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Me, about the entire show of voltron:

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Dead lmao

the VLD marketing team on social media since s8 aired:

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Mock magazine cover for my happy ending au!  

I wanted to practice with some fonts, I’m still not very good but it was fun! 

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Lmaoo ded

Cole Sprouse started the Altean colony as a social experiment.

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Yup this was a major blow absolutely no friendship. And for them to go their separate ways without building something together just seems wrong...but I suppose that’s life- and voltron was reminscent of friends you leave behind going thru life.

I think that the thing that upsets me the most about s8 is how they (the paladins) end up separated. This show was about found family and friendship, but at the end they go their separate ways and meet once every year. This is just so... sad and contradicts the whole message of this show. Idk

Yeah. I really like the show and it did a lot of things really well but cohesive group friendship was never its strong suit. I would imagine that’s something like 30% it’s tough to come up with solid group scenarios outside of their lions and 70% “let’s not put the animators through having to animate 6 characters all episode long”. 

But it was still believable that they at least all somewhat liked each other. Season 8 couldn’t even muster up that much which is absurd for the show’s final season that purports to bank on “teamwork”. We’ve talked a lot about SK missing because it really is the emotional core of the show (sorry Allurance). But we also didn’t get any Heith, Hance, Punk, Lapunk, Corance, or ANY Shaladin friendships. Like it wasn’t just Sheith who didn’t hang out on Clear Day… NO ONE DID except Hunk and Keith and only by accident. Pidge and Lance were vying for the same goal– something to bring back to Allura– and what a perfect opportunity that would have been to have them battle each other at the prize stands. Like maybe Pidge beats Lance and wins the glittery prize that Allura wanted and explains to Lance why it was so important to her to see Allura happy. We finally, FINALLY get the bare hint of a really lovely Pallura friendship and… it never goes anywhere. 

There was so much excellent potential for this season to be about revenge over real family vs the love between found family and how love, when used for good, is powerful no matter what kind of love it is. We could have explored the theme of love on so many levels:

romantic love (Allurance) 

unconditional and undefined-but-the-stuff-of-soulmates love (Sheith, complete with Shiro returning Keith’s I love you with whatever no homo cushion words they needed to make it Totally Not Gay You Guys)

friendship love (the Garrison trio, Allura/Romelle)

parental love (Krolia/Keith, Coran/Allura, Colleen/Sam/the kids, Lance/parents, Hunk/parents) 

sibling love (Veronica/Lance, Matt/Pidge) 

teammate love (Keith/Shiro/Lance/Hunk/Pidge/Allura and their unbreakable bond should have been the primary lesson of this season. They all should have volunteered to die with Allura, no question, leaving Coran behind to tell their story)

forgiving/compassionate love (Acxa/Zethrid, because in this good version of s8 there are no weird last minute amendments to ep 5) and rather than have Allura go batshit on a Zarkon that was a good guy, have everyone forgive him, have everyone learn about and forgive Lotor too. If you’re going to forgive Honerva, you need to forgive the rest of her family too.

There were just SO many opportunities and it fell flat on every single one that mattered. Instead we got a couple super fleeting moments between minor characters that while nice never actually contributed anything to the plot (Veracxa, Kinzavi, Slam) and in some cases felt weirdly accelerated (Lankei). 

And yeah, them being separated at the end was infuriating. Forget the epilogue, forget the meddling on that front, the fact remains is that it’s heavily implied that everyone went their separate ways after Allura died and One Year Later is the first time they’re meeting up since then. I really have no idea what the heck happened here. Losing SK was already a massive blow, losing almost everyone else as well is just bewildering. But I guess when your four mains are unrecognizeable from who they were just a season ago, their key relationships–and in fact, all their relationships–will fall to the wayside as well.

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they literally could have just sacrificed voltron. voltron is made out of the trans-reality comet. they needed to restore the realities. just destroy voltron and like, have its trans-reality material disperse across the multiverse, restoring all the different timelines.

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Sheith wedding ; 

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wherefore art thou prince lotor

Well. I guess Romeo and Juliet ended up dead together too.

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I’ll be opening second round of preorders for my new Sheith zine next week. Stay tuned for more info.

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to heal my soul

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Bye Bye Princess! Bye Bye Voltron!

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Voltron had me at having an interesting and intimidating female villain and then lost me at, ‘she’s going to get redeemed and stop doing all these bad things because a protagonist whined, “but you weren’t always this evil!!” once.

Voltron had me at having a strong and tenacious female protagonist and lost me at literally killing her off.

Voltron had me at developing a tender and loving relationship between two male protagonists for seven whole seasons and lost me at marrying one off to a total stranger who only had twenty seconds of screen time.

Voltron had me at the possibility of redeeming a tragic and interesting villain/victim and lost me at having him abandoned by literally everyone he has ever cared for and then having to die a gruesome, lonely death in a magical space rift.

Voltron had potential. Most of which was wasted.

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The End.

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“May the stars reunite us”

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Forreal Keith not even being visible in the wedding scene when he should’ve been Shiro’s best man is totes telling you something

So if Kihyun Ryu drew that wedding scene, can he please be released from whatever contract he’s under, so that he can just casually drop an unofficial alternate ending on his instagram page? Does he take commissions?

I mean, we all already know what he is willing to draw in his spare time:

Wonder how much overtime pay they had to toss at Ryu to quickly draw and animate not just one but two different partners and two sets of background art for Shiro’s hollow gay wedding. As if he’s just some common last minute wedding photographer. Instead of, you know, an actual supervising producer who has worked on the show since the very beginning.

I am now 100% convinced that Keith being obscured in that final scene (with zero warmth in his body language from what we could see of him) is more loaded than it seems. I’m sorry you had to do this Ryu. Thanks for all the amazing art.

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Now I’m So Amazing

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Catch me happily ignoring the existence of s08. In my happy bubble, there is only as many times as it takes, thank you and have a good day.