You know, a detail that I love that’s not really focused on in canon but gets every time I think bout it is the unspoken, mutual dislike that Ezor and Keith have for one another. Like the Coalition handbook makes it pretty obvious that Keith hates Ezor’s guts. Keith says this bout Ezor and I quote “The galra value honor, and camouflaging yourself isn’t exactly honorable.” It by itself isn’t much and show casts how Keith values honor above most things. But when you consider all the times Keith has interacted with Ezor over the course of the show and how those interactions went down –
it becomes a 1000x more funnier. Keith’s statement, especially considering how he was as a kid and even how he is today, just sounds bitter and petty as hell. My dude has to deal with this evil bitch who has tried to either permanently maim him or kill him personally and his reaction to it is being salty is just funny to me.
It never fails to astonish me how much people… don’t give Haggar credit?
Like… we have it from the mouth of canon that Haggar’s the main mastermind here. Of Zarkon, Sendak, and Lotor, all major antagonists, Lotor outright accuses both Zarkon and Sendak of being Haggar’s puppets, with plenty of evidence to support those claims (neither of them rebut him, either, which is suspicious when you’d expect both of them to be furious about that accusation) and Lotor’s entire screentime thus far has been spent with him constantly trying to evade Haggar himself.
On the fandom side, though, it’s like people remember she’s competent and fond of insidious tactics as soon as they want to cast the latest aspersions on whatever female character they’ve decided is evil this time, but when we explicitly and obviously see her manipulate a situation, somehow s6e7 is just about Lotor vs. the Paladins and one of the two of them has to be wrong- Haggar isn’t even considered a party, like Shiro just suddenly flipped into murder mode and kidnapped Lotor all on his own or Haggar wasn’t paying attention to the situation and picked that time to attack for a reason.
Do I think that Haggar set up Romelle to find the paladins when they did? No. I don’t think anybody could have set that up- all the variables were so esoteric even someone of Haggar’s power and knowledge couldn’t have guaranteed it. This isn’t hitting a pea-sized target with a revolver, this is setting the revolver on a table facing the wrong direction and walking away, hoping something will set it off and direct the bullet to hit your pea-sized target.
But Haggar obviously started exploiting that situation as soon as she saw Romelle through Shiro’s eyes. That’s why she tapped Shiro when she did. When Lotor is brought to her, she outright comments on that exact argument, talking about how Lotor’s “continued her work”.
Assuming we can trust anything Macidus says, at least what’s corroborated by the ruins that the team founded him in, Haggar buying herself some time meant she could just casually snap her fingers, go “sic ‘em” and large numbers of druids just showed up practically out of nowhere and massacred the Blade and the coalition. These weren’t military expenditures. Matt outright says that Voltron’s allies were being hunted down.
Haggar without even seemingly meaningfully asserting herself was able to unleash the hounds and heavily damage the coalition.
“This series of messed up coincidences did happen for a reason. They brought us together as paladins. But more importantly… they brought us together as friends”
superheroladies 