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Weird cuts and inconsistencies

Scenes from Episode 1 “Launch Date”

> First scene you have Keith, Lance, Allura. > Second scene you have Keith, Allura, Lance.

Scenes from Episode 5 “The Grudge”

> Audio description saying Zethrid points the gun at Shiro. (click to see the video)

> Audio description not acknowledging Ezor’s character. (click to see the video)

> Ezor is never acknowledged by other characters in these scenes.

> Ezor in season is voiced by Kimberly

Ezor’s voice from season 8 compared to Allura’s voice pitched up (click to see the video)

Ezor’s voice pitched down video (click to see the video)

> Zethrid’s “Trust Me” recycled from season 7 (click to see the video)

Scenes from Episode 8 “Clear Day”

> First scene you see the MFEs, Acxa, Veronica and “Curtis” in the background. > Immediately after, the next scene you have “Curtis” cheering for Shiro.

Scene from Episode 13 “The End is the Beginning”

> An important part of Shiro’s body seems to be missing.

"Curtis”

> Curtis’ name is only mentioned in subtitles

> “Man”

> "A brown hair guy” (click to see the video)

Audio description of Curtis being called Adam (click to see the video)

> “Atlas Crewmember”

The NYCC 2018 Poster

Curtis is the only character in a stock image pose.

The Wedding(s)

> First post related to the wedding is made by Ryu on September 13th.

> First leak of the wedding happens 22nd October

> Here’s a comparison of both weddings side by side: (Logos have been censored to prevent being taken down)

Barlee aka Carli Squitieri, a storyboard revisionist

10th August

> Ezor is dead

Credits of Episode 5 “The Grudge” (when Ezor shows up alive) with Barlee’s name on it

> Shiro being confirmed gay

11th August

> “They did what they could to patch it up”

Taekwonsonen’s tweets, a key animator from Studio Mir who worked on Voltron

> Twitter thread can be found here

Translation:

“After talking with a fan who honestly liked the show to the end, I thought about whether VLD was really that terrible enough to be spat on, with cool head.

I’m an animator. Not every animator likes what they’re working on. Some don’t even recognize what they worked on. If an animation is like a house, then animator is the one who does bricklaying. You can be proud of having made this house, but this house belongs to the designer.

Still, as a brick layer who built a house called Voltron, I am so proud and thankful of the series. Maybe if I hadn’t known anyone who cried and laughed along with the series, I wouldn’t be, but I’ve met people who thanked me personally, for laying the bricks. So I love this “house”, even though it isn’t mine.

So, if you ask me, if this house’s finishing touch is feeble, weird, and ‘the worst thing that ever happened’, especially compared to the magnificent, beautiful start, then yes. I agree completely.

But that ‘finishing touch’ is not a little thing. To me, every single brick of the last season is very upsetting. Everything else is good. No, everything else is wonderfully compatible and done very well.

But one small brick has such a different color with everything else, it’s disrupting the whole thing. It’s pulling out every little errors, even the ones I hadn’t noticed before, out in the open. Once again, this is only my opinion.

TBH, if I start rewatching the series from s1 and pick out little bits I don’t like, of course there will be. It’s only that they were so well made, even the errors looked compatible. Actually, I enjoyed watching season 8 to the end. Everyone tried their best and I sent lots of loves and thankyous to the creators. I want to make something like that. I wanted to make something like this, not only as a brick layer but as a designer too. I love this series so much.

The last brick shocked me so much, but still, at that point, I was like ‘that’s disappointing... but without it, it’s ok. They should’ve left it with open ending.’

Then I started talking with other fans, the people who loved and adored Voltron, the one who had high expectation of it. And I started agreeing with the. Yes. They are right. And I still think they are right. Passionate fans didn’t anything that isn’t true.

But on the other hand, is it okay to spit so much like this on the designer who didn’t know this last piece was going to fit so wrongly with the whole series? Maybe. You do you.”

Season Release Date Delayed? Why?

> Information linked to this Voltron shirt

> Text from this article

Lauren Montgomery

> Hours before season 8 premiered, Lauren requests fans to stay through the credits after the final episode, which shown the lions flying to Allura in the sky

> Lauren’s art for season 8

> Lauren’s quote from a video posted on youtube The video was originally deleted, but here’s a record

Quote from the video

“We knew where we wanted to head kind of early on, but then as things happened, and as shows progressed we started to realize that our visions were not the only visions going into this show. And where we thought we would end up was not always exactly how we were going to end up.

End of Voltron without the epilogue cards

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