Artsy Jesse Blue

"Welcome home, Goofball."

Constructing Legends: Episode 09 is now live on YouTube!

@vldtenyearanniversaryfest Day 1 - Your Favorite Character

Anyways, do you think the release of seasons 7 and 8 on DVD mean anything?

Hello and welcome to the madness! The madness is rather quiet these days, but my goodness this was certainly a special fandom to be a part of while the show was still airing. By special, I of course mean, absolutely batshit insane. There are some parts of the VLD fandom experience I never want to see again, but there are also others I remember with fondness. I highly recommend everyone fall into a mega fandom at least once, just to feel the excitement. I actually have a friend who bought the DVDs to see what was on them, and I can report that the first 6 seasons are exactly the same as has been released on DVD in the past, down to the episode select screens.

The Season 7 and 8 are, of course, the edited versions, but what's interesting is they didn't even bother to create a proper menu for the episodes. They just slapped 'em onto a disc and called it done. Very disappointing presentation.

As you can see, the final seasons are also labelled according to their production season as opposed to their airing season, which I imagine is confusing to anyone who wasn't aware of the difference. That's probably most people. (For anyone who wasn't aware: The episodes of VLD were produced in 3 separate production seasons. Production season 1 was our Season 1 & 2, Production Season 2 was our 3, 4, 5, and 6, and Production Season 3 was our 7 & 8. Netflix was behind the decision to divide them up differently for airing. This is why the Season 7 DVD says Season 3 at the top.)

As for what it means...

Honestly I have no idea. With how low-effort this appears to have been I suspect the initiative might have had more to do with promotion of the upcoming Voltron live action movie than with satisfying VLD fans. As strange as that sounds, them being separate productions and all. A whole lot doesn't make sense to me here, and I don't have enough information to do much more than guess.

There's much to do with how the movie was made and how the social media promotion of the brand has gone in the years since VLD ended that has me suspecting Bob wanted to sever the VLD fandom from the rest of his brand. And yet, right as the movie is needing promotion, here they're finally giving the fans (some of) what we've been asking for - even if in a half-assed way. Kinda feels like we're being seen as an untapped market. Maybe someone thinks that they can stir up just enough interest to get us to see the movie? I don't know. I can't see that working, but, who knows. Y'know, there's an old interview with Bob Koplar, from around when VLD was first announced - so 2015 or so? Anyway, old interview with him, where he's asked what his favorite character in Voltron is. Do you know what he answered? The Robot.

Voltron, the Robot, is his favorite character.

Now, I think that says all you need to know about the man. Because, the robot? Isn't a character. It had a face, sure, but it's a machine. It's not even like the lions in VLD - it's empty, there's nothing in there the pilots aren't themselves bringing to the table. It's a vehicle. There's no depth, no interior.

And the robot, is the only "character" from any prior Voltron adaptation that is to be present in the movie.

Bob wants us to see his movie. Bob wants us to spend our hard earned money on his franchise. He wants this, while at the same time stripping all the actual characters we love from it.

Bob Koplar is a very stupid man.

Constructing Legends Episode 08: Voltron and the Heroine's Journey is now live on YouTube!

Last Edit: 06/08/2025

After reviewing my timeline notes in more detail, I decided I wasn’t happy with editing my original VLD timeline guide, but I didn’t want to just delete the earlier meta outright. So I decided to start over and make a brand new meta that reflected my current research notes without me having to constantly go back and edit the old one every time I realized I had missed something.

And boy am I glad I did because in the process I noticed details that I completely overlooked when I made the last timeline guide that trying to edit the original post would’ve led to redoing the whole thing anyway.

So now I present to you my most complete and up-to-date notes on the timeline of Voltron Legendary Defender as of April 2023. Under the cut because this is going to get long.

Constructing Legends: Episode 07A - What Could Have Been (Part 1) is now live on YouTube!

Gosh, Lotor’s “Follow me!”—closing one episode, followed by the team’s “You’ve been asleep for two days”—in the opening scene of the next episode, without anything actually happening in between these moments, baffles me to this day. I’ll never believe that nothing occured in between those scenes and that Allura just slept like a log. The missing scenes/episode in between these moments are glaringly obvious.

Also… Yup, the scenes with Honerva in front of Sincline are highly indicative of more events or at least a few more frames in the Genesis episode. Not only Sincline appears in front of the pillars in the flashback from Knights of Light Part 2, but the mecha has also moved. The head is slightly raised, the knee is in a different position, and the floating cliffs in the background are gone, or obscured by some sort of smoke. Animating robots is the most expensive part of a show like this. They wouldn’t just randomly throw in a new robot pose in a subsequent episode unless it was part of an initial scene that was integral to the whole action (here’s the screencap from min 3:55 in second video analysis):

Constructing Legends: Episode 07A - What Could Have Been (Part 1) is now live on YouTube!

"Don't leave me."

Oh noes! I just realized that in my previous version of this, I gave Allura human ears. Ugly, human ears! The horror, lol.