I have been watching The Little Mermaid on repeat for research and – while I Have Angst, I enjoy it immensely. However I cannot get over: SHE. IS. 16. ERIC.
I am really enjoying the – albeit extremely brief – view into Little Mermaid World of legal procedures
Contracts do not require independent witnesses*
16 is a legal age to enter a contract
Contracts are magically binding AND protective shields
Royalty does not grant immunity
* 1b. Independent witnesses. Flotsam and Jetsam are Ursula’s familiars – which is a dubious point in legal personhood in many magical circles.
“Are familiars extensions of their witch/wizard or are they independent, magically connected personas.” Common argument/question.
If they are extensions, you cannot witness yourself (this defeats the purpose of requiring a witness), but if the latter, you have to delineate at what level control / persuasion the witch/wizard has over the familiar.
How truly independent are they.
I say this not as a judgement – this isn’t a snarky “oh really? how independent can they really be?” but as an actual legal question I would pose in the merworld of The Little Mermaid.
You know The Little Mermaid is serious science fiction because it’s about a daring
young xenoanthropologist whose radical theories about alien cultures put her at odds with the reactionary isolationism of her society’s ruling class. Having a dude who’s literally just a fish is a bonus.
My most favorite moment was when, after years of filming it, and being very strict to animation, because you have to be strict with animation, because it’s timing, and picture, and that kind of thing… And I was very strict with it. But I kept doing things, I’d be naughty, and I’d do something… And they’d say, “Sam, you can’t do that! This is not Robin Williams. You cannot do that, you can’t make up little jokes on the side.” But a year after we finished completing the film, they called me up, and they said, “Sam, we’re going to fly you out here. All of the things we said you couldn’t do… You’ve got three hours to do all of them.” So they brought me in the studio, and they just turned the mike on… and I went nuts! I just said anything I wanted to say like Sebastian. I talked like him for three hours, and some of it found it’s way into the movie. For example: “Teenagers. They think they know everything. You give them an inch, they swim all over you.” That was something that I just made up!
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