Confused about the ending

[KiarasBiggestFan]

Well at the end it's shown Timon and Pumbaa along with Ma and Max choose to live in the oasis. But, In Simba's Pride it seems like Timon and Pumbaa live in the Pridelands. I know Simba's Pride came first, but did they consider it when they made the ending of this movie?

[Carl]

It didn't necessarily show that they lived there. Yes they took Ma and Uncle Max to live there and they, along with the other meerkats, took up residence there, but there's several explanations that could fit Timon and Pumbaa's presence in both films.

-Timon and Pumbaa preferred to live at Pride Rock with Simba, so like him, they were simply visiting the meerkats in the jungle.

-Timon and Pumbaa stayed in the jungle with the meerkats, but when Kiara was born, Simba asked them to come to Pride Rock and assist so they were around more often.

-Timon and Pumbaa lived in the jungle with the meerkats for a while, but then something happened, be it a falling out with the meerkats or something more catastrophic, and they were forced to move to Pride Rock before Kiara was born and SP started.

-The other meerkats couldn't put up with Pumbaa's gas all the time, and so Timon and Pumbaa left to live with the lions.

-Jungle predators became more of a problem, so the paradise life didn't last long.

-Timon and Pumbaa felt weird living away from Simba after all those years, so after staying in the jungle with the meerkats for a while, they moved to Pride Rock.

Some of those are extremely similar and I'm sure someone else can come up with more possible explanations as those are just off the top of my head.

[Animal of the Wild]

I've also got a question.

Why don't we see the hyenas after they fall down the hole?? I mean we see Simba again when he hugs Timon and Pumbaa before climbing pride rock and swimming at Timon's meerkat colony and we even see him and even Rafiki again in the cinema...btu why don't the hyena get one last cameo?? If this was truly going to be the last movie, you think they would give them a final cameo.

[S1mba]

Maybe it's now their holiday home!

[Kiburi]

They did give them their final shot, when they implied that the Hyenas then had a feast on Scar.
So, yeah. There was no more attention that needed to be given to them at that point. Then the movie would have become redundant and it would take away from the serious moment depicted where Simba finally climbs Pride Rock, and takes his place in the Circle of Life.

[ScarLoyal]

I believe that the scene may have taken place in-between 'SP' and 'Outsider banishment'.. Perhaps they visited Timon and the colony back at the jungle? I mean, he only just became King.

[Biomac]

Maybe did they only stay here for a moment, but actually not moved to the oasis, who knows.

[Animal of the Wild]

They did give them their final shot, when they implied that the Hyenas then had a feast on Scar.
So, yeah. There was no more attention that needed to be given to them at that point. Then the movie would have become redundant and it would take away from the serious moment depicted where Simba finally climbs Pride Rock, and takes his place in the Circle of Life.

But that's what we saw at the end of the first, serious movie.

This was more of a comedy and could easily afford showing the hyenas again.

[Animal of the Wild]

They did give them their final shot, when they implied that the Hyenas then had a feast on Scar.
So, yeah. There was no more attention that needed to be given to them at that point. Then the movie would have become redundant and it would take away from the serious moment depicted where Simba finally climbs Pride Rock, and takes his place in the Circle of Life.

Ruin the seriousness of the moment? Why? Because they're comic relief characters? Well, Timon and Pumba are too and they were there!! Plus, they hardly got ANY aatention during LK 1/2 and deserved some more showing what happened to them after they ate Scar.

Seriously, does anybody but me care about them?

[Ninaroja]

Seriously, does anybody but me care about them?

To the same level as you, probably not.

There's plenty of movies where the characters' fates are ambiguous. In fact, in the original draft of "The Shawshank Redemption", one of my favorite movies,

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the ending line was "I hope I can get acroos the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope." and that was the end! We didn't get the scene where Red and Andy meet on the beach, so we had no idea if Red ever truly did see him again.

But y'know what? If the film had ended that way I wouldn't have got myself worked up about it. I would have enjoyed pondering the possibilities and told myself that, after all, it is just a movie (and this is me talking here! If I can say "it's just a movie" to something then anyone can.)