All concern five manned Mecha lions which can combine to form a giant humanoid robot called Voltron and in this form fight Zarkon, the Witch Haggar and Zarkon's son Lotor.įive space pilots from Earth – upright Shiro (Keaton), angsty loner Keith (Yeun), jerky Lance (Shada), geeky Pidge (Taylor-Klaus), and food-loving Hunk (Labine) – discover the Blue Lion on Earth and are taken to the Castle of Lions (also a Spaceship) on the planet Arus, where they meet Princess Allura (Brooks) and her advisor Coran (Darby), plus four mice. Voltron: Legendary Defender is a reboot of the US animated series Voltron: Defender of the Universe ( 1984-1985), itself largely an edit of the Japanese Anime series Hyaku Jūō GoLion ( 1981-1982). 78 episodes of 23 minutes (plus seven shorts). Voice cast includes Kimberly Brooks, Rhys Darby, Josh Keaton, Tyler Labine, Neil Kaplan, A J Locascio, Jeremy Shada, Cree Summer, Bex Taylor-Klaus and Steve Yeun. Directors include Steve Ahn, Eugene Lee and Chris Palmer. Writers include May Chan, Joshua Hamilton, Tim Hedrick and Mitch Iverson. Executive producers: Joaquim Dos Santos, Bob Koplar, Ted Koplar and Yoo Jae Myung. While Quintessence and giant alien robots don’t exist in our world, neglect and lack of emotional stability does.US animated online tv series ( 2016-2018).
The characters act as foils to one another and perhaps Lotor acts as a cautionary tale to us.
On the other hand, Lotor followed his ambition and skewed moral compass to the point where he killed one of his generals and let Quintessence destroy him. As a result, Keith, with that role model and almost familial support, changed and matured for the better. Keith had someone to look up to, someone who stepped in to be a father/big brother figure. The biggest difference in Lotor and Keith’s histories is that Keith had Shiro. Despite not having much interaction between the two, it really makes you think about life in general, especially how our childhoods influence us into adulthood. However, his childhood and upbringing bear a striking resemblance to Keith’s. We all love characters with angsty backstories and Lotor is no exception to that rule.
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