don’t get me wrong i like vld but it’s such a fucking mess like. first u spend one and a half seasons establishing that keith is gonna be the black paladin but then have him step down 2 episodes later, leave the team altogether and make him look selfish when he’s actually the only character that has always prioritised the mission over his own feelings from the start
pidge wants to leave the team in season 1 and comes to realise that the paladins need her and she can’t act on her personal feelings but that lesson is thrown out the window in season 5 when she’s blinded by her emotions & basically forces the team to exchange a prisoner with enormous knowledge of the galra empire for her dad? and is NEVER shown to reflect on her actions??
allura’s arc in season 1 & 2 is about unlearning her prejudices (side note: NO ONE - not even shiro - stood up for keith when she treated him like shit. they’re literally the worst friends a guy could have) but then returns to her black-and-white thinking just one (1) season later. then there’s “crystal venom” - allura letting go of her father and becoming her own person, but now in season 5 she’s all about becoming a great alchemist - an “interest” of hers that was never brought up before. not to mention her magic abilities are used as a wild card, she just gets Power Ups whenever it’s convenient at the moment and ugh
in season 3 it’s revealed that alternate realities exist (something that hasn’t been of importance since then) and allura has to learn that she can’t trust everyone blindly, but now in season 5 she’s written as conveniently naive so it’s easier for lotor to manipulate her like……wh y,.
there’s so much more stuff like how the paladins only became wary of kuron after is ideals clashed with THEIRS, but not when keith - the person closest to shiro - was so fuckgi n uncomfortable around him. also, half of season 3 focused on lotor’s trans-reality comet and the sincline ships just for them to be never brought up again (just like alternate realities i guess), and i honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the oriande subplot is yet another thing in vld that doesn’t actually matter in the long run. and i’m just so frustrated bc the pacing is horrible and at this point the plot is shaping the characters when it should be the other way around, so watching vld feels kinda like this:
God, I agree with so much of this. I hope you don’t mind me adding onto it as well (though if you do, just tell me and I’ll delete it, no problem):
Disclaimer: I know not all Voltron, or more specifically Klance fans, do this, but I see so many headcannons and posts like the top two (not necessarily the majority, but enough) that I have to have a small rant.
On the surface, I have no problem with these, but if you look more closely, it’s almost perverse. Doing this is completely contorting Keith’s character into something that he’s not; a submissive tsundere gay boi. I have no problem with gay Keith (in fact, I love the idea of it: REPRESENTATION!!!) but a lot of people just use it to complete their fantasy of Lance dominating Keith and making him his b*** - making Keith a submissive plaything, which is not him at all (I understand that these are usually just headcannons, but most of these go complete far as to change so many things about him that he’s just a random character with a mullet, not the Keith we know and love). I guess I’m annoyed at some people fetishizing the LGBT community - they’re so completely infatuated with the idea of a ‘seme’ and a ‘uke’ that they ignore the fact that Keith is way stronger than Lance and has his own personality.
This also ties in with my problem with bi Lance, in the way people call for it just so he can get with Keith, not for any LGBT representation. Personally, with all this mayhem, I almost don’t really want a bi-Lance or gay-Keith, rather another character which is LBGT, like Shiro or, hell even Pidge (I know I’m contradicting what I said earlier, but all these people are making my love and want for canon LGBT Keith and/or Lance to shrivel up). It’s probably not that important but I see this in so many other fandoms and its just sickens me. If you want to ma******te to a man completely dominating another man, read a f***ing Yaoi.
I don’t have any problems with headcannons or hypotheticals, but please try to keep it in line with Keith’s, or any other character’s, personality. Also, this is my jumbled-up opinion, hopefully it makes sense to you all. Feel free to tell me what you think. Please don’t attack me :(
A side note, the top picture is somewhat in my usual style, but the bottom one I tried to draw a more realistic Keith :)
