Netflix’s Voltron review talk

So like most you I’ve been catching up on shows and this one was on the list. As for this part I’ve only finished the first half. Also very odd that the seasons were split up this way in pretty much half seasons. The middle seasons where only half seasons for some reason and it seems like they got enough money to make full seasons to end it. Spoilers BTW.

The first two seasons are pretty good and have a self contained story. It ties up the main plots nicely. It does a good job explaining stuff but some things don’t get explained enough I guess I’ll see once I finish the other half. But how does everyone know English? Like the written language is different but everyone can understand each other. And they play up the written parts for plot and laughs. But that doesn’t make sense if you could understand each other.

Like Farscape solves this by a translation tech that they inject into you. Also 10,000 years seem like a long time and yet short. The show never really takes that into account. Technologies seem advanced but it seems everyone stopped working on it. The lions as old as they are, are still the most powerful in the universe because it seems like the saying don’t fix what’s not broken was the official motto for everyone else. Allura’s castle is still pretty good in a fight even being as old if not older than the lions. Zarkon having lived that long didn’t seem to want to advance his own tech.

Other then that I loved the story beats, how Zarkon was the leader, how little things from the past show up, and back story to things. The fights are cool and flashy. A ton of nods to anime, sci-fi troupes, etc.

Season three could have been great if they had more time. The introduction of Lotor and is Harem seemed a little pointless. They never really did anything with their power and it seemed like Zarkon could have used their power in the first two seasons to take down team Voltron. Also Keith getting all this development to be just be sided lined out of the show. Shiro also doesn’t get enough attention. I mean we are told about how great he was but never really got more details. Like all this backstory about him in the Galra we are shown clips but never got full detail about what happened.

Season four was barely a season. We got Pidge’s brother back by we lose Keith. Also Lotor doesn’t really do anything until the end. I guess since the show runners got half the episodes they had to cut a lot out. They keep teasing the idea of multiple realities but it never really pans out.

So overall this first half seems good. I guess I can’t really complain since they got shafted by the low episode count. The writers probably thought they would be given more since whole plots got kind of dropped.

Shiro’s whole story seems written out. Never really got the full story with his breakout and if he is a sleeper agent since that was kind of teased in the 2nd time he got captured. Also how he got captured the 2nd time.

The Blade of Marmora which seems like a cool story idea becomes a b/c plot most of the time. Keith’s backstory also which ties with the Blades but never fully gets realized. Lotor’s gang is all half Galras but they still look like Galra somewhat. Keith just looks human.

Lotor’s entire plan felt scrapped. Like he wanted to make allies but kind of just forgets about it to make an evil Voltron which he never got. Also the one member who Keith saves doesn’t do anything after she learns that Keith and Hunk are paladins.

And lastly magic, I get that it exists but it doesn’t really explain how it works. I mean for the most part it just does what the plot needs it to do. I could tell that the writers didn’t want to bring it up since they only do it a few times across the seasons 1 to 4.

Hopefully it gets better towards the end. From what I have read it does answer more questions.

All right so having just started Season 5 where they just kill Zarkon I just couldn’t watch anymore.

I spoiled myself by reading and watching fan theories and reactions to the later seasons. And honestly I’m not a fan. I might pick it up again in the future but just felt like the show runners betrayed me.

Most of my questions weren’t answered in the later half heck most of them just got ignored. Also why does Allura just die at the end? Why did they bring back the alternative realities thing, it was fun in those parts in the beginning but why was it a good idea for it to become the plot?

Like I don’t mind main characters getting killed off but it took the writers 5 seasons before they actually did it. And now your telling me the same writers casually kill off character after character in the last season since I guess it was the end so why not? Haggar/Honerva took 7 seasons to become a realized baddie for the final season? Does no one understand how long 10,000 years is? Did those years having her son and husband alive mean nothing?

I know I harp on the time thing a bunch but for a show that explains time and science I feel like it just brushes off it’s own timeline. Take Avatar Last Airbender, Aang was in the ice for 100 years and when he got out, the world pretty much changed and he has had to deal with the new tech and fire nation. Many of his friends and family are dead. He had to relearn a lot.

Allura pretty much adapted really well with no hardship to the stuff. Our human characters didn’t matter since it was all new to them anyway and their awe didn’t feel as good as say it would have came from Allura. Coran had some moments but everything seemed to stay the same.

I still think the show is good up to a point. I think along the way it seemed like there was too many cooks in the kitchen. A show about connection and family seems really weird to push away Keith for a few seasons.