Okay so the team is now back
together, and Shiro is getting the emergency medical help that he so
desperately needed. He’s overdue for a nice relaxing sleep after the fiasco
that has been the last couple of in-universe days. Too bad he’s plagued by
nightmares. Well, not nightmares, but plot crucial memories that he’s just
recovered. How convenient. He flashes back to when he escaped the Gulra. One of
the scientist experimenting on him, later named Ulaz, disabled the guards and
freed Shiro from his restraints. Ulaz tells Shiro that he’d planted a bomb to
cover up their individual escapes, and advices him to look for the Blade of
Marmora. He also gives Shiro the tip that the Gulra top brass are going to
Earth to find that Blue piece of Voltron hidden there. Groggy and weak from the
year of experiments and torture, Shiro is just barely able to make it to an
escape pod, and blast off towards home. He wakes up, and everyone breathes a
sigh of relief.
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| Can kind of understand why someone might not trust him. It's the lack of pupils. |
Hm… you know what I’ve been
wondering? How Commander Prorok is doing after the whole falling out with boss
Emperor Zarkon. In two words, not great. Haggar, being a nutty ol’ gal, is
using him in the creation of a new Robeast. Prorok is against the procedure,
but we know how little Haggar cares about complaining. Hm… so Prorok is turned
into a Pro-Beast. I like it. T-the name. Not turning people into Weapons of
Mass Destruction without their consent. That’s no good.
After completely defrosting, Shiro
tells his teammates about his recovered memory, and the set of coordinates that
Ulaz gave him before parting ways. Pidge can’t seem to find anything using
scanning tech, and Allura is rather against even a slim chance of working with
Gulra. Shiro, though, is adamant that they find Ulaz and the Blade of Marmora.
He’s also understandably upset that Allura didn’t mention the whole Zarkon being
the former Black Paladin. Personally, I’ve never understood the whole “withholding
information to protect them” thing. I mean, if Shiro and co had known that
Zarkon had a previous connection with Voltron, they might not have done something
suicidal like launching a full assault on Zarkon’s flagship. Just saying. Pidge
is able to locate something at the coordinates given, and Shiro is able to
convince the group that gaining allies is worth the risk of a trap.
They arrive at the coordinates, and
find a giant floating belt of Zantorium Clusters. They’re like space icebergs.
That are about the size of a football stadium, and blow up if you hit them. So much much scarier. While the team waits to
see if something will happen, Zarkon uses the druids to augment his connection
to the Black Lion. Not good. Back with our heroes, they detect an intruder in
the Castle of Lions. Also, probably not good. The team tracks down the
intruder, an obvious Gulra in some pretty awesome armor. This Gulra pretty much
rocks the team. He spanks them, hard. Like he throws Pidge around and hits
Keith with her. He uses a fourteen-year-old as a mace. Enough said. The Gulra
stops when Shiro confronts him, revealing himself to be Ulaz. What a twist!
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| I think he might like it better this way... Hard to tell, though. |
Ulaz is put in chains and brought
to the bridge. He reveals that he’s part of group of Gulra that realized that
their boss is probably a psycho. They formed the Blade of Marmora, and have
been resisting Zarkon as best they can. He offers to take them to his base, to
discuss a future alliance. His secret base is located in the Zantorium Cluster
field, in a weird space/time pocket. In his base, Ulaz offers to coordinate
with team Voltron and even gives Pidge what little info he can scrounge up on
Pidge’s missing bro and pops. The Pro-Beast arrives a moment later, kind of
ruining the group coordination thing. Everyone is kind of freaking out that
Zarkon was able to track them to a hidden base in the space boonies.
Ulaz is able to give them the coordinates
for the Blade of Marmora headquarters, and advices Shiro to figure out how
Zarkon is tracking them before seeking the main group out. Pro-Beast shows off
his new powers, namely sucking up tons of Zantorium clusters and firing off a
huge explosion. How did Haggar know he’d need that power? Or did being a blowhard
in life translate to his new super power as a bio-magic-tech monstrosity? Who
knows? Team forms Voltron and gets a few good licks in, but this Robeast is
tough. Also, Ulaz bails during the fight. Kind of reinforcing Allura’s negative
prejudice, isn’t he?
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| What could it mean? |
They hit him with their sword-and-board
combo, the Castle’s laser barrage, and a few giant Zantorium clusters, but
Pro-Beast survives with barely a scratch. Ulaz returns, and sacrifice himself
to stop Pro-Beast. He gets sucked into Pro-Beast, and then opens his
space-pocket. Bits of Pro-Beast get scattered across space. Hooray? The team
agree that they’ll wait to seek out the Blade of Marmora until they figure out
how Zarkon is tracking them. And, Keith reveals that he has a very ancient
looking dagger, which has the same glowing symbol on its hilt that Ulaz had.
The plot thickens.
This is a very good episode. It
expands the lore of the Legendary
Defender version of the Voltron universe,
and gives us a decent Robeast fight. It’s been like five episodes since the
last one, it’s been overdue. It’s good to see that the Gulra aren’t just going
to be a Star Trek style of an evil species, like the Klingons, or the Romulans,
or the Borg. Even while the majority of the species seems to follow at Zarkon’s
beck and call, it’s good to know a few see their Emperor for the tyrant he
clearly is. Really hard to rationalize literally killing planets, isn’t it? At
least, God, I hope it is. The reveal that Keith has a Magmora blade is also
rather interesting. As I said before, this season is about giving Keith the development
that he quite frankly missed out on last time. A major character possibly being
connected to the evil empire… what could it mean? Well, we’ll find out soon
enough. Next time, number 15.
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