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nine-gear crow posted:Josh Keaton is a beautiful gift we do not deserve He loves the characters he plays so much! And is clearly living his best life.
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I need the scarf he's wearing.
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GGundam8 posted:The ending was a big let down. You care about that? gently caress. I just want to know what the Blue Bayard does on its own.  EDIT: Also, I really wanted to see Lotor's hosed up corpse that had merged/been splattered into the cockpit of that mech... all we got was the hint of it, and I bet it was some crazy Akira/Evangelion hybrid nightmare fuel monstrosity. Fuzz fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Dec 19, 2018 |
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Dec 19, 2018 02:32
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Yeah, it seemed like some storylines got dropped. Whatever happened to Shiro's Space AIDS or whatever disease he had? Probably cured when he moved to a clone body? I loved it though. The only thing that kinda rustled my jimmies was that Voltron and Atlas, and even Voltron and Atlas when they got merged (Voltlas? Atlatron?) got completely wrecked in every battle basically the entirety of s7 and s8. I know they gotta create suspense somehow, but I didn't love that.
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Dec 19, 2018 15:02
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The true greatest tragedy was that despite the nod to the original cartoon this season, they never once dropped anything relating to the original theme music. Was really hoping for them to bust out a version of it as the final epilogue or credit music, but nope. I bet if they had, the internet would have been less angry.
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Dec 19, 2018 17:48
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Fuzz posted:The true greatest tragedy was that despite the nod to the original cartoon this season, they never once dropped anything relating to the original theme music. Was really hoping for them to bust out a version of it as the final epilogue or credit music, but nope. Legal issues meant they couldn't use the old theme.
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Dec 19, 2018 17:58
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I enjoyed how the lions just loving BAILED at the end. I guess it was some sort of stylish 'Well the universe is at peace so we will go until we are needed again' but all I could think of was an extremely irritable Pidge calling up her irritable mom and needing to ask for money for a space taxi because Green just loving flaked out on the whole galaxy or something.
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Dec 19, 2018 18:15
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Hometown Slime Queen posted:I enjoyed how the lions just loving BAILED at the end. I guess it was some sort of stylish 'Well the universe is at peace so we will go until we are needed again' but all I could think of was an extremely irritable Pidge calling up her irritable mom and needing to ask for money for a space taxi because Green just loving flaked out on the whole galaxy or something. They're all just going to next door realities to get a second dinner and a scritch at the door until it's brought out. At least that's mine and my 4 yr old's current theory.
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Dec 19, 2018 18:41
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I still think Honerva needed to be punched in the face.
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Dec 19, 2018 19:25
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Fuzz posted:I still think Honerva needed to be punched in the face. by Lotor
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Dec 19, 2018 19:38
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The final episodes would have been better if Honerva's efforts had been completely validated in the paradise dimension she found. having her get ready to nega blast her family after being 100% dedicated to reunited with them up to that point seemed like a hamfisted way to make her more generically evil for the final action set pieces. i would have liked it a lot more if she really did get exactly what she wanted, and voltron was forced to take that away from her to restore reality to stabilityGhostnuke posted:I loved it though. The only thing that kinda rustled my jimmies was that Voltron and Atlas, and even Voltron and Atlas when they got merged (Voltlas? Atlatron?) got completely wrecked in every battle basically the entirety of s7 and s8. I know they gotta create suspense somehow, but I didn't love that. the combat direction got pretty stale toward the end. There should have been more one-sided fights. there were a few good episodes that did that earlier in the series, particularly the season 7 episode where they get captured by ezor and zethrid, and the one in season 2 when they need to get away from the galra fleet but the teludav is busted, but by season 8 every single fight is them being mostly even with their opponent until they use whatever trump card lets them instantly finish in one blow. even when that's totally ridiculous, like the dream versions of earlier robeasts, which really should have been chump change by then and would have been a great way to show how far the paladins have gotten since the start of the series
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still, as much as i've whined about the show for the last two posts i truly have to give it props for giving me Azula Girl Gang 2.0
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Isn't there a live action Voltron movie in the works? I'm assuming it will be nothing like Legendary Defender, if even that much close to the original series.
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I felt the ending was too rushed. They could have spent a few extra minutes to expand the "where are they now" part to show more of what they were doing. Also, was I supposed to remember Shiro's husband? nine-gear crow posted:That final shot is a blatant last-second “please forgive us, we’re really sorry” response to the backlash over fridging Adam last season, so yeah I’ll give you that one.  SardonicTyrant fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Dec 22, 2018 |
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Dec 22, 2018 02:33
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SardonicTyrant posted:I felt the ending was too rushed. They could have spent a few extra minutes to expand the "where are they now" part to show more of what they were doing. Yes*. He's a bridge operator stationed behind Iverson on the Atlas. He's just kind of there all season and has a few housekeeping lines here and there, but that's it. I don't think he even gets a name, so I'm just gonna call him Adam-2, because that's basically what he is; the producers going "We're really sorry we killed Adam for no reason, please like us again."
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Dec 22, 2018 02:38
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Fuzz posted:The true greatest tragedy was that despite the nod to the original cartoon this season, they never once dropped anything relating to the original theme music. Was really hoping for them to bust out a version of it as the final epilogue or credit music, but nope. There might be money issues with that music
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shadowvine118 posted:Isn't there a live action Voltron movie in the works? I'm assuming it will be nothing like Legendary Defender, if even that much close to the original series. There is, but to date pretty much no specific information has come out: https://bestofcomicbooks.com/live-action-voltron-movie-is-in-active-development-and-it-is-going-to-be-great-new-details-surfaced/
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I liked this show a lot but I was mostly bored this season. Lots of static shots of swirly purple magic garbage all over the screen. I wonder if their budget was cut, or if they just didn't have enough for every fight, because it almost felt like they were trying to avoid animating stuff. How did anyone know what to do during the end fight there? allura spouts some destiny crap and magically sacrifices herself by uhhh... reverting the magic of Haggars mech which ughh... restores all the other realities for some reason? then they float off to hang out with some force ghosts I also only just remembered the evil entity she asorbed and we had a couple of episodes foreshadowing her becoming evil and 100% chance of Lance having to do the "I love you speech" to save her but I guess that got dropped. hemale in pain fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Dec 22, 2018 |
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Ending spoilers:hemale in pain posted:How did anyone know what to do during the end fight there? allura spouts some destiny crap and magically sacrifices herself by uhhh... reverting the magic of Haggars mech which ughh... restores all the other realities for some reason? then they float off to hang out with some force ghosts It's a thematic thing. All season Haggar's been the sort of anti-Voltron; she claims she wants her people to work with her and for them to together find the promised land, but she's just interested in using and discarding the Alteans she controls, justifying it by claiming their sacrifices are made for the greater good. Of course, it's not for the greater good, it's all about her supporting her selfish needs and healing her pain. She lost her family, and they're the only people who matter to her. (Basically, Voltron's all about teamwork, Haggar's all about exploitation). At the end of the show, Haggar's absorbed an insane amount of power, but she only has the knowledge of how to use quintessence to destroy. Thanks to her bond with Lotor, Alura knows how to use the quintessence to create life, but she doesn't have the power to do so. Allura voluntarily gives her knowledge and essence to Haggar, so that Haggar can restore the universe, in a process that kills them both. Haggar's allowed to be a mother again (she gives birth to universes) and honours her son's legacy in a way that prioritises the needs of others (the universes get to live!) over her own needs (Haggar dies!). Allura... I guess she saves her people by giving up her body and her life? It's not a terribly good ending for Allura tbh. They ascend / go to heaven / whatever, to suggest that even though they're dying they both getting what they truly want out of this. I don't love it, but I think it makes some sense.
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The part where the Alteans storm the bridge was maybe the dumbest moment of the whole show. Six unarmed morons break out of a cell and walk right onto the bridge and no one so much as even attempts to stop them.
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TheChirurgeon posted:The part where the Alteans storm the bridge was maybe the dumbest moment of the whole show. Six unarmed morons break out of a cell and walk right onto the bridge and no one so much as even attempts to stop them. They could punch through doors with their bare hands, I'd imagine they're not pushovers.
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TheChirurgeon posted:The part where the Alteans storm the bridge was maybe the dumbest moment of the whole show. Six unarmed morons break out of a cell and walk right onto the bridge and no one so much as even attempts to stop them. If Zethrid could punch her way onto the bridge alone then anyone could at that point.
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nine-gear crow posted:If Zethrid could punch her way onto the bridge alone then anyone could at that point. The Atlas really should have invested in like, a security team or something.
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Atlatron looked stupid. Fight me.
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I feel like they set up subplots but they were lost in favor of the mind stuff and the Gurran Lagan/Eva final battle. Like hey lets suggest a friendship (or more) between Veronica and Acxa, but then just forget it, like all the supporting cast. That stuff felt very unsatisfying.
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I dunno, they were pretty heavily trying to imply a relationship with Keith and Acxa, I thought, but then it sorta fizzled out.
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Fuzz posted:I dunno, they were pretty heavily trying to imply a relationship with Keith and Acxa, I thought, but then it sorta fizzled out. I'm sort of glad it didn't go anywhere. It's a little problematic if they send a message of "He saved her life, now he gets rewarded with her love."
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tribbledirigible posted:I'm sort of glad it didn't go anywhere. It's a little problematic if they send a message of "He saved her life, now he gets rewarded with her love." Yea, Veronica and Axca could bond over being very professional and deadly soldiers.
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Fuzz posted:Atlatron looked stupid. That level of ridiculous nonsense worked much better in Gurren Lagann when it wasn't being played serious Also I was wrong; the dumbest part of the show was when Voltron got drained of all its energy for the 18th time only for everyone to again realize that Voltron is really powered by friendship and then they suddenly got up again and did have the power Agreed that the "where did they all end up" section was cool and could have stood to be a little longer.
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I want a sequel with Pidge's Vehicle Voltron.
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My favorite parts were when it felt like Star Trek with all these humans and aliens chatting about cultural differences and Iverson's dog. Just give me a whole season like the camcorder episode and the Zethrid episode and I would have been pleased as punch.
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I would watch the hell out of a Galaxy Garrison office comedy type show, with huge inter-galactic conflicts happening incidentally in the background.
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That would rule. I liked that moment where Iverson and some other humans are in the gym, struggling with the exercise while Acxa is in the background casually lifting her own body weight with one hand.
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Some people are really mad about this season. I don't know much about animation but I feel like the level of editing they're suggesting for a four month time frame is utterly impossible.
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Pyrotoad posted:Some people are really mad about this season. uhh, dang. that sure is a thing.
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Ghostnuke posted:uhh, dang. that sure is a thing. Yeah  Like, I agree that Lotor got screwed by some slapdash writing and was made into a monster at the last second for no reason other than Plot, but wow...
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Best part is that they think crying to Dreamworks will somehow fix EVERYTHING wrong with the season, which is of course everything about it.
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Hey folks, sometimes you need to write a multipage screed about how you know that really, all the space-warriors should of hooked up the way you were hoping. And they would have, too, if not for those meddling executives and their dog!
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The thing that I find oddly amusing was that Lotor was monsterized on the word of one traumatized kid and we never actually saw the other quintessence vampire Altean colony first hand. So maybe the kid just got the details spectacularly wrong and Lotor rightly lost his poo poo over all his friends turning on him and trying to kill him over what was basically the universe's worst game of telephone tag ever. (I'm joking and do take the show at face value, I just think it's funny to interpret it that way.) tl;dr; gently caress Romelle's little poo poo brother. Justice for Lotor!
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nine-gear crow posted:The thing that I find oddly amusing was that Lotor was monsterized on the word of one traumatized kid and we never actually saw the other quintessence vampire Altean colony first hand. We do see the second colony, in an episode called "The Colony." Keith and Krolia are the ones that take Romelle there in the first place
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