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and wanted revenge against him, and using Ariel as a pawn made it all that much easier.
I have two things to say on this subject.
1.) The original story sucked, case closed. Nobody would have wanted to see a movie where Ariel watches Eric fall in love with another woman, thinking she was the one who saved him and not Ariel. Nobody would have wanted to watch Ariel suffer emotionally, watching the man she loved marry someone else, while she walks around on knives with no tongue, longing for a man she can't have. Nobody wants to see her have the option of going back to her old life, so long as she plunged a knife into Eric's heart. And nobody wants to see Ariel decide against that, throw herself into the sea, turn into foam, die, and go to heaven. While the heaven part would be nice, that's not a story you really would love forever and want to read over and over again unless you're an emotional glutton for punishment, or just love to read tragic, sad stories and cry over them with your friends. Sorry, but I'll take Disney's reinterpretation, thank you. Theirs was better.
2.) The sea witch was always a villain, in taking advantage of a young girl and forcing her to undergo painful, dark magic rituals. She knew the little mermaid was ignorant of what she really could do, and capitalized on that so she could get something out of it.
Now in Ursula's case, she actually has some character development. Kids would not pick up on this, but adults watching and observing closely would. Based on what she said, Ursula used to live in the palace of Atlantica, so I'm guessing she was a major courtier who was thrown out by King Triton. The original script had her as King Triton's sister, though that doesn't appear to be the case in the final story. Based on how they treated each other when they came face to face, it appears she and Triton have a history of conflict. No doubt he banished her for practicing dark magic that was a threat to the mer-people in Atlantica. There might be more to it, but we'll never know. Either way, she resented the king
Yeah, he's a nice comical relief, and I do like Josh Gad, but frankly, I could have done without that stupid "In Summer" song.
War of the Worlds (2005)
That's what caused that disgusting same-sex kiss of true love on "Once Upon A Time" between Red Riding Hood (who had never shown any sign she was gay) and Dorothy Gale in Season 5. That alone made me stop watching the show, never mind how the entire series had bad writing and went downhill after Season 4.
They do it with real people too. There's this trend I started seeing around the millennium at school that I privately called, the "Gay Jump," where people would jump to conclusions about someone's sexual orientation based on very few facts, out-of-context observations, and what THEY privately wanted the situation to really be about.
- he doesn't like sports --> oh he's totally gay
- she gets into fights with boys ---> lesbo
- he turned a girl down who wanted to sleep with him ---> is he gay or what?
- he can sew and designs his own clothes --> automatic faggot
- young kids get grossed out by couples kissing --> what, are they gay already?
I really hate that trend, and it's still popular for idiots, even today.
Me neither.
I'm glad someone was smart enough to see the reasons why she wouldn't qualify. I really hate it when the Velvet Mafia gloms onto any possible movie or tv character that shows even the tiniest bit of something in common with them and turns them into an icon, even if they aren't gay. Elsa never showed any hint that she was gay, and easily has personality traits that a straight person would have. She just never got a chance at men due to fear, and all of them going after her sister instead.
It should be noted that if they give her a girlfriend in the sequel, Disney is gonna lose a TON of money and fans. There will be parents everywhere dropping the brand because of such a stupid decision, and Elsa will become a hated name in households everywhere. Frozen toys will be in huge piles at garbage dumps, and Disney will suffer in the long run because of this.
What about "Last Crusade?" That had a happy ending. I'm not counting "Crystal Skull," because it was really out there in terms of being an Indiana Jones film.
I think you came to the wrong site for this discussion.
An old example would be McLean Stevenson from M*A*S*H; worst mistake he ever made. Or the woman who played Kate in NCIS; I haven't heard much from her, save for that stupid "Rizzolie and Isles" show. Has anybody seen the guy who played Sweets in "Bones" lately?
Oh here's a good one: everyone who ever left the "Dr. Who" shows: you never see or hear from them again except in tv productions that are mostly ignored or are very forgettable.
And you wonder why viewership on mainstream tv has dropped significantly?
Did you know that there's a site that makes replicas of Jeannie's bottles? I say "bottles" instead of "bottle," because they used two different kinds on the show. You can find them here:
http://www.jeanniebottles.com/jeanniebottles.html
I love "I Dream of Jeannie" as well :D. I first discovered it when I was 9 and watching "Nick At Night" shows on Nickelodeon. They had a setup with "Jeannie Friday's" and I was hooked. It was so much fun to watch, and I tried recording it on tapes. So happy to now have all 5 seasons on DVD. I don't even care that it had cheesy special-effects. That just adds to the humor of the show ;).
Oh, I finally figured out the story behind the "hanged man" in the background. See, one way they wanted Oz to seem more fairy-tale-like, was to include tropical birds on the set, but several got loose, including the Toucan you can see in one shot, and a crane. It turns out that the "hanging man" is actually a crane that was running about loose and got in the shot where they were leaving the Tin Man's part of the forest. Not sure how someone thought that moving, long-necked bird was a stage set hand who'd hanged himself, but that's how the myth started.
I like the fact that it's clean and innocent enough to show to young children :).
That was amazingly realistic for the special-effects technology they had in the 30s. The only flaw was that it was in the exact same position in almost every shot, save for the first one.
Actually, if you take a look at Dorothy's dress, and the clothes her family and friends wore, it is almost exactly what people wore back in the 1930s. Now in Ms. Gulch's case, she's from an older generation that kept up the more conservative, Victorian look, so it's possible she's very out of touch with what were the latest fashions in the 1930s. That, and communication, especially about the latest fashions, would have reached that part of America much more slowly, due to primitive technology and lack of funds everyone had from the Great Depression.
I have two answers for that.
1.) Most natives in Kansas will tell you that it is very accurate, because there are two very distinct looks for Kansas (as well as Oklahoma and Nebraska). The eastern half of Kansas is woodland with rolling hills, shallow river valleys, and green meadows. The western half of Kansas is high, dry prairie, and is flat as a table, with very few trees around and tall grass. So yes, it is a very accurate view of western Kansas.
2.) The sets they used for some of the outdoor Kansas scenes, particularly when Dorothy meets Professor Marvel, use the exact same trees used in "Gone with the Wind" from that scene where Scarlett made her vow never to be hungry again.
Actually, I think she was killed by the tornado because she was out on the road on her bicycle when the storm hit. Seeing how far Dorothy's home was from town, I don't believe it would have taken long for the tornado to have slurped her up before coming after the Gale farm.
Jeannie was unusual among her kind. She had no limits on how many wishes she could grant, and she could choose to grant them or not. Heck, she had some of her OWN wishes she wanted to have granted!