Code of Honour
A Galra ship
docks with an underwater base, it’s providing a high priority shipment. It’s
also a current target for the Blade of Marmora. Their intention is to gather
intelligence on the ‘pure’ quintessence they’re carrying. Helps that the
security guard is a lazy bum, so the Blade easily hack the systems. One of them
is caught trying to examine the canisters and now they have to fight their way
back. One of them is knocked out, and another goes back for him, only just
making it to the ship in time. Turns out the one that went back was Keith,
Kolivan chews him out, but Keith points out that the other guy had the hacked
intel so it was worth the risk going back for him.
Keith
returns to the castle which has landed… somewhere and Shiro sends him back out
to help the team with an escort mission. Keith tries to report what he’s
learned but Shiro doesn’t want to hear it until after the escort mission is
done. The mission is easy and later on, Shiro gives a speech about how Voltron
needs its Black Lion. He supports Keith choosing the continue with Blade of
Marmora training, incidentally this is the first we’ve heard of it but not at
the expense of the team, which is an inevitable conflict since they’re both
doing the same thing.
Next, their
heading to the planet Reiphod, a planet recently liberated from the Galra to
hopefully encourage them to join their alliance. Kolivan contacts them, they’ve
discovered a shipment going off usual Galra supply and since it’s apparently
been months since Lotor last showed himself, they feel compelled to act on it
now. Using a stealthy approach, planting a tracking device to possibly locate
the source of this new quintessence. Keith immediately volunteers to help.
Coran gives
his glorious speech on Reiphod and Lance is frustrated that Keith isn’t there,
despite barely saying a word about it in the last ship. The blade trio find the
ship is devoid of any guards, either sentry or Galra. Keith insists that they
plant the tracker anyway, but it’s a trap. Kolivan stops Keith trying to rescue
the hacker, as the bridge explodes.
Keith is
blown out of the ship, his suit is torn and his com-link broken. He uses all
his grit to swing himself back onto the ship, making it just in time. The show
on Reiphod seems to be going strong until the part that requires the presence
of Voltron. Coran tries to course-correct and the crowd seem to be taking it
well. Keith returns and gets a speech from Allura which is inevitably a more
compassionate version of the speech Shiro gave to him earlier.
The Blade
have a new plan to track the supply route and despite everyone’s objections,
Keith is going along with it. Shiro approaches the Black Lion again.
Time to
catch up with Lotor, Haggar confronts him saying that entire star-systems are
being freed, and it’s down to Lotor’s weak leadership. He tells her to p*ss
off. The paladins get a distress call, a fleet of medical supply ships is being
attacked, and without Keith they can’t form Voltron. It’s quickly discovered to
be a trap and more cruisers arrive, deploying fighters. Shiro returns to the
Black Lion, begging for its help and it seems to agree to it.
Shiro
arrives in the battle and it’s time to form Voltron, with Voltron available to
them at last, they rather easily take care of the ambush and continue the escort.
Heading to Olkarion of all places. Keith later is lambasted by the team… again,
but admits he was never really much of a leader and his absence allowed Shiro
to regain his connection to the Black Lion.
The mission
to infiltrate the supply line could in theory take months, or several seasons,
to complete, so he relinquished his leadership to Shiro. Shiro agrees, telling
Keith they’ll be around to help if they need him. Group hug and Keith leaves
It’s a
decent start but it does draw the pacing of this series into foray. It’s
evident a few months have passed since the last episode and things that perhaps
should’ve been established, like Keith’s blade training, were glossed over.
Rating 7/10
Reunion
We open in
flashback with Pidge, or Katie as she was known then attending class, she
points out an error and is mocked by the class and the teacher does literally
nothing. She vents her frustration on a book as her brother comes in to cheer
her up and give her the news that he got into the Galaxy Garrison. That
inspires her to study harder to later join her family. I don’t think he had the
heart to tell her what a sausage-fest that place is… although we may find out
that I’m wrong later on.
In the
present Pidge is following a lead on her own, whilst the others do busywork on
Olkarion. She finds herself in a city constantly patrolled by Drones, so she
wears a jedi cloak. She approaches a shopkeeper and asks him about a piece of
security footage, they were using his product. The shopkeeper attacks but Pidge
defeats him easily and begins hacking his computers.
She gets a
positive ID on one of the people in the photo and finds his last known location
to be on Kraydah’s moon. Unfortunately for him, a bounty hunter or someone
interrogates the shopkeeper and knows where she’s going. Kraydah’s moon is
under attack by 2 measly Galra ships. She gets an update from a freedom fighter
named Lieutenant Ozar, that was the last of the attack but with reinforcements
likely to arrive soon, they’re evacuating the base. He asks about the other
Lions but Pidge says she’s on her own and is looking for Te-Osh, the girl from
the photo.
She’s
helping load up medical supplies but a second wave means she has to take off
early. Again, the wave is easily defeated but in the process their second ship
is damaged and they’re unable to help her, so it’s up to Pidge, she boards the
others in her Lion and quickly defeats the ships pursuing Te-Osh but she’s been
injured in the flight and needs medical attention. In her delirium, she almost mistakes
her for Matt and when Pidge informs her of their relation, she gives her a
transponder that might lead her to him.
It’s sadly
too late for Te-Osh as she dies shortly after getting the transponder. She
escorts the supplies, and is given Lieutenant Ozar’s transponder codes. Pidge
follows the transponder to Matt’s and she flashes back to a piece about an
encrypted code that definitely won’t come into play later. He finds the
transponder but it’s a dead planet, she finds some kind of memorial to over
100,000 people who died on this planet, then finds a massive graveyard,
flashing back to scenes earlier in the episode to save on the animation budget.
She finds
the gravestone where it’s said Mathew Holt has died and it she’s devastated by
it. But then realises the code isn’t Matt’s birthday, she uses the decryption
from earlier and discovers a set of co-ordinates. It’s in a zone hot with Galra
ships so Pidge uses her cloaking to sneak by them. The co-ordinates lead to a
large asteroid where she discovers a base, generating its own gravity.
She’s fights
a guard but it soon turns out to be Matt and the two have a touching reunion
interrupted by the Bounty Hunter. He has some energy whips so is no pushover
but what one Holt can’t do, two Holt’s can and they work together to defeat
him. We end with a flashback just as matt was heading off, turns out the
glasses Pidge wears were his… did she not need them? That’s worrying
Anyway, it’s
quite a touching episode, and good to have the quest for Pidge’s family put to
the forefront for a change.
Rating 8/10
Black Site
We open with
Haggar looking at herself in the mirror for the first time in a while, she’s
called in to help the interrogation of Throk, who insists that Lotor was behind
the attack. Haggar thinks it makes little sense given he could just walk in and
take what he wants. She tells her druids to continue.
The Paladins
have just completed another escort mission as Pidge makes her return, with her
brother. He seems to have a natural reaction to princess Allura, the make Lance
jealous type reaction. He has a weird anime fantasy or something before
reuniting with Shiro.
Meanwhile,
Zarkon is loaded into a new quintessence fuelled armour. And his first order of
business is getting rid of Lotor. Pidge gives Matt a tour of the castle of the
lions. Hunk gives them both a milkshake and apparently Allura and Coran have
taken a liking to them. Lotor has been working on new ships using the comet, he
soon gets word about his father and he is told to return to central command, he
leaves along with Narti, one of his generals who uses a cat to see.
Coran and
Allura try and persuade Kalternicker to give them each a milkshake, the cow
turns around and they back away. Lotor and Narti arrive at the fleet and Zarkon
relieves Lotor of command, Lotor unconvincingly begs to be allowed by his side
but Zarkon refuses. Haggar senses something amiss and decides to use her magic
to see through the eyes of Narti’s cat.
Matt and
Pidge bond over the Galra finder. I’d have to say the one thing that holds me
back here is their relationship is a little too perfect. I don’t think they
ever clash on anything, of course season 8 will be out when this is uploaded,
so maybe I’ll be proved wrong. Matt gives his transponder to them, as it’s
filled with intel that could upgrade their intel.
Meanwhile
Lance is doing that most important of tasks, playing video games in his
dressing gown. Allura and Coran ask him to help them get a milkshake from the
cow. Lance corrects them on their terminology and demonstrates milking a cow,
an act which amusingly horrifies them and puts them off the idea of milkshakes
for good.
A status
update from Acxa upon Lotor’s return clues Haggar in as to what’s going on. She
immediately reports it to Zarkon who decides to mobilise the fleet against him.
Matt and Pidge receive an encoded message, a frequency for another message,
telling the fleet to mobilise against a target. But as far as Pidge can tell,
there’s nothing there. We already know it’s Lotor’s ship
They decide
they need to move in, but since they don’t know what they’re walking into, it’d
be wise to go in cloaked. Pidge has upgrading the cloaking to cover all of
Voltron but needs a co-pilot, Matt, to operate it. Lotor soon realises that
Nanti has been compromised, and kills her. They rest of them evacuate and pass
Voltron, but in doing so, their cloaking is destabilised. They briefly engage
before making a retreat.
It’s a bit
of quiet episode, but it’s still a pretty decent one, with some good comedy
Rating
7.5/10
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