butterfly | Dec. 14th, 2018

Dec. 14th, 2018

On a meta level, I totally understand ‘grabbing whatever representation we can where we can get it’ but man, on a personal level of actual emotional investment, my interest in ‘main character hooks up with nameless random at the literal last seconds of the show’ is… basically negative infinity.

Tags: so yep still shipping sheith

Original Post: VLD S8 - first reaction

On another note - one day I may understand why so many shows that spend time building up a found family will split them all apart at the very end… but that is not this day.

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Original Post: VLD S8 - found family

I was also disappointed because I thought the lions all lighting up was going to mean Allura was coming back! So, yeah, basically the ending was a series of “oh, well, that’s not what I hoped for’ moments. Which is a shame, because I loved SO MUCH of the actual season.

Tags: so much was great! and then the ending just... kinda fitzed out i mean sadly i was emotionally prepared it's not the first time a generally great show has had a disappointing ending from an emotional standpoint *stares at syfy's haven* but still a disappointing ending can color the previous stuff even if that stuff was really great! so... unfortunate

Original Post: VLD S8 - Allura

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Like, damn, so many of the themes of the season - about cooperation and about love! So into those! Loved seeing how it took everyone all together to win! I loved so much that we got the… uh… At-Tron? The Atlas-Voltron mecha and that Shiro was part of that last journey. I was so into that! Seeing Shiro’s face with the other five gave me so many feelings!

But… man, it was weird to me that Shiro and Keith’s friendship… went underground after the EPIC Black Paladins episode in S6 and then bringing Shiro back in S7 (…literally the same vibe as the Lance-brings-back-Allura scene this season, too). Keith had multiple one-on-one conversations with Lance (mostly about Lance’s relationship with Allura, it seemed)… but absolutely zero time for a one-on-one personal conversation with Shiro. I mean, even if the writers were overwhelmed by the chance to have Shiro have an on-screen kiss… that doesn’t mean his friendship with Keith should, you know, stop existing. So that was weird. It was like Shiro was just friends with VoltronGroup as a whole and his personal connection to Keith didn’t matter at all, even though they were fighting Honerva, who had specifically called out their connection during S6 as a big deal.

And the big goodbye with Allura and the Paladins was… I mean… it kinda felt more like they were sending her off for summer vacation than sending her to her death. That’s part of why I thought maybe she was coming back at the end!

So… idk. Endings are hard. It’s easy to fuck them up. But it just kinda felt like… I’ve been watching a marathon runner going around a track, cheering them on, and then when they’re five feet away from the ending mark, they got distracted by something, wandered off, and never finished the race. I feel… unsatisfied.

Well, at least there’s always fandom.

Original Post: VLD S8 - Themes

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My disappointment over dropped character and relationship arcs in VLD S8 happening in such close proximity to that nail-biting episode of Critical Role did remind me of one of the things that I love so much about CritRole and the RPG genre:

Because every protagonist is helmed by a specific player, every main character has a fierce advocate (of course, it does mean if that person isn’t there, their character will fall a bit to the wayside - ex. Yasha while Ashley films in NY). But, in general, I don’t have to worry about things like Caleb’s friendship with Nott suddenly disappearing and them only having work-related convos, because that friendship is incredibly important to Liam and Sam. Because the players power the characters, the core of the characters will always be intact. And that’s not something that can be guaranteed with pretty much any network-type show.

Original Post: VLD S8 & Critical Role

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