Voltron - Legendary Defender

[Matt Bellamy]

Entire first season is out on Netflix!

I just finished the first episode ( which was the length of 3 episodes) and really liked it. If i didn't have to work tomorrow I'd plow through the entire series right now.

[LordSpleach]

I concur. Though in my case, I need to hash out plans for the apartment I'm moving to.

I wonder if they'll make new toys specifically for this series.

[*guyverfan]

one of my favourite shows when i was a kid.

is this the original series or remake?

[LordSpleach]

New remake exclusively on Netflix.

[Matt Bellamy]

7 hours ago, guyverfan said:

one of my favourite shows when i was a kid.

is this the original series or remake?

Unlike other attempts, this is also a complete reboot that stays in the same idea as the original, keeping a lot of the settings, characters and plot. 5 space explorers ( cadets) pilot 5 lions and form Voltron to fight the armies of King Zarkon.

About the only real different thing, is that Takashi Shirogane/Sven Holgersson ( black outfit) is actually named Shiro and is actually the leader and the pilot of the Black lion. But everyone else, Keith, Lance, Pidge and Hunk are all basically the same. Princess Allura is now a sexy light brown skinned, white haired elfish princess, who apparently acts as Ship Commander.

The team:

[Matt Bellamy]

And why not, here's the character profiles that shows off their weapons too.

[LordSpleach]

I forgot to mention. I really like/find it interesting that they have sentai weapons.

Oh and the fact the Castle of Lions is a ship.

Edited June 13, 2016 by LordSpleach

[Matt Bellamy]

Finally got around to watching it all.

Overall... Pretty good. Not really great, but had enough to like.

If I had one major complaint, it'd be the lack of decent music and opening. They should have spent a little more time with that (possibly so that it had a retro feel of the original). especially for the opening and transformation sequence. One thing they should have taken from Mecha anime was that combining mechs usually have a cool theme to go with it. Especially when you reuse the same animation all the time, it helps spice up repetitiveness by having a cool theme to play.

I also feel that it feels like they left one episode short...

The cliffhanger ending... Was not well done.

Had some good stuff overall though. I mean, the animation was nice, and the humor, while at times a tad childish, was still well written. Plus the character designs were great and the voice acting was well done.

Just had some nitpicks

[Shin Mefilas]

I have never watched Voltron but I did run across this a while ago.

 

[Hyper_Guyvantic]

@Matt BellamyDid you finish Legendary Defender? What did you think?

As a whole (seasons 1-8) the series was good but it wasn't great. I do agree with you that the music for the most part was rather lack luster up to Season 6. Especially the lack of that wonderful beautifully epic song we all grew up with (Voltron DotU/Voltron-3D/Voltron-Force) - which I understand if they couldn't use it for copyright reasons but something other than the song they had that tapped into those nostalgic emotions. When  still hear that classic song to this day I still get teary eyed and chills. But I think the showrunners wanted to do so much that they hurt the series. 

[Matt Bellamy]

On 1/30/2022 at 12:38 PM, Hyper_Guyvantic said:

@Matt BellamyDid you finish Legendary Defender? What did you think?

As a whole (seasons 1-8) the series was good but it wasn't great. I do agree with you that the music for the most part was rather lack luster up to Season 6. Especially the lack of that wonderful beautifully epic song we all grew up with (Voltron DotU/Voltron-3D/Voltron-Force) - which I understand if they couldn't use it for copyright reasons but something other than the song they had that tapped into those nostalgic emotions. When  still hear that classic song to this day I still get teary eyed and chills. But I think the showrunners wanted to do so much that they hurt the series. 

I actually only watched to the end of season 2. Season 2 kind of bored me too much... Then when you find out a show removes your favorite character I just didn't care. (yes Shiro came back, but that was later and I didn't care by the point).

[Hyper_Guyvantic]

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8 hours ago, Matt Bellamy said:

I actually only watched to the end of season 2. Season 2 kind of bored me too much... Then when you find out a show removes your favorite character I just didn't care. (yes Shiro came back, but that was later and I didn't care by the point).

 

You really arent missing much if Season 2 bored you. It seems like they had no real plan post season 2, (which I predicted Shiro's fate when it premiered) because season 3 was quite literally "The Search for Shiro," Season 4 was "Shiro is back and in charge so now we have to build a Coalition and do Voltron PR shows," Season 5 "lets be friends with lotor and go to a magical place of Altean legends". Season 6 had a D&D like episode, Season 7 a Game Show episode. Season 8 was just a massive dumpster fire. I am just glad they didn't have any singing episodes which seems like Eeeeeeeeeeevery series these days need to have because of Glee 

But it was many other things that crippled this show to failure. Introducing characters/organizations/ events and put no effort into proper develoment. Yes Shiro came back, (which I predicted his fate when Season 2 premiered), but they didn't develop why he was back - instead the "fans" didn't question it and were "shocked" when he and Keith had a Star Wars Episode 3 Obi-Wan vs Anakin like fight. I mean you watch that fight you can literally hear the songs "Obi-Wan vs Anakin" and "Fall of a Hero" during that whole sequence. Hell those very fans were even "shocked" when Lotor was revealed to be experimenting on&killing/betrayed the Voltron-Force/and went batsh*t crazy and tried destroying them after Allura dumped him.

I was really pulling for this series to be a great reboot because 2011s Voltron-Force wasn't that well received by fans. But 🤷‍♂️ C'est le vive? It has jaded my view on any reboot on Classic 1980s series on Netflix. 

[Salkafar]

I watched the original show (That is to say,  King of Beasts Golion ) in 2020 and I was stunned to find how bad it actually was. Just the weirdest combination of childishly dumb plots with shockingly bloody violence. That this was made several years after Mobile Suit Gundam was most shocking.

The reboot was pretty good, IMHO, but I only watched it up to the point where they introduced Lotor. I hear the finale was GOT-levels of disappointing.

[Hyper_Guyvantic]

On 2/2/2022 at 4:32 PM, Salkafar said:

I watched the original show (That is to say,  King of Beasts Golion ) in 2020 and I was stunned to find how bad it actually was. Just the weirdest combination of childishly dumb plots with shockingly bloody violence. That this was made several years after Mobile Suit Gundam was most shocking.

The reboot was pretty good, IMHO, but I only watched it up to the point where they introduced Lotor. I hear the finale was GOT-levels of disappointing.

So its the Gamera of anime 😉 🤣 I kid I kid. I never got a chance to see the original Go-Lion except for clips via youtube. I did like what they did with Lotor to a point - have him allied with Voltron-Force (refuse to call it Team-Voltron - sounds to childish) even hook him up with Allura (not that I really liked this Allura since season 2) which was new and different. But I knew he was a Romulan in sheep's clothing. Hell the voice actor I at first thought was Gray Haddock who I think voiced Archanfel.

Even though I liked Seasons 1&2, some of 3&6, and half of 7. That being said I think that Season-3 to Season-8 is because they weren't banking on it being received so... "well"? But yeah... it is up there for disappointing endings with GoT. So far of all the reboots I have seen of series from the 80s only 3 have out shined their originals in my opinion. Because of how it ended, I refused to watch or rewatch any reboot series on Netflix. 

[Salkafar]