Tag: vld

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lctor:

don’t get me wrong i like vld but it’s such a fucking mess like. first u spend one and a half seasons establishing that keith is gonna be the black paladin but then have him step down 2 episodes later, leave the team altogether and make him look selfish when he’s actually the only character that has always prioritised the mission over his own feelings from the start

pidge wants to leave the team in season 1 and comes to realise that the paladins need her and she can’t act on her personal feelings but that lesson is thrown out the window in season 5 when she’s blinded by her emotions & basically forces the team to exchange a prisoner with enormous knowledge of the galra empire for her dad? and is NEVER shown to reflect on her actions?? 

allura’s arc in season 1 & 2 is about unlearning her prejudices (side note: NO ONE – not even shiro – stood up for keith when she treated him like shit. they’re literally the worst friends a guy could have) but then returns to her black-and-white thinking just one (1) season later. then there’s “crystal venom” – allura letting go of her father and becoming her own person, but now in season 5 she’s all about becoming a great alchemist – an “interest” of hers that was never brought up before. not to mention her magic abilities are used as a wild card, she just gets Power Ups whenever it’s convenient at the moment and ugh

in season 3 it’s revealed that alternate realities exist (something that hasn’t been of importance since then) and allura has to learn that she can’t trust everyone blindly, but now in season 5 she’s written as conveniently naive so it’s easier for lotor to manipulate her like……wh y,.

there’s so much more stuff like how the paladins only became wary of kuron after is ideals clashed with THEIRS, but not when keith – the person closest to shiro – was so fuckgi n uncomfortable around him. also, half of season 3 focused on lotor’s trans-reality comet and the sincline ships just for them to be never brought up again (just like alternate realities i guess), and i honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the oriande subplot is yet another thing in vld that doesn’t actually matter in the long run. and i’m just so frustrated bc the pacing is horrible and at this point the plot is shaping the characters when it should be the other way around, so watching vld feels kinda like this:

God, I agree with so much of this. I hope you don’t mind me adding onto it as well (though if you do, just tell me and I’ll delete it, no problem):

Czytaj dalej

Allura’s entire character is one of the oddest, most terrible evolutions I’ve seen. She starts out in the first season as a strong (a little bossy) leader and in the last episodes it turns out she can shapeshift and is super strong! We have a really cool development for season 2, that can surely aid them in their fight. But instead (like every one of her sudden magic power boosts it will turn out) we never see it again. She become more and more childish (to the point of antagonistic) and makes really dumb decisions (like deciding that zarkon is tracking them through her even though that makes literally no sense??) and naive to the point of stupidity instead of compassionate. It just gets worse and less and less consistent as time drags on. Season 3 she wants to help on the frontlines (which Coran is fine with even though he was super upset last time) and we’re introduced to her insecure side, the one that sends others to fight “her” battles for her. But instead of her strong facade cracking under the guilt of losing one in her team it just kinda seems to be more childish reasoning about achieving a personal goal. 4 & 5 is the same flip back and forward.

I love Allura but man they played these characters foul.