

Please feel free to make all jokes about Disney-owned franchises that apply.
Personally, I think we need J. J. Abrams to direct the next TLK movie and save the series.
Personally, I think we need J. J. Abrams to direct the next TLK movie and save the series.
Another thing that Disney simply want to delete is Kovu because she does not want anything at all related to Scar defiling the Kingdom of Simba. That, romantic relationship of "Romeo and Juliet" between Lions with a happy ending Lion King II after some time began to be questioned as the most terribly wrong decisions that Disney has taken and for this reason Disney simply want to discard the it and disappear with Kovu. That simple . For them the idea of a teen and good version, of Scar equal Kovu was one of the silliest ideas that Disney could have taken. Nothing good could from someone trained from childhood to embrace the path of darkness so for more benevolent to be the influence of Kiara about he any thing truly "noble" could from Kovu. Point.
Another thing that Disney wants to delete the memory of the fans is Simba acting as a "benevolent and well-intentioned tyrant however not very different of Scar" of Lion King II. I almost did not recognize Simba in this film because the way he was acting came the scare. He has started terribly wrong "break" his kingdom and expelling of Pride Rock all lions were "loyal to Scar" an attitude, not a bit, noble hardly the King supposedly "good" would take and exiling, in a land arid and miserable, they had little food, water and hunting and established severe punishments for Outlanders who dared enter their land which again is something not at all integrate a just ruler to do was a Father too overprotective with Kiara who robbed him the freedom to act and almost suffocated her daughter not giving she the freedom to do anything alone the way he treated the Outlanders remember those rulers oppressors who thought that there were people "more equal than others." When Kovu disowned the Outlanders after the death of Nuka and returned to Pride Rock to ask forgiveness for what he had done all Simba's anger at being deceived and almost killed by Zira and Outlanders lies with him and this expelled from the land of Pride Rock exiling him in the desert. He came to get nervous and scold even with Timon and Pumbaa his best friends without which he would never have survived to adulthood because Kiara had fled to go find Kovu. And when Zira comes with Outlanders in search of "war" he is not intimidated and even accepted despite the consequences it could bring to his kingdom if he lost.
It's all right . Alpha Numeric. He went behind after while there was still time and recognized that he was doing wrong however it does not change the fact that Simba, that noble hero of Lion King for a short period was not much different or "better" than Scar. Ok the theme Lion King II was to show "the other point of view of history" if the Kovu and Outlanders and show that even the noblest of heroes can also make mistakes that they regret later put Disney simply want erase he from the minds of fans to remember that would not have been so Mufasa would have wanted his son to act. Mufasa had terribly wrong Taka making him become Scar then he would not want his son to repeat this error.
Kion is simply trying to fix the cheating with the fans made in Lion King II to replace Kopa by Kiara and give Simba a worthy and "special" male heir and they prefer infinitely "forget" everything related to Lion King II and assume that everything was like one of those Marvel stories of "What if ...?" narrated by The Watcher in a "Alternate Reality Possible" but actually has nothing really to do with what happens in the real world of the universe of Lion King and for all effects Lion King II NEVER HAPPENED than even dare to think about making Kiara marry even with Kovu and make them have a cub because for Disney anything that comes from someone who had direct or indirect relationship with Scar can actually be "good."
However, with the Lion Guard being an attempt to fix that mess, I have two huge criticisms. First, they should've ignored the second movie outright, including Kiara. Now, whe have a happy family with a kind Simba and a Kiara that is super eager to be queen and a magical protector to solve all Outlander problems before they happen. Kiara is in the series because of TLK II, but TLK II can now never happen because how the show is. It's a circular clusterfuck. Second... the magic. The Lion Guard episodes that don't feature magical stuff are actually really good! But magical superpowers and magical cave paintings that move if you tap them with a stick, even if you're a silly little badger? Like cave TV? If TLK II was considered a mistake, then what's with this?
This actually sounds way more bitter than I'm really feeling about it all, it's just cartoons, after all. But my points still stand.
Kovu for example is tremendously bad employee as a character almost as much as Cyclops was in the films of X-Men that practically did not show any of that charismatic and confident leader who see X-Men comics of being eclipsed by Wolverine. With Kovu is the same he hardly shows any action or attitude that characterized as a leader he is there only to serve as an ornament and for the record that the Outlanders have a young lion male but otherwise he's a dead weight in history that down to Kiara.
Zira is a complete nullity as villainess she is a character type that hammy not nearly equals Scar. And all the other characters are only there to serve as adornment Nala is no longer that fearless lioness became the beloved of Simba and becomes a quiet housewife, Timon and Pumbaa completely lose the grace that had the comic characters of the first film of Lion King and has too few, important moments of humor. All other Lion King II characters are pretty much just there for the record that there are new characters however overall this movie summarize entirely of Kiara.
And rightfully so Disney wants to forget it and it created Lion Guard with more elements present in other fantasy animations like "magic" with the Roar of the Elders of Kion, the wise grandpa Mufasa / Obi-Wan Kenobi that always comes to give wise advice to his grandson, the magic cave paintings of the Cave of Rafiki, Simba and the other characters a little better exploited than in Lion King II where Kiara is less Mary Sue and the other characters have each its importance but sometimes it gets me the impression that I'm watching a Japanese anime that had these ideas are added because currently what you would like the children of the new generation who grew up watching Naruto, One Piece, Fairy Tail and other animes.
Even the trace of the characters this much anime style. Lion Guard was created to try to make the public forget Lion King II telling a story in a language closer of the anime with the Lion King characters tailored to meet the tastes of the generation that grew up watching animes and not interested in other types of animations. The question is whether had results?
The Mufasa thing really annoys me, though. It's like an effing Skype conference to the afterlife, but thankfully, they used him a lot less during the more recent episodes. Still can't forgive what they made of him. If he's that talkative and easy to reach, couldn't he have taken a second to appear to young Simba and tell him "Son, you're not to blame for my death. It was Scar. I love you." No... because from a script writing point of view, that would be horrible! And that's how it is in TLG.
But the series does a lot of things right, too. If they did not abuse the supernatural or magical aspects so much, I could really enjoy it. But the things that are wrong are so wrong that I can't look past them. And that makes it so difficult to just shut up and leave it be.
Interesting bit about the second season of Jungle Emperor Leo! I'll have to look into that specifically.
SPOILER:
He has this thing called Roar of the Elders. It's a super loud roar, and when he uses it, his mark glows and giant lion shapes appear in the clouds and roar with him. The Roar releases a shock wave that can even kill animals (Scar had this power too and killed the members of his Lion Guard with it). When Kion touched his paw to the shoulders of his friends that he wanted in the Guard, the mark also appeared on their bodies. Not very subtle.
Kion: "By the power of the Pridelands"
*Transforms into a fully grown Lion*
Kion: "I have the Roar!"
He did have them, according to the same presentation held by Disney. But he thought this made him better than Mufasa and gave him the idea to overthrow him. His Lion Guard team didn't want to and got destroyed. Then the kings of the past took the power away from him because he used it for evil. Then something unexplained obviously led to everyone trusting him again in the original movie.