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chuckroLotor’s schemes come to a head, several mysteries are revealed, and Voltron defends the universe a whole bunch.
A bunch of things theorized much earlier turned out to be accurate: Shiro has been a clone controlled by Hagar since he reappeared in Season 3. Lotor’s three comet ships did, in fact, transform into evil Voltron for a nice final battle.
The life-draining experiments on his captive colony of Alteans was a clever twist, because A) It gave Keith’s odyssey an appropriately epic goal, B) It revises the death of Altea so that two main characters aren’t responsible for trying to recover a species, C) It makes sure that we know, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that Lotor is not a good guy. Despite his charisma, despite his nominally good ideas, he’s far too willing to sacrifice people in his lust for power.
There are still some hanging threads (Lotor’s generals were just kinda discarded, Haggar vanishes, none of the romantic ships pay off, and I think there are a bunch of supporting cast characters from earlier seasons that didn’t recur—particularly Sendak as a villain) but overall this plays like series finale. The Castle is destroyed and the gang is headed back to Earth—if they wanted to make a Vehicle Voltron sequel series (or just stop) this is a fine place to do it. Apparently they have another 26 episodes on the original order, though, so there may be as many as four more seasons.
And yes, I loved the D&D pastiche episode.
Overall: This wrapped up a lot of the plots that having been running since Season 3 and feels a lot like an “ending”. I wonder where they’re going to take the remaining season(s).
A bunch of things theorized much earlier turned out to be accurate: Shiro has been a clone controlled by Hagar since he reappeared in Season 3. Lotor’s three comet ships did, in fact, transform into evil Voltron for a nice final battle.
The life-draining experiments on his captive colony of Alteans was a clever twist, because A) It gave Keith’s odyssey an appropriately epic goal, B) It revises the death of Altea so that two main characters aren’t responsible for trying to recover a species, C) It makes sure that we know, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that Lotor is not a good guy. Despite his charisma, despite his nominally good ideas, he’s far too willing to sacrifice people in his lust for power.
There are still some hanging threads (Lotor’s generals were just kinda discarded, Haggar vanishes, none of the romantic ships pay off, and I think there are a bunch of supporting cast characters from earlier seasons that didn’t recur—particularly Sendak as a villain) but overall this plays like series finale. The Castle is destroyed and the gang is headed back to Earth—if they wanted to make a Vehicle Voltron sequel series (or just stop) this is a fine place to do it. Apparently they have another 26 episodes on the original order, though, so there may be as many as four more seasons.
And yes, I loved the D&D pastiche episode.
Overall: This wrapped up a lot of the plots that having been running since Season 3 and feels a lot like an “ending”. I wonder where they’re going to take the remaining season(s).
