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Please watch Voltron season seven to read this. The review is all over the place, and poorly written, but it does contain major spoilers.
I finished season 7 around 8:30 am central time, about 7 hours after the newest season of Voltron was released. As soon as I finished the season, I had felt many emotions about the episodes and was confused about some of the plot lines. I went to social media to see how others had thought. I loved the plot line of Hunk wanting to find his family, save them, and need to be with them again so that he can have his dreams be real. Pidge wanted to get back to her mother and help bring back the Castle of Lions, while Lance wanted to get back to his family, while protecting his sister, Veronica, from the fight of the Galra.
The beginning of the season was off to a good start. A mystery as to how to get the Lions' power so they could get back to Earth, finding an ex-druid of Haggar's, saving some of the Blade of Marmora from ultimate extinction, to a random game show hosted by, the guy I want to call the ultimate decider of the universe, Bob. The game show episode had left an intrigue in my mind as I tried to solve what it was, and after five minutes, I knew it was to be a shared dream of the paladins, as I have done this in my own works of writing as well. After Krolia had left the paladins, and they were back on track with the coordinates of Earth, the episode which they were stranded in a timeless hallucination was one of the best episodes I had seen today. Showing the tiredness of the paladins as they were seemingly stranded from their Lions as the rest of their crew were frozen in time due to a storm in space was amazing. Showing the fear of never reaching home, and then the blast of going through the storm as Voltron, ending up at the Milky Way as they receive a message indicating that Earth was not safe, it had left a strong helplessness feeling in my heart and soul for the Paladins of Voltron. Immediately, we go to the fight back at home, four years before.
They were missing for a year between the time that Shiro landed on Earth and Sam coming back home. An unknown amount of time had passed when Lotor became emperor and before he died, but when we finally get a timepiece, it is three years into the future. The paladins and crew were three years older without aging a day, and without an actual statement of how they were transported to the future. Katie Holt, who was around 14 when she went off into space, would technically be 18 now, but she never aged a day since she left, and she is the youngest. It was made clear that even without the time jump, they would be older by at least a year! A year! The only one who looks older is Keith, and that is because he was stuck in a black hole with his mother for two years.
Back on Earth, many technological advances were taking place, and Admiral Sandra was denying telling the public, at which I understand about not doing so, but I would have advised against not telling the citizens of Earth, and tell everyone just so there would have been more preparations. By the time the Galra had attacked, they had just sent out the call to the citizens of Earth to help against the aliens who were coming for them. No time at all to help in the way that Sam Holt had wanted them to. Voltron being left on a moon of Saturn, the Paladins were taken to Earth, and Shiro finds out that his fiance, Adam was killed, in which we believe was in that first order of fighters against the Galra when Sam advised Admiral Sandra to use the cadets.
That brings up a clause that a lot of the LGBT fans of Voltron has against the showmakers. The LGBT representation was released a few weeks back at San Diego Comic-Con as Shiro being gay and having a fiance named Adam. The first episode, we get about a minute total of Adam screen time. In the only other episodes with getting with him, he died within 18 seconds, and the rest is of a plate on a memorial. Never getting a chance to show Shiro and Adam on the same screen again, at which a lot of the fans were hoping. To show a reunion, even if it was a hatred one between two ex-lovers drawn between leaving Earth or health, would have been great with Adam's death. Instead, we get Shiro not getting any remorse about finding out that Adam dies except for a good 5 seconds of him being at the memorial. That is not how it should have gone down. We cannot feel sad about a death if we had only seen a hatred between the two for Shiro leaving Earth for the good of his health. At the time it was released a few weeks ago, we were hoping for more, but instead, our hearts are only broken because it seems to be queerbaiting.
