1. I'm pretty sure the wall was just around the castle. And either way there's probably an exit top the door, and a small part of the ocean goes under it so they have access to some of it.
It was a small dutch island kingdom. You can't cut off the castle from water without cutting off the entire village. And a small exit just wouldn't cut it. Look up the history of America's Maine, it's the best comparison. They need large access to water or their economy and import and export just wouldn't survive. You need to be able to get ships in and out and a tiny opening isn't enough. You need to be able to access the shoreline or it's just too dangerous for the crews of the ships. It also makes entering the kingdom or leaving it impossible. If this was a more realistic movie Ariel and Eric would have been hated by their people at this point.
I think this is why the end of the Little Mermaid Broadway musical completely retcons the very existence of The Little Mermaid 2, so the more savvy movie goer can see a kigndom co-existing with mermaids in a logical level (or as logical as that situation can be).
2. Most 27 year olds don't have to deal with the stress of an evil octopus woman wanting to steal their baby.
Hmmm...
Buffy The Vampire Slayer = A goddess tried to eat her sister.
Hermione Granger = Had to erase the memories of her own parents and deal with evil dark wizards attempting to kill her and the boy she loved and her best friend.
And even the mind numbingly bad Bella Swan = had to protect her mutant rapidly aging baby from the vampire government.
Victoria Winters = If you don't know this one you might know her soon with the new Dark Shadows movie. She's the young governess in the TV show Dark Shadows. She had to deal with time travel, twice, being accused of witchcraft in the wrong century, being crushed on by a vampire, a time traveling amnesiac boyfriend, a dysnfunctional, isolated family that may or may not have been her own blood kin without telling her, and issues with a witch and later a Frankenstein monster.
These characters grew up but didn't abruptly change their personalities and 'mature' by wearing their hair in a bun after dealing with the stress of monsters coming after loved ones.
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otness_e
13 years ago
Okay, first off, if you're going to claim that the musical removed Return to the Sea from canon, you might as well claim that it removed the original movie from canon, seeing how a LOT of things from the original film were omitted or changed in the Musical, far too much for it to be even closely related to the original film.
Secondly, in regards to the first point, when was it ever established, at any point in the franchise, that it was an island? Also, they probably reserved a part of the village to be open to the sea just so they could keep the livelihood running.
You probably got me on the second point, but Ariel did do something similar to Melody in regards to your examples, or tried to, at least: She tried to keep the knowledge of Atlantica away from her so Morgana would not attempt to find her. Granted, it backfired, but still...
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