Board Thread:Lion Guard Discussion/@comment-31214635-20190817204748/@comment-36574594-20190818002048

FearTheBelle wrote: How has it been dark? Interesting sure, but mostly it has just consisted of predators trying to eat animals and/or otherwise causing trouble and then getting roared away or otherwise beaten. Even when it comes to Scar, other than trying to trap and burn Janja's hyenas and the Guard in the premiere, none of his plans were all that dark. And Zira was positively affable compared to her original self.

Like, it hasn't even been dark enough to let any of the villains really succeed at much of anything important. They succeed less often than Swiper did in Dora. Let's see, talking about death upfront, people in danger of burning to death, and while Zira's more violent traits do get toned down, they are still very obvious. Furthermore, killing off Ushari, and having Kion getting a scar that is shown to be bleeding rather graphically, along with the idea of the hero wrestling with their darker instincts, is plenty dark by Disney Junior standards.