miss-nerd-alert:pureimagineering: There are many reasons why I don’t buy the cynical interpret
miss-nerd-alert:pureimagineering: There are many reasons why I don’t buy the cynical interpretation that Ariel gives away her identity for a man. One of them starts in the next paragraph. Another one can be read here. This screencap comes from Ariel’s introductory scene. She’s searching through a shipwreck for human artifacts–which is her passion–when suddenly she’s attacked by a shark. While fleeing, she accidentally drops her bag full of artifacts right in the shark’s path. Without hesitating, she chooses her passion over her safety, risking her life for a dinglehopper. The girl is an anthropologist who studies humans. That’s her passion, that’s how she spends her time…that’s her identity. Sure, Eric is the catalyst that leads Ariel to changing her species and leaving her family–he certainly intensifies her feelings–but they’re feelings she already has, and they dictate most of her life. If Ariel had the chance to become a human before she met Eric, everything that we know about her suggests that she probably would. Also, what finally pushed her over the edge was her dad trashing her stuff. Like, the dude literally blew up everything in her cave. Ariel didn’t abandon her life and family for a man, she ran away from home because her dad was being an asshole. I don’t know about you, but I’d leave too if my dad did something like that. -- source link