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krpalmerThe short third series of Voltron Legendary Defender was followed in close order by a short fourth block on Netflix, even if not quite fast enough for my self-imposed old-fashioned pacing to unite them back into a once-a-week season. Where that third series had made some changes to the arrangement of good guys and bad guys alike to remind me of the original series, though, the fourth series moved things a bit closer back to how the show had started without the impression of a total reversion. (All of it has provoked a thought or two anyway that perhaps I noticed the name "Keith" being used back in the original series without fixating on it, but perhaps that also leads me off-field to remembering seeing a character in the Gundam 0083 anime called "Chuck Keith" with a slight resemblance to me at a moment where I was getting into anime MSTings, and reacting with the gleeful thought "Guilt-free self-insertion!" However, that series as a whole did manage to leave me not that inclined to go back to it...)
The impression of forward momentum to the series was kept up when one of the built-in character motivations from its beginning was resolved with the rescue of Pidge's brother. In the process of that, however, Pidge did happen to be called a "sister." This reminded me of going from "five guys piloting Voltron and little chance of the princess replacing one of them in this custom-made story" to "oh-ho, so one of them was a girl in disguise!" to "but wait... even with the flashback explanation, what if there did wind up something other than 'disguise to work towards rescuing her brother?'" With a moment or two that followed letting me imagine room really was being left for fan theorizing, I had sort of got to the point of just thinking "Pidge is Pidge." Just as I was finishing up these latest episodes, though, I did manage to check out through an online service my local library offers a spinoff graphic novel set in between two earlier episodes of the series, not especially profound but referring to Pidge as "she" several times.
"Supposing" what other people were thinking about, though, does bring me to the point of facing how these days I'm quite likely to make a larger supposition and stay away from what most people are saying about something I'm taking in with the expectation negativity will drive out positivity as a series continues and the specific demands of particular people diverge from what the creators are actually doing. I did happen to see just enough reaction threads to Anime News Network pieces to conclude the familiar clockwork was turning when some people were complaining Voltron wasn't battling enough other giant robots. I had wondered a bit about Lotor building two space fighters with moving parts from a special alloy, but if they're meant to be combined they haven't done that yet. That not every episode follows the same ritual formula ought to be a strength, and Voltron was assembled for various purposes in these latest episodes, but I may have become a bit more conscious again of thoughts that even a low bulwark against "watching nothing but anime" is something, but it can still leave me wondering about managing to get to something else. Of course, a somewhat comedic episode in the middle of this short series might have had unwitting effects on me too.
The impression of forward momentum to the series was kept up when one of the built-in character motivations from its beginning was resolved with the rescue of Pidge's brother. In the process of that, however, Pidge did happen to be called a "sister." This reminded me of going from "five guys piloting Voltron and little chance of the princess replacing one of them in this custom-made story" to "oh-ho, so one of them was a girl in disguise!" to "but wait... even with the flashback explanation, what if there did wind up something other than 'disguise to work towards rescuing her brother?'" With a moment or two that followed letting me imagine room really was being left for fan theorizing, I had sort of got to the point of just thinking "Pidge is Pidge." Just as I was finishing up these latest episodes, though, I did manage to check out through an online service my local library offers a spinoff graphic novel set in between two earlier episodes of the series, not especially profound but referring to Pidge as "she" several times.
"Supposing" what other people were thinking about, though, does bring me to the point of facing how these days I'm quite likely to make a larger supposition and stay away from what most people are saying about something I'm taking in with the expectation negativity will drive out positivity as a series continues and the specific demands of particular people diverge from what the creators are actually doing. I did happen to see just enough reaction threads to Anime News Network pieces to conclude the familiar clockwork was turning when some people were complaining Voltron wasn't battling enough other giant robots. I had wondered a bit about Lotor building two space fighters with moving parts from a special alloy, but if they're meant to be combined they haven't done that yet. That not every episode follows the same ritual formula ought to be a strength, and Voltron was assembled for various purposes in these latest episodes, but I may have become a bit more conscious again of thoughts that even a low bulwark against "watching nothing but anime" is something, but it can still leave me wondering about managing to get to something else. Of course, a somewhat comedic episode in the middle of this short series might have had unwitting effects on me too.