Voltron: Legendary Defender Season 3 Review
Netflix has many new and original series, but one of my personal favorites is the new Voltron series, Voltron: Legendary Defender. However, after how things ended last season, will the team be able to form Voltron, or is the Universe going to be lost to the Galra Empire?
Story (SPOILERS)
Season 3 starts almost directly where season 2 left off, with Shiro mysteriously having disappeared, the paladins need to find a new pilot for the Black Lion, so Voltron can be formed again. After everyone tries and fails, Keith tries, and the lion responds to him. However, he doesn’t want to pilot it, because he believes that Shiro is still out there.
However, a planet under the Voltron Alliance is being attacked by Zarkon’s son, Prince Lotor. Keith, Hunk, and Pidge go out to help the natives, and Allura tries to use Red, but is unable to. When Lance goes to the Blue Lion, he also isn’t able to use it, but he is called by Red, and Allura uses Blue.
Lotor’s Cruiser retreats after all five lions appear, but they all pursue it. Lotor then goes out in his own fighter, and beats up the lions. He then travels to a planet which messes with radars and sensors. The lions get separated and attacked by Lotor, until Allura bonds with Blue, and the team forms Voltron, utterly destroying the Galra forces that were going to ambush them.
While in the castle, the team receives an Altean distress signal, and finds an old ship trapped in a portal between realities. Voltron goes to investigate it, and they found out that that reality is one where Allura and the Alteans fought and won against the Galra. The ship is being sabotaged by alternate Shiro and Slav, who are in the Gun of Garmora. They are attacking because the Alteans use technology to turn everything else into a mindless slave. Aboard the ship is a meteor made of the same stuff as Voltron. Voltron takes the meteor and escapes the alternate reality, but Lotor shoots Voltron and takes the meteor for himself.
We then go to Shiro, and he’s trapped aboard a Galra ship. He eventually escapes and ends up on an ice planet with two rebels. He uses their shuttle to escape, and ends up getting an upgrade of a Galra fighter. He travels in it for a week, and as he’s on the brink of death, the Black Lion goes out and gets him.
The paladins track the comet to a Galra base, where Lotor and his group are attacking it. The team ends up finding that Lotor has turned the comet into a ship. They leave the planet as Lotor is escaping and a piece of the teledove is being taken away. Keith dodges a beam from Lotor’s ship, and it destroys the teledove piece. Both sides retreat to their respectful bases.
Once all of the paladins are back, Coran informs the group about not only the origin of the lions, but the original paladins and Zarkon’s turn to evil.
Presentation
Voltron: Legendary Defender is animated series, and the animation looks great. The movements look fluid and realistic, along with the lips being correctly synced to the voice actors’ speech. Not only that, the direction in scenes is great, with a good blend of panoramic shots, along with zooming and the like. Along with the direction of scenes, the music not only is great, but also sets the tone for the scene, and no piece sounds too similar to one another.
Final Thoughts
This was a great return to the series, and although seven episodes may seem small, Castlevania only had four episodes, and season 4 of Voltron is being released this October, the wait for more episodes isn’t going to be very long. This season wasn’t the longest, but it did what it needed to. It resolved many plot points, while introducing new characters and thoroughly developing all the others we already know. This was one of the better seasons, introducing a villain that, in my opinion, is much more threatening than Zarkon ever was.
8.5/10
