The Blade of Marmora Did Not Deserve This

I’m like unspeakably busy and don’t have time to really think or do anything outside of work, but by god, season 4 of Voltron is haunting my writing sensibilities so badly.Or rather, what I should say is the portrayal of the Blade of Marmora in season 4 is bugging the hell out of me because …

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So this is probably stupid, but I hate how the writers decided to make Keith part Galra and how they handled that plot line. What I suppose should have been an arc showing that not all Galra are evil just turned into a whole arc about Keith, and that bothers me. Sure, he got over his hatred of the Galra and began to sympathize with them, but I feel that is ONLY because he is one himself. Had Pidge, Hunk, or Lance ended up with Galla blood, I can’t see him being very accepting of them (1/2).

fenfishtrap: Reposting this to include @echodrops‘ commentary, because there are good points in here: sol1056: Similarly, he only begins to preach #NotAllGalra AFTER he learns about his heritage. There was no build up of Keith actually learning to respect Galra (or at least, none I can remember), so it seemed more to me that he …

Continue reading So this is probably stupid, but I hate how the writers decided to make Keith part Galra and how they handled that plot line. What I suppose should have been an arc showing that not all Galra are evil just turned into a whole arc about Keith, and that bothers me. Sure, he got over his hatred of the Galra and began to sympathize with them, but I feel that is ONLY because he is one himself. Had Pidge, Hunk, or Lance ended up with Galla blood, I can’t see him being very accepting of them (1/2).