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Why are K/L shippers like this?
Is Shiro honestly so intimidating to them that they have to bash him (and obviously Allura, as well. Can't bash Shiro without the obligatory tandem Allura bashing)?
#Shiro baby#I'm so sorry that large swathes of your show's fanbase treat you this way.#Can I just confiscate 'Voltron: Legendary Defender''s Takashi Shirogane#and stick him on a shelf where the children can't reach him?#There's ignoring aspects of canon that you don't like- such as Allura KILLING HERSELF or Shiro's half-assed last minute wedding to a piece#of human-shaped set dressing he barely talks to-#because they involve a character you love being mistreated so egregiously.#And then there's ignoring canon altogether because you're a petulant child who can't handle one half of your ship being undyingly#devoted to a character who isn't the other half of your ship.#Never mind that Shiro 'mindlessly' following Allura is objectively untrue.#(Further proof that fans like this skip over 'Shiro's Escape'.)#(And probably 'Collection And Extraction'.)#(AND 'The Ark Of Taujeer'.)#Keith would NEVER in a million years think of Shiro as an 'idiot'.#At this point#you're not even writing about Keith.#The character you're utilizing for self-indulgent wish-fulfillment purposes is your original character who has the same name as a character#in 'Voltron: Legendary Defender' and absolutely NONE of that character's personality and defining traits.#Not even the most surface-level facsimile of them.#The Fandom Straight From Hell.
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verdict on "when the bough breaks": watchable, but deeply flawed
firstly, i don't think we should be having an episode where children are kidnapped and forced to assimilate and then have the moral lesson be about THE OZONE LAYER. lessons about the ozone layer are fine but they have a time and a place. this episode should have been about the evils of residential schools or it should simply have not involved kidnapping children
like, they pointed out multiple times that the captors had no intention of hurting the kids and that is...generally not how the mass kidnapping and forced assimilation of children from other cultures has worked out in real life. those kids being safe the entire time. i know this is syndicated tv or whatever but if you don't have the balls to do it right. again. do not do it. it's worth noting also that ALLLLL of these children were white. maybe they DID realize what real life events were analogous to this situation and were trying hard to differentiate so as not to be insensitive. unfortunately, they did just make it even MORE insensitive somehow.
that said: this is one of the few episodes where i liked wesley. he was smart without being arrogant, brave without being reckless (the passive resistance strike comes to mind, even though in a situation where the children were in danger that would have been much more dangerous), kind to the other children, and took no bullshit from his captors without throwing an annoying whiny teen fit about it or whatever, even though this was one place where an annoying whiny teen fit would have been perfectly justified. this is one the episodes where i would have believed he was supposed to be mentally older than his years or whatever. even his scene with his mom was good (loved the nonverbal communication actually!) when normally they become 1000x more insufferable in each others' presence. VERY surprising. if he was like this all the time i'd really like him actually bc he was perfectly fine here. maybe that's just kim manners's directing lol
that tiniest girl really was so cute. her little stuffed tribble sticking to picard's back. aw.
i think the problem with this episode is that we went 3/4 of it going "isn't kidnapping children REPRENSIBLE?" and then swung into the ozone layer out of nowhere. either could have made a fine episode if done with tact but instead we got, uh, whatever that was??
also really skeeved me out that the one boy liked his captors and said a tearful and grateful goodbye to them for helping to unlock his artistic capabilities or whatever. like you COULD be saying something with that but they weren't, they were just like "isn't it so sad that these people bonded and must now be split up from one another" i'm taking this narrative away from star trek and putting it on the top shelf where they can't reach it until they've proved they can handle it.
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For the OC ask 8 for the people of Lornwood. What do they think happens after they die and how do they figure the death of All-Color into that?
8. What do they believe will happen to them after they die? Does this belief scare them?
The death of All-Color is sort of an interesting subject, in that it's tied to a prior identity of the Lornwood.
In the heart of the Lornwood, there's a place called The Garden. Most of the color gods grew up there before leaving it at some point or another. Most of the color gods agree it was... kind of perfect. A place bereft of needs or misery. Very few, if any mortals, have ever been there- and the ones that claim to have are subjected to a lot of scrutiny and doubt.
But trying to reach the Garden is actually an objective of many people in this story- even though for some, like Eva, it's an objective she stumbled across secondhand. Once you reach the Garden, the belief is, you'll never have any reason to leave- it's paradise and you stay there forever, perfect, always yourself, never changing. The general assumption many people have made is that All-Color did not die- she simply withdrew to the depths of the Garden and never left it.
To the Color Gods... Her remains are not in the Garden. Pieces of her are still around, still unmistakably her, in different parts of the Lornwood, but the end result is that she has definitely not gone to a better place. She's decaying. She may, actually, have been decaying all along, with her children actually being the bloom of life that responds opportunistically to a dead body sinking.
This is why Aeon- a god of death, decay, and the things that feed on death- was one of the last children born to her, at the same moment it became impossible to deny she was dying. Really the progression of gods has a certain morbidity to it that none of them realized in time- Sivi (memory) was born at the point All-Color had to reconcile with the price of creation and the fact that she was losing things. Garu (pain, hunger, disease) as she weakened, and Tema (life, nurturing, fortune) when she began to shift perspective to "I'm happy for what I have, I'm making peace with what will come next."
Then Aeon, and joined to Aeon, the uncertain but shining future of Ilvi.
All-Color's children were kind of also manifestations of her grieving process, and none of them realized it until it was impossible to deny anymore. And it leaves them with a fear- that maybe there is no paradise. If the greatest and brightest of them just rotted and fell apart... what afterlife can there be? The Garden isn't a perfect place, it's a stagnation. Will there be hope for them? Is there some place beyond the Garden, or through the god of the future, a perfection to attain in the absence of this?
They don't know. And they're the gods- they're supposed to know more than humans, they think.
All of them handle this differently- Dena tries not to think about it, but it comes out heavily in her art as she wanders the Lornwood, leaving behind many eerie workings; Sivi pushes herself into the legality of it, focusing only on what must be done, one step ahead of the other, to escape how she personally feels- Garu's responses are extremely volatile and capricious as he tends to be with uncomfortable subjects but it troubles him to think he was softening up his mother for his later sibling- Tema exists half-sheltered from it and half in-denial, refusing to admit she can see it sticking out from the shelf her siblings keep it on when they talk to her-
Aeon relishes in death, fascinated by it and the praises their little friends sing, but at the same time, troubled- conflicted themselves- trying to find the place where this is a good thing, but also not sure if that's even real or if they're just being a selfish monster.
Ilvi denies it entirely, living only in the Garden, in a tower, where everything they have ever lost falls to the ground outside where they can't see it anymore.
They don't look down.
They never look down.
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