#balmerans

Voltron: Legendary Defender S01E08 - Rebirth

Voltron is definitely older than it is in canon. I really hated that there were only two generations of paladins and Voltron still had this giant legend as the ‘defenders of the universe’. So Alfor didn’t create the Lions, some super-ancient alien species did or smth

Speaking of the Lions, I really want to redesign them-they’re supposed to be the guardian spirits of the elements and beings of pure quintessence, right? (I’m only like 70% sure about that last one, but I think it’s canon) But they just look like robot lions?? No cool glowy quintessence or elements or anything. I think the red Lion should have like a mane of fire or something.

Also I feel like the Black Paladin shouldn’t always be the leader. Each of the paladins could have been (and we actually saw this for Allura, Keith, and Hunk) good leaders, depending on the circumstances. This also allows for Keith to become a leader and Shiro to take a different position as a commander, without the stupid Lion-swap plotline. I’m sorry, but I hated it. So, depending on who was acting as Voltron’s leader/battlefield commander, any of the Lions/paladins could’ve been the head.

Lot less aliens. I hate hate HATE how there’s a few billion different species and they all look the exact same and there’s no exploration of any of their cultures in the slightest. They go to a new planet every episode, meet a new species that looks like humans but slightly to the left, they join the coalition, and then they’re never mentioned again. I want there to be a couple of species, like the Galra, Olkari, and the Balmerans spread out on various planets across the universe, so we actually have room to explore their cultures and histories.

Year of Voltron Day 34 is Balmeran - Anatomy

And I forgot to upload this before going to bed last night, my bad.  So, today’s will go up later today.  

Anyway, I really liked the first Balmerans we see in the series!  I appreciate that there is sexual dimorphism but not in a way that feels weird or awkwardly fetishy, if that makes sense. There is a second Balmeran prompt in the anatomy section, since we know as of the last season that each individual Balmera--probably by merit of being different planetoid lifeforms in different parts of space with presumably different concentrations of local space-stuff to work with--has its own unique-looking totally different ‘subspecies’ of Balmeran, and man, that’s just so fuckin interesting to me, okay, I get really excited about Balmerans and I wish we’d gotten to see more of them.  I’m still kinda disappointed Shay didn’t like, join the castle crew or smth.  There was no reason for the Castle to not have a bigger crew and I’m just saying, it would have been awesome to have more regularly recurring alien characters.

If anyone else wants to do the Year Long Challenge, the original version my wife wrote up is right here.

The Balmerans, I think. I like the almost symbiotic relationship they have with their planet, their designs, even their speech patterns. I found their story really touching.

S4E6: Haggar Doing Her Magical Thing with the Druids