If it wasn’t for that piano music Kingdom Hearts would be a comedy.
Yoko Shimomura is literally braver than any marine
When Nomura hands her the script for KH4 and she’s gotta figure out how to make Mickey dying in Noctis’ arms look anything but ridiculous with only her piano
Ok just cause I’m still salty and this needs to be said: just because your story is a bit predictable doesn’t mean it’s bad. sometimes that just means that your story makes sense. if nothing in your story is predictable then you have crossed the line from “keeping viewers on their toes” to “nonsensical nightmare that doesn’t deliver on any front”
Lately a lot of stories that try to hard to be “subversive” and “unpredictable” have turned out shitty because they were more focused on not using certain tropes than telling a good story.
love being trusted with “you cant tell anyone this” conversations and nodding a lot and forgetting everything they told me like god intended and going down as a trustworthy individual while doing literally zero work of ill or good
I said I wouldn’t make original
Voltron posts but contenting myself with others’ hot takes really wasn’t enough
in the end. People have written it out better than me but, gotta throw my towel
in the ring. Cause the thing is, where Voltron really had me fucked up is how
season 7 went down. Narratively speaking, I was told a lot of things and the
plot went off I guess— off the rails— it generally made no sense. The pacing
was poor. We’ve got no time for character conversations that should have
happened seasons ago but let’s call Lance stupid a billion times. Shiro is a lamppost,
oh wait he’s got an arm again so he can talk now, wait what’ll we do with him
if not hurt and punish the character end and needlessly? Can’t say thank you to
Allura for saving him for the umpteenth time but Shiro’s got a spare breath for
Keith, yeah. Alright. Shiro really did die in Season 2, who is this, why does
the characterization fluctuate so wildly? Each and every hero is portrayed so
off from the start of the show it’s less character growth and more unrecognizable
squinting. The stranger danger of it all. Something about the whole season came
across really spiteful. Keith makes no sense, he’s a dusty Shiro 2.0 in need of
an update, he’s mean for no reason, he’s friendly, no wait the script says— it’s
frustrating. Why did that earth captain who never had a redeeming moment get
some harrowing death scene when Adam, who we should ostensibly care more about
due to his implied connection to Shiro get three seconds of mourning, just wondering
white that is. Patience yields focus, my ass. Dumping new character after new character
into the plot and not giving them any real purpose other than eliciting trauma
or chewing up the run-time— why can’t this story be more concise.
Season
7 should’ve been the one to make all the lackluster storytelling come together
and instead the show went “let’s blow the budget by putting another giant robot
in it”. I’m motivated by pure spite to write something better, where the
characters all interact and support one another, like a team should, like
something that hasn’t spun on its head to flip the narrative into a joyless, flashy
yet deceptively dull simulacrum of an overlong Hollywood action movie where
there’s plenty of banter, zero substance, zero heart. I’m not expecting Aesop’s
fables but what is the point? Nothing I can see that doesn’t warrant the use of
a microscope. You can find the opposite of this here,
where everyone on the team is given equal merit and purpose and friendship
matters— a take on what Voltron could have been blended with another superb
series, though you don’t need any knowledge of it as I explain the rules of
that world through the course of the story.
Really, I have to thank Voltron
because it motivated me to write a story longer than any of my previous
attempts. Season 8 might just fuel the fire.
The art, stories and videos about
these characters are what made Voltron even bearable and that’s the way it will stay. I have more fun interacting
with fandom, writing a story that’s become a project and a delight. Anyway, if
you read all of this rant, thanks.
