But what if DW still don’t release the original even with the petition? :(
I think…I think that, if they don’t do it, we have a very big problem.
How many shows is DreamWorks in the process of creating, just for Netflix alone? Six at least that I can think of, but I suspect more.Do you honestly trust them enough to invest emotionally in those shows? Knowing that they might again do what they did to VLD?How can you trust they won’t do the same to She-Ra?
It’s blatantly obvious that the season was hastily altered from its original course at the last minute. The evidence, both concrete and circumstantial, is overwhelming. I know some people still think the EPs are responsible (I don’t), but if you do, don’t forget that @dreamworksanimation approved and released Season 8. DreamWorks thought that was a satisfactory product.How can we ever trust them to be respectful of their shows, their fans, if they don’t listen to us now?
Every season of a show is a promise to the people watching it that future seasons will pay off - to narrative satisfaction - the plot threads laid out in those before it. If DreamWorks continues to ignore us, then they are showing that they don’t actually care about the quality of their product or about customer satisfaction. That they don’t care about the messages their products send to the children watching them (VLD is rated Y7, after all), or the harm that those messages will do. They are telling us, that we cannot rely on any of their shows to follow through with what they promise: we cannot trust them.
Fortunately, they can still fix this.
If they came out tomorrow and said something to the effect of, “Hey guys, we’re very sorry for altering s8; we thought this would be more marketable. We were wrong. We’re going to release the original cut of s8 on [month, date], we just need some time to get everything ready. Thanks for being patient.” I would forgive them. Hey, everyone makes mistakes. As long as you learn from them, apologize, and try to fix them as best you can - that’s alright.
I think a big reason we haven’t gotten an official response is that this is the holiday season, and many if not all of the people with the authority to make such a response are likely on their holidays.There is a con on January 4th - 6th that AJ, Kimberley, Neil, and Josh will be at, SacAnime? They’re having one of the last official Voltron panels on Saturday the 5th. DreamWorks basically needs to make a statement before then, or they’re throwing the VAs to the wolves.
And if they do that? Even if they apologize, they don’t deserve any forgiveness.
We have to keep telling them, keep it active.
If anyone has any contacts in geek, feminist, or LGBT media: we need to get eyes on this that aren’t just seeing it as ‘shipping drama’, because it’s not.
Whatever the reason behind the butchering of VLD s8, the effect was to to change what had been a female oriented romance into a male wish-fulfillment fantasy. They stripped their central heroine of her agency and gifted her as a prize to the man who’d sexually harassed her for the previous seven seasons. All this while playing straight an intended subversion resulting in the metaphorical slut shaming of the character, only to kill her off in the last episode. In the era of #metoo, what a hellish message to send to children.
They removed a potentially groundbreaking redemption arc for a mixed race abuse survivor, turning his sympathetic backstory into tragedy p*rn and crushing the hope from every person who saw themselves in him. Whether they intended it or not, the message they ended up giving was that; no matter how hard you try to be a good person, you can never escape your trauma and the only respite to be found is in death.
Allura’s arc in the s8 we got, was that of a very depressed woman, pressured by her friends into a relationship she wasn’t especially interested in, who ultimately chose death to escape reality.
We’d like the real season now, please.
