.: so comes snow after fire :.

The Little Mermaid marked a huge and welcome change for Disney, although it was part of the stream of changes that had been gradually evolving with Don Bluth's work and The Adventurers Down Under, which is to say, a lot more casual and connected to modern times, a lot less slavish about classic depictions of fairy tales. Later on, I found the adult subtext and modern-era sensibilities started outweighing the important point of providing innocent delight to children in some of the later movies, and of course, I never knew about Sea-Witch Ursula being a cypher for drag queens, since I had no idea she had been portrayed by Divine. But for one brief shining moment ....