Honest thoughts and opinions on season 8
There’s really only two episodes worth watching, episode one, and episode thirteen. Everything in between was a jumbled mess and didn’t make any sense whatsoever. They did nearly every single character dirty in the SERIES FINALE, but we have to take it and roll with it. But I’m here to bitch about it so ignore my previous statements.
I’m so incredibly heartbroken that after so much build up, it ended like that. I really honestly do not care about anything ship related, I kinda do it for the meme, but the fact that Lance had gotten everything he wanted was then ripped out of his hands in that short amount of time makes me so angry. All series long, it felt like they just shat all over him. I’m relieved he’s happy but after everything? Nuhuh honey, do better.
And Allura? Baby what the FUCK! She was single handedly the biggest drving force for the series, arguably one of the strongest characters, and in my mind, the strongest female/colored character in the entire series, and all she got was a season of hardships. She was manipulated, overworked, pushed over, only for her to die in the very end? Go back to the goddamn drawing board, I’m sorry but that isn’t okay.
And the canon lgbt “rep” just,,,, what the fuck. As a gay man, seeing my favorite character, another gay man, get married to some random guy I had never seen in the entirety of the show was so incredibly heartbraking. I’m glad Shiro’s story ended happy, but it’s so hard to see his progression as the strongest character who has multiple issues that aren’t addressed in most media, with him being asian, mentally ill, physically handicapped, and lgbt, only for him to be forced on someone completely unimportant to the story was so offputting I wanted to cry. I cried when I found out Shiro was canonically gay because that’s my favorite character and I can relate to him on more levels than any other character I’ve ever seen.
And Keith….ohhhh my baby since day one… not fucking story after. “Released to the stars” my ass. He pushed him self harder than anybody for the whole series and his ending is more work? Sit your fucking ass down.
I’m so happy for Hunk, Romelle, Coran, and the Holts but everyone else deserved so much better than what they got. I’m so incredibly dissatisfied with what happened. You can do better. A series finale should not let so many people down. Nearly every single post I’ve seen about Voltron in the past seven hours has said the exact same thing: Do better.
The quality of this show is incredible. The voice actors are amazing at what they do. The animation is like none I’ve ever seen. The soundtrack was astonishing. But the story? You have the right idea, but everything you write in term of character development and affairs could be so much better. You cannot force representation and you cannot force the demise of representation. It’s unnatural and disgusting.