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[imsorey]

She's going to do something! There's no way she's going to give up after all of that!

[But she better do it fast because Eric is totally going to marry the sea witch otherwise]

[oneandmikleonly]

[C'MON ARIEL WE'RE ROOTING FOR YOU]

[imsorey]

[THE RUSE IS REVEALED!!!!

and then she doesn't actually kiss him on time what the hell

Sorey is hugging Mikleo tight by the time Ursula dags Ariel back into the sea, baffled. This isn't a nice movie???]

[oneandmikleonly]

[HE WOULD SHAKE THE TABLET AGAIN BUT SOREY PINNED HIS ARMS]

Now the sea witch is going malevolent on top of everything?!

[HE CAN'T BELIEVE. THIS WAS SUCH A HIGH STRESS MOVIE TO WATCH WHILE THEY'RE SICK?! THEY DIDN'T KNOW]

[imsorey]

Do they even know how to beat that kind of thing?

[oneandmikleonly]

I don't think they planned for this!

[imsorey]

There isn't any time to make a pact! Can they use fire in the water?! --There's got to be a way without that!

[Things are getting SO REAL, SO FAST, THERE IS A HURRICANE HAPPENING]

[oneandmikleonly]

[CLUTCHING AT SOREY'S ARMS AS ERIC STEERS THE SURFACED SHIP]

Oh, he's not going to--

[HE'S...GOING TO]

[imsorey]

[I MEAN

that's not purification

but it works]

...Oh.

[oneandmikleonly]

This got...

...really dark.

[imsorey]

It doesn't seem like a very happy ending this way...

[Pros, Ursula is dead. Cons, murder was committed??]

[oneandmikleonly]

That was a bit more killing than I was expecting.

[yeah...]

[imsorey]

Usually a story like this would have more of a moral ending, wouldn't it?

[oneandmikleonly]

[...we appear to be transitioning to a JOYFUL WEDDING]

...uhhhh...I guess not.

[imsorey]

[what kind of story is this????]

Well...he finally kissed her.

[oneandmikleonly]

I guess...all it took to unite the kingdoms of the land and sea...was to murder someone more frightening than both...?

[i'm not sure this was the intended lesson here]

[imsorey]

It was all happening so fast, I'm sure Eric was just trying to make sure that she didn't kill Ariel first.

[there is proper justification for this somewhere]

[oneandmikleonly]

[switches the tablet off once the credits start to roll and just kind of. flops there like that, a little stunned]

Are movies all this dramatic and intense?

[imsorey]

This one was supposed to be for children.

[he sounds dubious about that]

I'm sure there are ones that are milder though. We'd just need to ask which ones.

[oneandmikleonly]

Who did you even hear about movies from, anyway? We should consult their expertise.

[imsorey]

Dirk, Karkat, and URSULA talked about them specifically, but it seems like anyone from Earth knows about them.

[oneandmikleonly]

...Earth must be an awfully strange place.

[imsorey]

It sounds like it. Their technology is more advanced, which opens up endless opportunities for storytelling like this. What we have here is just the basics, from what it sounds like.

[oneandmikleonly]

I don't think we're without the opportunities to approximate something similar, though. Think of the Iris Gems...

[it'd be nice to have Disney movies in some of those instead of terrible nemesis backstory]

[imsorey]

If we could mass-produce Iris Gems then we'd probably have our own equivalent for a lot of the things here. The key difference would be the use of seraphic artes in technology, since Earth doesn't seem to have any magic.