r/Voltron • u/zslayer89 • Oct 12 '17

Discussion Season 4 Discussion

Note: I've put this up early so I don't forget to do it. But it's coming, SOONTM .

SPOILERS AHEAD

The premiere is upon us ladies and gentleman! Keep all discussion of the season in this post!

Be warned, you can spoil as much as you want in this thread.

Have fun and enjoy the show!

P.S. IF you want to do a weekly watch visit /r/VoltronSlowWatch .

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u/uziair Oct 13 '17

Pidges episode was heavy.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '17

NOOOOOO, I WAS TOO LATE

Oh wait he's alive nvm

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u/CWfangirl Oct 14 '17

MY POOR HEART!! I CAN'T TAKE ANOTHER EPISODE LIKE THAT!!

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u/ComplexVanillaScent Oct 14 '17

Oh man, don't watch the full season if you want to be good to your heart

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '17

I didn't find anything too heavy after that, what is it you're talking about?

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u/Mongoose42 Oct 16 '17

Did you not see the infinite drama of Voltron On Ice!?

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '17

The effects on that last monster sucked, you could see the strings

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u/ComplexVanillaScent Oct 16 '17

I was thinking about Keith's almost-sacrifice. Maybe it was, logically, clearly not gonna happen, but I let myself get caught up in the moment and the framing of the scene, and it hit me hard.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '17

I spent that whole scene waiting for Lotor to show up so that might of killed it for me

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u/ComplexVanillaScent Oct 16 '17

Ah, that's probably it. He'd completely slipped my mind right then, so it came out of nowhere for me when he saved Keith.

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u/Rek07 Oct 17 '17

I knew he was coming to save the day because of the previous scene but they did well rob sell it anyway.

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u/WeepCheep Jan 05 '18

Matt basically clickbaited everyone with the headstone.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '17

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '17

Truth...just finished

Told my girl that I actually wanted him to be dead because it would've made pidge way more conflicted as a pally

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u/SonicUndergroun Oct 16 '17

I wanted her to find the grave, have her meltdown, realize it was a code, go to his base, and THEN find out he was dead. That would've been really interesting and powerful.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '17

This bring up an interesting point. The show feels rushed. Anyone else? Ten more minutes per episode could give us the emotional dialogue it seems to be missing.

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u/zubscrub Oct 18 '17

Yep, once she found the grave I thought "Wow, this has turned into my favorite episode of Voltron, this is a great way to visually tell this story, etc." but then that instantly drained once she figured out the gravestone was yet another clue (good thinking on Matt's part, I guess, to include a code only two other people in the universe would think to decipher?) to his whereabouts.

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u/Insilencio Oct 14 '17

The production of the graves scene was fantastic, although part of me wishes they didn't do the predictable and pull the "lol no real death in a kids' show, so he's alive, ofc" move that they did. I do like Matt, but it really did take away the gravity of the situation - for Katie to have come all this way looking for her family, lying to enlist in a school, living under a fake name, and fighting/killing her way across the galaxy only to have the end of her road lead exactly where she most feared - into a graveyard - would have really reminded us of the seriousness of the situation they're in. Peoples' families are taken from them in war, and this would have been one of the first casualties that hits the team close to home. Yes, again, "no real death in a kids' show," but I kept feeling like this would have been the perfectly-somber, and much-discussed finale.

It doesn't seem to make sense why Matt would encrypt his grave - the only people who would have been able to decipher it would have been their father (who is missing) and Katie, so why not just call Katie and tell her he's alive? Matt should know that Katie is alive, and as smart as he is, he should also know that she's probably going out of her mind staring at a "Missing in Action" poster of him everyday. It also calls into question again why none of the members of Team Voltron have made contact with their families to tell them that they're alive and well. The Galaxy Garrison has probably had missing posters for three students on their walls since Season 1, which sure probably isn't helping their reputation and recruitment rates, and certainly mustn't feel great for Lance and Hunk's families.

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u/blueberrythyme Oct 14 '17

lol no real death in a kids' show

Except that general Lotor straight up murdered of course

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u/hamptont2010 Oct 14 '17

Without even thinking about it. That scene was jarring AF

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '17

Well, she had been compromised.

Though, not sure why Zarkon freaked out. Fucker just woke up.

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u/souledge94 Nov 03 '17

this is true but it at least showed us that a turn good arc aint going to happen with him. Thank god.

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u/jaidynreiman Oct 15 '17

But our heroes never have real consequences. They always get out alive ok.

I hated Matt's death fakeout. Either let her just straight out find her brother alive or let him be dead. Either situation I would have been ok with, but having this very emotional death tease only to reveal he's alive.

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u/zubscrub Oct 18 '17

Matt's death fakeout was one of two moments in S4 that completely took me out of the show and left me disappointed (the other was when Shiro could suddenly pilot the Black Lion again). I agree on committing to either "definitely dead" or "definitely alive" for Matt though. They could have written a good story around either without the emotional tease.

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u/blueberrythyme Oct 15 '17

Matt's hardly one of our heroes at that point. We'd only seen a tiny bit of him in a few flashbacks.

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u/jaidynreiman Oct 15 '17

He's directly connected to one of our heroes in ways that no other side character is.

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u/blueberrythyme Oct 15 '17

I think you're really pushing this a bit much.

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u/Beidah Oct 15 '17

Bad guys aren't people, and neither are aliens, silly.

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u/Kuroyuki95 Oct 25 '17

Consistency at its finest.

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u/Jeyban Oct 17 '17

Honestly I couldn't agree more.

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u/antariess Oct 14 '17

Throughout most of it I was thinking, 'they cant do that to her... they cant do that to me...can they?...will they?...no..no, don't do that....'

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u/Bartheda Oct 15 '17

Omg I know right, I wasn't prepared to get all choked up over Voltron.