Like I said about the Original Wishes, I can't stand how they work the characters dialogue into the show. In Wishes, I thought it bugged me that they were twisting the original films lines to fit the theme of the show (ie: adding "wish" to lines that didn't have them in the films, even if it didn't sound very good). I realized that with HalloWishes, what really bugs me is that they could easily just right new dialogue for these characters. Instead they cut and paste bits of dialogue- and yet they rerecord it! Ursula has a part in this new show, and while all her dialogue is newly performed, she just repeats a bunch of stuff that she said in the Little Mermaid. Even the words of her spell, which in the film was a bunch of latin or faux latin specifically written to be a "voice stealing spell" using words like "laryngitis and "voce" (or voice), is reused exactly, and thus doesn't make sense as a "Halloween causing trouble" spell. The whole approach makes the characters seem less real, more like toys with strings that you just pull to hear your favorite phrase. They could have easily written cool new dialogue for these villains and I'm sure they intentionally used memorable phrases, but to me the effect isn't a positive one.
