The music that plays during Haggar’s softer/sympathetic moments is interesting to me. It always plays when it’s about her identity, and the melancholy to them are not just chilling, but downright haunting. There’s also the fact that the music then shifts back into threatening and serious moments later. This cue from the music is telling us this character is tragic, and sympathetic, but never forget how terrifying she is. It really is fascinating to see fan reactions to all of these scenes, because everyone sights them as being incredibly heavy, which they are. They carry a lot of weight every single time, and the music adds that extra drop in the viewer’s gut when these scenes start. It really makes you wonder where the character is heading for the final arc of the show.
It still gets me how Lotor’s plan to split Team Sincline was not only slicing one of his team members but also having the other one come and blast him on the spine. Then have the girls tie him up.
Like all of that could of been avoided had he gone to the whole team and been like “look here’s the deal” have Acxa shoot him and put on him broken handcuffs and ejected a seat from the legs Sincline ship or something. Literally no lies required and everything would of gone much more smoothly. And Team Voltron was duped so easily like Lotor really only had to kill Zarkon and it would of been ok. He really didn’t have to split the team like that. The girls could’ve gone with him to ally themselves with Voltron. Or is that Acxa being half-Altean would of been too obvious that he was lying bout him, Allura, and Coran being the last Alteans in the universe?
I know it’s cause Lotor’s real ultra cautious and is always covering his bases and prepared for anything kind of guy. And he really didn’t know how the paladins were as people, so he had to be prepared for that too but really. Are Zethrid and Ezor that bad at lying that had they been confronted they would’ve spilled the beans? If so, why trust Acxa at all? She was bean spilling since s4ep5 like I’m pretty sure under the right pressure she’d crack too.
(Like seriously he was fortunate that no one around suspected something cause this brat was this close to spilling everything not once but multiple times.)But it literally never came to that. It never came close to coming to that. Does Lotor have such little faith in the generals that he pulls a stunt like this?
Cause I mean, that does makes sense when you think bout s6ep6 and how Lotor had installed a fail safe full team ejection button from Sincline.
He really never trusted the girls in the end. But the thing is, the other ships had it too. Could Zethrid eject Lotor from the head just like he did her in legs sincline ship? Or is the code only locked to him? Cause if it’s the latter case then well, it’s real telling indeed.
But what it really tells me is how Lotor as person is real self-aware of how awful he can be. This is the dude who knows the right thing to say to the masses to get them at his feet. This is the guy who was able to manipulate Allura perfectly. He knew by executing this plan with the generals he was gonna lose the trust of Ezor and Zethrid especially, and if Acxa had half a brain she’d start to doubt him too. He must’ve known that this was gonna end badly on all fronts for him in the long run. And it did.
Which is why he had the whole team ejection button in the first place. He literally knew what he was gonna do was terrible and yet he still did it. He really doesn’t care at all.
It’s almost funny how foreshadowing Ezor’s line in s4ep5 was:
cause really, all of Lotor’s plan do fail and he’s got no one to blame but himself for it. He has no support system – no friends, no allies – cause it was him who threw it all out in pursuit of his own ambitions. Lotor might’ve been defeated being overwhelmed with quintessence but he was already wrecked himself since the moment he decided that putting his plans in before those who care for him was better than that.
And that’s why he dies all alone, surrounded by everything he ever wanted but still nothing at all.
Something that has interested me since season 6 came out back on Friday has been the reveal that all this time, Lotor had fabricated the Team Sincline split so he could get close to Allura and use her.
It changes the whole dynamic of team sincline, and especially how we see certain events that occurred previously. One of the these is the circumstance of Narti’s death. Previously, I had always assumed that Narti had legitimately been killed in “Black Site” and was to be revived later on for Haggar’s purposes. But now with the new context season 6 has given us, I don’t even think that’s the case. Heck, looking back at “Black Site” and “Begin the Blitz” and even moments in s6 itself, I don’t think Narti was even dead to begin with. After discussing it more with @superheroladies, it makes even more sense that she isn’t, so allow me to explain.
S6 is around the corner and now with the trailer drop, we’ve got some info as to what it contains – one of which appears to be the fact that Lotor appears to have finished the final comet ship –
the head of sincline. But as the title of this theory post implies, the arrival of the head, I think, is not meant to be a good sign.
Cause looking at the design, I initially thought it looked odd to say the least. Called it whale looking cause of its “fins”. But if I’m honest with myself, the ship doesn’t look like a whale. No, it resembles more like the protist giardia lamblia – a microscopic intestinal parasite.
Thank you very much! I’m glad you liked it! Though when I drew it, I wasn’t necessarily thinking of Acxa as a knight. In the D&D au, I actually was more in the mindset of her being a rogue or ranger, leaning towards ranger with her main weapon being something like a crossbow.
But in all honesty, that doesn’t really detract from the scenario in my eyes. Instead it basically just becomes a reenactment of Tangled, with Narti as Rapunzel and Acxa as Eugene.
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