So, I've had a few days to think about it now. And I've decided I am firmly against changing the Little Mermaid. We should always respect the original intent of the author, and any previous iteration of a book or a film or a TV series. That is why I am 100% behind the following changes.
In the Hunchback of Notre Dame, I insist that Esmerelda be hanged and Quasimodo's bones are found later in the catacombs where the bodies of the unclaimed dead were thrown to rot. Quasimodo had crawled there to commit necrophilia on Esmerelda's corpse.
In Tangled. I insist Flynn Rider is blinded. This will be great for representation. Rapunzel is of course pregnant and gives birth to twins at the end of the movie.
In Cinderella? There's now a lot of pecking. They could serve jelly eyeballs in the cinema.
In Pocohontas... hey people, YOU KNOW THE SCORE. She was ELEVEN. She didn't even marry John Smith - married somebody else - THANK GOD BECAUSE SHE WAS ELEVEN - moved to England, died of dysentry, buried at Gravesend 1617. Pity her talking to animals ability didn't work on gut bacteria.
Elsa should be a boy. You know, millions of people think its better this way,
You want me to go on, because I can. I got all day people!
Its thought that tales of mermaids might have been sailors seeing manatee and getting confused, because they were a long way off and a long way from home. People thought a washed up chimpanzee was a shipwrecked Frenchman and hung him during the Napoleonic Wars (Hartlepool's main claim to fame people! Make it YOUR holiday destination this year!)
So unless they cast a bloody manatee, its not historically accurate. But neither was anything.
Stories work because they are emotionally resonant to us. Every generation reinterprets to be emotionally resonant to them.
Oh, and Little Mermaid? Prince marries somebody else, Ariel is tasked with killing him with a dagger, but cannot, and throws herself into the sea to drown.
You want 'reality'?
Try opera