Season 1 dropped today, June 10th, 2016, and it seemed fitting to start delivering the official meta posts on the anniversary of the show's launch date.
🧭 This is our ✨ navigation ✨ post, so we will be updating this post with links to other posts as we progress.
Thank you for your patience.
On that note: Please see our Roadmap of Contents™ below.
Please note, this is still in development and is continuously being updated, so some posts may be renamed, shifted into different sections, etc.
Friendly reminder that this is all alleged, all for fun, and please treat the team with kindness and care as we navigate through the uncharted regions of Voltron: Legendary Defender, Season 8.
Compass Points || Introducing the Meta
Welcome to Uncharted Regions
Establishing the Ground Work
Production Lore
External / Influential Media
Glossary
✨ EDIT | April 7th, 2026: We're creating a new glossary so please hang tight!! A new version will be out soon ✨
Character Art File Book
Reference Appendix (Shows + Existing Metas)
Inbox Q&As from Tumblr
Uncharted Memes
Charted Territory || Breaking Down Season 8
Thematics
Source Material - Oriande’s Messages
The Feud + Tim’s Departure
Episode Breakdowns
S8E1 – Launch Date
S8E2 – Shadows
S8E3 – The Prisoner’s Dilemma
S8E4 – Battle Scars
S8E5 - The Grudge
S8E6 – Genesis
S8E7 – Day 47
S8E8 - Clear Day
S8E9&10 – Knights of Light
S8E11 – Uncharted Regions
S8E12 – Zenith
S8E13 – The End is the Beginning
Uncharted Regions || What's Missing?
Saving Lotor, Romelle, the Altean Colony
The Love Triangle™
Completing Lance’s Arc
Astral Plane / Time Rift Scenes
(Alleged) 60 Minute Finale
From Dusk Until Dawn: The Original Endings
X Marks the Plot || Conclusions
Wouldn’t You Like to Know, Weatherboy?
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Bonus Treasures
TBA
Our team thank you for your patience once again.
We're so excited to share what we've found with you. Hop in your lions, and join us on the Clear Day ride!
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Hello! I recently found your blog and have loved reading your insights into what may have happened to s8. I hope you don't mind me asking, but is this still an active project? I noticed your twitter and bsky both seem to have been deleted.
HELLO!
This is still an active project, don't worry!
We apologise for the delays. 🙇♀️ 2025 was a doozy of a year for everyone so now that we've reformed, we are actively working on it.
This was 2025 for us, lol.
To be honest, we also got some hate mail for even wanting to do this meta (which... come on now) but we also don't want to acknowledge it or let that drag down our efforts in the long term.
Our team needed the break, reality got in the way and it was a very hard year.
We have reformed the team after a longer haitus, and thus are now in the middle of getting the work done.
Our new years resolution is to get this meta posted and underway!
feel free to say I need my eyes checked or tell me if you commented on this before, but: s7 e2, The Road Home, the Red Lion’s interior is off in 2 different shots with Lance? At 17:12, the hologram console lighting is purple. It’s immediately followed by a scene with Lance targeting the cave entrance and the console looks properly red there, so I don’t think it’s the blue planet background; the colors are more consistent with interior shots of Red like at 6:35 and 14:44. Red’s lighting doesn’t seem as strongly consistent as like Yellow or Green, but it’s…straight up purple, for a second. It looks like the Black Lion
then, at 21:27, it’s blue. I don’t think there’s any other interior shots of Red in the cave either. We do see the Blue Lion’s lighting at 20:27, and Red’s lighting looks more in line with that
it’s only this episode I’ve noticed, maybe it’s in others too, but like no other lion console seems to go off-color this ep…makes me wonder if they cycled in some animations from the original version esp with the 17:12 scene (I added time stamps to hopefully reduce your hunt if you look 😔)
Very interesting… I definitely mentioned that this episode is edited because of the map here being inconsistent with their positions,
[21:19]
and the Black and Blue Lion randomly coming out together here even though they were in two separate tunnels:
[22:18]
But I don’t think I noticed any lighting change, so let’s have a look at the time stamps you’ve so graciously provided.
[17:12]
Ummmm yup. Those sure look purple…
Let’s compare it to the other timestamps you provided before we conclude anything:
[12:32] [14:44] [16:42]
All look consistently red.
Only the last screenshot is on the planet and when we compare them side by side….
Uhhhh yeah. Those are purple lightings. No doubt about it.
And here at 21:27
Yup. Those lights sure are blue. Lance also looks like he would in the early seasons, not like the style of season 7, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they took this shot from a scene in the earlier seasons (which we know they have a tendency to do when they edit episodes…) (edit: or this was very rushed because I see now that he is actually missing the turquoise bit of his collar)
While I’m here, let me also point out this frame again:
[Season 7, Episode 10: Heart of the Lion, 12:10]
I’ve argued before that Keith saying this here is odd since the Black Lion has saved his life multiple times, but he mentions the Red Lion instead. Well, combined with everything I said here and what we’ve found in this ask, I think this is further evidence for the fact that in the original cut of season 7, Keith was back in the Red Lion at this point. Because Lance was in the Black Lion. That’s why he mentions the red lion here, and not the Black Lion.
one part of the ship finds the blue lion and shows it to the other. one part of the ship stays behind and misses the partnership they had while the other leaves to go on missions for the blades of marmora to protect the other. the one staying behind dies.
now am i talking about klance or keith's dad and krolia.
There are days where I wonder why Voltron never got an official Art book with concept drawings, character designs, storyboards, writers notes ect. Like what Legend of Korra got with all 3 to 4 books. I’m sure there was so much amazing stuff that came out of production during development of the show at Studio Mir… It kinda makes me sad that nothing ever got released (maybe bc of fans or bc of dreamworks, who knows…)
Okay, so like.
There WAS an artbook planned.
It was called "Voltron: The Ultimate Visual History".
This was a thing that was happening at one point!
It was cancelled!
We reached out to the author back in the day, to ask him what had happened, and while he couldn't say much due to NDA, he did confirm that it had been cancelled at a time we believe lines up with the production of Season 7/8.
God, it's been so long, I'd have to look up all the information again.
Anyway, here's a screenshot of the Amazon product page for the cancelled book.
There are days where I wonder why Voltron never got an official Art book with concept drawings, character designs, storyboards, writers notes ect. Like what Legend of Korra got with all 3 to 4 books. I’m sure there was so much amazing stuff that came out of production during development of the show at Studio Mir… It kinda makes me sad that nothing ever got released (maybe bc of fans or bc of dreamworks, who knows…)
Any insight into why LM and JDS announced Shiro as gay at the SDCC 2018 Voltron panel when they already knew how S7 was going to play out (telling us we’ll “meet Shiro’s fiance Adam”)? Especially given all the excitement, praise and publicity they got in the following 3 weeks before S7 aired. If further executive mandated last-minute edits were made to the show after the SDCC announcement, I’d be impressed by just how little the execs knew their audience.
Well, this is only a theory of course… cause I wasn’t there… but I believe they announced Shiro as queer (they never actually say gay and I have my own reasons for why I don’t think Shiro is gay as in homosexual), because at that point the macross love triangle was still a part of season 8. They had most likely already finished the edits for season 7 (bringing Shiro back to life and removing Black Paladin Lance). Actually this is confirmed by the description of this video of the panel, in which they credit Joshua Hamilton as the story editor of VLD. That means at this point Tim had left the project and Joshua has been promoted to the story editor role to replace him. That confirms my timeline here. But they might not have received the order for s8 just yet… well Barlee here implies in this tweet that they announced Shiro’s sexuality before they got explicit permission to do so.
And so do JDS and LM in this interview, when they talk about how the positive reactions from the fans is what changed "their" minds about how explicit it could be (actually rewatching the interview, JDS says specifically that the edits to Shiro and Adam's story were not coming from Dreamworks executives, because it got so far down the line that it got storyboarded, but "other controlling parties" got involved that he doesn't name but he does say that Voltron is not DreamWorks owned property... so take that how you will)… and is what allowed them to include Shiro’s epilogue in the first place. So they were fighting harddddd to include that storyline specifically.
The purpose of queering Shiro was always to relate it back to Lance. That’s why they wanted to announce it in season 2, before his (original) death, because it was always going to play a part in Lance’s self-worth and love arcs, that I discuss here.
The date of this drawing says 11/8/16, meaning LM drew this no later than 8th November 2016 and she posted it on the following day on twitter, which is three months before season 2 dropped, in January 2017, confirming that they wanted to reveal his sexuality in season 2. They have not started production on season 7 or 8 here yet, but they have most likely started production on season 6 (originally called season 4), perhaps even wrapping up. But as I said here, this is around the time they got the order to keep Shiro alive, because they delay the release of season 2 by a couple of months, from late 2016 to January 2017. Most likely, they got the order to keep Shiro alive shortly after, which changed the story massively. This is in line with the edits I found for both season 5 and season 6.
As I said in Voltron is a Love Story (and several other places) Shiro is a more mature version of Lance. He is who Lance has to become in order to ascend to the Black Lion. That includes being comfortable with his own sexuality. And as Jeremy Shada (voice of Lance) says here in this interview, Lance still has some growth to do before he can do that (and that tells me they didn’t get the order to remove Black Paladin Lance yet, but it must have been very shortly after this interview… which confirms my timeline here). Well, at this point in the story (season 4&5), Lance is still hiding from his feelings for Keith, as I found here. Lance can’t ascend to the Black Lion before he accepts his feelings for Keith and stops hiding. And the thing is.. the acceleration of that arc happens towards the end of season 6 when Keith comes back to the team, as I found here. And as I found here and here, so was the culmination of Lance's Black Paladin arc.
So, Lance was meant to ascend to the Black Lion in season 7 (here I argue for why I think it was meant to be the very first episode of season 7) and he was supposed to confess his feelings for Keith in season 8 (in the original storyline). But then they had to change it when they were told to remove that arc. They reworked the original storyline with the macross love triangle and that’s why they added Lance confessing to the mice and Allura reacting to it in season 6 (as well as Keith seeing it in the quantum abyss…) to build up to the culmination of that arc in season 8, the only arc of Lance’s they had left. So, they reworked that into a bit of a more explicit reference than a more subtle through-line. That’s why they outed Shiro as queer in SDCC 2018. But as we saw, that was edited out too, in the end.
Any last minute changes ordered AFTER SDCC would have been purely for season 8. They would not have had enough time to edit season 7 well if they got the changes 3 weeks before release, and as I stated here, season 7 is much better edited than season 8. Well, JDS actually outs himself in this interview, saying that they "had a month left when reactions to season 7 came through and that was day of the drop", suggesting not only a much earlier release for season 8 than December (since Season 7 was released in August, and having a month left suggests an October release for Season 8...), but also confirms that they made some changes to season 8 that they hadn't included before... which they only admit to be Shiro's epilogue... but we know it's not everything...
The thing is, it wasn’t the Dreamworks executives. It was the IP holders. JDS also says in that interview that the show was made for young boys to sell toys and the core audience that the show built after release was very different from their intended audience. Well, he says this kind of in relation to talking about “other controlling parties” again… so you can take that how you want. I take it like this. It wasn’t that the Dreamworks or show executives didn’t know. It’s that the IP holder executives wanted to maintain the intended audience, because they wanted to sell more merchandise.
In honour of Princess Allura (also because we just posted about her the other day) take a look at this zine and give the artists some well deserved love! 🩷
Hi! Congrats to all of you on releasing the glossary!! 've loved all you guys' metas, they've made me so much more interested in symbolism and subtext in visual media especially!!! That being said I wanted to ask about whether you guys think that Allura's death was always planned for the end of the series and what possible endings there might've been instead?
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Hii! Thank you so much for this message and thank you for your support.
Was Allura's Death Always the Plan?
There is official word and it does confirm Allura’s death was indeed planned. According to co-showrunner Lauren Montgomery, Allura’s death was chosen deliberately from a feminist standpoint. She cited a desire to invert the trope where “The man always gets to be the hero,” referencing Armageddon as a specific example.
Afterbuzz TV, Season 8 Review with the Showrunners (Transcript) | Feb 25, 2019
“If basically Keith had gone like, ‘I’ll do it,’ and then, you know, Allura had to stand on the sidelines and say, ‘Good thing Keith saved the day! I’m happy!’ — like no. I want my women to be able to save the day too… If people want to interpret that as sexist, then that’s fine. But we’re just going to have to agree to disagree."
She also clarified that Allura's power level made her the only character for whom the sacrifice made narrative sense.
“If it had to come down to any one person, she’s the only one powerful enough — and we’ve sort of, through, you know, being a life-giver.”
That said, the writers’ room also explored alternate outcomes. An earlier pitch involved the entire team disappearing, not dying in a literal sense, but vanishing together, allowing for the possibility of return open ended. That version was rejected for being too bleak.
There was even a draft where the team would sacrifice themselves together, removing Voltron from the equation as a whole. But ultimately, Allura’s solo act was chosen for its emotional weight and symbolic finality.
Her arc closely aligns with the Heroine’s Journey (as outlined in the glossary): a pattern that often ends not with triumph, but with transcendence through loss. Survival, in that context, isn’t always the goal. Impact against all odds is, even if it comes at the cost of her life.
In the series, Allura doesn’t die from failure; she dies completing the very thing she’s always embodied: restoration. She doesn’t destroy, she heals. She restores balance, brings back Altea & Daibazaal, connects realities back together, and becomes a cosmic goddess.
Yet for many fans, it still hurts.
Because while Allura’s death is framed as noble and necessary, it also echoes familiar tropes: the emotionally burdened woman who carries the team’s grief, restores the balance, and then disappears. And for many viewers, especially fans of colour, this pattern takes on an even deeper resonance.
From a structural lens, her ending is beautiful: bathed in white-gold light, serene, and ultimately profound in its own right.
It visually and symbolically echoes her roots: Oriande, the White Lion, and the symbolic realm of her original Altea.
She ascends back to her time of old, making way for the new.
Importantly, Allura does receive:
A final scene with the team.
A dinner epilogue, where her memory is honoured.
A legacy that continues through the team’s peace, through the quiet equilibrium she valiantly restored.
She’s granted peace and honoured through memorial.
And crucially, she does get to say goodbye (except to Coran, which we will touch on in the meta briefly). She speaks with each Paladin individually — hugging them, thanking them, says a concise message for all of them. She departs on her own terms.
There’s no room left for her to imagine a future, only to bless one for others. Her softness to their dire circumstances only arrives at the end (her Zenith, if you will), once her choice is already made.
The team remembers her, and the epilogue honours her visually and verbally. Her impact is there and everyone acknowledges her sacrifice.
For many fans, what they actually wanted wasn’t transcendence — it was her life after the war, to see her live, to see her define what peace genuinely means to her.
The Weight of That Choice
Allura’s death sparked extensive discourse in fandom, and for good reason. She was one of the only coloured princess figures in Western animation. Her arc was powerful but inconsistently prioritised. So to have her die after healing the universe, without an ongoing presence, romantic resolution, or a legacy through her own voice, felt to many like an echo of “fridging,” even when wrapped in transcendence and ascension.
The showrunners acknowledged this concern directly. In a candid discussion, Montgomery said she understood the optics — “there is a trope of people of colour dying to save the stupid white people around them” — but dismissed that interpretation as superficial.
“She’s the main character here,” she debated, suggesting that viewing her death only through the lens of her race misses the broader intent to frame her as the key to peace.
For some fans, her ending was bittersweet. For others, it felt like a narrative betrayal: the culmination of a pattern where women of colour are revered in death but sidelined in life. These interpretations coexist and are not mutually exclusive. Part of what the glossary aims to do is make space for that tension.
Allura’s arc reflects a familiar pattern in storytelling — the noble, emotionally burdened woman whose death becomes symbolic rather than a whole closure point for her character.
She shares notable parallels with:
Padmé Amidala (Star Wars)
A powerful leader reduced to emotional symbolism by the end. Dies in childbirth, catalysing Anakin’s transformation, but her agency and voice fades away in the final act.
Trinity (The Matrix Revolutions)
A co-lead who dies after achieving both action and emotional fulfilment, but the peace she helps secure is something she never lives to see. Her death supports the chosen one’s ascension, not her own narrative continuation.
Satine Kryze (The Clone Wars)
A pacifist queen who chooses diplomacy over war. Killed tragically with unresolved love, she becomes a symbol of what could have been for Obi-Wan, not for herself. She carries regality and grace, but ultimately, her arc ends in loss.
These women, like Allura, are not failed or weak; they’re sacrificed as symbols, often to elevate every other character's path. Their stories resonate deeply, but are often cut short to drive other's arcs.
What Could Have Been (Canon-Adjacent Endings)
Allura’s death is not a solitary act.
Honerva joins her, and in doing so, the moment becomes not just a sacrifice, but reconciliation. That choice matters. It softens Honerva’s arc from destruction into remorse and reinforces one of VLD’s deeper truths: healing often requires surrender.
Still, even with that shared ending, Allura carries the weight alone. She’s the one remembered. She’s the one transformed into a legacy.
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Here are some additional alternate endings that could have maintained her emotional arc, while allowing more relational closure:
1. Survival through Transformation
Allura returns transformed, not as a Paladin, but her passage, her purpose is reborn anew. Her connection to Oriande deepens, and she becomes a new guardian or anchor for the universe’s emotional balance.
It allows transcendence through the continuation of her story.
2. Collective Return
After the final act with Honerva, both women are reborn in new forms, no longer tied to their past roles. Perhaps not human, not Altean, not Galra, but a rebirth.
Honerva finds peace, and Allura is allowed to live a life beyond legacy.
3. A Quiet Epilogue
She lives. But she steps back, tending to Oriande and reconnecting with her Altean spirit.
Her arc ends not in death, but further research and rest.
4. Accompanied Departure
Allura isn't the only one who chooses to go. Hear us out.
Someone joins her, not just to assist, but to share the cost of closing the rift. This doesn’t lessen her importance, but it does strengthen everyone's resolve here.
If it’s Shiro, the moment deepens his ongoing arc of life after death.
Shiro, who has died and returned, would understand what it means to step toward sacrifice and survive. Their bond becomes a quiet echo of mutual respect; of two leaders carrying each other’s weight.
If it’s Lotor, the act becomes redemptive.
An absolution for his past with true accountability. If his arc had been one of self-awareness and repent (we'll touch on the religious aspects later in the meta), joining Allura would symbolise their shared reconciliation between the Altean and Galran parts of their legacy. It would also allow Allura to choose compassion. This is not her forgiving blindly, but choosing forgiveness and conquering bias with, dare we say, true love.
Either way, the moment shifts to a shared crossing; two people standing at the edge of the universe and deciding, together, that this is all we have (and if we're real here, Lotor WAS part of that dual sacrifice, who said that)
Each of these endings maintains the integrity of her journey.
What Still Remains
Whether or not her death was “planned,” its emotional impact has been everlasting. Even in her absence, Allura becomes part of the show’s mythical structure, like Oriande, like Alfor’s AI, like the White Lion.
Her ending has purpose shared in a sacred memory. But memory isn’t the same as voice.
And that’s why fans continue to write, draw, and imagine what she could’ve had. That’s not just grieving a favourite, it’s a form of reclaiming the narrative.
According to the creators, much of the emotional depth they wanted to explore in the finale didn’t make it in: a deeper dive into Honerva’s POV, more space for Allura’s choice, and even more abstract, emotionally rich “floaty white space” scenes were storyboarded but cut.
As Lauren Montgomery explained in the Afterbuzz TV interview:
“There’s a ton of stuff that hit the cutting room floor… we’re trying to make it more than that… but it’s still technically a kids’ show.”
The creators acknowledged that the story they wanted to tell was bigger than the time they were given. What aired was just “the first act” without the aftermath they had imagined.
“You have a scene that’s basically an act long… but letting that go any longer than that is just like, ‘You can’t do it,’”
In other words: What could have been space for mourning, reflection, and interiority instead became visual serenity with minimal dialogue due to editing in the final yards.
In the landscape of Western animation, Allura remains rare: Her arc touched millions. Her presence mattered. Her story mattered. And the conversation around her is part of a wider demand for narrative care, emotional depth, and visibility within storytelling and animation as a whole.
In that way, Allura’s death is less an ending and more a challenge at the time when crafting the final rounds of story:
What do we do with stories that were meant to mean more than the format could hold? And what does it say when even the most emotionally potent scenes — ones that centre women, healing, and goodbye — get left behind?
✨ Important footnote: This summary only briefly touches on the complexities of Allura’s ending, story, and narrative position. In our full meta, we include a dedicated section that more fully explores her role.
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We'll leave it there, but thank you for the question! ♥︎
☕️ Note: if we haven't answered your ask, I PROMISE, we will get to them all. Sometimes we have double up questions, some of which we can't answer at all yet but we will address in the meta. All in due time, friends.
Guys, I think I figured out how Lotor was excised from the end of the S7-8 poster. The image wasn’t cropped. It was enlarged, leaving Lotor out of the picture and shaving the top of Dakin’s head off the image (Dakin is the Coran-innkeeper big lady at the end of the poster).
For reference, here is the full poster, as collected from a fan on Reddit a few years ago. I believe it is actually an official poster, not an image recomposed by fans, because it has the Voltron/Netflix logos on the bottom - which are missing in the individual releases throughout the seasons:
The proof hides in small details, so bear with me while I explain why the S7-8 part of the poster was enlarged…
As I accidentally discovered recently, the poster distributed at NYCC 2018 was even more truncated. Allura wasn’t in it either at the end. Here’s a post from Voltron’s twitter, back in 2018, releasing the digital image—which is the so-called ‘full’ S7-8 poster, that includes Allura.
But if you read the comments, there are several people who complain that all the posters given out at NYCC were… misprinted:
Also:
And this:
And again:
On e-Bay, there are still some original NYCC 2018 posters for sale (yes, in 2025) which, as expected, are missing Allura from the end of the print:
An important aspect is that the dimensions of the NYCC posters I found on e-Bay (including earlier seasons, such as the S1-2) are all 17” length, 9.5” height. So no matter what, they had to confine the image into that ratio. That was the poster’s paper size.
Now the juicy part:
—Look at the NYCC physical poster (where Allura is also missing) : Dakin’s head (the big Coran-innkeeper) is cut from the nose up, so you can’t see the eyes.
—Meanwhile, in the digital poster later released by Voltron and in the full recomposed poster, a little bit more of Dakin fits into the image—the eyes are included, but the top of the head is still chopped. (btw, the ratio of the digital image fits the 17x9.5 proportion too):
Which only means one thing:
That the S7-8 poster was neither chopped physically ✂️ (remember, it’s still 17x9.5, just like the previous posters) nor misprinted nor cropped digitally at the very end. The file image was resized. ENLARGED. This way, Lotor wouldn’t fit into the 17” length (and in the initial print run, Allura didn’t fit either, and that’s why Dakin’s head was snipped a smidge more).
My other proof is that when you look at the section where the S7-8 illustration combines with the previous section (S5-6), the photomerge is not perfectly seamless.
A Discord friend noticed some time ago that the S7-8 part of the fully reconstructed poster is a bit more blurry than the rest. Well, that’s because it was enlarged, so the resolution is different. Thing is, it wasn’t enlarged by much. Just a little bit to cut out that one last character. If you play with the resize tool, you can see that by bringing the image a notch down, Dakin’s head would fully fit in, and it would add that little space needed for Lotor to be there.
The problem is… by sizing up the last portion of the poster, it won’t properly stitch together with the previous section. But Photoshop is smart. When photomerging, the algorithm will automatically adjust the image to try to seamlessly merge the images while also maintaining the ratio. Which means that the image will get slightly distorted, but it’s imperceptible, due to its large size. Only when you zoom in, you see the artifacts at the seams, as described above. Also, the process of ‘distorting’ the image will add to the blur effect.
Looking at the overall poster, no other character is partially cropped out of the page. There are some creatures that have wings/fins sticking out. Lions do not fully fit in. But no sentient characters are chopped. Except big-head Dakin. Oh, and Allura’s right foot.
The entire poster is built in four wave-like compositions, to mirror the four poster releases. Each wave has a beginning, a middle and an end. Except the last section, which ends abruptly, with Allura’s hair floating into La-La land, and the green guy above waving goodbye, like a seal of doom.
Also, I do not believe there is more to the poster, beyond Lotor. The big Coranic dragon probably ends with the tail looping down and under its body. The end of the fourth wave.
Some may argue that we also need to see the rest of what’s on top (because some of the creatures’ top parts are cropped out; same with the Lions). But this would mean that the full poster image must be sized down significantly more—creating even more space at the very end (and a reason to believe there was more stuff missing from the poster). I don’t think that was the illustrators’ intention. The creation of these posters, as explained on twitter by an artist who worked on Voltron, was inspired by Kinu Nishimura. Here’s how Nishimura sets the compositions:
Notice how the big elements are not fully included. They are the background for the characters. (Ha, that actually might steer into a more advanced conversation about why the characters are more important than the mechas, but I shall leave that for another time.)
Lastly, if anyone has doubts about Lotor being the last character in the poster, try to come up with another tall guy that Allura may be gazing so fondly at; a character who isn’t repeated at all in the last quarter of the poster.
LOL, Sendak? 😂 (heh, actually Sendak is present in this section). Adult-Lotor is not present at all in the S7-8 poster, although we did see him/his ghost in S8. In fact, he is present only once in the entire S1-8 poster.
TL;dr: The image was not cropped, it was embiggened 😄 This reminds me of some famous stolen museum artworks, where the thieves cut the paintings from the frame.
We had someone in our asks about this! Thank you for providing your thoughts.
This is interesting. From what we found, what that means is that there was a final poster that didn’t release rather than an extension beyond Lotor in the original poster. ☕️
Love this fandom. You guys make the investigative work so much fun.
Voltron: Legendary Definition (AKA... The Glossary ✨)
Hello from the Uncharted Regions Meta Team!
Thank you for your patience, everyone!
This glossary is brand spankin' new 60 page document outlining the bare necessities of what our meta represents. But this is not just for fans of the series, or for meta readers.
This document is a reference point for writers, storytellers, fic authors, fan artists, and most importantly — viewers who may want to understand media literacy a little better.
This is to the audience members who want to gain knowledge and understanding on the emotional logic and structures of storytelling within the VLD universe.
☕️ We highly encourage you to read this before we release the episodic posts of our Uncharted Regions Meta.
This glossary is a breakdown of media literacy 101 and how to strategically analyse certain dynamics, shifts in storytelling, and how characters may represent certain archetypes, dynamics, and how this shapes accordingly to the narrative throughout the story of Voltron: Legendary Defender.
Voltron: Legendary Definition is broken down into five parts:
Narrative Elements
Archetypes and Story Models
Love Triangle Dynamics (Platonic, Romantic & Symbolic)
Tropes and Subversions in VLD
Klance Specific Readings
NOTE: The FINAL section is not for Klance shippers exclusively — however you may skip the last section if that is not your cup of tea. We chose to add the final section in as it's relevant to our meta and explores their dynamics and the structures of their intertwining character arcs. It's a very well done approach to understanding their dynamic - even platonically - so we highly encourage you, fellow reader (shipper or not) to give this section a chance and to read it too.
It breaks down recurring narrative tools and symbolic motifs, key archetypes and their evolutions, and gives language to the patterns you feel when watching, but might not have the words for yet.
…and so much more.
This is for the ones who stayed after the final episode, who felt the ache behind the animation.
For the fans who may want to rewatch; not to remember what happened — but to understand the whats, huhs, and whys?
We made this for you.
Voltron: Legendary Definition is available as a Google Document [LINK] and as a PDF for offline viewing / to download [LINK].
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✨ P.S. Special thanks to our honorary Yellow Lion for spearheading this part of the project. We couldn't have done it without you. ✨
