Netflix's Voltron: Legendary Defender

Unless there's a legitimate source for this, I'm not buying it.

There is.

http://lightoflunaris.tumblr.com/post/161090372806/i-saw-this-from-a-twitter-source-regarding-the

If this is what derails the show, well...damn.

I doubt it, in all honesty. Feels like doomsaying for the sake of it unless we have legitimately serious news.

If Studio Mir is publicly firing people and begging to have the information removed, it's serious.

Depends on who they're firing, it's not like Dreamworks are severing relations with them permanently. This'll probably just lead to them tightening their security.

edited 26th May '17 1:09:13 PM by AdricDePsycho

It would be a tremendous shame if Mir got fired from doing the animation. Because they are terrific. And it shows Korean animation can give Japanese animation a run for their money!

Apparently this is related to a fan taking a tour of the studio and posting photos of it, which included character sheets for Lotor and other such plot-relevant information under. And from what I know of the video game industry NDAs are taken extremely seriously to the point making a fangame can literally ruin your life.

...

wow.

I'm not entirely sure what I just read but it made me upset anyway.

The person wasn't a Klance shipper, they were just pretending to be to troll Mir, and can we not import fandom drama, for the upteenth time?

edited 27th May '17 11:10:17 AM by AdricDePsycho

Ok that's sheer drama importation now. I know neither I or Adric are mods, but this will get the thread locked. So stop now PLEASE.

Pidge is a wonderful character.

Pidge is so awesome.

I'm not gonna lie, my reaction to Pidge was hilarious.

My first reaction to Pidge was 'Oh, hey, obligatory little girl of the team, they really are going full anime' and I was surprised when they used 'He' then I was just so very goddamn confused when he was really she because I was right all along but thought I was wrong.

You had the same reaction as Coran?

No, I...

God damn it, I did, didn't I?

@Anubis

We are not importing drama here and everyone else wants to move on.

Pidge is the best character, by the way.

I still can't get over how brilliant the subversion in her Season 2 focus episode is. Almost every show that has a nerd character who hates being outside in nature inevitably has an episode where that character is forced to be in a forest or jungle in a 'nature vs science' conflict and it always ends the same way: nerd learns to appreciate nature more, despite still liking science as separate from it.

Legendary Defender flipping that cliche storyline on its head and making the nerd learn that nature is science and having them learn how to use science to harness nature is such a brilliant and simple feat of writing, that it shocks me that this is the first show I've seen to do it.

edited 28th May '17 6:54:09 AM by PushoverMediaCritic

So uh, did anyone else notice the shoulder cannon never works at all in season 2? Like, literally every time it's fired, the resident Robeast either gives it the No-Sell or reflects it back at them?

Okay, I've just binge-watched the series, and am now spoiler-resistant. Has the Galra soldier from "Belly of the Weblum" been discussed? Specifically, how much their armor resembles Prince Lotor's?

I think we did for a bit? Anyway their armor isn't exactly the same as Lotor's, so it's not necessarily evidence that they're the same person unless the studio decided to change designs midway. Could be they're from the same organization as Lotor. Perhaps he and his followers wanted to usurp Zarkon or represent a more extremist, perhaps anti-druid wing.

It's unlikely that they're Keith's mother as some people speculated though because she would've been a member of the Blade of Marmora, unless she decided to infiltrate Lotor's soldiers in the same way Thace did.

Usually I'm against learning about characters' mysterious parents because they're almost always improbably important, which carries the implication that their progeny is special because they inherited their awesomeness, and not because they earned it.

In this instance, though, I actually am very interested in whom Keith's mom is. Is she a member of the Blade of Marmora? Was she a member of the Blade, before dying? Is/was she Marmora? What/who is Marmora, and what does it mean?