On this episode of Allura gets fucked over by the lion swap yet again!
Lance and Blue were supposedly the perfect pair...until Lance became a great and more serious leader and moved (read: upgraded) to the red lion. This suggests that a "great and serious leader" doesn't belong in the blue lion (which....what are y'all saying about Blaytz who was the leader of his planet?). But in the same handbook, it says that Allura "led the charge" against the galra empire. So is the implication that Allura somehow wasn't a good enough leader? Because that's really fucking shitty! The black woman has been removed from her leading position and demoted (yes! its a demotion! because lance moving out of the blue lion and becoming more of a leader is treated as a promotion!) to AT BEST third in command, behind two men who know less on the issues at hand than she does, and whom she previously commanded. I will never not be upset about this.
The black lion is "quite literally" the heart of voltron. You know who else is canonically described as the heart of voltron? PRINCESS ALLURA. So tell me why the fuck she's in a lion that doesn't reflect her position in the team???? And we know the lions have a co-piloting option that can be maintained while in voltron so why the fuck are Shiro and Allura, described in canon as the head of voltron and the heart of voltron respectively, not co-piloting the black lion???? That is obviously the most sensible route for this story to take and is what canon itself points to!!!!! Instead Allura is put in a lion that is treated as the worst of the bunch and Shiro is totally removed from the lineup. Make no mistake, both of them have been demoted for no fucking reason other than to prop up Keith. Fuck you voltron.