Keith Posted August 20, 2011 Posted August 20, 2011 I kinda enjoyed that show. I think it suffered from a lack of toys & marketing. Everything did during that time. The original triangle was disturbing! Yes, the princess and Keith had a vibe going. But in an early episode Allura is captured and becomes Lotor's sex slave. (It's heavily implied.) In that context, every time after that in which Lotor spoke or "flirted" with Allura, he comes off with a whole new level of gloaty and creepy. Note that in the original GoLion, that was a relative of hers that actually had become his sex slave. Quote
MIsaHayase Posted August 21, 2011 Posted August 21, 2011 I kinda enjoyed that show. I think it suffered from a lack of toys & marketing. Everything did during that time. The original triangle was disturbing! Yes, the princess and Keith had a vibe going. But in an early episode Allura is captured and becomes Lotor's sex slave. (It's heavily implied.) In that context, every time after that in which Lotor spoke or "flirted" with Allura, he comes off with a whole new level of gloaty and creepy. Actually, IN Both GoLion AND Voltron, it is her distant relative that is captured. Allura/Fala never was his sex slave. her cousin Romelle (can't remember her GoLion name) was, but thanks to 80's censorship, you don't hear the screams that were in GoLion when Sincline "took" her (meaning Fala's cousin). Quote
areaseven Posted August 23, 2011 Posted August 23, 2011 So it uses the original Voltron theme. Still doesn't improve the show one bit. Quote
Keith Posted August 23, 2011 Posted August 23, 2011 Wait a minute? So all anyone had to do was hit Voltron's shield & all the pilots would get spit out? Don't the other bad guys feel stupid! Quote
Einherjar Posted August 23, 2011 Posted August 23, 2011 For all that build up they wasted the theme song. Quote
MIsaHayase Posted August 24, 2011 Posted August 24, 2011 The whole show is a waste. I just want to see if it makes it past the first season....It's a good thing WEP can't get their hands on Macross. I'd hate to see them butcher a reboot.... Quote
Wanzerfan Posted August 25, 2011 Posted August 25, 2011 Whoever had the balls to make this show must've taken a penalty weight's worth of LSD. Quote
RedWolf Posted September 5, 2011 Author Posted September 5, 2011 And we got the Green center Voltron. Yeah Predator Robeast will still trounce it as it isn't an ace in hole as hoped. Quote
mustang1 Posted September 5, 2011 Posted September 5, 2011 I still say this is nothing more than a high budget e-surance commercial!!!!!!! Quote
ps99042 Posted September 5, 2011 Posted September 5, 2011 What the hell is with the way any lion can be the body of Volton? The show was bad enough on its own and then they introduce this concept... Quote
ae_productions Posted September 21, 2011 Posted September 21, 2011 Ouch. Maybe I was better off keeping my head in the sand about this reboot. Quote
MIsaHayase Posted September 22, 2011 Posted September 22, 2011 Considering I'm a pidge fan, I like the Green Center, but still hate the new show! Quote
Einherjar Posted October 16, 2011 Posted October 16, 2011 Anyone want to make bets on who Daniel, Vince, and Larmina will permanently replace as lion pilots? Quote
Keith Posted November 4, 2011 Posted November 4, 2011 Wow, they "really" don't get the super robot show concept do they? Quote
Einherjar Posted November 5, 2011 Posted November 5, 2011 (edited) Holy crap that's.... Voltron! I am so frakking confused now. I understand they're doing a meta episode about the franchise, but I assumed from the very beginning that they were taking the Gundam Wing Endless Waltz route, implying that the new design of Voltron was how it always looked like in the original show. Or hell, like how DYRL changed the appearance of the original show and ultimately the Macross universe. Edited November 5, 2011 by Einherjar Quote
Keith Posted November 5, 2011 Posted November 5, 2011 Actually, DYRL was representative of what the Macross universe already looked like in 2031, but that's moot, since this rnew voltron series is clearly FUBAR. Quote
anime52k8 Posted November 5, 2011 Posted November 5, 2011 Holy crap that's.... Voltron! I know I'm pretty late to the party but god damn the art quality on this show is crap. Quote
Einherjar Posted November 7, 2011 Posted November 7, 2011 (edited) Quote from the crew about the clip: To be 100% clear Dudley is based off me (Jeremy) and is NO WAY intended as a slam against classic fans (though we all have a little Dudley in us). Glad to see some of you are getting that. No different than when Batman: Brave and the Bold went to Comic Con. Yes I want to be clear that Dudley is in fact based on... me (though we all have a bit of Dudley inside us!) and sort of the dark side of fandom.In fact, production loathed me when I went through that Dudley collection to make sure all the colors were right and show accurate. Had to change the blaster as well! It's a fun meta-episode we wrote predicting a bit of the backlash against the new cadets so please take it in stride and try to enjoy it. Didn't Batman: Brave and the Bold do something similar with them going to Comic Con? what you ARENT seeing is the B story of the episode which is really incredible with the Lions becoming sentient and the Force has to tame them once more! It's AWESOME! It's also a chance to sneak on a Classic Voltron model which is actually the Mattel Blazing Sword Voltron! It's a hilarious episode written by Daniel Powell (EP Ugly Americans) that should get everyone talking next week Thursday at 8:30 PM EST only on Nicktoons! Batman had the advantage of Bat-mite doing the commentary, though. Edited November 7, 2011 by Einherjar Quote
Keith Posted November 7, 2011 Posted November 7, 2011 lol at the backlasth. I wonder if this actually real, as I can't fathom any classic voltron fans following the show long enough to even catch this episode, let alone care enough to think they were being slammed. As for the lions being sentient....THEY WERE NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE FREAKIN SENTIENT!! Damn I'm glad the new Thundercats is the polar opposite to this, though I'm surprised that Tommy Yune can resist turning the robotech franchise into this. Quote
Funkenstein Posted November 7, 2011 Posted November 7, 2011 Robotech is going to get folded into Transformers 4 and will be featured as sentient jet fighters called the "Robotechians" Starscream will lead them poorly (Unless he died in TF3, I never kept up with those movies). Quote
anime52k8 Posted November 8, 2011 Posted November 8, 2011 (edited) Robotech is going to get folded into Transformers 4 and will be featured as sentient jet fighters called the "Robotechians" Starscream will lead them poorly (Unless he died in TF3, I never kept up with those movies). Starscream had both his eyes gouged out and his head blown off with a grenade by Shia Labeouf. Edited November 23, 2011 by anime52k8 Quote
RD Blade Posted November 8, 2011 Posted November 8, 2011 Starscream had both his eyes gouged out they his head blown off with a grenade by Shia Labeouf. So he's out then? Quote
Einherjar Posted November 8, 2011 Posted November 8, 2011 (edited) lol at the backlasth. I wonder if this actually real, as I can't fathom any classic voltron fans following the show long enough to even catch this episode, let alone care enough to think they were being slammed. As for the lions being sentient....THEY WERE NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE FREAKIN SENTIENT!! Preview of S1E15 "Dudley- Voltron's Biggest Fan" Didn't The Third Dimension do an episode about the lions being sentient or going crazy? I don't remember, but then again, it really doesn't matter anymore. Damn I'm glad the new Thundercats is the polar opposite to this, though I'm surprised that Tommy Yune can resist turning the robotech franchise into this. HG is apparently too poor to do even this these days. Edited November 8, 2011 by Einherjar Quote
RedWolf Posted November 8, 2011 Author Posted November 8, 2011 As for the lions being sentient....THEY WERE NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE FREAKIN SENTIENT!! In the original series it is implied Voltron was one sentient unpiloted robot, something carried over from Golion. Though as said later depictions in V3D, the IDW comic and now Voltron Force has the lions as sentient. Quote
Keith Posted November 8, 2011 Posted November 8, 2011 It's arguable in golion since it was a "legend" that was never explored during the series itself. Quote
EXO Posted November 8, 2011 Posted November 8, 2011 cheap ploy to market classic Voltron? Also, maybe to tie the new Voltron to the same universe as the old one for completist collectors. It's be genius except for one thing... the show blows. Quote
RedWolf Posted November 22, 2011 Author Posted November 22, 2011 (edited) Not only does a fanboy has a scaled classic Voltron toy but the cadets get a combining support robot of their own made from those trash vehicles called... Awesometron. Sigh~ Dammit... From what I see this robot should be smaller than a robot lion but when compared to Dudley's Voltron replica half the size. I'm just going to brush this off as his Voltron isn't a 1:1 scale. Oh Sven got mentioned with his uniform. Back on Awesometron you just wish the Vehicle Voltron comes back instead of that. But the next ep features Pidge's home planet... and his brother Chip. No word on Vehicle Voltron if it exist in this continuity. Which begs the question how easy it is here to create combiner robots in Voltron Force. Everybody has one. Wade's combiner robot. Lotor's Predator Robeast. Episode 17 Ghost in the Lion Sven Lionjacks Blue Lion. Edited November 22, 2011 by RedWolf Quote
Keith Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 You know, I think I'm actually gonna have to call a "worse than shadow chronicles" on this series. Quote
Einherjar Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 (edited) I miss the days when this franchise took itself seriously. This isn't satire. I guess it's easy to imagine what a season 2 will be like now. For the love of God, please don't get renewed. Edited November 22, 2011 by Einherjar Quote
Reïvaj Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 This is such a big pile of steaming crap! Though I have to say I think my eight-year-old little brother would enjoy this show… Quote
ps99042 Posted November 23, 2011 Posted November 23, 2011 You know, I think I'm actually gonna have to call a "worse than shadow chronicles" on this series. I'll second this. I had hoped that the show would actually improve over time but it's gotten worse with every episode and the animation is still horrible. Quote
Einherjar Posted November 23, 2011 Posted November 23, 2011 You know, I think I'm actually gonna have to call a "worse than shadow chronicles" on this series. I'm not sure. The animation is crap, but at least the showrunners are behind it until the end of its current run. All of this is leading to something big at the end, right? Most importantly, something people will be able to see within their lifetimes? Quote
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