Korras Growth (Book 3: Change)

Korra’s Growth (Book 3: Change)

In season three Korra is shown to be much more understanding of others right away when she connects with a random man who is scared at the top of a bridge. This is something that Korra wouldn’t have been able to do prior to the end of season two. It also shows her first major impact on the balance of the world with the return of the airbenders. She realizes that the airbenders where brought back through the opening of the portals during harmonic convergence and focuses on using it to help the world achieve balance instead of a notch in her status as an impactful avatar. She has become less focused on her possible legacy and comparisons to her past lives and instead focuses on how she can help now. The public reaction to her bothered her, but she didn’t let it drive her actions in this season like she did in past seasons. She actually thought her actions through and made sure her friends were in agreement with her and would help her before going through with a plan like in the Stakeout, In Harm’s Way, and Enter the Void. She even talks some sense into Lin over Lin’s misplaced anger alibi in her blunt straight to the point way. Korra’s emotional growth is on full display in this season. She has learned from her past actions and made a conscious effort to change. She is still emotional but has gotten much better at handling it and channeling it into the task at hand in a positive manner. This change culminates in her final decision, which she makes after seeking counsel from many other characters, to give herself up to Zaheer in exchange for the airbenders.

Her final decision to give herself up for the airbenders shows that she had really become a selfless avatar. She decides to give herself up knowing full well that she had a high chance of being killed. And for the first time in the series she is punished for a truly selfless act and is forced to endure physical and psychological torture. Her immense self doubt comes to the forefront as a result of this torture. It has been festering since the beginning, but until this point her end victory had always proven, at least to some extent, that she did have a place in the world. Through her enemies she has been told time and time again that the world would be better off without her, without the avatar. She starts to seriously doubt what it means to be the avatar and if the world really does need her. Being the Avatar has brought her nothing but pain. She has paid tolls that no one should have to, but, until this point, has kept moving forward in spite of them. Her enemies weren’t the people who pushed her over the edge during her internal crisis it was actually Tenzin. Korra is struggling to move forward after the traumatic events that the red lotus put her through and Tenzin’s final speech in season 3 echoes similar, unintentional, similarities to what the red lotus believed. In Tenzin’s speech during Jinora’s tattoo ceremony he declares that the new air nation will follow in Korra’s footsteps and step up and “take” her place in her absence working to bring peace to the world. It is one thing hearing her greatest fear from her enemies, but hearing it from someone she trusts and looks up to made her self doubt come crashing down on top of her. She is already at her lowest physically and mentally she was teetering on the edge. Tenzin’s statement made her think that her enemies were right, that the world didn’t need her, because it had people in it that could do her job for her. Zaheer preached that “new growth cannot exist without first the destruction of the old” and Korra feels like she is seeing the beginnings of a new force for change and balance through Jinora and the new air nation and that maybe the Avatar is the old, obsolete and unneeded . And in that moment she can’t hide the pain anymore and a single tear slips out. That single tear was Korra’s breaking point.

Korra has defined herself by being the avatar and once that is stripped of her she doesn’t know her place in the world or if her existence means anything. This book was about her becoming a more understanding and patient avatar but it was also about breaking down that avatar identity within her. She had begun to separate herself from the avatar subconsciously and was more able to put herself into other people’s shoes and understand others, but she continued to define her meaning in the world as being the avatar. As the avatar she has nigh infinite power within her universe which can make you distant from others especially if others around you constantly put you on that pedestal. Korra started the series having been put on that pedestal all her life while also being kept completely separate from the world and people she was supposed to bring balance to. This lead to her initial personality, attitude, and complete inexperience interacting with people. She is forced to experience the hardships that came as a result she managed to grow out of that previous mindset that was sort of forced upon her by her upbringing and be able to connect with everyday people, but to connect with her enemies she needed to discover how to define herself outside of being the avatar. She had to learn to define herself not only as a force for change but also as a force for balance. As in not every enemy needs to be defeated by force, but some can be understood and empathized with and brought down without force. That her enemies weren’t completely wrong in their philosophy and that to bring about balance their views can’t be entirely discarded. No one ideology has all the answers. And that comes with her journey for purpose and finding her own place in the world that starts out book four.

Korra’s Growth (Book 4: Balance)

Korra has been a character defined by her resilience. She is broken down time and time again and the tolls she is forced to pay become greater with each season. The biggest problem with her resilience was that to forge forward she pushed her pain back and with the breaking of her spirit and body in Book 3 she can’t push it back and avoid it any longer. This time she can’t move forward until she deals with the trauma of what has happened to her. People seemed to struggle with understanding Korra’s mental illness and even Korra herself struggled to understand it. Korra’s journey to recover brings her to a greater understanding of who she is and this understanding allows her to open herself up to her enemies and friends in a way she couldn’t before. She grows to realize that being the avatar isn’t really about being able to bend all the elements, but who she is as a person. The most influential avatars were able to enact real change during their time because of their ideals and their individual identities. Korra’s struggle to grasp this and discover her own identity is realized in this Book.

Korra was at her lowest point from the end of book 3 to the beginning of book 4. Her struggles with identity and ptsd don’t just go away and she can’t truly move forward until she faces them. She avoids them for many years and they fester into a negative mindset towards herself. She completely disregards her own wellbeing throughout the latter part of the Korra Alone episode and spirals into a state of self destruction in her desperation to get better and discover herself. Her recovery process is slow which frustrates her because the longer she is incapacitated the longer others do her “job” for her and the less her place in the world matters. Korra’s decision to go out on her own mirrors Zuko’s in the episode that this one was named after, Zuko Alone. They are both trying to discover for themselves what they should do and their identity separate from their birthright and their frustration at their inability to find what they are searching for leads to their inward anger turning towards an outward conflict. With Korra the outward conflict manifests differently in that she sees herself. That version of her is a manifestation of her trauma and the destruction of the basis of her believed identity. She tries to defeat it and destroy it, but fails time and time again. She takes a while to learn that she can’t destroy it but instead needs to accept it and learn to channel it positively because it has shaped her and made her who she is. She struggles with this and it leads her to Toph. Toph is exactly what she needs at this moment because Toph won’t hold back and will be frank with her. Korra needs to know that she isn’t in this alone but she also needs someone able to give her a reality check. She is so busy fighting herself that she hasn’t taken the time to think of what she is really running from and Toph opens her eyes to what exactly that is. 

Korra was completely broken after her confrontation with the red lotus. This was the third time that she had hit “rock bottom” and to her it must have seemed like everytime her rock bottom somehow got lower. She grows to subconsciously dread what could come next which leads to her inadvertently holding herself back from fully physically recovering. The fact that she has to be the one to take the poison out of her body shows that only she can make the decision to move forward and return to her duties as the avatar, no one else can do it for her. They can only help her get to that point. Toph not only opens Korra’s eyes to the reality of her physical state, but also teaches her how to see expand her view and see the world through a different lens in both a metaphorical and literal sense with the philosophies of her enemies and the spirit energy respectively. This widening of her scope makes it so that she can be found by the airbending siblings and in a way Korra has discovered a part of herself that she didn’t know about, her connection to the whole world through energy bending. Once Korra is found by the airbender children she decides to remove the poison and go with them to Zaofu. In this moment she decided to stop letting her fear hold her back from doing what she needs. She had conflicting feelings because she simultaneously dreaded the possibility of the avatar having no place in the world and the pain that came from being the avatar. Her decision to move forward in spite of these fears and face at least the physical part of her fear shows her desire to do what she believes is right and her resilience. In Zaofu she is brought face to face with Kuvira, the source of unrest. Korra tries to approach the situation with diplomacy first, much to the chagrin of Opal and Suyin, showing a blatant change from previous seasons. Korra admits that the “old her” would have jumped straight into physical conflict with Kuvira to end this, but she thinks that there must be a better way. Korra knows now that solving problems with force more often than not causes detriment to both sides and that trying to find a middle ground is the best course of action for everybody. Suyin tries to end the conflict with force by, what is implied to be, assassinating Kuvira which escalates the situation and leads to the forceful takeover of Zaofu. Korra takes considerably more caution and only uses violence when absolutely necessary, but mentally Korra still hasn’t completely recovered from the fight with Zaheer and sees the shadow version of herself projected onto Kuvira. Korra sees herself in Kuvira: the confident attitude, adeptness at the physical side of bending, and her penchant for physical conflict. Kuvira is a dark mirror to what Korra could have been if she hadn’t gone through the trials that she did. She is a dark version of what Korra’s trauma could have made her if she didn’t decide to change and also a dark mirror of what Korra could have been if she hadn’t learned humility, but this also gives Korra hope that Kuvira wasn’t beyond reason or redemption. Korra can’t quite reach Kuvira yet though because she hasn’t yet dealt with the mental and spiritual block she has that is preventing her self-realization. Korra hasn’t fully realized the similarities between her and Kuvira and found a way through to her. 

Korra is then pushed into a situation where she needs to confront the root of her spiritual disconnect and the man who pushed her to her physical and mental limits. She initially confronts Zaheer to say to his face that she isn’t afraid, but she’s lying when she says this and he calls her out on it. He calls her out on her denial. The problem isn’t that she’s afraid it’s that she won’t accept what happened to her and that she is afraid, she’s pushed it back like she did everything else. Zaheer guiding her into the spirit world marks a notable change within Korra in that she found a middle ground with an enemy and accepts his help. She realizes that his offer for help is genuine because he realizes that his actions have brought about the exact opposite effect of what was intended. Her acceptance of his help is where she enacts Toph’s lesson about learning from her enemies and it is through these actions of trust towards her enemy that she is able to grow to empathize with her enemies to the point where she can get them to trust her and end a conflict without force. By accepting what has happened to her she is able to feel whole and stronger than before. She has discovered who she is and is now confident in that identity. 

She uses this new understanding of herself to become the leader she was always meant to be. She leads the republic city forces against Kuvira’s colossus and cooperates seamlessly with everybody to infiltrate and take Kuvira and the colossus down. Once the colossus is down Korra tries to reason with Kuvira. Now that the weapon of mass destruction is no longer threatening anybody Kuvira no longer has her power over everybody and there is a greater chance of getting through to her now that she has lost her advantage. Korra realizes that to prevent greater bloodshed Kuvira needs to stand down. Korra deciding to protect Kuvira from the spirit energy blast was the culmination of her journey as a person and as the avatar. Her deciding to protect Kuvira shows her growth in empathy and desire to help not only her friends, but also her enemies. Kuvira and Korra are mirrored against each other again in the spirit world with Korra blue and Kuvira originally being a purple Korra. This visualizes what Korra herself has come to realize about the similarities between her and Kuvira. Korra uses this understanding to connect with Kuvira and be honest about her own struggles and find common ground. She has come to see that no one ideology has all the answers and that to truly achieve balance she needs to open herself up to change. Through her trials and tribulations she has remained resilient and picked herself up each and every time she fell. It is through this desire to keep going that Korra is able to find ways to grow. Korra had to find balance within herself and with that personal growth came spiritual growth and an ability to change the world for the better through lessons learned from her enemies.

She-ra Season 4 Review (Spoilers)

Wow...Just wow. These past two seasons of She-ra have managed to blow me away. She-ra truly found its footing with season 3 and it hasn’t slowed down this season one bit. The character and relationship writing has been spot on and they managed to raise the stakes without losing the heart of the series, which is a difficult feat. The first season, while a pretty strong start, had some trouble with balancing the tone. It would go from incredibly light and goofy to dark and serious and touch on some really heavy stuff which was jarring at times. The show seemed to mostly correct that problem with season 2 which was largely a transition season for the series and was the calm before the storm. Seasons 3 and 4 have truly been great. They both greatly expanded the lore of the world and series while producing character and relationship focused episodes that have been some of my favorite episodes of tv.

She-ra, while bright and flashy, has always been a character focused show. This season puts heavy focus on Glimmer, Adora, Catra, and Scorpia. The deteriorating relationship between Glimmer and Adora is the driving force behind this season and all of the tension feels believable. Glimmer’s stress over her new position as queen and grief over the loss of her mother lead to her making questionable choices and that become more and more morally ambiguous all while still believing that she’s on her “hero” pedestal. She trusts shadow weaver and doesn’t listen to her friends when they know more about the situation than she does. This lead to some believable, but at times frustrating, character development because I knew that if Glimmer just calmed down and listened a lot of the bad things that happened at the end of the season wouldn’t have. That is a minor complaint on my part because it gave Glimmer some much needed growth and a future potentially fascinating dual redemption arc with Catra.

Catra is the character I believe to be the best written in the entire show and that continues to be the case this season. Catra went through an arc similar to Zuko’s in the first part of book three. She finally achieved everything she believed she wanted at the cost of all her connections. This leads to her breaking down mentally because she can’t understand why she feels so empty despite achieving her “goals”. She breaks mentally and finally realizes that while she was a victim in the beginning every bad choice she’s made throughout the show is her own fault and she is the one who pushed everyone away despite their desperate attempts to reach her. The end of the season leaves with her having realized this and deciding to help Glimmer. “When you hit your lowest point you are open to the biggest change” basically embodies what I believe was happening with Catra’s arc. She had to spiral to her lowest when she thinks she should be at her highest to finally realize her own shortcomings and make steps towards change. I really hope that Catra is now on the road to redemption because so far she has been the most consistently fascinating character on the show and her redemption arc can be a powerful and well constructed one that will be remembered. 

Each season seems to have a stand out episode or two and for this season those episodes were “Hero” and the finale. “Hero” did a very good job of juxtaposing the present and the past to effectively show both Mara’s journey and the dissonance within Madam Razz’s head. It dropped game changing revelations about Mara’s end and the Heart of Etheria and ended on a tragic, bittersweet note that hits emotionally. Mara’s story may not have had a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean Adora’s won’t. Adora is simultaneously given a heavy load to bear and a weight is lifted off of her. Adora’s will to keep going despite the odds becomes even more commendable in light of these revelations, which comes to a head in the finale. The finale changed everything once again. The world and characters can’t go back to what they once were. Everything was flipped on its head. It ended many plot threads, but left a devastated Etheria and seemingly insurmountable odds for our heroes to face. It really seemed like the beginning of the end.

She-ra has managed to impress me yet again and I will not hesitate to say that it had a fantastic season. It seems to constantly one up itself with each season in one way or another. The show runners, voice cast, and animators have all done a phenomenal job. There is so much potential going forward with the world, characters, and conflict. I can’t wait to see what’s next.

How I Would Change Spiderman Homecoming

I am a huge Spiderman fan and love the character. Spiderman homecoming was an amazing outing for the character. The arc that Peter goes through in the movie is learning that being Spiderman isn’t just taking down world ending threats it’s all the little things he does to help everyone, that he can’t lose sight of the people he is trying to protect while trying to prove himself, and that with great power comes great responsibility. Except that phrased isn’t said. Instead they try really hard to avoid the classic saying as well as Uncle Ben. Instead of making the phrase that Peter remembers under the rubble be “If you’re nothing without this suit then you shouldn’t have it.” I would have made the quote the classic “With great power comes great responsibility.”. I would also change the arc of Peter realizing this a bit. I would have made Peter still have the conflict with Peter and make him the voice of reason but frame it with Uncle Ben within the arc. Keep Peter trying to prove himself to Tony and him learning that through his attempt he has thrown caution to the wind and moved away from why he initially became Spiderman. But have him realize this through remembering Uncle Ben and the iconic phrase. Tony taking the suit away was the wake-up call and when Peter is returning in his mismatched  clothes I would have put a flashback to Uncle Ben giving Peter his great power speech and when Peter is trapped under the rubble have him remember the what Uncle Ben told him. Also I would have Uncle Ben’s death be mentioned in the movie sometime before this.

This would include Uncle Ben in the MCU Spiderman’s story hitting home with old fans and letting new fans know how important Uncle Ben is to the Spiderman character. I showed this movie to my little cousin as an introduction to Spiderman and while watching it I realized that there was no way she would know who Uncle Ben is or that he is integral to the character of Spiderman which is what I wish would have been addressed and conveyed in Spiderman Homecoming. Other than that I loved the movie and it is easily one of my favorite superhero movies.

Trish and Jessica-AKA Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object

The main theme of Jessica Jones season 3 is at what point is someone beyond redemption and do we have the right to decide. This is at the core of Jessica and Trish’s conflict in season 3. Trish believes that she is “the world’s moral compass” and sees the world in black and white. There is a clear good and bad but she places herself above her perceived morality. Since she believes that she is above her perceived morality it gives her the right to choose who is beyond redemption and who isn’t. Meanwhile Jessica is harder on herself about her morality. She believes the worst in herself and thus tries to keep herself in check. She knows she isn’t above making morally questionable decisions given the right motivation and thus believes that she can’t be the one to decide if someone is too far gone because she is subject to error and letting her emotions drive her. This is what eventually leads to their respective endgames within the Jessica Jones narrative.

Trish has shown seeds of this from the very beginning. She wasn’t able to carry through with it herself because she didn’t have superpowers, but once she got superpowers she started down the slippery slope that all the marvel netflix heroes have had to deal with throughout their respective shows. The thing that finally pushed her down was her mother’s death. With her mother’s death Trish had trouble reconciling the possible and slowly evolving redemption of their relationship with the reality of the abuse she suffered at her mother’s hand. This caused her to view the negative effects of the results of her mother’s abuse through the same lense as the positive characteristics she developed because of her mother’s influence. She took the positive tenacity and applied the lessons her mother taught her about undermining and forcing change with her abilities to the proportional extremes that Dorothy did at times. She wasn’t able to see the downward spiral into being the “bad guy” because her entire perspective on herself and her abilities had been warped in this way. The seeds had always been there through her pushing/encouraging Jessica into her final decision with Kilgrave to her intense desperation to get powers and finally become a vigilante hero to her killing Jessica’s mother. She had been slipping down this slope for a long time it only took a final push to make her fall all the way down. Trish has always had an ends justify the means mentality. In her final desperate attempt to continue the lie she tells herself, that she is still in the right, she does the unthinkable and tries to kill Jessica. This was due to her desperation to deny that she had become the very thing she hates the most and that her assessment of Jessica not having what it takes was wrong because sometimes it takes more strength to let someone like Salinger live than it does to kill him. She had been the victim for so long that when she finally got the power she craved she became the oppressor.

Jessica on the other hand has been gradually growing into a more conventional hero throughout the show’s run and has learned from her abusers and managed to break the cycle of abuse instead of perpetuate it. Her story has had the exact opposite trajectory of Trish’s. Jessica fears herself and her failures. She fears that all the death that she has experienced will be for nothing and that pushes her forward. There are multiple times throughout the show that she has tried to run only to end up facing her problems in the end. The fear that she isn’t good enough is ever present and is what ends up making her more heroic. As with Trish the death of her mother plays a big role in her growth towards her end position, but instead of pushing her to extremes it causes her to reign in her darker nature and try to live up to the moniker she so fears. Whereas Trish lies to herself about her superiority Jessica lies to herself about her inferiority. Believing that her powers don’t really make her more worthy to be a hero but instead less because of the way she obtained them. She keeps saying that she doesn’t want to be a hero and yet keeps participating in heroic acts which betrays her conflicting inner desires and outer portrayal/actions. She finally sheds the fear that she can never be a hero and stops denying her desire to be one which sees her finally become a hero in the more traditional sense.

Trish and Jessica were clearly set up to be on opposite paths of villain and hero respectively. Their opposing beliefs and actions throughout the three seasons of the show lead to an emotionally charged conflict between two people who clearly care about each other, but believe so strongly in their ideals that conflict was inevitable. The difference between the two was how far they were willing to go within the conflict. The realization to Trish that her beliefs had brought her to the point where she would attempt to kill Jessica, the person she cares the most about, is what broke her and made her rethink her beliefs. Jessica came out of the conflict “victorious” because she wouldn’t sacrifice her morality to accomplish her end goals proving Trish wrong. Unstoppable force meets immovable object, except with this clash of the two their is a winner. The unstoppable force, Trish, falls to the immovable object, Jessica. The dichotomy of these two characters makes them one of the most interesting friends turned enemies in the superhero television medium.

Voltron Season 8

There are spoilers for season 8 so proceed with caution.

I want to start off by saying I love Voltron and there is something I love about each season of Voltron. I have been seeing quite a bit of negativity towards this season, so I want to start off talking about what I liked about this season before getting into what I didn’t. I will recommend Voltron to other people because I believe over all there were a lot of good things that it did with its characters and stories.

I liked Allura’s arc throughout this season. We got to see her struggling with the lengths she would go to to end the war and come out better because of it. She also comes to understand that not every choice in war can be without sacrifice which is something the paladins seem to struggle to understand up until this point. Allura has been consistently developed throughout the seasons and has grown into her own in this season. She has had to overcome so much and is a character I felt was developed well and will be a character I look back on fondly.

I also liked that they clarified Lotor’s character within the show. Before this season there were multiple ways that lotor’s character could be interpreted and now they have a definitive version of him. The clarification also accentuated the tragedy of the character. His eventual downfall is tragic because he did deserve better. He fell victim to his upbringing after trying to be better and being punished severely for his efforts. This is a character that while I may not be the biggest fan of the execution of Lotor’s story I liked the idea behind it. I liked how they did redeem Lotor in the eyes of Allura and it was acknowledged how his childhood and upbringing affected him, his choices, and his downfall all without erasing the mistakes he made. It also acknowledges that he wasn’t given a fair shot by anybody and despite his attempts to be better he was always thwarted or shunned at every turn. There is only so much someone can take before they break.

Haggar was a great villain and her arc was somewhat of a Greek tragic hero and was almost Shakespearean. Her unquenchable thirst for knowledge led to the destruction of both her old and new homes, the creation of the galaxy’s most infamous tyrant, and her son living through a neglected and abusive life that meets a terrible end. She realizes too late what she missed out on and works to undo her mistakes without care for the destruction she causes because she believes that with the end of her quest everything will be perfect. It’s only once she gets to her desired outcome and her son and husband recognize the monster that she has become that she reaches her lowest point and is able to be convinced by Allura of the error of her ways. That Haggar herself is to blame for how her life turned out not the universe or anyone else. That this outcome isn’t what Lotor would have wanted despite what Haggar kept telling herself and that while she can’t get back what she lost, but she can give back what she took from the universe in her desperate bid. This season wrote its villains really well with Lotor, Haggar, and Zarkon and while I didn’t agree with all the choices made with the characters I do believe the writing was well done and Haggar is the pinnacle of this statement.

I appreciated that all the character’s that lived got their happy endings. Keith has found his purpose and continues to help people. Shiro finally leaves the battle after years of nonstop fighting and suffering and gets to settle down with his husband. Pidge and Hunk both get to follow their dreams and Lance surrounds himself with what he loves and lives a quiet peaceful life. I honestly just wanted to see these characters be happy. They have all been through so much so seeing them get to be happy in the future made me happy.

I was sad that my two favorite Voltron characters, Lotor and Allura, ended up dying. Allura had been through so much loss, suffering, and pain on her quest to bring about peace and grown so much only to finally be able to bring about the peace she strove for and not even be able to see the it. Allura had lost so much and when she finally has a means to restore peace the only way to bring about peace is through sacrificing herself. I know I was upset with the season in the past for the lack of true sacrifice or lasting death, but I’m sad that this was the sacrifice that ended up happening because Allura deserved to see the peace she helped create. We finally got to see Lotor’s past and have his character in hindsight be redeemed, in showing he did truly care about others and Allura but was misguided in his methods, and bring him back from the rift only to have him be dead the entire time. This means he ended up having arguably the worst and most painful ends of anyone on the show. He died after the only real trusting relationship he had was destroyed and believing that no one cared for him while his mental stability eroded and his body was overloaded with quintessence. I would have liked to see him be alive and have him carry on doing the best he could instead of everyone admitting that he wasn’t given a fair shot, that he deserved better, and really did care and wasn’t a monster. The second colony is completely forgotten and is never explained. The second colony honestly just feels like a plot device to trigger the paladins turning on Lotor and Lotor’s subsequent descent into quintessence poisoning instead of an actual thing that happened because the reasoning behind it was never explained so it feels as though it was unnecessary.

I’m sorry to every Allurance shipper, but I didn’t like how it played out within the series. They made Allura uncomfortable with Lance until season 5, had her look upset when she found out he liked her in the same season, made her suddenly romantically interested in Lance at the very end of season 7, and then in season 8 showed hints that Allura still wasn’t completely over Lotor (the most prominent examples are when Lotor emerges from the rift and she panics saying she can’t do this and when Lotor is the vision she sees to convince her to use the rift creature). I honestly think this ship could have played out really well if they hadn’t had Lotura and had Allura a lot less visibly uncomfortable with Lance in earlier seasons. I am happy for whoever shipped Allurance and got to see their ship sail in cannon. Allurance just wasn’t my cup of tea with the way it was written. I personally would have preferred if Lance hadn’t gotten Allura and could have continued with his journey of self discovery and learned who he was without a girl because his character the last few seasons had a lot of him pining for Allura instead of focusing on his growing self-confidence and worth. With him ending up a farmer and probably sad over Allura for the rest of his life. Lance was a character I wish had gotten an arc of episodes to himself that didn’t involve a girl because he was set up as incredibly relatable with problems that everyone faces.

I may have been disappointed with this season, but I still like voltron and hope to see more of it in the future. I can understand the issues people are having with the season and can empathize with the disappointment, but I hope that people don’t attack the creators and cast. They’ve worked for years to bring us this series and they don’t deserve to be harassed. I hope that others can find the enjoyment I found out of the series and I hope there are many great fanfics to read. It was an honor to see this series to completion.