Where did we last leave our heroes?
Oh right, they were flying through a wormhole that had been disrupted by an
evil space witch’s purple lightning. The Voltron writers are really good at
cliffhanger endings. We continue just after the Gulra druid Haggar screwed up
the portal. The Voltron Lions are flung from the castle, while the Castle of
Lions continues hurtling through the portal. Shiro and Keith are thrown
together, as are Hunk and Lance, while poor Pidge is thrown out on her own. On
a scale of Bad from 1 to 10, this is a solid 9.
Shiro and Keith crash land on a
rocky looking world. While they’re on the same planet, they hit the ground a
few miles apart. The Black and Red Lions are without power, and, to make
matters worse, Shiro has a major side wound from his fight with Haggar. Both
exit their respective robot lion and tries to meet up. Keith has an easier time
of it, obviously, since he’s lacking a major side wound.
Pidge emerges in what can only be
described as a cosmic junkyard. And like Red and Black, Green Lion is without
power. Being a smart young lady, she decides to stay put and wait for the others
to find her. She’s actually initially happy with the solitude, since it gives
her time away from her annoyances… I mean friends. This last for about 35
seconds before she figures out being alone is BBBBOOOOORRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG.
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| Pidge is surprisingly cool with being lost in space. |
Meanwhile, in the wormhole, Allura
and Coran have a major issue. Namely, that the Wormhole has a definite end. Not
an exit back into regular space, just a stopping point. They try to find some
way out, but run out of time. They hit the end point… and things repeat. But
not exactly. They’re sent back in time about five or six minutes, but Allura
notices that Coran looks about ten years younger, and her pet alien mice are
now squirrels. They try to avoid the End again, but once again, fail. Things repeat,
again, with Coran being even younger and the mice are some sort of capybara/hippos.
Oh my.
Keith hurries to Shiro, but not
before some of the local wildlife start sniffing around the Black lion. These
raptor/cat aliens start chasing the lone pilot. He’s able to outrun the
creatures, but gets buried in a minor cave in. At the same time, Keith’s trek
across the landscape is slowed down by a geyser field, which then turns into a
giant canyon after Keith hesitates a moment too long on a specific patch of
ground.
Pidge decides to look around the
junkyard. In just a few minutes she meets a colony of some sort of space-caterpillars.
After that, Pidge decides to be constructive and creates a bunch of dummy
versions of her friends. She also hits their personalities spot on. Just
saying. After entering her bug buddies for a few minutes, notices that Green
Lion has finally powered back up. In her excitement to reach Green, Pidge yanks
on a wire that reveals a large old satellite. Deciding that waiting patiently
is for suckers, Pidge uses her big beautiful brain to MacGyver a locater
beacon.
Things are also getting more
desperate for Allura. She’s for some reason unaffected by the time repeat, but,
Coran has hit his teenage years and the mice keep changing forms. Either they’re
morphing into completely different animals like snails, squirrels, hippos etc.
or they too are getting younger and then I can safely say that Altean mice have
the most bizarre lifecycle ever. She tries to hone in on any of the Voltron
Lion’s signals, but they’re too far apart to get a clear signal. They hit the
end, again, and Coran is now a child… with a mustache. Huh.
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| Well, crap. |
Keith and Shiro reminisce a little
while Keith tries to figure out how to cross the canyon. Apparently, Shiro
really changed Keith’s life in some way… but they don’t show how. Weird. Keith
slashes some of the planet’s crust, which causes a geyser to go off. It
launches him about half way across the canyon, and his jetpack gets the rest of
the way. At the same time, Shiro is dug up by the predators. He’s able to hold
them off, even slicing off one of the creature’s horns, but he could really use
an assist. Especially given his glowing purple wound in his side. Keith arrives
on the scene, but it’s like five monsters vs. two dudes, not going to end well.
Keith does the insane thing and asks Black Lion to help him out. The giant
mecha-cat lets him in, and the two save Shiro.
Pidge completes her satellite
uplink. After two tries and Green’s roar, it powers up. The uplink is able to
help the Castle of Lions can pick up. Which is really good timing, since Coran
has hit his baby phase. Can’t go much farther back than that. Allura locks on
to the signal and is finally able to leave the looping wormhole. Once outside
the loop, Coran and the mice return to normal. They pick Pidge up and go to
find the others.
Keith and Shiro bond a little more
beside a campfire. Shiro tells Keith that, should his wound prove too severe to
be treated or they aren’t found until it’s too late, he wants Keith to take his
place as head of Team Voltron. Thankfully, Green Lion pops out of a wormhole a
moment later. Hooray!
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| Father figure turned into a baby... I think Allura will need a therapist after all this. |
Back with the villains, Zarkon is…
annoyed that he lost Voltron when he almost had his claws around these cats.
Commander Prorok does his best to save his own skin, promising to capture
Voltron and to find out how the Solar Barrier failed at the last moment.
Zarkon, though, has had enough with Prorok’s screw ups. He orders the commander
taken away, and Haggar makes it clear she has plans for Prorok. A Gulra
lieutenant, Thace, is promoted to take Prorok’s place and his first order is
to find out who sabotaged the Solar Barrier. Which is funny, given that Thace was the one who turned it off.
Has it really only been six months
since last season? It’s felt like it’s been over a year. And, yeah, it was
worth the wait. Like I thought, if the last episode hadn’t been the season
finale, it would have flowed perfectly into this one. Each of the three stories
are good, but I am really glad they didn’t try to stretch these stories into
three separate episodes. Pidge’s space Castaway
scenes would have started wearing thin after twenty straight minutes. Same
with Keith and Shiro’s, and Allura and Coran’s story. It is also nice to see
Keith starting to get some character development. He was the least developed of
the cast in the last season, which is kind of ironic since he was the main
character in the original version of Voltron. We’re given just a few tidbits here, but Keith's development is something of a season long story arc this time. Also, not sure yet what to
make of Keith piloting Black. This iteration of Voltron has really been playing
up the bonds between the Paladins and their Lions, so the idea that Keith COULD
pilot Black is rather odd. But, in the original series, Keith did end up being
the Black Paladin after Shiro’s original series counterpart’s death. BUT, the
show runners have said that while they’re trying to honor the original show,
they’re really only using it as the source material and are going to do what
they like plot wise. See changes like Shiro being Asian and Pidge losing a Y to get an X. Is a chromosome joke too weird even for me? So… yeah, not sure what to make of it yet. Zarkon, who
seemed very content with waiting for Voltron to come to him last time, is
switching into overdrive. Probably because he was foiled mere seconds before
victory. Wetting a beast’s appetite just makes it hungrier. Now, the only
question left is… what about Lance and Hunk?
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