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chuckroHonerva plan to do something terrible to the fabric of the universe must be stopped, and the Paladins of Voltron (and crew of the IGF Atlas) are just the defenders to do it!
I found it interesting to start with an episode that has no action, just a callback gag to the original series (which is apparently an in-universe TV show based on real events) and Lance and Allura finally getting pushed together by the combined efforts of the rest of the cast. Then an episode that’s all Haggar’s backstory, filling in some gaps and finally settling exactly when Lotor was born. Then we finally see Voltron and the Atlas in action together…very briefly, and then they split up again.
Though I appreciate their efforts to tie up every loose end and recurring villain, I think some of the routine does get old after a while. The Paladins have gotten through their major character arcs—at this point, we’re mostly exploring the lives of minor characters. Places we vaguely remember from four seasons ago get brought back just long enough to be destroyed to show off how terrible the latest villain is.
The quintessence-field dark entity got kind of forgotten in the last couple of episodes—clearly Honerva still uses it to eavesdrop on Allura and disable her early on when she’s creating the rift, but then its presence stops mattering. Allura does remember to use the “good” alchemy methods to save the day in the end, but that felt like a plot hole.
I was also slightly irked that the denouement gave Lance Altean face markings (that glow) but no explanation as to why. I did appreciate Shay’s shout-out for bringing all the Balmeras to bear, and I’m pretty sure she’s on Hunk’s cooking crew at the end.
(The fact that less than a day after this season dropped, Tumblr was afire with bitching that Shiro and Keith don't get together-- which they were never going to, come on-- and therefore the show was forevermore terrible actually put me off watching it for a bit. When I finally saw the finale and learned that the show ends on a goddamn gay kiss and people were upset because it wasn’t the right gay kiss for their particular preference…well, screw them. They ruin things for the rest of us.)
Overall: The show has gotten tired, and I’m to the point where I’m not terribly sad that it’s done. The emotional beats don’t really resonate at this point because they’ve all been done before. Voltron vs. the Sincline held more emotional resonance and sense of completion than Voltron-Atlas vs. Sincline-Honerva, which just felt overblown. I loved that they made this show, both on its own merits and for the nostalgia value, but now the universe can be at peace again.
I found it interesting to start with an episode that has no action, just a callback gag to the original series (which is apparently an in-universe TV show based on real events) and Lance and Allura finally getting pushed together by the combined efforts of the rest of the cast. Then an episode that’s all Haggar’s backstory, filling in some gaps and finally settling exactly when Lotor was born. Then we finally see Voltron and the Atlas in action together…very briefly, and then they split up again.
Though I appreciate their efforts to tie up every loose end and recurring villain, I think some of the routine does get old after a while. The Paladins have gotten through their major character arcs—at this point, we’re mostly exploring the lives of minor characters. Places we vaguely remember from four seasons ago get brought back just long enough to be destroyed to show off how terrible the latest villain is.
The quintessence-field dark entity got kind of forgotten in the last couple of episodes—clearly Honerva still uses it to eavesdrop on Allura and disable her early on when she’s creating the rift, but then its presence stops mattering. Allura does remember to use the “good” alchemy methods to save the day in the end, but that felt like a plot hole.
I was also slightly irked that the denouement gave Lance Altean face markings (that glow) but no explanation as to why. I did appreciate Shay’s shout-out for bringing all the Balmeras to bear, and I’m pretty sure she’s on Hunk’s cooking crew at the end.
(The fact that less than a day after this season dropped, Tumblr was afire with bitching that Shiro and Keith don't get together-- which they were never going to, come on-- and therefore the show was forevermore terrible actually put me off watching it for a bit. When I finally saw the finale and learned that the show ends on a goddamn gay kiss and people were upset because it wasn’t the right gay kiss for their particular preference…well, screw them. They ruin things for the rest of us.)
Overall: The show has gotten tired, and I’m to the point where I’m not terribly sad that it’s done. The emotional beats don’t really resonate at this point because they’ve all been done before. Voltron vs. the Sincline held more emotional resonance and sense of completion than Voltron-Atlas vs. Sincline-Honerva, which just felt overblown. I loved that they made this show, both on its own merits and for the nostalgia value, but now the universe can be at peace again.
