#lion guard season 3

[mudconk]

The Zimwi

Context: this is a story I always intended for Halloween. It follows the past of Queen Janna and how the folklore of the zimwi begun. Janna’s healer, Kamari has been very off putting. Janna notices that she always sees animals go into the tree but they never come out. Once her Mjuzi goes missing, Janna investigates and discovers that Kamari has been attempting to create new life using the tree’s healing properties to fuse animals together by injuring them and healing them. This creates the Zimwi. A bit inspired by frankenstein lol happy Halloween

Unfortunately went to the dark side and used the symmetry tool but I wanted to get this done 😭

[mysticalhiss]

What if Rani was a tiger. What then

[frozenheartscomic]

[sleepy-bi666]

Am I the only one who thought the lion guard finale was very unsatisfying?

like why would Simba even let Vitani lead a guard in the first place??

did he think Kion was dead or something??

also I personally hate Rani and she feels like a bad rushed romance interest; I also don’t acknowledge the ship in any of my fanfics I’ve made for the franchise, at least in a good way

[angelicheaven12]

Aaah i loves how he is soo expressive but simba in tlg because how writer constantly minimizing his character like...he is literally complicated characters

So, Simba’s officially met Jasiri lol

[the-lion-guard-88]

One month till Heartstopper Season 3 releases on Netflix!

[valentinbelleyh505]

WHY THE LADY AND THE TRAMP REFERENCE FOR BOTH THE LION KING 1 1/2 AND THE LION GUARD SEASON 3 😭😭😭

[kaythefloppa]

Whenever I think about the topic of a fourth season of The Lion Guard (beyond the fact that there won't be one and that it was never planned), I don't often think about it as a continuation of where the show left off, but the main storyline (from Return of the Roar to Return to the Pride Lands) lasting for four seasons, (i.e. if 4 seasons were commissioned for the show from the beginning, instead of 3).

Here's how I'd imagine this hypothetical four-season version of TLG would go:

Season 1: Introduces The Lion Guard, their enemies, establishes and sets up ‘the norm’ for the series. Re-introduces characters from the movie.

Season 2: Introduces Scar and focuses on his revenge plot as well as Kion and the Guard gathering as many forces as they can to unite him. Ends with his defeat (essentiallly, the entire Scar arc lasts the whole season).

Season 3: Focuses on The Lion Guard following their battle with Scar. The conflict is how things have changed since the battle, and how it has affected the group. So there'd be some story in between the end of the final battle and the beginning of the journey. Would also set up Makucha as the main antagonist for the latter half of the series. The season finale ends with them leaving the Tree of Life to regain their strength with peace restored.

Season 4: Picks up at the Tree of Life and focuses on the Guard healing and defeating their new enemies. Ends with a one hour special involving their return in order to cap off everything in the show.

[spinnysocks]

askari is literally the sweetest helping kion with his roar, season 3 is amazing. different, but amazing

true!! it's interesting how travelling to the tree of life means kion can speak to him, instead of mufasa. a very interesting route from the creators

season 3 is cool! it's not my favourite bc outlanders hyperfixation lol, but i still appreciate it a lot. it's fun how the lion guard are older, and the "stopping kion from turning evil" plot was actually cool. there's a few good characters, i particularly like: yun mibu, azaad, and the mother tiger. maybe controversial but i also enjoyed makucha's comeback as well as chuluun and ora! and mama bintourong kinda reminds me of mapleshade from warriors for some reason lol. some fun new species! :)

it's very different, and i think that's what's good about it. the peace in the pridelands IS restored. we get to see beyond what we ever have before of the lion king/guard world. the start of the season is perfect for opening up this season's storyline; i think the creators did a great job with it overall. and of course i love the return of old characters, never would have expected jasiri and janja to be how the lion guard returns to the pridelands but i love it. the banter between janja and azaad? the peace between janja and the lion guard with him resting on beshte's back? kion learning that there's more than just the roar? the returning home montage? awesome. and also mzingo, i really love the fact he helps

so yeah! there's my ramble lmao. i don't focus that much on season 3, but it's really cool and almost refreshing to see new landscapes and characters :D

[ask-chrysalis]

@bauuuutitittibowwrss BE THE BANZAI TO MY SHENZI

[dovefish]

Butch4Butch

[mysticalhiss]

Image speaks for itself really

[devilsrecreation]

Just listened to this song and honestly it screams Serpico 😭

The chorus literally goes

Oompa Loompa doopity doo I’ve got a bad feeling bout you

Oompa Loompa I dunno dude

I got a bad feeling bout you

Yeah, that’s Serpico every time he meets a stranger hdhfhfht

And ofc you got the band like “Serpico, you have a bad feeling about the mailman okay chill out.”

You know, now that I think about it, this was the entire plot of “The Savannah Summit” bc Kion had a bad feeling about Makuu ever since he became a leader.

[valentinbelleyh505]

Bunga having a dream about Binga is my favorite moment from the Poa the Destroyer episode lmao

[kaythefloppa]

Lion Guard Finale Praise + Rant

There is a lot I hate about The Lion Guard's final episode but the one thing that will always hold a special place in my heart is the return montage:

You can't tell in screenshots, but in the background, the LG chorus sings a reprise of the Departure Theme from the premiere episode, with this montage being a book-end to the goodbyes that the Guard said to their friends and families in that episode.

It's really sweet and powerful because it's a beautiful example of "Show, don't tell" (a rule which this show, particularly in Season 3, and the LK sequels in general are not the best at following). We see what the Lion Guard had left behind when they went on their journey to the Tree of Life, how much they had missed their home and how glad they are to be back and how that feeling was reciporicated by their friends and families.

Keep in mind that earlier that morning they were under the belief that Zira invaded the Pride Lands and had possibly killed the royal family and subjugated the Pride Lands' non-lion subjects if not giving them a same gruesome fate (since Kion knows that Zira is a lion supremacist, god-forbid what would happen if she ever got near Mtoto, Thurston, or Ajabu), and on the Pride Landers' end, the Lion Guard had been gone for such a long time with no one having any way of knowing they'd return or if they died. So this reunion was likely also a huge relief for everyone in the Pride Lands, especially Simba, Basi, and Timon and Pumbaa (who no doubt would've been scared shitless at the idea that their kid could be missing forever or dead and have no way to confirm or deny that possibility). It's just all around amazing to see. When watching the episode for the first time when it came out I thought something was wrong with my computer because despite there being 14 minutes left, I wholeheartedly thought the series was going to end there....

...which is why I'm very mad that it didn't and forever disappointed at the route they went with for the actual ending.

In the span of less than a full day since the Lion Guard returned from the Tree of Life, all of them instantly want to head back there on a whim after losing the Lion Guard contest, which would wind up in them completely uprooting their lives and leaving their home and families again for the sake of this one kingdom that we've only seen for seven to eight out of 74 episodes plus a TV movie! The reunion showed us that the Guard was strongly attached to their home and families, but now the ending forces us to ignore that to logistify the Guard willingly going to the Tree of Life without any on-screen goodbyes or send-offs. No scene of doubt, no goodbye songs, no parting ways between characters, nothing, it just jump cuts from "Hey, let's go back to the Tree of Life even though we've only been back here for a day" straight to them at the Tree of Life for Kion and Rani's wedding. Isn't the episode's title supposed to be "Return to the Pride Lands?" Yet the "return" plot stops mattering after the first 11 minutes.

The whole Guard leaving with Kion doesn't even make sense: Bunga has Timon and Pumbaa at Hakuna Matata Falls, Beshte has to co-lead the hippo pod with his father, Ono has his flock and possibly even Ona (you could argue that he would want to return to the Tree of Life because they healed him, but that's not the reason they went with - Also the poor dude lost his Mark of the Guard twice, the first being after he lost his eyesight to protect the Pride Lands from Scar, like, what the fuck?), Fuli had been the most admant about returning to the Pride Lands, and Anga showed no interest in staying at the Tree of Life and seemed perfectly ok in the Pride Lands.

Even back in the days where people were theorizing what would happen to the Lion Guard that caused them to be absent in TLK 2, I never saw reason for the whole Guard to leave if Kion ever left, and even then, I never expected any departure to be permanent because it would go against their whole life-style. It feels like they only had them leave like this for the sake of some "twist" that didn't need to be there. And even if they were going to go with this route, they could've had the Guard separate, with some staying and some going to at least make sense.

Much like Makini, Season 3 ignores crucial story elements of the main characters from the first two seasons to both justify their "plot-twist" by the end and to wrap up any “plot-holes” with the Lion King 2 and forces the audience to suspend an inappropriate amount of their disbelief. So while I like the reunion in the final episode and whilst my love for the show remains un-matched, knowing how it all ends and that (according to some writers) it was planned from the start to end like this makes me feel cheated in a way. One of the most disappointing endings I've seen from a show which I've been willing to follow from start to finish and this is coming from someone who's watched both Jake and the Never Land Pirates and Bunk'd.

[spinnysocks]

What aspect about s3 of tlg did you struggle with?

mainly that the outlanders just aren't in it XD

that doesn't mean i don't like it or don't watch it though!!; i liked the sendoff the pridelanders gave the guard, i absolutely adore travelling arcs in any media so i really liked the first few episodes, and i liked the exploration of new characters as well as old! we all know how much i love yun mibu :]

the first few episodes were pretty great, but once they arrived at the Tree it kinda dropped off for me. my intrigue for it kinda just.. stopped. i guess i'm not really interested in kion x rani, but i do like baylio so there's that

i wouldn't say season 3 is a bad season, but it's just not for me personally! i like that the show continued into the guard being older, but other than that it's just not about the characters i think about most is all! ^^