrong levels. It is about as wrong as making Scar from the Lion King as Simba's mentor character.
why can't Disney Junior and Disney leave the classic Little Mermaid series alone. Also not to mention their replacing Ariel's six sisters with two original ones in Disney Junior's Ariel named Alanna and Ayanna who are going to be Ariel's younger twin sisters that's a sign that they're going too far with this preschool cartoon.
As someone with a four year old second cousin, she does not like Halle Bailey's version of the Little Mermaid. She loves the original Ariel and what's more ironic is that she looks more like Halle. I have said this before in a different video on a different channel but I think that this shows that kids are becoming aware of what Disney is doing and they don't like it. Also, I don't see her watching this show at all.
@@mitchellalexander9162Adults are the ones making this crud. Kids don’t have any say on what is made for them. The little kids are the same generation watching skibidi toilet after all. 😓
I’m just gonna say it your cousin is a smart kid a very smart kid and something tells me she’s going to see through this fake ass Ursula just like she saw through abomination aerial. There’s no way this kid is gonna fall for this fake Ursula. I looked at the trailer and I’m like what the fudge is this.
It's not ironic though, this whole "needing to see themselves on screen" thing is messed up. I actually had to stop watching How to Train Your Dragon because Hiccup is too much like me. I went back to it the next day, still feel like the ending is overly dramatic. But Astrid is really cool. And THANK GOODNESS, a franchise that doesnt show dragons to be destrctive beings like so kmuch else that involves those creatures.
Seriously you honestly believe that is what's happening here nobody's teaching kids to trust strangers and there's definitely is no grooming it's just a stupid preschool show
@@ProfessorDreamerFunny thing about morals (and it’s not funny at all): if your morals are that screwed up to the point where you’re letting the promotion of stuff like that? You can’t really see the fact that said morals are bat-crap crazy.
So... Ursula who tried to DROWN Eric and Ariel when they were on the boat AS WELL as kill him with the trident AND turning Triton into a monster is nice? No, i don't believe it! I won't find her kind after what she has done 😠 Disney tried to make me feel bad for Maleficent and Cruella, it fails. Now they are changing Ursula; yay 😒
Bill Cipher: Shake my hand, kids. Jafar: Make a wish, children, then your dreams will come true. Wicked Queen: Children, auntie has a APPLE for the fairest of you all.
So a soul stealing monstrous murder squid lady is now a cool sassy aunt. So nice of Disney to rehabilitate and repaint all movie villains. Can't wait for Disney's new kids shows about beloved cooking psychiatrist in Mr Lecter's Neighbourhood. Or Happy Hour with the inimitable Mr Joker.
Pointing out- Disney has changed historically villainous characters for Disney junior shows. When my now teens were toddlers/young children, they watched Mickey Mouse club house. Pete, a historical villain, was changed to a friend who gave Mickey and gang challenges. Feel like the changes represent modern thinking that children should not experience adversity or ‘anything bad’
@@animezilla4486 also Pete could still be antagonist in the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse he did help Mortimer Mouse steal all of the Mickey and the gang's stuff.
OG Pete was more of a punch clock villain than an actual villain, he isn’t against Mickey in the Steamboat Willie cartoon because he’s evil he’s against Mickey because that’s actually his boat and Mickey stole it.
And Pete has been portrayed differently each time he has been around, but he has been the antagonist more often than not. I can only remember a few times where he was an outright villain, and even then he was usually not the big bad. He’s usually portrayed as ‘that guy who likes to f around/ bad friend’ not ‘the guy that will always end up in jail’, though that depiction is usually the remembered one.
@@hopejordan2997 true since that has originality and is its own thing rather than trying to ape and knock off another preschool cartoon. Also Disney Junior should just show Sofia The First, Lion Guard and Jake and The Neverland Pirates to the kids instead of making a woke cartoon based off and probably a prequel to the 2023 Little Mermaid remake.
Yes! I was thinking that; except Bubble Guppies actually has diversity without making it an obvious focal point 🤔 and actually teaches kids useful things too
@@animezilla4486 still if Disney wanted to make a diverse mermaid cartoon ( but with white merfolk in it) to teach children they could've made an original one instead of making one using the 2023 Little Mermaid remake.
Guys...MORGANA. Ursula and Morgana's mother was always asking why Morgana wasn't more like her sister. Did she sllep with Tridet's father and so he is Ursula's half-sbiling? But that means he has the same relation to Morgana.
@@ProfessorDreamer Have you seen Haileys' On It? Good show, but look at the background characters. It is an explosion of minorities. Which means, Caucasians are quite a rare sight there. I mean there is the rich guy Billboard Bill Boards. But I mean the actual background characters, that dude is not one of those. Also annoying kid is white. And then even though she never gave a hint of being attracted to girls at all, Kristine seeing her crush's name in Haileys' journal says "their," instead of "him." That is wrong. There is a high, HIGH schance that Hailey likes dudes, just saying, and furthermore the "them" ponoun is used too often in incorrect scenarios that that just makes that icky. IF however, Hailey had told Kristine directly that she's bi, that would be different, but she has not done that.
At least the movie was enjoyable and gave a reason for all that change. Maleficent was more of an anti-heroine who still did evil things for her own interests (whether she changed to save Aurora was mostly because the princess gave her a reason to change her mind). I didn't mind that change in that case
Disney used to be so careful about who they hired for their parks to play the characters. They had one size of dresses for each princess, if you were too big, you didn’t get the job. Now they don’t care about confusing kids, it doesn’t make sense
I believe the thinking here is just using the Little mermaid as a brand name to make an entirely different show. Remember, these are the guys that feel constrained by franchises.
How is Disney going to explain triton being a black man while Ariel is a toddler then a white merman in ariel's teens? People can't change skin color that drastically or frequently
Modern Hollywood does not understand the contact of heroes or villains. Heroes behave in southish, reprehensible ways and villains are just misunderstood. I look forward to the film where a certain gentleman from Austria is portrayed. I just being misunderstood and not really evil at all.
@@beverlywhatisthenameofthem98 queen latifa was the best choice for Ursula though, she has a great singing voice and she sounds similar the original voice actress for Ursula. If you saw her sing in the movie Chicago you probably would probably see why they already had her in mind for the role of Ursula.
It’s almost like today’s Disney under bob iger leadership want to make all villains misunderstood which of course basically trying to erase the values of good vs evil if they had Ursula pretend to be kind, but when she alone she up to her evil schemes sorta like the original 1992 little mermaid animation cartoon that would been fine,but seems this is where they wanna go with.
@@blissykoopa Alices' Wodnerland Bakery though. It is what people want out of this Ariel cartoon. Except that Alice in Wonderland is much older, people who saw Little Mermaid as kids when it was new first few years have kids of their own now that theyd like to share Disney magic with, not the case with Alice in Wonderland considering how long ago it came out. But the really WEIRD shows are the ones that started last year. Disney Channel also has some weirdness, Pretty Freakin Scary and Saturdays.
From their point of view, evil is subjective. The existing story for them is also just a brand name so the previous incarnation is just a limitation they can dispense with
Only because they are picking the wrong kind of villains to make sympathetic. It's like deciding to turn Jack Horner into a justified villain over trivial things.
So they're making an all you people version of the 90's tv show? Thats kind of racist, turning the sea witch into a sassy black auntie. The auntie who turns into a giant and toys with Ariel after damning her father instead of just killing her and him for that matter. The auntie who is impaled with extreme predjudice and not a tear is shed for her. Because she is evil. The evil auntie who practices the dark arts. Lets make a Hunchback kids cartoon where Frolo is turned into a cool, gay, black uncle who the child Quasimoto and Esmerelda absolutely love!
“What makes someone special? I suppose it all depends. It’s what’s unique in each of us That we all share as friends. The diff’rence is our diff’rences, Maybe small or great. Variety adds spice to life, So we should celebrate In harmony, Harmony- You’re you; I’m me- Together we Can live in harmony!” I wonder if the modern "Mermaid" show will think the blackfish and the whitefish should live in harmony? Oh, wait-the blackfish had to be removed, because she was considered a racist caricature.
When I was a little kid, I watched Oh God! You Devil. It is a George Burns movie where a young musician makes a contract with the Devil for a shot at fame. That movie creeped me out. I was eight years old when The Little Mermaid came out and my little brain put two and two together and realized that Ursula was a stand in for the Devil and Ariel was betting her soul. It is disgusting to try and make her likeable in a kids show.
@@animezilla4486 If you can’t figure out why it is wrong/disgusting to make a villain who is known for stealing souls into a likeable character for a show aimed at pre-schoolers, you are either dumb or a troll and neither is a good look.
Once I realized Disney+ wasn't going to open the vault & was charging us over $14 a month to watch Bluey, we bought some episodes on Prime and now own the DVDs 😊
and why did they remove all of the mermaids in Alantica wearing seashells kids who grew up with the movie and cartoon had no problem seeing them wear them in both the film and TV show?
My problems with this show are that while it seems cute enough • It’s a preschool show • This does NOT seem to be based on the live action even though Ariel is black in it • It doesn’t expand upon the live action when we could’ve gotten a sequel series in live action about Ariel and Eric •It basically has nothing to do with the original Little Mermaid or the live action and it’s just using the name
Also it replaces Ariel's six sisters with two new ones who we never heard of before and changes Ursula into a protagonist. If this crossovers with Sofia the First it'll will definitely put holes in there since Sofia meet the original Ariel in an episode so how is supposed to meet the woke Disney Junior version of Ariel when the 1989 Ariel exists in that show?
that's different and made sense since it's a part of Greek Culture and history. Also mythology has been around for thousands of years so there was point to it making the Disney Hades a good guy will only screw up the original purpose and role the Disney character had in the Hercules Movie.
@@animezilla4486Then why use the same name then? Why not make a different character with a different name? Why are they using the names of the old characters if they’re supposed to be different? No they are the same otherwise they would have given them different names.
Once I get a job at Disney, my TV show ideas and movie ideas will be ANYTHING but batshit. I plan to abolish the woke agenda once and for all and make Disney all about family values and entertainment. Once you've seen my creations, all your doubts will disappear, I guarantee it.
Ursala, Jafar, Cruella all have one thing in common, they are successful! So what if you have a few souls under contract, those people made that decision of their own free will!
They did this with THE BEST villain to come out of the Walt Disney studio.........MALEFICENT! made her the good guy and everybody else were the bad guys.
I actually just heard a horror story, about a Mother and Father who learned a their underage daughter was coerced into signing a document. By her principal and school counselor. (A document presented without the parent's consent or knowledge.) Involving herself identification as a trans person. Luckily once the parents found out they acted swiftly and carefully and with compassion. The Little Mermaid teaches the dangers of signing contracts without fully understanding what the contract entails. The video is called: They turned my daughter into a boy.
If they're going to go through with this agenda, I'd suggest they go all in and release the old stuff into the public domain to show their confidence in the new versions of things. Nothing like everything from before the live action remake agenda being public domain so show confidence in this stuff.
@@ProfessorDreamer I prefer to think think of it as them going all in on it. However, I might be going too far back with the general live action remake stuff as I've do remember live action versions of the Pinocchio and 101 Dalmations from a previous era. Maybe everything from before 2016 should be public domain so Disney can focus on going all in with their remake agenda while we have legal free access to their full back catalog. They'd still be able to put this stuff on their streaming service and make merchandise if they so choose, but I think it would mean others could do the same if the IP rights were public domain; if they go all in on their agenda, they can compete with other people that take all their older series in a direction they're not going to do so for competition purposes.
These WOKIE's ARE the equivalent to villains in real life and want to fool our kids into thinking the bad guys are just misunderstood and it's ok to trust in unsavory individuals when they tell you what to do.
WDW Pro this definitely puts a hole in the 2023 Little Mermaid Remake how is Ursula going to be banished if she isn't evil and how'll the events of that movie still happen if she's not likely going to become evil. What the cartoon is probably saying is that it's a prequel to the 2023 remake but if it really is what's gonna make Ursula turn to the dark side and cause to be exiled if she's going to be a protagonist in the cartoon? So Ursula's still going to do witchcraft in the cartoon wasn't that the reason she was banished from Alantica in the first place and in the Little Mermaid franchise another hole in the cartoon Ursula using witchcraft and teaching Ariel how to use it without showing how Ursula got exiled or what made her use witchcraft for evil purposes? Also one more if Ursula taught Ariel on how to perform witchcraft wouldn't that undo all of Ursula's magic in the Little Mermaid franchise ( including the 2023 remake) and if this is taking place before the 2023 remake wouldn't Ariel use her own witchcraft against Ursula and make Ursula set up her own undoing?
Seriously, what's wrong with having villains and antagonists in kids movies nowadays? Not everyone is a good person, and kids need to learn that so that they can start making a distinction between Good and Evil. Yes, Evil exists. And it will keep on existing for as long as humanity keeps on existing. Seems like modern Disney nowadays really wants to raise kids to become clueless little snowflakes who will fall on their ass crying at the first hint of any bad experience they may encounter in life. It's disgusting, to be honest.
So, is modern Disney trying to tell little non-white children that your skin is going to turn white when you get really old? They kind of did after seeing how Wish ended. And I know it's a prequel cartoon for preschoolers, but sooner or later, Disney is going to need to explain WHY Triton BANISHED Ursula out of the palace.
Ursula is a villain she's no aunt she was the bad guy just because you want to make her queer doesn't mean she can't be a villain either or she's the bad guy there's nothing good about her!
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That’s the funniest part, she wasn’t even a human skin tone before. She was this greyish lavender, it it was necessary to give her a human skin tone for some reason 🤷♀️
disney announcer: we are making a show about the lion king and scar isnt evil hes a supportive uncle who makes simba king by the end, a show about the hunchback of notra dom but frollo is a good father figure and a show about alladin but jafar is a honest hard worker who wants whats best for the kingdom and both the saltin and princess jasmine! ...the saddest part is that this might actually happen...
Didnt Ursula literally tell Ariel "The men up there don't like a lot of blabber. They think a girl who gossips is a bore. Yes on land it's must preferred for ladies not to say a word"
My grandson has told me repeatedly that mermaids couldn't possibly be black as they live under water therefore they wouldn't have much melanin in their skin. If a child knows that then why don't the supposed adults know it.
I mean, if mermaids were real, wouldn't they most likely be hairless, scaly and with webbed fingers? I'm fine with a black mermaid, what I don't like is race swapping a character. Especially one whose appearance is so deeply engraved in the cultural mindset.
As a marine biologist, if mermaids were real, I promise you they wouldn’t look like either Ariel lmao. I think black mermaids are fine and dandy, I’m just disappointed that Disney would rather change an existing character than spend the time and money making a new one.
@@animezilla4486If this was a one time thing, then I'd agree. But have you seen the number of villains Disney has tried to make "misunderstood" and "they don't know what you've been through" types? As if that justified the evil they commited?
It’s seems like Disney likes making the villain more relatable. Projection? Almost like Disney realizes they are the villains and want sympathy for the situation they put themselves in.
I know that the Star Wars prequels had some execution issues with them, but showing how Anakin fell and became Darth Vader wasn't the worst idea. Similarly, showing how the "fun aunt" falls and becomes the villian could be interesting, especially how it impacts King Triton (one could imagine the grief and guilt from effectively losing a family member to evil and how that might have carried over into overbearing treatment of Ariel). Though that plot does seem a bit complicated for a show whose audience is primarily toddlers. Maybe they would need a teen focused show to bridge between the kids show and movie timeline/continuities.
Too bad, because I'm planning to step in as a storyboard artist and make Disney great again. Just wait and see, I'm going to create Disney shows so brilliant and showstopping, Looney Tunes and anime will be eating their own hearts out! No more of that woke agenda!
@@annien.1727It’s good to have a dream but I doubt Disney would hire you. And if they did you would probably be bullied by the higher ups until you quit. And if you’re extremely talented and lucky you might get picked up by Universal/Dream Works after that. The rot is in Disney at a creative and corporate level sadly.
@@princesspikachu3915 i agree with YOU! Right now Disney is a BAD place to work with and with this anti woke ideias at Disney the GREAT purge at Warner and THE shocking revelations in what happened to Paramount's Child stars i don't know that he CAN'T make hit! Right Man?
@princesspikachu3915 😡I don't care what the higher-ups say or do! They can try to pressure me or get me to quit, but I'm NOT one to quit that easily. Once I make my goal, I'll do whatever it takes to achieve it!💪 I'm way too stubborn to give up easily. Disney will be creative again, I'll see to it that it will.
@pedrogabrielduarte4544 First of all, I'm a LADY. And second, I CAN make it! I don't care how bad it is right now. I will fix things at Disney, and I'll persevere in changing things for the better there! I'm going to do everything to make things right again!
@@gamingwithflower no one is saying mermaids are real. The character is fiction but she was created as white, and it’s ok to want her to stay that way, if representation is so important, apparently
@@fuzzyx2face that's not what I'm saying though I'm saying is to the person you can't be mad for arial being black She's not even real so it doesn't even matter besides this is for the kids for this generation
Well I mean this isn't a big change, since we know that Ursula is kings tritans sister , and it's a kids show for 5 and under, so taking away her being evil makes since
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As a Scandinavian, I don't think it's a bad thing the Sea Witch isn't overtly evil. In the original (i.e. the actual story, not the Disneyfied version) she's more a force of nature. The whole point of the story was that Ariel _could_ trust the with. She told Ariel _all_ in advanced, Ariel went and drank the potion anyway. It's a story of deep longing and unreciprocated love. The "sassy aunt" is a particularly bad fit though.
@@ProfessorDreamer , I suppose their main focus is semmenting the new Halle Bailey version as the _real_ mermaid, all other considerations secondary. Logic expendable.
@@Fleshbag453 I'm not talking about diversity I'm talking about his vision for his Disney movies and their family values as well as the creativity and originality they had. you know having them be forcefully diver for money and I'm pretty Walt would see it as the wrong way to make a Diverse Disney movie.
I do too I can’t stand either of those things, but what I also can’t stand is when you have actors and actresses who willingly go into these projects and say sure I’ll do this this and this this knowing full well that they are ruining iconic heroes and villains and princesses and so and so forth, so I’m sorry But as far as I’m concerned when you ask me responsible for this, I’m gonna say everybody at Disney and every single voice actress including Amber freaking Riley she knows what she’s doing with this. She knows what she’s doing is wrong but she doesn’t care she doesn’t care and if and when this thing fails, how much you gonna bet me excuse me how much you wanna bet me that she’s gonna be one of the first ones to open her big mouth and start screaming, well you know what she’s gonna scream don’t have to say it.
@@Fleshbag453 yeah but his wasn’t forced down your throat to the point where you knew it was only being done to or some sort of points in some sort of red system his was done the right way.
This would give so much sence if the Live action Little mermaid would be a new adaptation of the original story. I can imagine Ursula being an aunt that makes Ariel fascinated with the human stuff for (her own personal gain of course.)
I mean this is a prequel at some point she had to be innocent before becoming a villain. No one is born bad, also it’s weird how many adults are in the comments over thinking a kids cartoon. As long as it’s not glorifying any predators. Or pushing sexuality on my kids I’m OK.
I feel bad for kids with these crappy shows I'm glad I grew up in the 80s and 90s and I'm glad my kids grew up in the 2000s and 2010s, but omg kid shows now are...
@@animezilla4486That too I'm just saying it's not without a silver lining of hope and goodness. That these creeps haven't fully purged for their twisted ideology and that not all things have gone to these child violating creeps and their vile message.
It's true that today's cartoons are mediocre, but not all of them. Bluey convinced me. I also liked T.O.T.S and Bingo and Rolly. There are also other cartoons that I like but it's shown a lot more on Disney Channel.
As she said this Ursula would work if she was the villain all the time. Immagine if she was filling her head with the land making her borderline obssessed KNOWING her father is cautious about humans, and mabe even PLANNING to match her up with the land guy in her teens JUST because she had this contract idea for she started doing it with the other miserable teens and adults. Her constatly upstaging Triton would than be only the part of this plan, because she had to distance Ariel from him.
