Netflix Retrospective - Voltron: Legendary Defender Season 5 Episodes 1-3

OK, we’ve got to season 5 and since I wrote the last retrospective, Voltron has become somewhat a subject of controversy for certain narrative decisions in its final 2 seasons. I will cover the particularly controversial elements in due course, my opinion is that they’re well-intentioned but badly thought through, particularly with the announcement in the marketing for season 7, something I’ll get to when I eventually cover season 7.

For now, though, we’re only on season 5 and there’s only 6 episodes to cover as once again, the season was split in half so they could put more releases out, let’s see how this half holds up.

Netflix Retrospective - Voltron: Legendary Defender season 2 episodes 10-13

We’re back exploring s2 of Voltron (1 day late)

Netflix Retrospective - Voltron: Legendary Defender Season 2 episodes 7-9

We continue our look at Voltron: Legendary Defender

Netflix Retrospective: Voltron: Legendary Defender Season 2 Episodes 4-6

We continue our retrospective on Voltron: Legendary Defender

Netflix Retrospective: Voltron: Legendary Defender Season 2 episodes 1-3

We continue our retrospective on Voltron: Legendary defender with season 2, which would be the last for a while to be a full 13 episodes, seasons 3-6 would be 6-7 episodes each (without about half the originally planned season in each new season) with the recently teased season 7 going back to 13 episodes again. But to the content of season 2 itself.

Netflix Retrospective: Voltron: Legendary Defender season 1 episodes 8-11

Let’s finish off season 1, shall we

Netflix Retrospective: Voltron Legendary Defender Season 1 Episodes 5-7

Netflix Retrospective: Voltron: Legendary Defender Season 1 episodes 2-4

Netflix Retrospective: Voltron: Legendary Defender Season 1 episode 1 - The Rise of Voltron

It’s time to look at a series that doesn’t have hour long episodes and isn’t live action. Yes, this is partly an excuse to narrow my workload as it’s become a little overbearing recently, don’t worry, the long ones will be back. This is Voltron: Legendary Defender

Voltron was a series released back in the 90s, it took a Power Rangers-esque style with animation, intercutting a Japanese series with their own animation to cut back on animation costs. There were a few iterations but the most popular featured 5 lions against a villain Named King Zarkon, this is a reboot of that concept and thus far has spanned 6 seasons. Because of the newly introduced year cut-off date for now I’ll be covering up to season 4, with a gap for the summer hiatus and I break in October whilst I try an Halloween theme.

Editorial: My thoughts on Voltron: Legendary Defender Season 2

So season 1 was an impressive outing for Voltron: Legendary Defender, season 2, which came out earlier this year had a lot to live up to, did it succeed, here's my take.

Editorial: My thoughts on Voltron: Legendary Defender Season 1

Voltron Legendary Defender was initially released on Netflix in July last year. But its roots go back to an anime called Go-Lion, created the animated devision of the company that produces sentai shows, footage from which is used in Power Rangers. The original Voltron series was a dubbed version of Go-Lion, with new bits of animated footage to tone down a few elements and make the odd change, here and there. Legendary Defender is ultimately a reboot of that series, but instead of using footage from a Japanese anime, they're using one of the great animation studios, Studio Mir, the studio that did the vast bulk of Korra. Combine them with an animation powerhouse like Dreamworks and... here's what we get.