I was recently watching The Nostalgia Critic's review of The Lion King (which you can find here ) , and a certain part of the review drew my attention.
[quote=" Nostalgia Critic "] I guess the moral of the story is "never take responsibility for what you've done because nobody will be behind you unless it turns out you didn't really do it". Yeah, how is this confronting his past? It's a past that never happened, so it doesn't matter. And even when he thought it did happen, the movie didn't support him, almost as if the film was saying if he did accidentally kill his father he deserves to die. Nobody's on his side until he comes out and says "haha wasn't me", and, I'm sorry, that's a serious flaw. [/quote]
So what do MLK people think of this? The way I see it, even though I agree that yes it was facing up to "a past that never happened", the main point of Simba's return was not only that, but to take responsibility as the rightful King (which he knew all along he was) and to confront his fear of going back (someday I'll go into detail on my "Simba has anxiety/PTSD theory).
Open to the floor, as they say