Voltron: Legendary Defender - What Could Have Been
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In an interview, Lauren Montgomery said some ideas for Keith was that he was originally going to have fangs and white hair that he was constantly dyeing. It was discarded to avoid spoiling his Galra heritage.
Season 3 and 4 were originally one season before a last-minute change two weeks before its debut led to it being split into two seasons that would air in a space of two months.
Many aspects of the show had to be cut down or removed for time at the behest of executive meddling; in particular the showrunners point to “The Legend Begins" in Season 3 featuring the original paladins of Voltron, which was intended to be two episodes, as well as wanting to give the paladins more scenes bonding with their lions before going off to fight. Had the flashback episode been a two-parter as originally intended, it could be possible that it would’ve addressed the fates of Gyrgan, Blaytz and Trigel along with revealing that Lotor was born either before or after his parents were exposed to the Quintessence that turned them evil, along with that Shiro’s return was supposed to happen later and that Lotor was originally going to have two male generals before they were scrapped and replaced by four female generals, partly to avert the smurfette principle, given that the only prominent female villain in the show at the time was Haggar (this was before the appearance of four female commanders serving under Zarkon in the two-part season 4 finale).
Three of the four female generals (excluding Narti) were originally going to have the names of The Golden Girls backwards, until the Korean staff caught on, resulting in the only one whose name remained unchanged ultimately being Ezor, given her name in reverse is Rose, a reference to Golden Girls character Rose Nylund, while Acxa and Zethrid’s names were originally Aihpos and Ythorod respectively.
Another idea originally had Lotor having many ranks of female Galrans and that Zarkon had a no-women policy, in order to address the lack of Galran women in season 1 and 2, though this was changed to Lotor having four female generals and that in season 4, four female commanders served under Zarkon.
Operation Kuron and Keith’s leadership arc were going to be larger stories (even if they were subplots than being part of the main plot) in season 4, before real life writes the plot and executive meddling resulted in them being postponed. Had it happened as originally planned, Keith would’ve gotten the much needed character development. Several fans are hoping that the latter will be revisited in season 6, as the former resumed in season 5.
During ECCC 2018, Lauren said that she wanted more flashbacks for Pidge where she would be scanning the sky for her brother and dad. Then she would decide to leave her mom a note, join the Garrison, and then cut her hair. While Lauren did say the haircut made it in, she wanted to show how it all led up to Pidge’s final decision to go and find her missing family.
Jeremy Shada revealed at ECCC 2018 that he auditioned for the role of Keith before voicing Lance.
On Afterbuzz, Mitch Iverson said that May Chan pitched an idea for the Beta Traz episode with Lance and Hunk freeing people they think are prisoners and then bringing them all back to the castle. However, Coran becomes flabbergasted as he demands to know why the paladins just robbed a zoo.
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