It’s also nice that we get a somewhat more diverse group of characters for the Voltron pilots. I’m a sucker for space travel, especially in animated series, and Vehicle Voltron has plenty of it. While they aren’t technically defending it, they are trying to find a new world first and foremost, they do come to the aid of many alien species, far more then we ever saw in Lion Force. In Vehicle Voltron, the team is out and about in the universe. They mostly chilled in the Castle of Lions and waited for Zarkon to show up.
VOLTRON DEFENDER OF THE UNIVERSE CASTLE OF LIONS SERIES
You know how the subtitle of the series is “Defender of the Universe”? Well the Lion Force team never seemed to do a whole lot of defending of the universe. On the Galaxy Alliance side, we actually get some elements that Lion Force was lacking. Read more – What to Watch After Voltron: Legendary Defender Hazar is loyal to his people and won’t disobey them, but over the course of the series he learns he may have to betray his people in order to save them. The political leaders of the Drule Empire would rather score a major victory over the Galaxy Alliance instead of tend to the needs of the people and their dying world.Ĭommander Hazar, the main Drule, constantly tries to initiate peace talks with the Galaxy Alliance but is rebuked at every turn by his superiors. Many episodes are devoted to the society of the Drules and they slowly reveal to the audience that most of the Drule population is caught in the middle of this war and wants no part of it. One could actually argue the Drules are the real main characters of the series. Speaking as someone who sat through every episode of Lion Force Voltron, this sort of mature storytelling was shocking. It’s the kind of discussion you’d expect on a good episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Some of the Voltron team members protest, but the assertion that “We’re space explorers, not space pirates” wins out in the end. One of the explorer scientists points out the Drules need to expand as much as the humans do and that the Drules are actually repairing the environment of the planet. In an early episode, Vehicle Voltron discovers the planet they’re exploring is being terraformed by the Drules and they have a serious discussion over whether they should take the planet for themselves. Read more: 10 Hilarious Ways The Original Voltron Censored Death There’s no shortage of political machinations, exploring, and action. It’s a story engine that provides a lot of variety in plots. Compelling motives on both sides that don’t just boil down to good versus evil. That’s an awesome concept, right? Moral ambiguity. The two groups often fight over habitable worlds all while various commanders in both forces vie for peace. They quickly come into conflict with the Drule Empire, a race whose world is dying and they’re also looking for a new planet to colonize. Okay, so the story of the series is basically that Earth is overpopulated so they send out a team of explorers, with Vehicle Voltron, to find a new world to colonize.
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