#vld season 4

[oh-quiznakles]

I want to hug @lovesyarnandnancydrew they are watching voltron legendary defender and are on season 4....

They have NO idea what's waiting for them

[has-brain-rot]

FINISHED SEASON 4: my takes time

SO I actually finished season 4 (after this I’m going to go binge season 5) and most of my notes are in the last post BUT the rest of my thoughts shall be below

LOTOR MY MAN you can’t just kill your friend/loyal coworker just because you think they’re a spy. Especially like. idk just saying that you had 3 other people (plus the cat) and you went for the blind person. seems odd :/

LOTOR ALSO BECOMING A CRIMINAL. Trying to sneak over onto the voltron side and you know what I’m down for that. The drama we’ll see. Will he be accepted? not?

They really just got rid of keith for the whole season and re-introduced him by having him just kinda in the background before he does some things. It’s especially odd since there was so much focus on keith in the last season?

Keith was out there doing epic adventure stuff where he could have died a ton while the rest of the voltron team were doing performance shows. hmm.

Shiro whyyyyyyyyyyy do you not get help. please this man needs help. Yeah sure he didn’t nearly die or go through something horrific this season but still there has been NOTHING about his trauma so far. In season 1 and 2 they touched upon the impacts of trauma and how it can mess with your mind but now that Shiro has another year’s worth of captivity testing and general horror, he doesn’t have any symptoms? HMM

also they completely dropped whatever plot was going on with Shiro in the last season. That’s odd right?

Can’t wait for Lotor and Keith to meet PURELY because I think it’d be neat if Lotor like, reforms some and becomes a mentor like figure to Keith. Teach him the half-galran ways without judgement. They can bond over poor childhoods and being broody. I think it could work.

WAIT maybe Keith gets the scar by Lotor switching on them and trying to kill Keith? That’d be dark but is a possibility? All I know is Keith gets the scar at some point but I still have no clue when aelrkgm

Slay Pidge, Slay Hunk <- I enjoy these characters. they deserve good things. They haven’t really gone through any development anymore though :/

Lance’s personality is a pendulum. who is this man. why is he there. why is he sometimes a silly guy and sometimes the only one that can give advice and pep talks. I find myself in the most hilarious position of being confused by his presence but finding him an otherwise meh character. idk my brain keeps going to him and being like “hey.. why are you here”

It’s cool to see them all get used to their lions again, but I’m kind of disappointed that they broke the character-lion symbolism. Red was passionate and ran with instincts first which matched keith. Hunk’s is grounded and tough, Pidge’s is lithe and connected to nature (which as the show said means the green lion is more connected to the base knowledge of the world, aka smarts) and the black lion is leadership and trust issues. With the shuffle they kind of lose all that.

I vote they should change the colours of their uniforms to match their lions. That’s what they did at first so why not now? /lh

BLADES OF MARMORA LETS GOO!!

Haggar exists and that’s chill. Love how she wants to kill her kid that’s very girlboss of her <- do not do this IRL. it is very bad and very NOT girlboss

Overall the season feels more similar to season 1 and 2 in terms of plotlines and general vibes. The comedy moments are good and funny but sometimes feel like they take away from the story? The story is at least more intact than the previous season but it doesn’t have the same level of building-towards-the-climax as the first two seasons. It’s good, plus it has Lotor and he’s cool.

LOTOR!!! Lotor would be an interesting person to go out and get ice cream with and ask him about his thoughts of the world and interests. NOT a date, I just want to study him like a scientist does a particularly funky octopus and I want to know what sort of ice cream he’d eat. Plus learn his hair care routine lmaoo

OKAY SO I know that Shiro gets married to a man at some point but I don’t know all the details. My theory is that it’ll be Matt. Matt and Shiro already have known each other for a while and after living together on the ship and fighting for the cause together they destroy the previous boundaries they had in the previous field of work and get closer. Plus they’re the only adult characters i think??? So it’d make sense. And then Pidge gets a cool older brother

Reason why the above won’t happen: Matt is straight I think -_- Shame on him /j

I NEED TO MENTION MY FAVOURITE SCENE. THE CLIP WHERE VOLTRON IS DESCENDING ONTO THE PLANET IN THE FOG AND SLOWLY GETS REVEALED. THE HORROR THE MYSTERY THE SUSPENSE. I AM IN LOVE WITH THAT SCENE I LOVE IT SO MUCH. It twists the version of Voltron we’ve come to know and show that HERE IS HOW THE ENEMIES SEE VOLTRON. I love that scene so much I went feral seeing it :3

TIME FOR SEASON 5 LETS GOOO. I’ve officially watched half the show and it’s really cool, I absolutely adore every single artist and animator that worked on it. They did an incredibly job, especially after learning they didn’t have much time to do it all

[itscherryterry-again]

yea

[k3ithsk0gane]

I felt like I was reliving the final season of Voltron while watching the final season of The Umbrella Academy…

[need2thneeds]

I know we all silently agreed to never mention voltron again after the year 2018 but i miss them ok.

[burgendee69]

season 4- code of honor

Kolivan leaving Keith behind makes literally no sense because he himself acknowledges that Voltron has tipped the scales to the Blade's side and that they had to stick to small scale infiltrations or be wiped out completely before Voltron came along. In this case, why on earth would he allow the Black Paladin, which is a position they only recently filled, TO BE LEFT BEHIND??? Not to mention that the team is already off balance with their new roles and that Kolivan himself felt the difference in strength in ep 1 of season three. The decision seems so strategically dumb and makes Kolivan, the leader of an infiltration organiser look like an absolute idiot.

If you exclude Kolivan leaving Keith to die and instead replace it with Regis sacrificing himself to make sure Keith got back (the pragmatic and even more tragic decision...maybe even deathbed dialogue iykyk), we can have the same build up of pressure and the same survivor's guilt without the idiotic implications.

[theuselesscucumber]

Please... it's been over four years since I touched that fandom....

[kuranini]

I wish I could experience VLD for the first time again. I keep trying to draw new fanart of our boys, but the vibe just isn’t right. It’s been too long. I miss them 🥺

[jajanvm-imbi]

Wow I REALLY miss the early Voltron era (like seasons 1-3)

[rubyrabbits-art]

right hand man / i got you buddy

twitter | pixiv

[italofobia]

italian lance voltron jumpscare

[justaz]

pidge and lance rivalry after the lion switch of pidge being infuriated that she’s no longer the black paladins favorite and lance rubbing it in her face every chance he gets

[obitv]

someone tell me to go to bed before i open the klance ao3 tab for the first time in 4 years

[has-brain-rot]

VOLTRON SEASON 3 VIBE CHECK

So I finished watching voltron legendary defenders season 3 and I gotta say... what happened?

Like the pacing was so off that I’m almost 100% sure other episodes were planned and got cut. They glossed over so many details and didn’t cover things they should of? Quite odd. but yoo Lotor exists now so that’s neat. Same as before more notes under the cutoff

OKAY SO

Lotor. now THAT is how you introduce a villain. Create suspense, show how strong they are compared to the previous villain, and show that hey, they might be evil but they are charismatic and people genuinely do want to work with them.

Lotor. Super cool in the first few episodes but after that he feels too good? as in like, it’s great seeing smart characters but seeing smart characters that are so smart they become undefeatable can be really cool if executed well but.. eh. Lotor also has a whole society to lead and he’s out here flying around in space half the time. It doesn’t feel as realistic.

Also do they ever give a reason why Lotor has white hair because so far WAIT NEVER MIDN he’s half Galra like Keith. <- is he and Keith going to ever mention that because I think that’d be a funky moment for them. like “hey bro I’m kinda like you” (identity issues follow)

Keith learning to be the leader is neat! I like how he gets that experience and we see some of that progression. Keyword some because if given more episodes they could’ve gone more into that journey.

ALLURA GETS A LION LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Coran gets ignored so much. Sucks for you old man /affectionate.

Shiro. Okay so what was going on with the Shiro arc. Like once they started covering that the season started falling aopart? The pacing was already weird throughout the season, but once it brought Shiro back it turned into a speedrun into shoving as much plot into the episodes without explaining WHY <- I know that was purposeful to add to the power levels of Lotor but hmmmmmmm it could be executed better?

ALSO SHIRO fr he just went through another year (approximate? considering hair length), nearly dies a bunch and then nearly dies alone in space in what would be one of the most HORRIFIC ways to die and then he just.. gets a haircut and waltzes back into the show. My man PLEASE take a break. please show runners address whatever is going on with Shiro he needs help. He’s speedrunning all forms of severe trauma and they showed the briefest clip of Keith talking to Shiro and that’s it. he is not okay.

IGNORING all the wonkiness with the season I must say the visuals are still SUPER GOOD.

BATTLE SCENES WERE SUPER COOL!! Allura controlling the lion and it moving more like a real lion and not always just a ship? THAT was such a cool way of showing her bonding with the lion AND shows some of her core character as well. Doesn’t easily trust, strong morals, determined, very smart but also relies on instinct, and overall badass. Love how she gets fighting scenes and she is good at it.

Not the biggest fan of allura’s suit being pink even with the justification that it’s “the colour they’d wear to honour fallen warriors” just because it feels like “haha girly-girl must wear pink”. But that’s pretty minor all things considered. I really do like how each character kept their suit colours even when switching lions.

my idea of the red lion flying itself was false, but I still think it’d be neat if unrealistic. Love how even with the short season they went into some level of detail about how the lion-paladin bond works

OKAY SO that last episode? 0/10. Honestly I don’t like how they turned Zarkon from a super strong epic villian to like, king got corrupted kinda thing. Like that takes away from the whole idea that this man was so twisted and evil and corrupt but still managed to create an entire empire, and the horror behind that idea. The horror that someone can be so outwardly wicked and people still support them.

Also I think(?) it takes away from the whole “this man is a colonizer” if it’s not even really him doing it? Like it’s just some mysterious evil entity goop. however it DOES make Lotor that much more interesting as a villain because he parallels Allura in a neat way and also he’s just built like that. No evil goop there, he’s just like that

THE PARALLELS BETWEEN LOTOR AND ALLURA LETS GOOO. LOVE how they both have teams of not-the-same-species-aliens helping them in their goals and they all seem to be there because they want to be. The black-darkblue-orange colour scheme is like reverse of white-lightblue-pink colour scheme which is really fun!

Zarkon coming back is interesting but it kinda downplays Lotor’s role as the big bad? idk my feelings on that yet

TIME FOR SEASON 4! Soon after I finish the last few seasons I can go on the voltron tags and see all the art and what the fandom is like! I haven’t done that too much because of spoilers but that soon will change xD

[jankwritten]

Actually, I don't think I'll be altering it, necessarily. I think that what I'm going to do is exactly what the show did - some Fuckshit that allows People to Come Back. Because Altea randomly reappears, and I think that Allura's energy should be allowed to come back too. The episode is titled The End Is the Beginning. I call bullshit that the lions just DISAPPEAR. I call bullshit that there is no more need for a defender of the universe. ALL realities were reestablished, and we had SOLID PROOF that all it took was one person, one event, for everything that happened to happen again. There would still be war. There would still be need for something like Voltron, even with the Atlas and the next generation of fighters. Even if it's not the current paladins - Voltron shouldn't just disappear. That ending is dumb, sorry.

That being said - holy shit. I genuinely loved that whole experience and I feel kind of bad for the people who let expectations and silly plot points blot out the whole show for them. Was it dumb at times? Yeah. Do I agree with the way that things went and how it ended? No! But that doesn't mean the show itself sucks or anything like that. This is the whole reason fandom spaces exist, or, part of the reason: so people can love the source material, and change what they don't, if need be. Like, that's the whole reason fanfiction exists IMO.

So, uh, anyway. If anybody has a pirated copy of VLD just lying around and uh....wants to just kick that my way in case it ever gets demolished off the internet.......i would love you forever and ever LMAO.

Wow. Just wow.