In case you don't remember, the original animated Disney film was a train wreck of leftist shit that completely stripped the source material of everything that was culturally significant in it.
No longer did the lead become a saint who watched over and interceded for her siblings from heaven, but instead she ascended beyond her nature, like a transhumanist wet dream, leaving behind her penis-towered palace beneath the sea to be married to a vapid billionaire by a priest sporting a boner.
Sure, you may have really fond memories of its catchy tunes and cute sidekicks. That's expected of unthinking children.
So, yes, they race swapped a main character. But before they did that they raped a Christian fairytale of everything that made it good and turned it into trash. It was an entertaining cartoon for kids. It was not a significant part of western white heritage.
Novelty is overrated.
None of Shakespeare's plays were original. I guess the Merry Wives of Windsor or something. But they did express "what oft was said but ne'er so well expressed".
So there was something novel in his work.
I thought we were talking about novel/original content. If The Little Mermaid does not qualify, Shakespeare will not either. That is what I meant when saying that novelty is overrated.
Was Shakespeare busy making inferior remakes of the most recent popular plays? No? Then your comparison is retarded.
Then you acknowledge that it is not "novelty" or "originality" per se that matters, but quality. Thanks.