Review of Voltron: Legendary Defender

What began as a beautifully written and gorgeously animated series ended in choppy edits and disaster. I absolutely loved the first 6 seasons. It was absolutely amazing to behold. The action and mechanism, not to mention the characters were all phenomenal. Things began to fall short starting around the middle of season 7. But I really held out hope that the final season would give us closure and wrap up the story in a good enough maybe even great way. Spoiler: it did not. The only salvageable episode is indeed the first of the season, Launch Date. The rest of it is ridiculously incohesive and falls completely flat All of the storylines from the first 6, even 7 seasons seem to disappear in favor of Michael Bay-esque explosions that blow more holes in the plot (and there are A LOT). The editing was crude and although they have done work to cover some of, it, there is just so much. None of the characters even seem like the same people, even my 9 year old son, commented that everyone seemed "weird" and he sure as hell didn't understand why Allura had to die and the bad guys got a pass. And as bad as all that was, the epilogue was somehow worse. My 13 year old sister AND my son joined me in absolute disappointment and just straight up confusion with those little gems. It's like they saw an opportunity to monetize on exploiting the LGBTQAI+ community and really just went for it. My advice, tell your friends that there are only 7 seasons.