Who are you talking about not lasting Slowpokeking? The Disney version is the most well known and well regarded version. More people know about The Little Marmaid as Ariel then the original tale. The original tale was a good vs. evil tale but it was also one that shows that love will find a way if you want it too. The OG tale was mainly written due to Hans Christian Andersen's unrequited love for this guy and his Christian guilt in the process. Again The Little Mermaid Disney version has lasted time way more then the original tale if you ask anyone what the name of The Little Mermaid is they were nearly all tell you Ariel that should tell you something. Hell I would argue that the OG fairy tale is a good vs. evil story. However instead about the Christian concept of self love vs. self sacrifice the latter being good and the former evil to them.
No, most of the ppl knew The Little Mermaid as it is, sorry. It is one of the most famous fairy tales through the world and ppl already loved it for hundreds of years.
The original tale didn't tell us her name, which is why Ariel was famous. If you ask most of the ppl what happened to her. Most of them would tell you that tragic ending, not the good ending Disney gave us.
The original tale is not about good VS evil. But a tragic way of ascension.
Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask nor Nephrite and Naru were good examples at all. Yes Tuxedo Mask saved Sailor Moon alot but the two got to spend alot of time around each other in their super hero forms and even outside of those forms. Ditto for Nephrite and Naru. Fjord on the other hand claimed to love a Princess he never even met and once more that he thought saved him from the storm when she really didn't. Meanwhile he was spending all this time with Marina gassing her up even saying he would marry her if this Princess he never met was never found. Only to find the one who saved him in the end was Marina. He was a complete and total douche.
How?
Tuxedo Mask saved Sailor Moon and she immediately fell in love with him, same with Rei. Nephrite and Naru spent very very little time together before Naru fell in love with him.
Fjord had met the princess, she saved him in his most difficult time, she probably didn't even know he was the prince and still offered her hand. How is it not understandable? Again she did save the prince, he was on the shore and she sent ppl to help. Just that Marina did more and again the prince DIDN'T know about Marina's doing.
How is it a douchbag? He didn't know about it, and it's not wrong for him to love the human princess.
No it dosen't but he certainly didn't have to lead Marina on. He certainly didn't have to tell her in one scene how much he liked her and that since he will never meet this phantom Princess how he wanted to marry her. In fact he was going to until Jemmy got in cohoots with Fjord's parents to find this Princess as they didn't want him marrying Marina and as soon as they found this Princess he dropped Marina like a hot tamale for this girl he never even know and barely got to spend much time with.
He told her the truth, he did want to marry her if the human princess wasn't found. He made everything clear in the beginning, and did exactly what he told her, how is it a douchbag?
That is a lie. Princess Cecilia just found him on the beach. Marina was the one who pulled him out of the water and weathered the storms to save him those aren't the same at all.
And she tried to help him, which later she must have helped him return to his kingdom. Marina did more but again he DIDN'T KNOW.
How is it wrong for him to love a beautiful princess who saved and helped him when he was in danger?
Yeah he made it clear in the beginning but he then spent time with Marina enough to gain some feelings for her if feelings even matter to him and then left her when he found this girl who he thought saved him. He kept his word to Marina and that shows how much of a douche he is.
And that's exactly what he told her. He didn't want to gain feeling, he just thought the girl need his help and again, Marina did want to be with him as well.
Honestly I would say that he dosen't really love people for who they are but rather the idea of people in his mind. I have known many like that.
And that is how many human being works. And how is that human princess different in his mind?
Other than she wasn't the one who did the most to save him (he didn't know about it!), her image is pretty much correct. She is a beautiful and very kind woman, who was willing to offer hand to the prince.
Beryl was a respected witch in the court of the Golden Kingdom. Both Beryl and Endymion clearly knew each other and spoke to each other like they had known each other for a long time during the Battle on the Silver Millennium. Beryl seemed like she knew him and they liked each other as friends but that is all it was and Endymion never led her on.
No, it was never told how her status is other than Another Story. Even in Another Story she had her own castle far away from the kingdom.
They knew each other as who they are but there is no proof that she had spent time with him, otherwise her flashback would not be something like secretly staring at him instead of true interaction.
The friendship also came from nowhere.
All we can see is that she knew him as the prince. Endyimon had no interaction with her, it's possible that he didn't even know her.
It isn't wrong to love someone who saved you but also loving the idea of a person is not the same as loving the person. Usagi did have a crush on Tuxedo Mask she also spent alot of time with him and got to know him. None of this happened with Fjord and Cecilia she just showed up because Jemmy and Fjord's parents found her and then Fjord was off to marry a woman he didn't know even though he spent all of this time with Marina. Hell even Rei atleast went on dates with Mamoru at first even though he didn't seem like he saw her as much other then as a friend.
How? Human beings do love others when they can fulfill the idea in their mind. Naru and Nephrite was the perfect exmaple.
Fjord didn't want to do it, they even had to force him to marry her at first by taking Marina.
Also he knew that the princess has saved him, offered him her hand with good heart in his difficult time probably without even knowing that he is the prince.
How is it not enough or wrong for him to love her? And how is it different than what she is?
No but Fritz wasn't in the OG stpry at all and the plot was changed. The Daughters of the Air stuff was omitted as was the Princess's main desire of gaining an immortal soul. Really at best the Toei version just turned it into a shaggy dog and a wooby story and a tragic for the sake of tragic story.
He didn't affect the story's main plot or twist characters like Disney.
That is not true. The Sea Witch on the show was causing storms for malicious reasons. In fact when she sees Marina pining over the Prince she uses this as an opportunity to pull them together. It had nothing to do with cycles and even the other Mermaids saw her as evil. Likewise she tells Marina the price but she was definitely doing what she could to pull Marina to her. She didn't have her sign the contract to benefit herself rather she did the things she did to cause chaos and destruction simply for their sakes
Nothing every showed it. It was also Marina who wanted to see her. In the fairy tale she was afraid by the others as well. She didn't pull Marina to her, she made everything clear and didn't seem to gain anything extra from it. And later she gave the way out.
Honestly I think it is so banal that people think that just because something is tragic it is "deep" honestly I think tragedy for the sake of tragedy which is what both stories are, are the opposite of deep it is stupid and foolish. I can appreciate the story but only in the sense of seeing weak and foolish people destroying themselves over love and emotions. Something that Eric and Ariel never did. I consider the Disney version superior because it is a similar good vs. evil story but in this the Little Mermaid has good reasons to love Eric and Eric is a more moral person who loves Ariel even if he never got to meet this phantom Princess. It has characters with fleshed out personalities and goals and it shows two people who do love each other and could have easily lost that and everything but fought for their love.
It's not, this fairy tale was able to last so long throughout the world for hundreds of years because it's so beautiful, because it's not affected by some evil witch forces but great love and sacrifice.
Whatever was the relationship between Marina and Fjord wasn't love and if she had good sense she would have stabbed him in the heart with the dagger and became a Mermaid again.
Again, nobody should die for not love someone, that is evil.