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I got my GoLion DVDs yesterday, and after a brief delay for some excited squeaking and jumping around, I popped disc 3 into the player. I ordered GoLion because I wanted to know what was really going on. Why does Lotor grit his teeth when Zarkon wishes him good luck? Why does Pidge look like he thinks Allura should get back in the kitchen when he's telling her to hang in there? Were those lasers really beaming Coran's wife and son to safety in another dimension?

I also had some notions of what I wanted to be really going on, namely:

  1. I knew it would be much more violent, I hoped it would be a bit sexier as well.

  2. I hoped the story would be meatier, especially with regards to the Doomites. I wanted plots and terrible not-so-secrets and verbal sparring to go with the physical sparring.

Well, I watched the post-Lotor episodes, and so far I have been largely disappointed on both counts, but it's still interesting. I would buy it again, and plan to buy the next installments.

It turns out that the snark that is one of Voltron's big redeeming features is something the American writers used to fill the gaps where the more grim, original stuff had been taken away. Prince Sincline is quite to the point; I very much miss Lotor's completely unselfconscious line of B.S. Everyone who hears Lotor knows he's lying, and he loves it. But, I could go on about Lotor all day. I could probably make a website about him and then pen smutty Lotor fanfic, but this post is about GoLion.

Was Hunk this catty in the Voltron ep? Talk about pot calling the kettle fat:

And Pidge is pretty grim. It almost seems to me that Kogane is the only one who really likes the princess. The rest of the 'team' seems to think she's just another pretty face. It's open to interpretation, but Pidge seems to be saying here that there is no point in ransoming the princess with the keys since she's royal toast either way.

I may have gotten some sexual innuendo to go with the violence, granted it's violent sexual innuendo... Lotor was on Arus that day, not in search of a floral remedy for Daddy, but rather he was making a grocery run for some fresh blood from a human girl to use as a cure:

But, when he talks about drawing blood from Allura, I think he might mean something rather different.

Her 'Yes, but not with you!' response seems to support it.

And finally... OK, I just kinda liked this image.