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shayllura:

a lot of lotor’s compliments to allura related to how useful she was in achieving peace throughout the universe: for example, telling her that he couldn’t have done it without her, that the knowledge she gained from oriande made her special, etc. so i wasn’t very surprised when it turned out that he was only using her for his own purposes. his compliments weren’t about her as a person, but her as a tool. so i wondered, why didn’t allura see through this too? i think it’s because she is so dedicated to doing the right thing and helping to alleviate suffering throughout the universe that the most meaningful compliment anyone could give her would be to say that she’s doing it right: she is useful in achieving those goals. i think that’s really sad, because of course there’s more to allura than her roles as paladin and princess. she is a great fighter and political leader, but she’s also kind, charming, witty, intelligent, compassionate…i could go on. i hope she realizes that about herself. she deserves to understand her true worth.

Contrast it to Lance and the others going on about her as a person, and how they comforted Alluring in the past 26 episodes -the Keith scene in s3 and Coran constantly-. Lotor has shown his view on Allura since bloodlines, where he watched her cry about her insecurity and he just stood there staring at her until the map opened and he goes you did it. All his compliments after that were about her powers and what they achieved together. Lotor loved the concept of her, the powers and abilities she provided, and being the daughter of Alfor. He later admits to Ezor and Zethrid that he needed to gain her trust. What’s messed up is that he constantly used the we are the last Alteans card, and her father’s name. He made her long for Altean culture so that she’d connect to him, while he was doing that to the surviving Alteans. The minute she triggered his berserk button, Alfor’s name was dragged through the mud and the god complex came out. Allura deserves all the love and reassurance in the world, to be told what a great person she is, not just a leader. We got little of that when Lance comforted her, and I suspect we are getting more of that. We saw her friends care about her in the colony and afterwards, and how they truly see her as a person first now. 

lotor had said that he hated ‘the barbarity of the komar’ in a previous season, but now they’re showing him draining the life force of alteans for his own selfish purposes out of nowhere i mean? isn’t that a bit inconsistent? or it might just be my impression idk

eatyourgrapes:

HONESTLY, I wouldn’t say it’s so much “inconsistent” as ironic if anything

Lotor from the beginning has been about distancing himself from his parents–yet at the same time he begs to follow his mother’s work– kinda sticking him in a funny spot of being “different but not really”.

A paradox, I guess in a way

I think it’s safe to say both Lotor and his parents sought access to the Quintessence field for the betterment of their respective empires (Zargar for the Galra, Lotor for his Altean utopia)

However, where his parents were determined to hunt for Voltron–something they already knew well and was a solid, reliable means to their end– Lotor decided instead to break out of the mold and take the route of “bigger risk, bigger reward” basically.

He did his research on why Voltron works, then determined just what he would need to do to achieve something similar, but different (theoretically) without all the 10,000 years of waiting his parents did. (Though we can see the timing came pretty close lol) in building Sincline

To get by/make their quintessence harvesting more efficient while they dedicated their time to hunting for Voltron, Zarkon and Haggar put their efforts into the Komar project. 

And BOY was it successful, straightforward and reliable (can you see the theme I’m going for with these two) But again, like their hunt for Voltron, the Komar was a time consuming project, taking Haggar EONS to perfect and Lotor is all about that “quick buck” sort of mindset.

Why would he take their route of sucking entire planets of “dirty” quintessence needing refinement on 100 different levels before being even close to what he needs,  when he can just go to the source of “pure” quintessence? (After all, it’s well-established the stuff he was harvesting from the colony is especially potent, perfect for his needs)

And that’s just how he categorizes things.

What’s necessary vs what is done.

He saw the Komar as “barbaric’ because it did more than necessary, kind of a “why suck entire planets dry when you could just scale down and take a more precise approach”

Broad strokes vs quick cuts, ya feel