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Okay, Kolivan must be sitting on a chair here or something, because there is NO UNIVERSE in which he and Keith are that close in height!

Compare that to this shot of their videocall from a later episode:

Kolivan's bicep is like the same width as Keith's entire torso, too. Dear god...

#dude kolivan's like 7ft tall too #maybe keith's standing on top of a box...#otherwise the only part of keith that *should* be visible here is the little sprout hairs on top of his head #stupid blade of marmora #keith kogane #kolivan #voltron #vld #fave screenshots #voltron commentary

I found this video from Clownfish TV talking about tumblr and shipping. The first thing they talk about in detail is Voltron and its season 8 scores on Rotten Tomatoes.

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I do not want to start discourse, but I want to look at season 7 from a writer’s perspective. I am not saying that it is bad writing. I am just critiquing it. I quite enjoy the writing on Voltron :) it’s brought us all together, so thank you cast and crew.

Coming into this season was always going to be difficult after the emotional highs of s5 and s6. S5 left with Keith reuniting with Krolia and Allura connecting with Lotor. Then, of course, S6 was incredibly intense emotionally with Allura and Lotor’s kiss, the revelation of Lotor’s betrayal, Keith fighting for Shiro’s life, Shiro dying (Shiro dying), and finally the battle against Lotor in the Sincline ship. Each of these plot points were extremely personal for the Paladins.

They started off alright by showing Shiro and Keith’s relationship at the Garrison, which filled in some gaps from the Black Paladins episode. New revelations were revealed about the characters--Keith’s firecracker attitude to Shiro’s health to Shiro’s sexuality. All emotional for the characters.

Then came the siege on Earth--particularly the Last Stand episodes. So far, the other episodes focused on our main characters, but these were some of the first episodes of the series not to feature the paladins in the main plot. Not even in the b plot. So, at least for me, these episodes felt distant, like I wasn’t watching the Voltron I knew. When the Team finally joins with the people from Earth, the Ares crew and the commanders are still heavily featured (I really like the Ares crew! They are all unique!), however, that takes away screen time from the Paladins’ relationships between themselves and their families. There also was not a lot of screen time about the Paladins’ time on Earth. Fortunately, we got to see Hunk’s connection with his family (FINALLY HUNK DEVELOPMENT), but it would have made for a stronger connection to Earth had we seen it through the others’ perspectives (I would’ve liked to see Lance’s perspective) (I would’ve also liked to see one normal fun--beach?--episode on Earth with the Paladins and Allura before the Galra invaded). Unfortunately, the focus on the new characters and the other pilots makes the battle for Earth feel less personal. Voltron doesn’t even lead the fight until much later in the season, unlike many of the episodes previously.

This battle over Earth was always going to happen, and it has been set up since season 1 that Sendak was going to be the one to invade Earth. But for the most part, the Paladins didn’t fight with him. Not one on one. Until Shiro finally faced him. I would’ve liked to see Shiro overcome Sendak, or at least have more of the team face him like in the first season. They each had personal beef with him.

Sure, the battle for Earth is personal (I live here!), but it did not feel as emotional as some of the other seasons where each of the paladins faced personal conflicts. This battle was always going to happen regardless, it just could have been more.