For my long paper I want to discuss the Netflix reboot of Voltron: Legendary Defenders, which premiered in 2016 and ended in 2018. I watched the show during its short lived heyday at the recommendation of a friend and was bored at first but eventually got sucked in due to its likable characters. Mostly I wanted to talk about this show due to how it quickly went from being well liked to a disaster within just two years. While the animation itself was fine, the issues in this show lied within the creative team at Dreamworks. There is a lot to talk about with the lead executive producers, Joaquim Dos Santos and Lauren Montgomery, who had previously worked on The Legend of Korra, who are often seen as the shows downfall for lack of planning the show out. I’d also talk about how this is a show that was probably brought back for the purpose of selling toys and banking on the nostalgia older viewers might have for the past series in 1984. Voltron absolutely has inspiration from Toei studios and other Japanese animations, also Transformers. It’s definitely interesting how the intent for this series was supposed to be for younger kids but it generally garnered an audience of teenagers and young adults, which is probably the reason why it was picked apart so much. Frankly, I do not think this show is that innovative and will probably just be remembered for the wrong reasons, but I think it was still a really interesting experience to have been a part of at the time, so I am quite excited to dissect it as I do believe there are many simple ways to make the show better (for example, not killing your only lead who is a woman of color…)
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