Rorylumley

there is some obvious build up for kallura in the series….but it ends up going nowhere. remember when people were raging about how kallura shouldn’t happen and started sending the staff hate mail about how kallura was “heteronormative” or “pedophilia” or whatever? even though the ship that all those things actually applied to was shallura? lmaooo.

we know for a fact that the plot was constantly being altered and the writers began to toy around with a keith/acxa romance (of all things), only to quickly abandon that idea when they witnessed how much the audience was against it. it makes me wonder if kallura suffered from the same fate.

there is some obvious build up for kallura in the series….but it ends up going nowhere. remember when people were raging about how kallura shouldn’t happen and started sending the staff hate mail about how kallura was “heteronormative” or “pedophilia” or whatever? even though the ship that all those things actually applied to was shallura? lmaooo.

we know for a fact that the plot was constantly being altered and the writers began to toy around with a keith/acxa romance (of all things), only to quickly abandon that idea when they witnessed how much the audience was against it. it makes me wonder if kallura suffered from the same fate.

BTW in V3D they weren’t canon in that universe but an alternate one. But, I digress.

It doesn’t make sense for anyone to say she can’t be black for Keith and Allura to be a couple. Especially, with no proof. That’s conjecture.

Just because two racist showrunners made that determination because of “reasons,” does not mean that everyone else is that stupid.

In any event, the only way a legal battle may ensue is if they took the exact story from Netflix and made it a live action. But like every other version of Voltron, there usually are aspects of it in future versions. VLD took a lot from Voltron comics and some aspects of all of the last shows.

Further, we don’t know what those contracts look like and therefore you harping on her skin color as a basis for a legal battle, is a huge reach and also unfounded.

there is some obvious build up for kallura in the series….but it ends up going nowhere. remember when people were raging about how kallura shouldn’t happen and started sending the staff hate mail about how kallura was “heteronormative” or “pedophilia” or whatever? even though the ship that all those things actually applied to was shallura? lmaooo.

we know for a fact that the plot was constantly being altered and the writers began to toy around with a keith/acxa romance (of all things), only to quickly abandon that idea when they witnessed how much the audience was against it. it makes me wonder if kallura suffered from the same fate.

BTW in V3D they weren’t canon in that universe but an alternate one. But, I digress.

It doesn’t make sense for anyone to say she can’t be black for Keith and Allura to be a couple. Especially, with no proof. That’s conjecture.

Just because two racist showrunners made that determination because of “reasons,” does not mean that everyone else is that stupid.

In any event, the only way a legal battle may ensue is if they took the exact story from Netflix and made it a live action. But like every other version of Voltron, there usually are aspects of it in future versions. VLD took a lot from Voltron comics and some aspects of all of the last shows.

Further, we don’t know what those contracts look like and therefore you harping on her skin color as a basis for a legal battle, is a huge reach and also unfounded.

there is some obvious build up for kallura in the series….but it ends up going nowhere. remember when people were raging about how kallura shouldn’t happen and started sending the staff hate mail about how kallura was “heteronormative” or “pedophilia” or whatever? even though the ship that all those things actually applied to was shallura? lmaooo.

we know for a fact that the plot was constantly being altered and the writers began to toy around with a keith/acxa romance (of all things), only to quickly abandon that idea when they witnessed how much the audience was against it. it makes me wonder if kallura suffered from the same fate.

BTW in V3D they weren’t canon in that universe but an alternate one. But, I digress.

It doesn’t make sense for anyone to say she can’t be black for Keith and Allura to be a couple. Especially, with no proof. That’s conjecture.

Just because two racist showrunners made that determination because of “reasons,” does not mean that everyone else is that stupid.

In any event, the only way a legal battle may ensue is if they took the exact story from Netflix and made it a live action. But like every other version of Voltron, there usually are aspects of it in future versions. VLD took a lot from Voltron comics and some aspects of all of the last shows.

Further, we don’t know what those contracts look like and therefore you harping on her skin color as a basis for a legal battle, is a huge reach and also unfounded.

One of the things that bothers me so much in the Voltron fandom discourse is the hyperfocus on parallels and symbolism at the exclusion about what’s actually fucking going on in the moment. Parallels, symbolism, Easter eggs, foreshadowing, subtext - that stuff is all fine and good, but if you want to argue that these things are building to a specific emotional endgame - say, a romance, that can’t be all that’s there.

I’ve seen some fans talk about Allura bringing Shiro back from the dead as being PROOF that they’re going to be endgame - and that’s. That’s just now how storytelling works! The entire emotional crux of the Shiro clone saga came down to his history and relationship with Keith (and their dual connection with Black, but that’s less obviously contentious because hot flesh-on-robot action isn’t happening in this iteration of Voltron). Keith just doesn’t have magical powers to bring Shiro back to life. There’s a reason that, in the end, Shiro leans on Keith. Because that’s where the buildup comes from, that’s what the payoff is.

But Shiro/Keith isn’t explicitly romantic, I can hear you saying, it’s completely possible that it was an Allura/Shiro moment and a Keith+Shiro platonic moment. And it could be. But it’s not. Because, when Lance breaks down in tears because he didn’t realize what was going on with Shiro, Allura reaches out to him, touches his shoulder, and gives him such a tender look that Lance’s tears stop. Before she goes and revives Shiro, she makes a point to comfort Lance, and Lance alone. In that moment, she prioritized Lance’s emotional well being over everyone else. It was just a moment, but it was a moment that really mattered.

The camera focuses on them to the exclusion of everyone else. The writers carved out a moment for Allura to comfort the man who is deeply in love with her. The artists animated her with a tender look and a small smile. They’re surrounded by the rest of team Voltron, but the focus is on an intimate moment with Allura and Lance. 

This is not the kind of build up you put in your action/adventure found family narrative if you’re planning on writing a different romantic endgame. Romance is generally pretty direct, and love triangles aren’t set up in a way where a viewer can easily be invested in both potential pairings. I mean it happens, Lotor/Allura has its fans, but there’s a reason a good chunk of the development was about Lance coming to terms with the fact that his feelings for Allura have changed from a crush to being in love. There’s a reason it was Lance was the one who comforted Allura after Lotor’s betrayal. Because part of the point of Allura/Lotor was to build up on the eventual romance of Lance and Allura. 

Ship what you want.

Amazon MGM announcing their cast for their big budget live-action Voltron movie starring Henry Cavill, promising it will have nothing to do with VLD and starring a new cast of characters within the same week with a focus on giant robots.

It seems like Maiko is having a mega resurgence, and I’m all for it! This couple means the world to me!

And on TikTok….

Instead, it was Lance flirting with her just as he did every other woman alien he encountered, then the one time Allura finds someone else and develops something romantic with him, THEN Lance wants to be serious about her. Then boom, they get together at the start of the last season, then she just dies, and he's left to just grieve her.

Hey, so… I got a question. Is Emily supposed to be black? Cause I’ve been seeing a LOT of people say that she is.

Honestly I didn’t even know she was supposed to have a race, besides the winners, which of course do have races. I thought the seraphim’s were raceless.

I can't exactly blame you or say you're wrong because...it's a big swing. And the fandom has made it clear they're not the biggest fans of these kinds of swings. Dreamwave noted their sales started to sink when they shifted the focus to Cybertronian politics, and every attempt at Autobot Megatron, including IDW itself, was met with angry yawns in the viewing and sales metrics.

At the same time, saying this book is stuffed is an understatement. Apparently, the kids (or at least the hardcore fans) yearn for filler episodes and side story miniseries, even though Kirkman has made it clear that he is following the manga format of not drowning the reader in endless spinoffs, while also presumably knowing he will get to elaborate on all of this in the show for a second go. But yeah, people hoping for the details to be all laid out are naturally going to be frustrated as the whole thing breezed by since they were focusing on so many different things, including Flagg's motivation, Miles Mayhem studying the Transformers to form VENOM, whatever the hell is affecting Megatron, Arcee taking Ultra Magnus's place as the Magnus, and now Elita wanting everyone to liberate her homeworld. It's...a lot, and I feel like it would be fleshed out way better in 2-3 hour-long TV episodes and not 6 issues of a comic book. But that doesn't mean we should start drowning the readers in spinoffs, it means make the arc longer than 6 issues.

The really funny thing is that this is the opposite critique of a lot of storytelling, which is criticized as moving too slow and decompressed to properly fill a trade. Here, everyone sees the bits they think a show will fill in, which it likely will.