Voltron Fans

I grew up on Voltron. Had all the toys. Love it to this day, even though the original did not age well.

When Netflix’s version came out, I loved it at first. It had such a great start, but the longer it went for me the worse it got. The final two seasons were a disaster for me. I felt all the characters were done a disservice in their development or lack there of. Their character paths ended up growing in ways that felt awkward and totally out of character. I mean…Lance Allura was cringe beyond cringe, and I love a good romance. The show would have been better served adhering to the classic Voltron allusions of Keith and Allura.

In the end I felt like SJW nonsense was getting injected into the show, and the entire story simply lost focus and sputtered out of control.

I could have gotten behind Lance and Allura if they hadn’t turned Lance into such a soyboy worshiping Allura, or at least that’s how I perceived their relationship. I know the intent was to have it be seen that Lance grounded her and gave her a taste of love and real life, but for me it did not succeed in doing that. To use your terminology, it felt rushed at the end and tacked on without much more thought to it.

The same with suddenly after 6 seasons of backstory and character development…Shiro is suddenly gay at the start of season 7? Huh? I mean, if it was always part of the plan to make Shiro gay, why not introduce that fact right away in season 1? There was plenty of opportunity when he returns to Earth right at the start. To me, this was a massive virtue signal by the writer’s room, and it was a disservice to Shiro and in creating characters who are homosexual. If you are planning on doing it, then do it right and don’t obviously shoe horn it in at the last minute. As long as any character development is organic, I will never complain, but this felt artificial.

im on the Voltron 1980 side of the fence the fandom for the 2016 version was ok at first but the fandom screeched about a gay ship/pairing I think I stopped watching Voltron when the whole thing involving queer baiting went down

I bought the GoLion dvd sets that came out around 2008. It’s interesting to see how much of that show was edited to make Voltron.

I didn’t grow up with Voltron, but I knew it existed before the Netflix show, which I found the year before it finished.

I liked the first three seasons, but the rest are just…bad.

I loved the Galra, especially Sendak, and wished he had a bigger role.

Hated Lotor and Keith, would’ve preferred full on evil Lotor. Keith just reminded me of a less interesting Sasuke Uchiha.

The show couldn’t seem to decided if it was a show about Keith or found family, because Keith seemed to get way more screen time while at the same time doing nothing.

So I really like the world of the show, the humour and the Galra characters, don’t care much for the rest tbh.

Agenda took over after season 3, and it suffered for it. Seasons 1-3 were good story telling with great action alongside fun humor.

Then agenda started creeping in, and they lost track of the good story and started doing a disservice to the characters. A coming of age growth to leadership was Kieth’s tale, and they screwed it all up the moment they pulled him away from the team. Shiro should have stayed dead, because it would have been more impactful. Pidge was turned into an a-sexual alphabet person for no reason. Once it was revealed she was a she, altering her appearance out of looking like a dude would have been better story telling. All I saw was appeasement. Hunk ended up with no real growth or story. Lance became a cuck and a simp. Allura became a dumb bitch totally full of her idealism.

Trying to make Lotor “sympathetic” was also a bad move. Traditional evil to the bone Lotor who lusted and obsessed over Allura would have been better. A real antagonist. All the “quintessence” warps the mind shit with Hagar was just…dumb. Then her motivation to wipe everything out because she feels bitter and betrayed by her own life choices….bleh.

Yeah, I completely agree.

I love Shiro to bits, but he should’ve stayed dead for the sake of the story.