voltron_unite, posts by tag: dvd - LiveJournal (original) (raw)
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:
I knew it would be much more violent, I hoped it would be a bit sexier as well.
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.