I simply don’t understand the need to blame Conrad for everything. The reason the angst between Belly and Conrad is so good it’s because it’s partially both of their faults I feel like for Conrad he did not have the energy or the mental capacity to fight for Belly because of everything that was going on in his life that does not mean that he wanted to break up with her. That does not mean that he doesn’t love her or that he did not want to fight for her I think when he said I can’t he really just did not have it in him to be the partner that he knows she deserves. There really is a thing where it’s right person wrong time, and Conrad does not have the capability to be a good boyfriend right now. I don’t know how anyone can look at Conrad and see how sad broken & just exhausted he looks and not understand that he’s not capable of being in a relationship at the moment. I think the tragedy of it all is if they were older Belly could have seen the signs and understood what was happening. But at the end of the day they were both so young and ill equipped to handle the emotional toll something like grief can take.
This was so well said. Grief is hard at any age, in any relationship. It changes everything in your life, especially for a kid losing their parent in this way. And I saw a tag that mentioned that Belly is also grieving, the loss of a life time friend, her second mom, and now someone she is that first time, raw, desperate in love with, and that first heart break is life altering when paired with all the rest.
They don’t have any kind of maturity to be dealing with all of this on top of trying to love each other in the right way. But that’s why I love them so much, because there’s so much realism in their relationship. Them finding their way back to each other is so beautiful because of all they’ve had to over come, how much they had to grow, how certain they had to be that they could be worthy of each other.
This show is cheesy and goofy but the themes are legitimately incredibly deep and carry an extraordinary amount of weight. No one is sunshine and rainbows all the time. Grief is real and it can make people and things ugly.
the fact that we can tell EXACTLY what eric is thinking, how he goes from realizing ariel is a mermaid to recognizing that there’s a bigger thing to focus on and he’ll process the reveal later, when the woman he loves isn’t in danger.
how he immediately looks down at ariel and sees her expression, he sees how terrified she is, because for the past three days he’s done nothing BUT learn how to read her expressions, so he knows her fears without her having to say anything, and his only thought goes to “keep her safe, keep her here, keep her close”
and can we please talk about the physical affection between these two???? how ariel’s hand goes from laying on eric’s chest to holding onto his shoulder, how eric goes from just kind of holding ariel up to pulling her as close as he possibly can, curling himself around her and surrounding her in his arms, fully prepared to take the brunt of ursula’s power if it comes down to it. because she’s his world, and he refuses to lose her again.
and eric’s GLARE??? HELLO???? the man just realized that the silent girl he’s fallen in love with and the girl who saved his life is the same person and he just wanted to kiss her and celebrate that but now he is PISSED and he just wants to live happily ever after so he can and will do everything he can to get that ending for him and ariel.
btw you cant save people. the most you can do is try to understand them. the most you can do is let them be themselves. all you can do is empathize, be there
