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zenolaliaI don't like the way the crew of Shera and the Princesses of Power behaves in public. I don't like the way they shit-talk their peers making related series, like VLD. I don't like the way several of them court antishippers.
But I do think it is awfully interesting that at approximately the same time we know the edits were being made to Voltron season 8, that's when the SPOP crew started really talking shit about Voltron.
It's awfully interesting that this crew, working under the same studio and therefore subjected to less stringent NDA restrictions, just so happened to complain about the exact things that we now know were being fucked by the S8 edits.
It's almost as if the SPOP crew had heard about the shitshow going on next door at VLD and, knowing that their own property (another toy-driven 80s media re-vamp with strong influences from anime and ATLA, and a large capital-F Fandom following) might be next on the block for that kind of meddling, tried to speak out.
Badly, mind you. Unacceptably, in my opinion.
And yet, it's awfully fucking interesting.
But I do think it is awfully interesting that at approximately the same time we know the edits were being made to Voltron season 8, that's when the SPOP crew started really talking shit about Voltron.
It's awfully interesting that this crew, working under the same studio and therefore subjected to less stringent NDA restrictions, just so happened to complain about the exact things that we now know were being fucked by the S8 edits.
It's almost as if the SPOP crew had heard about the shitshow going on next door at VLD and, knowing that their own property (another toy-driven 80s media re-vamp with strong influences from anime and ATLA, and a large capital-F Fandom following) might be next on the block for that kind of meddling, tried to speak out.
Badly, mind you. Unacceptably, in my opinion.
And yet, it's awfully fucking interesting.
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Date: 2018-12-25 10:08 pm (UTC)(I've watched up to around s3? And then I was like 'I'll catch up later!' and then suddenly there was no more seasons being made and everything was one fire?)
How-- how did any of the executives think this was a good idea??? I could see how *some* of the decisions might have seen reasonable, but 'let's retcon someone to being alive, but not retcon the murder-revenge plot!' and 'lets have someone marry and background character, and not get rid of the background character!' are just... WHAT.
(Though this is leading to a fun guessing game of 'which character ended up as a rotting corpse?' and ' which characters were meant to get married?' My current wild guess is that Rotting Corpse was the guy who got erased for a bg character.)
And 'make an audio description track' is, like, one of those things you have to budget time for, and not just skip. Seriously.
...Executives: can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.