joeebruce

Star Wars iX: A New Evil Arises - Disney

The Last jedi is so bad it makes Jar Jar Binks look like a well fleshed-out deep character of substance!

Spoilers I will make will be in referencing Go Lion! Old enough to have watched the original Voltron, I finally watched this on Netflix. Needless to say I found it good enough to binge the entire two seasons very quickly.

Legendary Defender (which I will abbreviate as LD here on) improved upon many things.

To start with, a few years back I watched Go Lion! (via Crunchyroll) and found that the story was far far better than Voltron. (As I'm a huge Macross fan and know the horrors of Robotech, I wasn't surprised by the changes to Go Lion!) Go Lion! was much darker than Voltron, and LD brings some of that feel back. While Go Lion! killed off that annoying snobbish maid Hys, original Voltron wouldn't dare, and thankfully LD doesn't have her in it at all.

Loved the fact that they used the name Shiro (Go Lion!) instead of Sven (original Voltron) for the character. And the fact that Shiro is the leader. This sets up something many people may have missed ....

Original members outfit matches the color of their lion! Yeah, a very minor detail, but I liked it. Now if they change lions, the different color outfits make sense.

Some have commented about the lack of the original Voltron music (i.e. the very generic sounding rift also used in Robotech), I agree music is missing, BUT ...

Go Lion! had an epic opening, epic songs for each lion, and one for Go Lion (Voltron) itself. I was hoping they would have added the music for the lions at least.

Overall Voltron: Legendary Defender is worth watching, better than the original Voltron and even though the story is changed more, it is actually closer in spirit to Go Lion! than the original Voltron! And if you need something to watch while waiting for Season 3, I highly suggest watching Go Lion! (Yes it is subbed, but well worth it)