Board Thread:Lion Guard Discussion/@comment-39401861-20190628204442/@comment-38407585-20190630194644

You know, what was really badly imagined in the sequel Simba's Pride was new introduced characters that were part of the overall storyarc.

The trouble with the lioness Zira and her Outlander Pride was quiet obvious and also an easy as well as also recognisable one... We (target audience) were oblivious in regards of three things:

1. Whereabouts about the new created characters 2. reason/reasons for their existence in the sequel as a whole, as well as all of them lacking totally in the first lion king movie. 3. But what was the most painful and excruiating problem posed the development of the complete sequelplot (important and vital to enable the storytelling of Simba's Pride in regards of logic/realism and comprehensionabilty when the story is played out in the form of a certain medium, e.g. movie, audiobook or theatherplay.

-> This needed much thought out planing, correcting and restarting (unfortunstely even tossing out ideas and startung from the get go and that more than one time) of elements like character design, backgroundstories as well as believability and characterappeal as well as orchestrating impressions that are felt/seen/heard by the movieaudience.

That's why the early design of Zira being Scar's mate and widow that has to raise their own son lioncub Kovu was deleted. It would have made things too predictable for the audience and therefore pose the thread of losing interest and not care about the characters and the experiences they have to go through.

So all of the who is who question that was involved about Zira, Nuka, Vitani and the rest of her pridemembers were obscured, in the end making Zira just a random kind of follower of evil lion Scar, what turned out to confuse most of the audience, because they felt that in terms of character Kovu, the new dark lioncub would have to have a father. So, who if assuming that as real lion prides work only the male lion king gets to mate with all other lionesses of his pride and King Mufasa wasn't there anymore it had to be the child of former King Scar.

You see what I mean? Nobody wants to look a movie and start bothering about how it could be or what will happen when the plot is too fleshed out, has no twists or surprises to offer.