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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: 2018-12-26 03:57 am (UTC)I assume you're talking about Lotor/AJ here? There's been so much going around and very few credible receipts, but that's the only one that made sense when everything else about this story was so off.
As for everything else: yeah, it's still stupid to suck up to antis, full stop. They're all so quick to turn on each other the minute one steps out of line...look at how fast even Shada went from Golden boy to cishet white scum after his video at the Toronto con or how "suddenly" someone discovered an old tweet of Seamus Kelley's about Shidge from way back in 2016 after he stopped feeding the delusion about Bi Lance was going to happen.
Internal politics or not, courting these kinds of bad fans is playing with fire.
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Date: 2018-12-26 04:03 am (UTC)It's all just really messy.
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Date: 2018-12-26 12:14 pm (UTC)Why would creators (whether its the EP's or the studio) want to entirely fuck over their fanbase like that? I don't think it was to troll the fans since the bulk of this show would've been wrapped up by mid-2017, but...again, yikes. I just have no other words at this point.