What if s3e4 was supposed to be foreshadowing of mind control?
So I know a lot of the major hype involving that episode was about the introduction of the alternate realities, giving us an episode with our lovely Sven, but something I don’t see talked about all that much here is the other half of that episode revolving around mind control.
The Paladins and Allura (who just recently in that season took up the mantle for the Paladin of the Blue Lion) cross over into the alternate reality where Altea was never destroyed, but rather, it was the Galra Empire that fell. While the episode carried on with Allura being awed over a reality where her people didn’t die and the Galra Empire was defeated, it all came to a shocking halt when it was revealed that the Alteans were capturing people of other planets and placing them under mind control.
All the Paladins took that as their cue to get the fuck out of dodge and took the item they had with them to close the reality, forcing the Alteans on the other side to never have access to expand their Empire.
Now, just in this past season, we caught further glimpses of Haggar controlling Shiro in a similar way that we saw in the season before how she was controlling Narti. Of course, hindsight is 20/20, and now I think that the point of the alternate reality episode was not for the main focal point to be the fact that alternate realities exist (unless there is a plan to bring that in later at some point, which seeing how it was mentioned twice afterwards, there may be a possibility other realities will come into play), but for the concept of mind control and how a race that had extreme control as an Empire, expanding technology and all, employed literal and physical mind control as a weapon.
Whether the Shiro we have now is a clone, droid, or really just our Shiro with his self being repressed, there is no doubt that Haggar is mind controlling him. As soon as he was recovered later in season 3, we immediately started to see slight behavioral and social changes in him, and also take in note that Shiro comes back THE VERY NEXT EPISODE AFTER THE AR ONE.
I am wondering if project Kuron might not exactly be clones per say, but rather the technological advancement of mass enslaving planets under this form of control like what was showed in the AR episode with Shiro being the test subject.