Voltron’s third season sets up the team we know and love – Preview
Netflix is flush with great animation lately. It ranges from Bojack Horseman to Blame! to Castlevania. After two seasons, Voltron Legendary Defender definitely belongs on that list. The third season is here, and I had a chance to check out a couple episodes before the upcoming August 4 premiere. The season puts the final member of Team Voltron in place and introduces one of its most classic villains.
The first season of Voltron brought the original team together – Keith, Lance, Hunk, Pidge, and Shiro – and got them into their color-coordinated lions. But fans of the original show know it doesn’t stay that way. Called Shirogane in the Japanese show GoLion and Sven in the hacked-together show we know as Voltron: Defender of the Universe, Shiro is the guy who pilots the black lion, the head and body of the beast, and the second season of the show follows the general path of the original, separating Shiro from his black lion and forcing the team to find a new pilot – and that’s where the third season starts off.
While Voltron hews more closely to something like Avatar: The Last Airbender or The Legend of Korra than the other, more adult-oriented shows I listed above, I never feel like a child when I watch that. No, I save that for when I tune into My Hero Academia every Saturday morning on Crunchyroll. Voltron Legendary Defender has done a great job of treating its characters and viewers both like thinking, feeling beings instead of demographics to be sold toys to.
Season 3 returns to Team Voltron in the aftermath of a big battle and an even bigger loss. The black paladin, Shiro is gone, and the remaining four don’t know what to do. They’ve been continuing to fly their own lion-bots, but right from the get-go it feels like something is missing in every scene. They’re working, they know their machines better than ever, but they’re not quite unified the way they should be.
It feels like grieving. These characters experienced a heartbreaking loss, and have been marinating in it. Instead of dwelling on it for too long, though, the show uses it as a way to help the characters grow in meaningful ways. Even just a couple episodes in, there’s some satisfying changes happening to the character interactions.
Of Man and Ro-beast
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