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Voltron: Legendary Defender: Taking Flight (2016)
A glimpse at the world
This is an episode in between two more intense parts in the story of this season that shows us a little more aspects of the current world. Zarkon reigns made a lot of things and that there would be pirates out there that steal and resell to the empire is not surprising. It is an introduction to characters we will get to see a little later on as well. And this also show our heroes to be a little more careful. We get to have some funny moments while learning a bit more about how the galaxies are living under Zarkon's reign and that is important an interesting. We get to see also someone else who got captured by the empire and lost an important part of himself. We see the scars the world is baring through those characters.
Voltron: Legendary Defender: Tears of the Balmera (2016)
Doors opening on a new world
Second part of the castle invasion. Shiro and Lance are in trouble and getting saved by the others and that's an interesting dynamic on what is happening. Especially the fight at the end when they get the castle back.
On the other part we get to meet a new species, the Balmerans and that is really cool, they are really interesting in their designs and what they are. Really cool and imaginative. This is also fun to see Coran not being there in the background but taking part to the front lines and with Hunk. As watchers we get to see more aspects to Hunk him growing up through these adventures. As a character who does not really want to be there, he is turning up to be quite interesting and strong and making friends.
Voltron: Legendary Defender: The Fall of the Castle of Lions (2016)
Our heroes in trouble
Interesting plot to see unfold as Pidge wants to leave and puts the team in disarray a little. They are not yet fully a team and grow a lot quickly. Sendak is introduced in a more intimidating way and that is interesting. We get to see a fight between him and Shiro in a crazy good looking animation. Our paladins are in trouble and this episode works well into making us feel that way. This is a nice introduction to what they are going against. They might be separated, but we get to see them under their good lights and strengths with a small note of funny moments at the beginning. This is an episode worth watching.
Voltron: Legendary Defender: Return of the Gladiator (2016)
The pilots makes it all
A show that is much more than a boys robot fight show. We get to learn a bit more about the characters and the setting sets that we know this is a story that will be more about the cast than the robot fights. Yes it is a receipe that is a bit monster of the day, but so lovely well made so far that there is no regrets to be add in watching. We get to see some nice relationships moment that shows us how important they are growing to be for each other, a found family. We get to see something from the year Shiro leaved as the champion and that makes a great exposition of story opening before us as we go.
Voltron: Legendary Defender: Some Assembly Required (2016)
Some funny stumbling and the birth of an amazing team
Always fun to see a group of heroes showing their flaws, that they have to go through learning to work as a team before saving everyone. This episode shows us a side of the humour VLD will bring from time to time and with every characters, even the more serious ones. We get to learn a bit more about how the lions work and what they can do. Also we get to see the dynamic of the team build up in a nice way. It's a lot courageous to have one of the main character to show ptsd, such an amazing good representation of something we do not see often in medias and in a character we grow to love and identify with and even the leader of the team. The paladins are still young and green and this is an interesting dynamic.
Voltron: Legendary Defender: The Rise of Voltron (2016)
The start of an amazing journey
The begining of something great. Here you find a remake of a series that have been done multiple times and yet brings a wave of fresh air while putting together in such a nostalgic amazing way. This brings a feel of how the show where in the 90s yet being new in a lot of new great ways. Nice visuals, nice designs and a variety of characters that makes it so interesting. The cast contains such a colorful palet of variety in terms of nationality and personality and relationships. You got the trio of goofs with 2 genius and what seems to be a very sociable dufus we will grow to love, then a duo of best friends that wants us to know more about them, a poc princess (so nice to see !) that seems so original in her concept and her advisor that will be a funny comic relief mix with wiseness. This episode sets up the setting in an interesting way and makes us want to be there with them, live the stories with them. Personally already a very nice fan of the tropes you can find in the characters but that will still surprise us in many ways, we can already tell.
Voltron: Legendary Defender: The Zenith (2018)
Confusing clunky mashup
Only good thing in this episode is the fusion between the Atlas and Voltron as we get to see Shiro being a paladin again and all of them working together once again. Visually impressive, but that is it. The lack of sense behind the fusion is ok, it is a kids show happening in magical space lore. But what does not make sense is a lot of what is happening around them. Everything seems to come out of a need to show every characters we ever saw through the series to give some sort of last goodbyes and also to be able to sell toys from the franchize. But after a season like this where so much efforts seemed to have been put to destroyed what have been beautifully built through 6-7 seasons, I would doubt anyone will do. This was clunky and visually even didn't make sense most of the time.
Also as mentioned in last episode review: A confusing pursuit that makes no sense happens while everyone jumps between realities. Although it was explained before that other realities do exists and also that sincline has the power to jump between them maybe, this ends up being a lot of running, hiding, running, hiding, running again and that never ends. The goal of Honerva might be clear here, but this was poorly done and completly confusing. In the end, she finds a reality that goes downhill right away and serves only to show he obsession and a try to make us have pity on her after all she did to all those people. We get to see also the Atlas has absolutely no security whatsoever because for the second time, the prisoners break out and reach the bridge and this time we get to see Shiro use a gun to defend himself (what the hell is that logic ?) and get kicked out in an easy move and not get up after a long while. It seems like they forgot when they wrote this all the developpement they gave him as the champion, then the black paladin and how strong they have shown him to be. There were so much efforts this season to show us how weak and umimportant they wanted him to be. The graphics might have looked great here, but this feels like nothing but a very badly written fanfiction here.
Voltron: Legendary Defender: Uncharted Regions (2018)
A complete lack of sense to show good visuals
A confusing pursuit that makes no sense happens while everyone jumps between realities. Although it was explained before that other realities do exists and also that sincline has the power to jump between them maybe, this ends up being a lot of running, hiding, running, hiding, running again and that never ends. The goal of Honerva might be clear here, but this was poorly done and completly confusing. In the end, she finds a reality that goes downhill right away and serves only to show he obsession and a try to make us have pity on her after all she did to all those people. We get to see also the Atlas has absolutely no security whatsoever because for the second time, the prisonners break out and reach the bridge and this time we get to see Shiro use a gun to defend himself (what the hell is that logic ?) and get kicked out in an easy move and not get up after a long while. It seems like they forgot when they wrote this all the developpement they gave him as the champion, then the black paladin and how strong they have shown him to be. There were so much efforts this season to show us how weak and umimportant they wanted him to be. The graphics might have looked great here, but this feels like nothing but a very badly written fanfiction here. And so so many deus ex machina all over the place.
Voltron: Legendary Defender: Clear Day (2018)
Fiasco is in the details
This episode left me with a lot of mixed feelings. This might be the one that is the more in the spirit of what all the other episodes have been. This is truly like all those comical episodes we got before. That said, some things are a lot wrong in there. To start on, why is this the only episode in which the main characters seem to be themselves the whole season (aside from some choices they make here) ? First and formost it seems more than out of character to see Shiro and Keith not spending this day together, either both going around having fun, because this is what Shiro would do, make sure Keith is not alone and if not having fun, do a parameter check with him and whatnot. Then to see him go to that armwresling thing was funny I admit and interesting in the fact that he is fighting strong against his ptsd (even if no hint is given which is a little disappointing). The problem however resides in the fact Shiro ends up alone again, no one is with him and he does not hang up with anyone. He and the paladins (because we keep being reminded painfully how much he is NOT a paladin anymore, almost treated like he never was even) only interact at the very end when he won and lifts him to celebrate his victory. And can I say that I find highly weird how the crew character named curtis keeps getting some forced awkward screen time for no reason, leaving us to believe will become a MFE maybe in the future. He seems in this episode to have got teleporting skills even as we see him being with the MFEs in one place yet being there in the armwresling competition at the same time with a VERY inconsistent visual design making him look like he was drawn over Iverson actually and added last second to support what happens in the epilogue and make it so we did see him a little before this.
Now about what happens with Allura in this episode. Lotor is portrayed through the season as the temptation, the evil seed biting at Allura and convincing her to go to the 'dark' side even, digging him into even a darker role. While we are happy to see Lotor again and that it pulls on really great and dark strings in a way, this feels deeply wrong and badly presented in its result, plus add to this that Allura is with Lance now, yet she gets to see Lotor like she was still in love with him, still going out with him and that he was used to manipulate her, giving us the image that Lance is just either a rebound for Allura or not that important either way.
Especially since she hides all this from him and lies to get rid of him and be along in the Atlas. This episode we also gets to see an old side of Allura that she went through in prior season and was shown to grow from only to fall back again into. It feels like she regresses in all the evolution we saw her go through. She becomes again the control freak, the dishonest/judgemental/distant with the paladin self in the fact that she decides that she will win this fight on her own, that she is does not tell the paladin until she has no choice because they find her unconscious after she took the choice on what they would all end up doing alone. This here tells the watchers that Allura does not value team work, that she believes she knows better then anyone or at least that it is what she believes. Errors from our beloved heroes can be part of a great story, but Allura does not get through the path of understanding it was a bad choice, that she was wrong and that she has to apologize for it. In any case, this is a road that we went through before in the earlier seasons with how she reacted to knowing Keith being half galra. Allura is a great character that had evolved beautifully through 6-7 seasons and that fell through a rabbit hole suddenly for furthering the plot in a way the direction wanted us to be and she was the sacrifice to bring us there (literally!)
Voltron: Legendary Defender: Day Forty Seven (2018)
Funny but should have been an extra short movie/OVA instead
Although I believe I should say this episode is the only I appreciated most in this season that was such a mess. The concept is interesting and we get to see new characters or side characters in another light. It gives a sentiment of what is happening on a daily basis. But this also shows how uncharistically distant Shiro has grown from the paladins has he is never seen interacting with them except once in which he calls them by their positions and not by names like he used to, driving an ever larger bridge between the characters. This is in bad taste and really saddening to the audience that loved this character. Instead of seeing some time with the characters that we grew found of, this episode seems to hint for a futur project following the series that would go with the MFEs as this episode gives them a much higher importance and some other random character in a long discussion about pets. It has been said by the creators that sadly they couldn't go through every story elements they would have liked as the number of episodes they had for the series was limited to a precise amount. So this conversation most of anything seems really out of place and buying time, like they didn't have enough material at all. There were a few funny jokes but all and all, this is an episode that could have been cut and made into some sort of OVA following the series or as an extra material for the DVDs or whatnot.
Voltron: Legendary Defender: Battle Scars (2018)
Confusing magic and senseless tragedy
In this episode we go back to see the Olkari, which was thrilling in part since we know the paladins skipped 3 years of the world. Needless to say that everyone has been curious to know what happened to all the characters and planets we have grown to love through the series. Sadly we learn that the planet has been invaded and destroyed, that the Olkari are no more or if they are, they are in a ship somewhere in space we do not get to hear about ever again. While I do understand that this is a story about a war and that loss will happen, thus what happens to the Olkari makes sense, what happens with Pidge and how we do get to learn what happened entirely doesn't. We follow Pidge and Allura on Olkarion, while I truly enjoyed to watch some bonding time with them, to see suddenly Pidge has what seems like magical powers seen using visions to explain to us what happened. Yes we are used to Pidge finding solutions where everything was going bad and do it with science too advance for us to understand, etc. But seeing her suddenly using magical powers out of nowhere really feels off, confusing and a big stretch. Allura being there would have easily make it possible that she would be seeing those things and somehow transmute her visions to Pidge somehow. Another thing that's hard to get is why and how is this episode useful to the series while it is culminating to it's end and clearly had too much things condensed in one season and yet not enough elaborated to be in good taste and good landing. This episode could have been cut to give more space to elaborate on things that were clearly cut on the corners in this season and what happened to the Olkari resumed in another way. This wasn't an enjoyable episode, just confusing.
Voltron: Legendary Defender: The Prisoner's Dilemma (2018)
Not the worse of the season, but flat
This episode we get the impression of tying up a lose end while it makes us end with more questions. The ground leaves behind the atlas for no major reason and end up long story short in a base where the beast Krolia and Keith freed episodes ago. While this is nice to see what has been happening with it, since it was presented as a big deal when they did this, we never get to learn what the beast is, making it not much more than the robeast they have been fighting against in the past. There seems to be more under what we see, but this story never gets told. Some good action happens in which Keith ends up alone saving the day again. That said, it's with a heavy heart that we get to see how painfully plain the character are becoming and Keith is no exception. It feels like the used to be red paladin is no more the character he was and has been replaced. Almost every words that comes out of his mouth sound out of character and the script sounds a lot more like what Shiro would say and even the way phrase them but in a complete flat way. He is shown in this role of a leader that does not really fit the character we grew to love and that was so against being the main leader of the team, and worse, he is now the leader of the whole fleet as he is the one leading strategy meetings, elaborating and telling the crew what they are going to do. A lone leader with a cool wolf to make a nice view without substance in the end. It is heartbreaking to see how fast each and every characters from the main cast end up as cardboard characters with flat personalities, acting only when relevant to story plot, even if in times they are out of characters.
Voltron: Legendary Defender: Launch Date (2018)
Rushed and lacking sense
The start of the episode seems alright as a theme and opens up to what is to come, which is all fine. The paladins having one last day with the people they love before leaving seemed appropriate until this turns into some sort of weird rhythm to have Allura and Lance courtship resumed and complete all in one go. Although it did seem to evolve naturally until now through previous season, the way it was made to be felt really rushed here and pushed down our throat. Moving moments felt really flat. On another side, as it is the last day, you would assume that they would spent time with the people they love the most. Lance going out for his family and Allura makes sense, but for Keith to end up alone on the top of his lion really doesn't. Not that he was the focus this episode, but the new tone is quickly set for Keith's new role in the season, which is to be the distant "cool" leader full of amazing advice of social skills and love, which he really never meant to be to begin with in this series and felt very out of character. In that moment when Lance finds him, everyone got surprised without good reason to see Keith alone. As it is the last day to relax with the people the most important to you, we all thought to see him spend time with Shiro which was is closest friend through the whole series, especially since he is back to life now and not a paladin anymore. Or if not him, at least with Krolia, his mom. But neither. The episode was so condensed into pushing Allura and Lance together for what was to come at the last episode so that they would have some time together that every other characters feel non important and decorative. Pidge new role in the serie also comes as something a bit unsettling. Instead of the genius genderless character that people count on, it is shoved in our face that she is a little girl that needs to listen to her parents and suddenly our new comic relief. This episode felt pulled right out of another series and it was a surprise, not in the good kind of way.