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(vlds8) negative
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holy shit
holy shit
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last time i looked at it, it was at 18%, so im wondering if there was a campaign to vote it down or weve just now actually gotten more people having seen it
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im severely disappointed in the critical reviews but i cant be surprised either, i refuse to believe any of them have the time to actually stop and think about how bad that season was cause theyre inundated with bullshit
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theres now a phonecall campaign happening and on the one hand i want to but on the other hand ehhnnnn phonecalls 
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OH BUT the petition got over 25k signs.
Sign the Petition
deus auri
at this point it's humiliating for everyone who loved being involved, VAs and animators alike, so i dont understand why dw isnt addressing it
Newt / Knute
because corporate dont care
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my hope is the company is lightly on fire because of the outrage and that the holidays are just making it really slow. even if himym got a redo, thats just a live action show. animation takes so much more work and involvement and thats teh part that scares me the most
Newt / Knute
if they would just. denounce the season i would be happy. id love to see the original vision done as a comic
no glory
someone suggested they do a like, dvd set release with extra scenes to fix some of the stuff like the complete lack of character interactions, and with the epilogues removed and like, that's something they could do that would also get them money, so that seems at least a reasonable way of doing things? but ik idk
no glory
a comic would also be cool but hhhhh
Newt / Knute
yeah i agree kai i saw that too
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part of my trouble is, in the end, i really think most of s8 should just be redone
no glory
how about do a movie where it's like "so s8 was one reality but IN THIS ONE THINGS WENT DIFFERENTLY... /dramatic cues"
Newt / Knute
LOL
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it really does feel like we got the Bad End reality with s8.... sigh
no glory
it does :x
Newt / Knute
one of my rp buddies and i are doing an allurance fix that were both like 'yeah this is actually canon no one can tell us otherwise'
deus auri
even the website Hypable said it needs a s9
deus auri
to fix s8
Newt / Knute
s9, the rewrite of s8, wher shiro actually is allowed to love his family
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it hurts because s8 really feels like they wrote love out of the series entirely
no glory
cries
no glory
they carved the heart right out
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im going to make all my fucking tags from now on just about how everyone is everyones family
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SHIRO CALLING HUNK AND LANCE HIS BROTHERS ACTUALLY BRINGS TEARS TO MY EYES
no glory
please,
no glory
found family was such an important theme for the whole series
Newt / Knute
HONESTLY
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overarching sadness about the series was actually the loss of the brother-sister relationship you see from pidge and shiro in the first season but like... ill still hand it to the writers that it can be hard to sustain every plotline all the time
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im looking at the voltron twitter right now and one of the videos is 'look at our heros! [pans over lance allura pidge hunk keith]" and everyone in the comments like "UHM AND WHAT ABOUT SHIRO????"
Newt / Knute
the fact that they wrote shiro out of the family is so fucking blatant
no glory
yeeeaaahhh
no glory
the official twitter has been posting what seem like REALLY TONE DEAF clips and everyone is calling them out for it in the comments lmfksj
no glory
but the obvious cutting out of Shiro was just. amazing and apalling.
Newt / Knute
yeah
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about the only thing thats keeping me together is how obviously everyone fucking agrees
Jessa
I just wish s8 hadnt been so absolutely joyless. Aside from clear day the whole thing was so depressing.
Newt / Knute
voltron getting a sad ending like this makes no real thematic sense considering its... basically "shonen" for lack of a better genre name
Jessa
I dont have much hope in a remake because animation is expensive but at least fandom is united in making beautiful art/fics/rp to keep what everyone loved about the series alive.
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some of the shit im finding is beautiful
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yeah im not sure about the remake either but that doesnt mean im not gonna like... try
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voltron means way too much to me
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i still havent called and i have work soon i shouldjust... do it
Jessa
Nods that's fair
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reading the twitter kinda disappointed in people disregarding lances obvious character development that earned him allura's affection but thats about the only thing thats got me in these comments
Newt / Knute
okay just kidding i cant do it, phones make me too nervous
Jessa
Yeah. Unfortunately it's a popular ship to hate. Lance is a good boy and he grew so much, even if he didnt get a lance-centric episode.
Newt / Knute
yeah.... whatever its all just the same misogyny and homofetishism burrito'd in progressive language
Jessa
And large parts just people seem to need to find a reason to illegitimize a ship they dont like versus just saying they dont like it or whatever.
Newt / Knute
im starting a campaign "dislike ships for no particular reason than its just not your thing 2k19"
Jessa
Anyway that score is actually higher than when I saw it a few days after s8. (I think it was a whopping 7% then) either way it's not a good look when the other seasons are at least 70%+ iirc
Newt / Knute
DWAnimation 1-818-695-5000 for me later
DWAnimation 1-818-695-5000 for me later
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think s7 has the lowest and thats a whopping like 78%
deus auri
the tshirt ...
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UGH
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JUST MAKE KEITH GAY. IT OK DW. NO ONE IMPORTANT WILL BE MAD
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allura didnt need to die fir anything and shiro deserves his ACTUAL happiness not fucking retired