Board Thread:Lion Guard Discussion/@comment-26812159-20190803205709/@comment-33871435-20190804005241

FearTheBelle wrote: Westerhouse wrote: FearTheBelle wrote:

Westerhouse wrote: If we are to assume that Kion was not in The Lion King 2 because he was either on his way to or from the Tree of Life, which appears to be at least a continent away, the Lion Guard would have to have aged, even by Mama Binturong. They have to be several months into their journey by now, possibly over half a year. If enough time passes that Kiara has become a young adult by the time if the second movie, and Kion still has yet to return, we can safely assume that he was gone well over a year. Do you complain about characters not aging in other cartoons? And even if you do, it is a cartoon, so there's no reason to think about things like how it would take the characters a real-world amount of time to get from Point A to Point B and to be annoyed that it doesn't take them that long.

If it did, they would probably all die before finishing the journey, probably when trying to traverse the desert, and if not then, it would literally take years of walking and swimming to make this journey in environments none of the species are native to. There's thinking about things, and then there's taking them far too seriously, especially when that thing is a catoon at least nominally for pre-schoolers. So you don't care about shows making any sense. That's fine. That is your prerogative. And its my prerogative to care about it. I care about shows making sense according to their own rules and universes. I don't care about works of fiction making sense according to the real-world, least of all when the show is literally about talking animals living in a world with spirits and magical roars. The entire point of fiction is to be able to escape the rules of the real-world to tell stories it does not allow.

Being fictitious and fantastical doesn't mean you have to abandon simple logic. You have your criteria for how you judge shows, I have my own.