Bruh legit what is it that caused Zethrid her left eye, Ezor her left leg, and Acxa her left arm I am still shook about that. But it’s cute that they match on where their new disabilities are.
The Generals are back and cooler than ever. They wear new outfits with new colors, a combination we’ve never seen before, and I have some ideas:
1) they found another boss so they changed their old (but fine as hell) Sincline outfits. The new leader can be someone confident and powerful enough to trust them into a tie again, and maybe it’s someone who will do a favour to them eventually, like bringing back Narti. If that’s the case, I hope the new boss is Merla, that from precedent voltron versions is always a very powerful and clever leader and among the few people who can stop Lotor, so the girls working for someone even stronger and without issues and manias is a great step forward
2) the Generals aren’t working for nobody, they are now starting a new empire, maybe with the territories already ruled by Lotor (we know of their existence through Throk’s words in the arena in s3e1). I think this is also the most likely to happen since Zethrid already stated in s5e6 that they could fight for having a “nice, little territory on their own”. Of course, they won’t ally with Sendak and/or Haggar anymore and they could replace Lotor’s old place as Voltron’s allies, but they could also keep staying on their own side.
Whatever Haggar is up to it’s getting more chilling. If the theory that Druids are dead Alteans is true, then she might have gotten thousands now thanks to the colony. I suspect Alteans are now with the coalition due to the new prosthetics of the generals and overall design.
Zethrid’s scarf reminds me of what rebels of her other half wear as well.
Haggar might be popping out Druids in a rapid speed because look at the bandages on their arms. This is what Druid arms look like
So she might be sending them instantly now with no time to adjust
it’s interesting to note a couple of things starting with their different designs, and boy have they change.
Ezor: taller overall. older and developed looking over all. Her left leg is now a prosthetic.
Zethrid: Lost an eye (her left one) and her ears are more messier.
Acxa: doesn’t seem that much different except that her hair grew out to shoulder length it seems and she’s got a prosthetic arm. (hah knew that black hair was just that – black hair)
It’s to note that they all got new outfits which carry a different color scheme from the team sincline outfits
it includes white, magenta and gold in it and looks rather noble – makes sense if the girls actually did conquer territory like they planned too. And they went through hell for it judging by the very obvious battle scars they have now.
this of course, suggests a major timeskip, which was already implied by the original trailer as is
The lore goes that staff at Studio Mir tried to sneakily name the Lady Squad (except Narti, who already had a name) the Golden Girls’ names spelled backwards: Yrothod (Zethrid), Aiphos (Acxa), and Esor. Someone caught it, but Ezor kept her GG tribute. Narti is Blanche by default. 😉
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.
superheroladies 