[quote="Farren"]
I really didn't like what they did to Scar in this show and was extremely happy to leave that plot behind. Also, I do not buy the "Scar got his scar from a snake bite and the venom made him eviiiil!" theory for a second. Nope. Even the water buffalo story from TLK6NA makes more sense than that -- and that never made any sense either. I still think Mufasa did it. Fight me.[/quote]
I actually thought the lingering Scar arc was dropped a bit too abruptly, but I can't think of a way to have woven it into the story more. Also, I'm pretty sure if you read into it a bit more, the show's not explicitly saying the venom made Scar evil; he clearly already had resentment towards his brother for whatever reason and was "intrigued" (his words) by the strange outsider lion who proposed usurping Mufasa before the venom was even in his system. Plus we've seen through conflicts Kion and Kiara have had earlier in the series about how the guard leader can easily think they're more powerful than the actual monarch and know what's best for the kingdom (see "Just Can't Wait to be Queen"); it's not hard to imagine Mufasa and Scar going through similar struggles in their youth and never mutually resolving those issues.
If anything, the venom just exacerbated any negative emotions -- and there are actually at least anecdotal reports of people surviving mildly venomous snake bites or taking homeopathic medicines that use proteins from certain types of snake venoms, and in both cases end up suffering mood swings and such, including heightened levels of irritability that ruined personal relationships.
[quote="KnyazKion"]
This is a feminist fiction of the late 20th century. In nature there are no gays, lesbians, queer and etc. Because they hate men, so they try to destroy the normal family.[/quote]
That's blatantly not true; I'm not a moderator but please don't spout nonsense. Regardless of how you feel about it, there's numerous (as in hundreds in some species) documented examples of same-sex couplings and interactions happening in nature across the animal kingdom, including between lions (usually males) and especially with birds, so it's a thing that happens.
A lot.
(Birds can be really gay, to the point where life-long same-sex coupling is common in a number of species. Here's the relevant starting Wikipedia page about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexua ... and_groups)
[quote="Ninclow"]If Beau Black is who I think it is, (the guy who wrote the original version of Kion's Lament), then yeah, totally. The last couple of songs from Kion was NOT sung by Max Charles. I suspect he is at a stage of his voice change where his voice cracks up a lot. If not, they just made a REALLY bad call in trying to make Kion sound older.[/quote]
Beau Black is the show's main songwriter, and yes, you hear him on the full version of "Kion's Lament" (which is called "It Is Time" on the soundtrack album). It was just a really jarring transition.
Also...
[quote="Ninclow"][quote="KionIsGay"]
Using real life statistics in regards to a cartoon about a lion with a magical roar, okay. I don't care about the statistics buddy, I care about representation. I also care about all the love interests being late-game additions, only one of which was even remotely well-developed.[/quote]
Then who do you think Kion should have ended up with? I mean - saying you want representation is just - pardon me - silly. The Lion Guard is not the right place to promote diversity. Do you know what show was really close at making a diverse character, but didn't? Fuller House, on Netflix. I mean, they really went out of their way to avoid getting it right. Why would you expect a show with such a young target audience as The Lion Guard to give you representation? What would you have them do, marry Kion and Bunga or something?[/quote]
Like "Kion Is Gay" responded, homosexual relationships aren't explicitly any more "adult" than hetero ones; heck, I don't doubt that a lot of kids watching the show probably come up in a two-parent same-sex household and/or might realize they're gay/lesbian/etc. themselves within a few years if they haven't already; it would just be normal life for them. Moreover, the whole central theme of The Lion Guard as a series is to promote diversity; Kion picks his interspecies (obvious racial diversity metaphor) team members over opting for other lions because he figures their different strengths can be just as effective if not more so if utilized effectively, and -- granted, the writing isn't always great with this -- the show does go out of its way to establish that this theme is a good and defensible one. So I don't see why it would've necessarily been too much to expect "diversity" from the show in terms of sexual orientations simply on the grounds of "It's a kids show", especially when there's other kids shows out there (that don't take themselves anywhere nearly as seriously as The Lion Guard takes itself) that feature queer characters and couples without making a huge deal of it.