[quote="AnonLion"]During "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" Simba and Nala realize their relationship developed from friendship to love and mate, however they don't conceive Kiara. Some time after Scar is defeated and Nala is officially queen Kiara is conceived and is born right on time when the Pridelands are finally restored.[/quote]
Perfect! I can alter my viewpoint based on that
[quote="Panpardus"]While I'd personally prefer for a bit more time to have passed between the implied mating scene and Kiara's/Kion's presentation (especially with the Outsider-related stuff) I still don't see a four-month timespan as impossible for the land to have been naturally restored if you just assume that the Pride Lands was simply nearing the end of a regular drought season at the time Simba returned, with Scar's real impact being the forcing of the herds to leave the territory via his overhunting/hyena policy.[/quote]
I suppose it is
possible being that the rain returned when Simba did. However due to the far more sever damage brought about by Scar allowing The Hyenas to overhunt. It would have taken far longer than normal for the Pride Lands to heal. The Pride Lands weren't just dry, they were destroyed. Keep in mind Sarabi felt it was a death sentence to stay in The Pride Lands this time, where as in times past The Pride Lands had survived dry/drought seasons.
[quote="Panpardus"]Plus, for what it's worth, the "the talk" reference from
Return of the Roar kinda solidified it for me.[/quote]
The way I see that would be Simba explaining to Kion what "The Talk" usually implies. while It makes perfect sense for Simba to use the night he and Nala fell in love (and what likely happened after that) as his example (this would also account for Kion's terror at the possibility of having "The Talk" again, as the first time undoubtedly left Kion with some very disturbing thoughts in his head). I doubt Simba would be so insensitive of Kion 's feelings as to tell him of the night he and his sister were conceived. As that may have left Kion traumatized rather than just disturbed.
As for the alternate scene I never take things that didn't make it into the final cut of the movie as a viable source for anything as said scenes were cut/changed for a reason they do not count as canon material.
That being said what they were implying in that alternate scene is far more blunt and even I could not see things any other way had that scene been used.