GreyLizard226, it is not polite at all. :/

If your opinion and your views of facts about whatsoever doesn't match with someone's, it's not the reason to order someone to stop writing theirs. ESPECIALLY in project threads like this one, when people spent I dunno how many hours/days to analyze and compose their work.
Not to mention spam behaviour for past year.

And "why are you writing all this stuff down that most fans already know" critique is just beyond my understanding... Diddy decided to write a well-known fact, or decided to not only calculate screentimes of each character, but also write some description and analysis - that's all, that's their right to do so.

In movie number three, there was a problem in the Great Valley- a lack of water. The adults handled this by arguing for an extended period of time, which accomplished nothing. The kids also had a problem- their peers, or, the bullies, were heading into danger. Littlefoot did not hesitate, left the valley, then saved the mean teenagers. So, in retrospection, the adults couldn’t handle their problem while the kids jumped right into theirs and solved it. Isn’t that teaching kids that careful planning is a waste of time and rushing into danger is the solution? Furthermore, it might make kids not worry about being reckless, as their parents will just fix everything. I mean, I once made a thread in this section comparing The Lion King to The Land Before Time. Well, here’s a difference, making The Lion King’s example of this more appropriate for developing minds.

In The Lion King, Simba recklessly charges into the unknown, and because of that, he was nearly killed. The gang of five was also nearly killed for wandering off. So what was the difference, you ask? Simba got a royal scolding from his father. Mufasa gave a huge lecture that taught kids what can happen if you head into danger. The adults in The Land Before Time? Hm. “This is no time to go exploring.” Really? Is that all? Just like the adults failed to respond to a problem, they failed to chide their children and reveal just how wrong it was for them to leave like that.

The gang wanders off in multiple films, why are you just signaling one of them out?

If we're going to compare to TLK, Simba did something completely stupid out of pure selfishness. That's part of why Mufasa gives a "royal scolding".  ("You DELIBERATELY disobeyed me!"). Yeah, the kids often run off into danger and are rarely scolded by their parents. But the situations are different. First is the fact that they pretty much almost always do it to rescue somebody. The second is that they come from very different backgrounds than Simba, who, before he recklessly charged into the unknown, had only ever known the safe home he'd grown up in. The Gang of Five, on the other hand, were born outside the Great Valley and KNOW firsthand how dangerous the world out there is. They rarely go out there without a good reason. I think the only example I can think of is Littlefoot at the end of 6, which I DO have issues with.

But back to the rest, I'm not saying that that makes them constantly running off the safe or even always the right thing to do but I don't think it's a good analogy. They have experience and knowledge of danger that the main character of The Lion King doesn't. Littlefoot's grandparents actually DO have a talk with him in LBT 2 about how he shouldn't be running into danger, and from what we hear, the other kids' parents have the same talk with them. And while the kids don't always listen, they are at least aware of the risks and don't run off for the same self-serving reasons as in LK. Just because the kids parents don't always give them the same lecture you mentioned in The Lion King doesn't mean these movies are trying to teach the opposite.

And honestly, why are you putting The Lion King above LBT on an LBT forum?

  Ichy is definitely an evil character,...  He did display somewhat psychopathic tendencies, as he, too, was willing to kill the Gang in cold blood

I feel these are way too opinionated. You're acting like your opinion of him being evil is definite. I get that people will see him as evil, but carnivores are pretty debatable, like the original Sharptooth. So it's unfair to even compare him to Sierra, who I will agree is definitely evil, even if he's one of my favorite villains of the series.

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