From: riouxp@rs6225.ecs.rpi.edu (Peter Joseph Rioux)
Subject: Re: Observations regarding TLM
Reply-To: riouxp@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:08:24 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.033300.19597@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>, quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal) writes:
|> In <1ipfgbINN7tf@network.ucsd.edu> rcook@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Robert Cook) writes:
|> >In article <1993Jan9.231145.3739@nic.csu.net> jtinkle@sparc1.sparc1.csubak.edu (j. tinkle ) writes:
|> >>In article <1993Jan5.012910.23048@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> quetzal@yoyo.cc.monas
|> >>h.edu.au (Quetzal) writes:
|> 
|> >>>3.  Just how many feathers does Scuttle lose in the entire film?  And
|> >>>howcome he can still fly even minus these feathers?  Or is this somthing
|> >>>like the bumblebee which isn't supposed to be able to fly either?
|> >>What bumblebee?
|> 
|> >He meant *real* bumblebees, which seem to defy several laws of
|> >aerodynamics.
|> 
|> *Thank* you.  At least *someone* knows that bumblebees physically can't
|> fly.  It's just that no one has ever had the heart to tell them :)
|> 
|> >>>6.  What *is* it that Grimsby says to Eric just before Eric says "A girl
|> >>>rescued me"?
|> >>"Oh, Eric I do think you delight in these strains on my blood pressure."
|> >>Or something very much like that.
|> 
|> >That's close--it goes something like this: "Oh, you really delight in
|> >these sadistic strains on my blood pressure, don't you?"
|> 
|> Sounds even better.  I agree on the word "Sadistic".
|> 
|> >>>16. Why does everyone persist in this idea that mermaids are *fish?*
|> >>>There is quite a lot of evidence to suggest that they are mammals:
|> >>There is quite a lot of evidence to suggest they WERE fiction.
|> >Then why does the label on my can of tuna say "Mermaid-safe," hmmm? :-)
|> 
|> Ha!  He's got you there, hasn't he?
|> 
|> >I still think that Ariel's voice has some kind of hypnotic power.  I'm
|> >sure Ursula was aware of it, and used it for that purpose (for
|> >insurance).  Note that the magic light which spellbinds Eric comes
|> >from the shell that contains Ariel's voice.  He had to hear her
|> >voice to marry her anyway, so the hypnosis was inevitable.  Hmmm,
|> >then why didn't it work just after Ariel saved Eric from drowning?
|> >Maybe there wasn't enough exposure.
|> 
|> At the risk of making people think I've been reading those awfully dull
|> Dune novels (which I have, but that's beside the point), I'll use the
|> word "Imprint" here.  My theory is that a mermaid's voice imprints
|> hearers (human ones only, I presume) to the *voice*, not its owner.  So
|> when Ariel sings to Eric he is "imprinted" with the voice.  Since he
|> didn't get more than a glimpse of Ariel, he naturally assumed (don't we
|> all?) that the girl attached to the voice would be the same one for all
|> time.  If you look at the expression on Eric's face in the instrumental
|> interlude in "Part of your World (Reprise)" (where Grimsby mutters his
|> line) he looks quite hypnotised at the time.  (If you can follow all
|> this, tell me.  This is hard to put into words.)  When, later, Vanessa
|> rolls along and sings with Ariel's voice (interesting to hear Jodi
|> Benson with a harsh voice for once) Eric gets hypnotised again (or
|> still) and chooses to marry the voice's current owner.  Hey, it's just a
|> theory. . .
|> 

if you think that jodi benson's harsh voice was different.. you should hear her... non-resilient subduesd voice...(the king and i...:)


|> >>>24. Where did that dress Ariel wears as she walks out of the shallows
|> >>>into Eric's arms at the end come from?
|> >>It was magic that let her walk out of the waves, I suppose it could clothe
|> >>her too.
|> >I'm still wondering where her shoes came from when she was on the
|> >wedding ship....
|> 

flounder gave them to her...:)

|> Um, Yeah.  I didn't notice that until you said so.  As to where they
|> *went* after sunset, or where those seashells magically reappeared from,
|> I just can't say.
|> 
|> Tim Pickett

and the seashells.. ummmm.. at the risk of sounding comletely assinine...

at that point in history.. they didn't have bras, so i would say that she kept her seashells on the whole time...

squid..

(still under the sea.. cuz that's how i know...:)