Something interesting I noticed. Back in season 1, when everyone first started theorizing that Keith was half-alien. The popular headcanon was that Keith’s dad was the alien who left his wife and child behind to protect him, and then his mother died tragically young trying to raise him, leaving him to the tender mercies of the foster system. There always seemed to be this undercurrent that Keith’s dad had done him wrong by leaving, and Keith should resent him for it, while seeing his mom as a victim.
Then season 2 came out and we found out mom was the alien who left and dad was the human who stayed behind, but the headcanon rolls didn’t reverse. The popular headcanon became that mom died in battle (thus justify her leaving Keith behind for his safety), and that dad just abandoned his son on earth. Just walked out the door one day, and left him for the foster system to take care of.
It’s very interesting what our assumptions were when we learned Keith was an orphan vs. what ended up being true. Keith’s dad took care of him until he died, possibly, if the fireman theory turns out to be true, died trying to rescue Keith or other people. Just a thought.
It’s fascinating that when a show tries its best to flip gender specific tropes fandom tries to reinforce it. There’s a lack of sympathetic deadbeat moms -or ANY for that matter- so it’s really refreshing. Kinda like how fandom kept shutting down the Haggar is Lotor’s mom theory and claiming it was a fridged little Altean lady that caused Zarkon to go on a manpain quest to kill Alfor. When in reality the man wanted to save his wife and child, who ended up being just as vicious as he is. When the show introduced Lotor’s generals as just that, fandom still continued to call them his harem. It goes on and on. It’s really fascinating how when media tries to move forward, there’s this pushback due to assumptions that the show will follow the standard norm. Voltron has a rare thing where men are emotional and nurturing and motivated by love, but fandom just, does not compute initially.
I’m trying to remember which post was yours as there was quite a bit of well-deserved Honerva love on my dash.
I’m assuming her motivations or role is final boss/greater scope villain, but there may not be a final boss/greater scope villain and instead there is some catastrophic reality destroying event on the horizon and thus she’s playing some other kind of role now.
Honerva told Lotor that he had completed her work (which may or may not have been the trans-reality gate), and now that the gate is destroyed, I assume that she’ll go after Voltron in a big way. But Lotor told her that the “end is near” like some kind of Prophet of Doom (hah hah DotU reference); and all that foreshadowing from the Monsters and Mana episode “You’ll never guess who the dragon was working for!” (or whatever that line was).
I’m wondering if Honerva’s pupils always had that inner purple area, or if this is a new trait due to whatever went down in Oriande. It looks like she’s always had it, it’s just much more noticeable now. Definitely one of my favorite things about her character design.
Glad everyone is appreciating the chilling Oriande healing scene. I really need to know what that theme is called, because it played during her transformation in black site and confrontation with Lotor. One more interesting thing about her eyes now, they shifted. Her eyes now resemble that of her husband and son, she has lizard/cat eyes as well!
Her eyes got more narrow and sharp, and her pupils here interestingly are shockingly similar to Lotor’s, right down to the hair over them.
I used Lotor’s when he was full on quintessence madness shot because it’s more fitting. Normally Lotor’s eyes resemble Zarkon’s original ones.
For reference, the one time we saw Zarkon’s eyes truly again post corruption was here
So it seems that even with Oriande “healing” her, the affect of the rift is still there. Not to mention that regardless of possession, she is still very immoral, showing pride in what Lotor did and the heights he reached. So we are in for a scary, scary villain next season and we should all be excited.
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