How Little is the Little Mermaid?

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 12:33 pm

I was just thinking, and amazingly, it didn't hurt.

Anyway, how old is Ariel? She's the youngest daughter, and considering that none of her sisters were married, the oldest would have likely been in her late teens/early twenties, don't you think? IIRC, she has 6 older sisters. So, if they're each a year apart, and the oldest was 18-20, then Ariel would be about 12-14.

How old is the human man she fell in love with and married? It looked to me that he was probably in his early 20s.

So, are they putting a 20+ year old with a 12-14 year old?

Timekeeper · Post by **Timekeeper** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 12:38 pm

I'd say Ariel was closer to 16 than 12. Budding hormones and all that. Besides, who besides a teenager would sell her voice to a sea-witch so she could be transformed into a human?

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 12:43 pm

I'm more curious as to why we are thinking about this...

Waverly · Post by **Waverly** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 12:44 pm

I believe that Ariel is 18. That's my story, and I'm sticking with it.

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 12:48 pm

Originally posted by Aegis
I'm more curious as to why we are thinking about this...

I was listening to Part Of Your World from The Little Mermaid and this thing about her age popped into my head. Yes, I have too much free time, but that's cause I'm on Spring Break.

Timekeeper · Post by **Timekeeper** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 12:50 pm

Originally posted by Waverly
I believe that Ariel is 18. That's my story, and I'm sticking with it.

One must wonder intensely as to why her age should be 18. This wouldn't have anything to do with a legal connection, would it?

Robnark · Post by **Robnark** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 12:51 pm

@ waverly: at least, that's what you told the court...

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 3:33 pm

And strangly enough, he produced the papers to back his claim up.

nael · Post by **nael** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 8:06 pm

Originally posted by Sailor Saturn
I was just thinking, and amazingly, it didn't hurt.

Anyway, how old is Ariel? She's the youngest daughter, and considering that none of her sisters were married, the oldest would have likely been in her late teens/early twenties, don't you think? IIRC, she has 6 older sisters. So, if they're each a year apart, and the oldest was 18-20, then Ariel would be about 12-14.

How old is the human man she fell in love with and married? It looked to me that he was probably in his early 20s.

So, are they putting a 20+ year old with a 12-14 year old?

well, you are putting a lot f human qualities on the mer people. why do the daughters have to be a year apart? maybe the gestation period for a mermaid is only a couple days. also, maybe they wait till much older to marry, assuming they marry at all, so that really doesn't date the sisters or ariel at all. plus, maybe mermaids live to be hundreds of years old, so ariel could have been 50 or so and much older than the prince.
as far as how old the prince is, don't they ever say what birthday it is of his they are celebrating?
no matter how you lookat it, it's sick. she was never turned into a human, she was just given legs. so who knows genetic freaks their children may become.
one more question, how on earth did those seashells stay on?

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 8:13 pm

Re: Re: How Little is the Little Mermaid?

Originally posted by nael
one more question, how on earth did those seashells stay on?

Suction?

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 8:34 pm

Re: Re: Re: How Little is the Little Mermaid?

Originally posted by Sailor Saturn

Suction?

Half Clams?

Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 9:14 pm

Ariel is 16. The Disney movie actually says so.

Ariel: "I'm sixteen years old! I'm not a child!"
Triton: "Don't you take that tone of voice with me young lady! As long as you live under my ocean, you'll obey my rules!"

That little tidbit of knowledge probably just flushed my machismo levels down the toilet.

AbysmalNature · Post by **AbysmalNature** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 9:51 pm

I am wondering that perhaps maybe someone has to much free time on their hands, lucky Saturn you have Spring Break I just ended mine, boy does it suck coming back to class.

Anyway I say don't think to much into questions that are better left unaswered, especially any Disney movie(oh that Pocahantas and Jane from Tarzan), actually if one thinks about it Disney movies lately have a distintively sexual flavor which was lacking in their earlier movie, oh damn it thinking about Disney movies, must not think about it, oh double crap I'm thinking about that bloody Its a small world song, thanks a lot now that thing will be in my mind the entire week, its a small world after its a small world after all its a small world after all, its a small, small world, hee hee maybe I have shared the benefits of that irritating song.

Lesson don't think about Disney movies or you will end with that blasted song in your head.

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 10:51 pm

Originally posted by Kayless
Ariel is 16. The Disney movie actually says so.

Ariel: "I'm sixteen years old! I'm not a child!"
Triton: "Don't you take that tone of voice with me young lady! As long as you live under my ocean, you'll obey my rules!"

That little tidbit of knowledge probably just flushed my machismo levels down the toilet.

Thanks for the information, Kayless! Now we just need to figure out how old the guy is.

Don't worry about your machismo level(whatever that is). I'm impressed by your wealth of important trivial information.

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 10:54 pm

Originally posted by AbysmalNature
I am wondering that perhaps maybe someone has to much free time on their hands, lucky Saturn you have Spring Break I just ended mine, boy does it suck coming back to class.

Anyway I say don't think to much into questions that are better left unaswered, especially any Disney movie(oh that Pocahantas and Jane from Tarzan), actually if one thinks about it Disney movies lately have a distintively sexual flavor which was lacking in their earlier movie, oh damn it thinking about Disney movies, must not think about it, oh double crap I'm thinking about that bloody Its a small world song, thanks a lot now that thing will be in my mind the entire week, its a small world after its a small world after all its a small world after all, its a small, small world, hee hee maybe I have shared the benefits of that irritating song.

Lesson don't think about Disney movies or you will end with that blasted song in your head.

I love that song!!

*sings*

There's just one moon and a golden sun.
And a smile means friendship to everyone.
Where the mountains divide
and the Oceans are wide
It's a small world after all.

It's a small world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small, small world.

*stops*

Moleman · Post by **Moleman** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 2:25 am

OT (kind of): The famous(?) Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen is really little, less than 1 m in height (3ft)...

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 3:34 am

Originally posted by Kayless
Ariel is 16. The Disney movie actually says so.

Ariel: "I'm sixteen years old! I'm not a child!"
Triton: "Don't you take that tone of voice with me young lady! As long as you live under my ocean, you'll obey my rules!"

That little tidbit of knowledge probably just flushed my machismo levels down the toilet.

Ehhhh - I don't even want to know how you have this information

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 3:38 am

Originally posted by Moleman
OT (kind of): The famous(?) Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen is really little, less than 1 m in height (3ft)...

Yeah - it is fun many of the turist comming to Denmark to see a statue of a *little* mermaid and then finding out it is not the size of Big Ben or something but a small pice of bronze

Ode to a Grasshopper · Sat Mar 23, 2002 9:32 am

Originally posted by AN
no matter how you lookat it, it's sick. she was never turned into a human, she was just given legs. so who knows genetic freaks their children may become.

IIRC, in the "traditional" story they had a child who had webbed feet.

On the topic of clams, is it just me or was that mermaid slightly too 'developed' to be a 16 year old? Those clams wouldn't have fit any 16 year old I've seen...

BTW, there was a real Pocahontas (what a stupid name), except she was 6 years old during the time portrayed in the Disney flick.

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 1:07 pm

Originally posted by Ode to a Grasshopper
On the topic of clams, is it just me or was that mermaid slightly too 'developed' to be a 16 year old? Those clams wouldn't have fit any 16 year old I've seen...

*ahem* You've obviously never been to Texas.

Most of the other girls in my 6th grade class were that 'developed.'