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cockybusiness · 3 years
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Space Uncle! Shiro feat. Keith’s children (and Keith!)
(themes: implied komelle, divorced! Shiro, post s8 compliant)
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khayart · 4 years
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Mah theory/parallels about end of Voltron
warning: this has klance, but not just klance, it has some cool curiosities, if you don't want to read about klance, you can stop at "Here klance starts", and I'm not an animation expert or anything, just a fangirl shipper sad that he didn't get over a show that ended almost 2 years ago and that he noticed some things, and yes, i use traductor, so, sorry for the bad english.
Okay, I didn't see any blogs talking about it, so I decided to write. At this point I think that almost everyone already knows the theory / parallel between Allura and Bob about their silhouettes in the stars.
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and that led to the theory that Allura didn’t die, but became someone as omnipotent as Bob (this isn’t a theory of mine, but someone else I don’t remember where I read it, sorry, if anyone knows where I got it, please leave us comments). My theory is based on this and parallels between this episode and the end of the show.
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First we have the vote from Allura to Pidge, Pidge integrates teludav (which is an Altean technology) with Earth technology, thus continuing what Alfor and Allura built.
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Pidge's vote for Hunk, who in the end becomes a diplomat who "brings everyone together in the universe".
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Hunk's vote for Allura, who became a leader (says Coran).
Part 2 // Part 3 // Part 4
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stephstaub · 5 years
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“Lance.. I’m okay.” Lance is just worried about his boyfriend
That fight would’ve left them exhausted  since there was low oxygen levels on that planet.
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zuspacey · 5 years
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and then there were none (who stood up for him)
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peachypidge · 4 years
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I miss Voltron so much! :’(
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lemongogo · 5 years
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ANYWAYS... allura’s off rebuilding the universe as altea’s new queen :3c
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khgne · 5 years
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voltron s8
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average-trickster · 6 years
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Feels like a goodbye
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gendice · 5 years
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If anyone should’ve died it should have been the Voltron writers’ careers. 
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violethowler · 4 years
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A VLD Production Timeline
A common view I often see expressed in the Voltron: Legendary Defender fandom is that the production of the series was rushed. This stems from the fact that the entire series was released on Netflix within two and a half years, with as little as 2 months passing between new seasons dropping on Netflix. In debates among the fandom regarding the legitimacy of the final season being the showrunners’ true endgame, this timetable has been used to argue that the season couldn’t have been edited in such a short period and was therefore the creative team’s plan all along. I would like to address this point, but in order to do that, I first need to correct some common misconceptions about the pace of VLD’s production. 
What a lot of people may not realize is that an animated TV episode is produced up to a year or more before the audience ever sees it on their screens. Netflix broke up the seasons the way they did in order to get audiences “more Voltron more often, so we don’t have to wait so long between each drop[1],” but this doesn’t mean that the episodes were being made in an equally short time-span.
While Netflix chose to release Voltron episodes over the course of two years, production began between April and June of 2014[2][3], and by the time Season 1 dropped on June 10, 2016 production had been completed up to at least Season 4[4]. 
On average, the production of an animated series is typically 1-3 years ahead of the episodes that are broadcast. 
For example, work on Star Wars: The Clone Wars in 2005[5], but the first episode of Season 1 did not air on Cartoon Network until 2008.
The DuckTales reboot premiered in 2017 but production started back in 2015[6]. 
The development of an animated show is generally broken up into three stages
Pre-Production: Scripts are written and finalized. Character and layout designs completed. Storyboards made for each episode to plan out shots. 
Production: Episodes are voice acted and then animated once voicing is finished.
Post-Production: Music and sound effects added. Individual scenes stitched together into a complete episode. Color correction done as needed. 
Due to the different tasks involved there is a great deal of overlap where different episodes or even seasons are being worked on in different stages of the process at the same time. For example, at the same time that the Legend of Korra was doing post-production for Season 2, production of Season 3 was already underway and Season 4 was entering pre-production at the same time[7]. The production of Star Wars: The Clone Wars followed a similar pattern, with pre-production of what would have been Seasons 7 and 8 being underway while Season 6 was being animated at the time of the show’s initial cancellation. Here’s a chart to help visualize what the process generally looks like: 
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[A huge thank you to @CrystalRebellion for putting this chart together] 
Another thing that some fans may not be aware of is that there is a difference between a broadcast season and a production season. Episodes of an animated show are produced in batches that do not always correspond to how they are presented to the audience. For example, episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars were produced in batches of 25-26, but the first four seasons to air on Cartoon Network were only 22 episodes each. In every season there were an average of 3 episodes that had been created as part of a separate batch[8]:
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Voltron: Legendary Defender was contracted with Netflix for a total of 78 episodes. Though they were released as 8 seasons (6 13-episode arcs), they were produced in batches of 26. Seasons 1-2 on Netflix are considered Production Season 1. Seasons 3-6 are Production Season 2. And Seasons 7-8 are Production Season 3. This fits with the voice actors for the MFE pilots - who were introduced in Season 7 - mentioning in an interview with Let’s Voltron podcast that the lines they recorded for their characters were supposed to be for the third season[9]. 
At some point during the production of Seasons 7-8, changes were ordered to the season that resulted in more work for the animators, resulting in the creation of S7E04 The Feud as a filler episode with limited animation to give the animation team a break. As a byproduct of this, some episodes ended up being moved around from the order they were originally intended[10]. 
So with all of this in mind, the timeline of VLD’s production looks roughly like this: 
2014
Writing begins for Production Season 1 (Netflix Seasons 1-2) between April and June
2015
Writing for Production Season 1 (Netflix Seasons 1-2) finished
Animation for Production Season 1 (Netflix Seasons 1-2) begins
Writing for Production Season 2 (Netflix Seasons 3-6) begins
2016
Animation for Production Season 1 (Netflix Seasons 1-2) finished
Writing for Production Season 2 (Netflix Seasons 3-6) finished
13 episodes of Production Season 1 released on Netflix in June as “Season 1” 
Animation for Production Season 2 (Netflix Seasons 3-6) begins
Writing for Production Season 3 (Netflix Seasons 7-8) begins
2017
13 episodes of Production Season 1 released on Netflix in January as “Season 2” 
Animation for Production Season 2 (Netflix Seasons 3-6) finished
Writing for Production Season 3 (Netflix Seasons 7-8) finished
Animation for Production Season 3 (Netflix Seasons 7-8) begins
7 episodes of Production Season 2 released on Netflix in August as “Season 3”
6 episodes of Production Season 2 released on Netflix in October as “Season 4”
Animation for first half of Production Season 3 (Netflix Season 7) finished
Changes ordered to first half of Production Season 3 (Netflix Season 7)
2018
6 episodes of Production Season 2 released on Netflix in March as “Season 5” 
7 episodes of Production Season 2 released on Netflix in June as “Season 6”
Changes to first half of Production Season 3 (Netflix Season 7) finished
Animation for second half of Production Season 3 (Netflix Season 8) finished
Kimberly Brooks and Jeremy Shada called back into the studio in July to record new dialogue
13 episodes of Production Season 3 released on Netflix in August as “Season 7”
The epilogue is created sometime in the fall
Screencaps of the epilogue are leaked on the internet in October
13 episodes of Production Season 3 released on Netflix in December as “Season 8” 
In June 2018, many of the show’s writers announced their departure from the production team. Because this occurred shortly after the last 7 episodes of the second production season were released on Netflix as Season 6, many assumed that this meant that the writers had no input on Seasons 7-8 and that this was the reason for the decline in the show’s writing quality. However this is observably false as the same writers who left are still credited in all episodes of the third production season. Most notably, Tim Hedrick is credited with S7E04 The Feud, one of the last episodes of Season 7 to be created. 
The changes that resulted in the creation of The Feud would have happened after the scripts for the final production season were already finalized. This means that once those new episodes were complete there was nothing left for the writers to do before the remaining episodes dropped on Netflix. That is when the writers left: after their role in the production process was officially over. Not right in the middle of it like so many assume. Their job was done, so there was no reason to stay. 
Critics of the #FreeVLDS8 campaign claim that those involved, particularly Team Purple Lion, are saying that the entire season was reanimated, which is incorrect. If that were the case, the animators at Studio Mir would not have been surprised at the season we got in December 2018. 
If you’re looking at this timeline and going “but there still wouldn’t be time for them to edit the season, you would be correct if you are only thinking in terms of new animation being created. Because if the editing of Season 8 was accomplished by new animation, there truly wouldn’t be enough time to make new animation for an entire season. And that’s because they didn’t. 
So if there was no new animation, how was the editing done?
Exhibit A:
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[Sorry for the glare from the ceiling lights in my bedroom.]
It was done by cropping the split screens. Taking out pieces of episodes. Using stock photos and static images to put characters in shots they weren’t originally there for. Dos Santos even mentioned cutting and pasting mouths from one character to another[11]. He claimed at the time that it was specifically for the epilogue, but that’s impossible because with the exception of Shiro’s kiss there was no movement in the epilogue whatsoever. (I refer you to @dragonofyang’s piece on NDAs[12] for more on how those early 2019 interviews were misleading). The only “new” animation as casual fans think of it would be places where one character is traced over another in a few key shots that had to be left in to meet the required runtime and ensure that the final season met the minimum number of episodes mandated by their contract with Netflix. 
It is because there was no time to re-animate the entire season that Season 8 had as many visual and audio mistakes as it did. Post-production of the season would have already been finished by late June/early July of 2018. All the showrunners could do in the time they had was cut, paste, rearrange, and trace over in order to make sure this Frankenstein version of the season had at least the semblance of a coherent plot. 
This is why supporters of FreeVLDS8 are so confident that an uncut version of Season 8 exists. Because production was already over when the editing happened, and it was done in such a way that the odds are in our favor that Mir and Dreamworks would have backup files of the original episodes archived on a computer somewhere.
Sources: 
[1] Comic-Con 2017: Voltron Legendary Defender Season 3 is Only 7 Episodes But…; July 20, 2017. https://www.ign.com/articles/2017/07/20/comic-con-2017-voltron-legendary-defender-season-3-is-only-7-episodes-but
[2] Creating Voltron: Legendary Defender; June 10, 2016. https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/creating-voltron-legendary-defender/
[3] Tweet by Joaquim Dos Santos; October 12, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20200723131054/https://twitter.com/JDS_247/status/1050905860728213506
[4] Voltron Season 4 Episodes 1 & 2 Review w/ Joaquim Dos Santos, Lauren Montgomery, & Jeremy Shada; October 16, 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80SejQPuS9E&feature=youtu.be
[5] “starwars.com at Comic-Con 2005”; July 12, 2005.  https://web.archive.org/web/20080323023414/http://www.starwars.com/community/event/con/f20050712/indexp5.html
[6] DuckTales Cast Not Returning For Reboot; May 15, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150526071332/http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/news/Ducktales-Cast-Not-Returning-for-Reboot/
[7] Tumblr post by Bryna Konietzko; July 13, 2013.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130822050636/http://bryankonietzko.tumblr.com/post/55788253484/to-give-you-a-sense-of-just-how-long-it-takes-to 
[8] List of Star Wars: The Clone Wars episodes - wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars:_The_Clone_Wars_episodes
[9] Let’s Voltron, Episode 180: “MFE Pilots Interview with Anna Graves, Zehra Fazal & AJ LoCascio”; May 27, 2019. https://letsvoltron.simplecast.com/episodes/mfe-pilots-interview-with-anna-graves-z
[10] Voltron Legendary Defender Interview - The Garfle Warfle Snick Spectacular; October 24, 2018. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcJmq0sNGN4
[11] “Voltron Full Series Review with Showrunners in Studio”. Afterbuzz TV; March 4, 2019 www.youtube.com/watch?v=om_t8A99WJo
[12] From the Sock Puppet’s Mouth; March 27, 2019. https://www.teampurplelion.com/from-the-sock-puppets-mouth/ 
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keriossoul · 5 years
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Can you belive that at the end of season 8 Lance wakes up next to his husband Keith and tells him all about this horrible nightmare he had where he was hetero and in love with their lesbian friend Allura? Wow, me neither. Great end tho
I wish
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crystal-rebellion · 5 years
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Interdimensional Executive Meddling: Voltron Style
The true story behind Season Eight has been in front of us since the beginning.  We just haven’t noticed it – because it was never said; it was shown.
The truth of who was behind everything that went wrong in Season Eight – as well as the cluttering of Season Seven is, in fact, one person’s fault. The Executive Producers lay the story out for us clear as day once we know where to look.
Remember this fellow? This is Bob, and I think you may hate him before this is over.
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Are you ready?
Here we go.
Bob was the host of the game show ‘Garfle Warfle Snick’ in Season Seven’s fourth episode, ‘The Feud’.
One thing that has been curious about Voltron: Legendary Defender, is the writing. Regardless of the current opinion of the Executive Producers, the show was very good for quite a while.  The writers showed an ability to write multi-layered plots and leave all hints of foreshadowing everywhere between parallel storylines, intersecting arcs, and a generous use of symbolism.
The Game Show episode is no different.
‘But Crystal, that was just filler.’
All of the filler episodes have been meaningful. We have been told from the beginning that there are no wasted frames.  With only two years to release eight seasons, the VLD team has never been able to afford meaningless filler.  Yet comedic breaks are necessary to break up a heavy narrative and retain viewer engagement.  So how can they do both?
The ‘filler’ and ‘whimsical’ episodes are actually extremely plot-heavy.  Season Six’s Episode Three ‘Monsters and Mana’ demonstrated this flawlessly – laying the plot ahead out very clearly under the guise of the Paladins playing a game to relax.
The Game Show is no different, and no less heavily burdened with hints.  However, the details of what precisely it is foreshadowing – or telling, are a little harder to see when you only think of the plotline.
I propose that ‘The Feud’ is actually a meta commentary from the writers on precisely what was going on behind the scenes - that is, during the tumultuous production of Voltron: Legendary Defender. They are telling us the full story the only way they can through their NDA gags – through the very show itself.
Hear me out.  
Let’s look at a brief summary of the episode before we settle comfortably in the weeds.
The episode starts out with a game show-like opening, and the Paladins being openly confused about where they are, or how they came to be there.  The show’s host, Bob, explains they are there to play. When Keith makes a challenging comment about just leaving, Bob replies in no uncertain terms that they are “on [his] show and going to play as long as [he] wants” all while chaining the Paladins to the floor so that they cannot physically leave.
The show proceeds as Keith is chosen as the first contestant for the first round.  He is gagged with a pacifier, and forced to draw based on prompts the host gives him, and his teammates must guess what the drawing is.  On the last one, they fail, and Bob announces that the opposing team may be able to steal, drawing questions from the Paladins - there had been no opposing team...
Until the cardboard cutouts of Zarkon, Haggar, Lotor and Morvok appear and spring to life.  The game goes on with the Paladins competing against the Galra team, only for the Paladins to win and the Galra to lose, forcing them off the show. The Paladins are to continue competing until one challenge remains: to vote which of the five may leave the show while the others remain behind.
The Paladins all vote for one another, and Bob comments that he finds it curious that no one voted for themselves. They all give different reasons for their choices.  In the end, Bob releases them all, saying they won. The Paladins wake up in their lions in deep space and collectively realize they all had the same dream. Coran recognizes the name Bob, and explains “I’ve never met him myself but I’ve heard tales. He’s an all-powerful, all-knowing, interdimensional being who judges the worthiness of great warriors. The legends say that if you meet Bob and live to tell the tale, you’re destined for great things indeed.” The episode ends when they sit in stunned silence before Keith mutters “That guy was kind of a jerk, though, right?” To which Allura replies “Completely,” and Lance follows up with “I’m not that dumb!”
Thinking in the context of the game show representing the real world, the Paladins can comfortably represent the cast and crew driving the show, and we can cast Bob as the metaphor for the person high in the executive chain that is pulling all the strings, changing the rules, and forcing the Paladins to do exactly what he wants - whether they like it or not.
Let’s break it down.
Right out of the gate, the Paladins are confused to meet Bob - they never expected to encounter this kind of resistance.  He explains that they’re on a show and the stake is their freedom; if they lose, they’ll be trapped with him for eternity.  When they insist that they have work to do, he denies that and promptly secures their feet to the floor with a cheerful laugh. Keith presses him and threatens to leave: “I don’t know who you are or what’s going on, but we’re getting out of here.”  The lighting, atmosphere and mood alter sinisterly, and Bob delivers a very dangerous threat:
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Bob is explaining in no uncertain terms that the show is his - he is both the host and the owner, and the production staff of VLD are only allowed to play with the characters for as long as he sees fit.
Immediately after, it shifts starkly back to normal, and he’s quick to move into the first round, where Keith, the one who had been protesting with increasing aggression and determination, is promptly gagged and forced to design at Bob’s direction, leaving the teammates to try and keep up.  
Lance, too, takes a substantial bit of the spotlight in this episode, being the one chosen to handle a round himself, courtesy of Zarkon referring to him as ‘the dumb one.’
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Lance faces off against the gameshow host.  In his first challenge, Bob makes it a point to cheat at the very last second, the face switching from someone Lance does recognize to someone he doesn’t.  He nearly fails the round entirely, and Bob even makes a curious comment.
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Despite his best efforts, trying his hardest to win the round and protect his teammates, Lance is continuously shot down and berated by Bob.  He does manage the very last one, securing a small victory for his team. I speculate that while the Paladins represent the whole of the production staff, Lance (and Keith as well) may represent Joaquim Dos Santos himself.  Dos Santos has mentioned that he sees parts of both Lance and Keith in himself*.  Lance takes on a leadership role in this episode, despite Keith being the technical Black Paladin at the time. In the end, Lance loses his second challenge, ending up in the Garflator.
Pidge then steps up to the plate to try and save him from the penalty for failing at a near-unwinnable challenge.  Ironically, after meditating on the mini-golf objective, Pidge launches herself at Bob directly in an attempt to break the rules and attack him, demanding that he “let [them] go, now!” Pidge has close association with two members of the production team; her Voice Actor and Lauren Montgomery.  When Dos Santos mentions that he relates to both Keith and Lance, Montgomery mentions that she relates to Pidge (and Keith) in the same manner.*  I propose that this is a nod to Lauren also attempting to fight against the control being exerted over their creative intention and will.
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In summary, the three most vocal and physically active in their resistance against the gameshow host are the three Paladins that the Showrunners have explicitly said they relate to:  For Dos Santos, that’s Keith and Lance; for Lauren, that’s Keith and Pidge.*
Other irregularities include the Galra, who are exclusively treated as flat characters. They even first appear as cardboard cutouts before they pop to life - literal props.
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While humorous, their personalities embody the quintessential characteristics that a misogynistic, rich and privileged man might have.  Zarkon is the (bizarrely) affectionate and doting husband. Haggar, the wife, is quite markedly silent - seen but not heard, demure at her husband’s side, even when openly hit on by the show host.     
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Lotor is the petulant and spoiled child, but even so, he still retains the hints of his trauma when he flinches away from both Haggar’s touch and Zarkon’s yells.  Morvok is the miscellaneous underling who sucks up unabashedly to the host - his only other appearance is in Season Two, Episode Six “The Ark of Taujeer” where he was quite the suck-up to Zarkon as well.  The fifth spot on their team is noticeably empty, and at the end of the round, they’re simply discarded.
Once the Paladins are free from the show and realize they’ve all had the same dream, Coran recognizes Bob’s name from lore and explains to the Paladins that he’s an “all-powerful, all-knowing, interdimensional being who judges the worthiness of great warriors.”  In a show that incorporates liberal use of alternate realities, tears in reality,  as well as existing between realities  - nowhere else do they make mention of ‘interdimensional’ travel.  Bob exists, as an entity, entirely outside the Voltron reality - all realities.  He’s from another plane completely, outside the Paladin’s universe.
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Lastly, just to drive this point home, if we unscramble the title of the Game Show and rotate some of the shapes slightly...
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It reads “World Events.”
It appears that Bob the “all-powerful, all-knowing, interdimensional being” is running a show that translates to “World Events”, where the production team members are gagged puppets, playing by his rules despite their protests and outright attempts to fight back, doesn’t it?  Perhaps if he’s interdimensional, the dimension he comes from is ours.  
And he just single-handedly meddled in your real show.
So what does this all mean about who was responsible?  I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions from this, but it might be time to look further into the owner of Voltron, past and present. WEP LLC (formerly World Events Productions), and its CEO Bob Koplar, just might have that answer.
*Interview referenced is June 25, 2018 with GeekDad World Events ciphering courtesy LeakingHate
Thank you @leakinghate @voltronisruiningmylife @dragonofyang
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littleaipom · 5 years
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I can’t believe they actually animated a plot for Lotor as a paladin in Season 8 but we never got to see it T^T wanted to draw a purple paladin for myself
Yes, someone forcibly re-edited the last season post-production to remove Lotor from it, among other things. Read all About It Here (LONG post, but the most undeniable evidence is presented toward the mid-end)
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everdeenwayland · 5 years
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but there’s something about us I wanna say, cause there something between us anyway. 
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freevlds8 · 5 years
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Was Season 8 of Voltron changed?
This masterpost gathers all the evidence indicating the technical weird aspects of Season 8, disregarding possible animation errors. It is not a post about theories of what happened or what’s the truth. By the end of this post, the goal is for you to form your own opinion.
The information gathered here was a collective work of many fans. If you know or found something relevant to this topic, please feel free to message us. We promise to respect the anonymity of those who give us more information. If by the end of this post, you believe something is wrong with Season 8, please consider signing this petition. Disclaimer: This blog condemns any hate towards the staff and creators of the show. Please channel your frustration to Dreamworks or Netflix.
Weird cuts and inconsistencies
Scenes from Episode 1 “Launch Date”
> First scene you have Keith, Lance, Allura. > Second scene you have Keith, Allura, Lance.
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Scenes from Episode 5 “The Grudge”
> Audio description saying Zethrid points the gun at Shiro. (click to see the video)
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> Audio description not acknowledging Ezor’s character. (click to see the video)
> Ezor is never acknowledged by other characters in these scenes.
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> Ezor in season is voiced by Kimberly
Ezor’s voice from season 8 compared to Allura’s voice pitched up (click to see the video)
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Ezor’s voice pitched down video (click to see the video)
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> Zethrid’s “Trust Me” recycled from season 7 (click to see the video)
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Scenes from Episode 8 “Clear Day”
> First scene you see the MFEs, Acxa, Veronica and “Curtis” in the background. > Immediately after, the next scene you have “Curtis” cheering for Shiro.
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Scene from Episode 13 “The End is the Beginning”
> An important part of Shiro’s body seems to be missing.
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"Curtis”
> Curtis’ name is only mentioned in subtitles
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> “Man”
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> "A brown hair guy” (click to see the video)
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Audio description of Curtis being called Adam (click to see the video)
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> “Atlas Crewmember”
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The NYCC 2018 Poster
Curtis is the only character in a stock image pose.
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The Wedding(s)
> First post related to the wedding is made by Ryu on September 13th.
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> First leak of the wedding happens 22nd October
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> Here’s a comparison of both weddings side by side: (Logos have been censored to prevent being taken down)
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Barlee aka Carli Squitieri, a storyboard revisionist
10th August
> Ezor is dead
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Credits of Episode 5 “The Grudge” (when Ezor shows up alive) with Barlee’s name on it
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> Shiro being confirmed gay
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11th August
> “They did what they could to patch it up”
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Taekwonsonen’s tweets, a key animator from Studio Mir who worked on Voltron
> Twitter thread can be found here
Translation:
“After talking with a fan who honestly liked the show to the end, I thought about whether VLD was really that terrible enough to be spat on, with cool head.
I’m an animator. Not every animator likes what they’re working on. Some don’t even recognize what they worked on. If an animation is like a house, then animator is the one who does bricklaying. You can be proud of having made this house, but this house belongs to the designer.
Still, as a brick layer who built a house called Voltron, I am so proud and thankful of the series. Maybe if I hadn’t known anyone who cried and laughed along with the series, I wouldn’t be, but I’ve met people who thanked me personally, for laying the bricks. So I love this “house”, even though it isn’t mine.
So, if you ask me, if this house’s finishing touch is feeble, weird, and ‘the worst thing that ever happened’, especially compared to the magnificent, beautiful start, then yes. I agree completely.
But that ‘finishing touch’ is not a little thing. To me, every single brick of the last season is very upsetting. Everything else is good. No, everything else is wonderfully compatible and done very well.
But one small brick has such a different color with everything else, it’s disrupting the whole thing. It’s pulling out every little errors, even the ones I hadn’t noticed before, out in the open. Once again, this is only my opinion.
TBH, if I start rewatching the series from s1 and pick out little bits I don’t like, of course there will be. It’s only that they were so well made, even the errors looked compatible. Actually, I enjoyed watching season 8 to the end. Everyone tried their best and I sent lots of loves and thankyous to the creators. I want to make something like that. I wanted to make something like this, not only as a brick layer but as a designer too. I love this series so much.
The last brick shocked me so much, but still, at that point, I was like ‘that’s disappointing... but without it, it’s ok. They should’ve left it with open ending.’
Then I started talking with other fans, the people who loved and adored Voltron, the one who had high expectation of it. And I started agreeing with the. Yes. They are right. And I still think they are right. Passionate fans didn’t anything that isn’t true.
But on the other hand, is it okay to spit so much like this on the designer who didn’t know this last piece was going to fit so wrongly with the whole series? Maybe. You do you.”
Season Release Date Delayed? Why?
> Information linked to this Voltron shirt
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Lauren Montgomery
> Hours before season 8 premiered, Lauren requests fans to stay through the credits after the final episode, which shown the lions flying to Allura in the sky
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> Lauren’s art for season 8
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> Lauren’s quote from a video posted on youtube The video was originally deleted, but here’s a record
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Quote from the video
“We knew where we wanted to head kind of early on, but then as things happened, and as shows progressed we started to realize that our visions were not the only visions going into this show. And where we thought we would end up was not always exactly how we were going to end up.
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End of Voltron without the epilogue cards
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peachypidge · 5 years
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What if Pidge didn’t tell the team she was a girl?
“Pidge, Pidge!” Lance screamed running as fast as he could around the castle
“What do you want?” Pidge said coming out of their room
“I need to talk to you”
“Oh, sure, what’s wrong?”
“I- I’m, I’M GAY!”
“Oh, Lance, we suppo-”
“No, no, I don’t think you get it, I’M GAY FOR YOU, PIDGE GUNDRSON!”
“Oh... I-“
“I- I love you”
“Lance... I think we need to talk.”
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