"Hey! I'm a big, tough boy!"
-Bernadette
For the most part this was fine? Not great but fine. But then there are a few times when it made some choices and those deserve talking about for sure.
This is another one where they added a female character, this time Consiel's niece Bernadette, but Consiel was also along for the ride so there were four surface-dwelling guests aboard the Nautilus. And much like in the Hallmark Movie version, she had to disguise herself as a boy, but this time she did so for most of the film's runtime and it honestly looked hella great on her. Kinda tempted to headcanon her as a trans boy or enby.
Professor Aronnax was much…