I can't believe I'm about to say this but...

[zenolalia]

I 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.

Comments

[gaytog]

Um, holy shit?

I watched season 8 when it came out, but I've always been a pretty casual, mostly uninterested viewer, so my reaction to everything was either "That was kinda weird but, eh, this show has always been weird about pacing and plot structure" or "That was kinda weird, maybe I misremembered X."

Seeing everything laid out is just...what the hell.

[zenolalia]

Yeah, like, if I hadn't gotten really back into the show this summer and re-watched the whole thing and obsessed over the meta, I would probably have just shrugged it off as a loss of funding (dropped animation quality) and some plot weirdness mixed with misunderstanding/over-crediting the earlier seasons.

But taking the show in as a whole, and then the entire.... fucking.... mess that is season 8 in comparison to the rest of it, it's just kind of fucking insane?