 Activate interlocks, dino-therms connected, and throw cells up, mega-thrusters are go. Let's go, Voltron Force. Coming up after this, I'll be talking about Season 2 of Voltron, Legendary Defender, only on Netflix. Stay tuned. All right, so Season 2 started out pretty good, it ended pretty good as well. There will be spoilers in this review, so those of you who don't wanna know what's going on in the season just yet, go ahead and click off, come back after you've watched the season, and watch the video. With that being said, the team is separated. Paige is on her own with some furry alien creatures, and then Keith is on one side of a planet, while Shiro's on another side of the planet, and Keith's gotta come help him. The lions are down, depowered for some reason, and Shiro's being attacked by what appears to be alien hellhounds. So Keith's gotta hurry up and get to him in order to help him. So Keith does end up piloting the black lion right at the get-go, but it's very briefly. After being hinted at all season, during Season 1, it is officially revealed that Zarkon was the original paladin for the black lion, and apparently his connection with the black lion is so strong that if he gets close to the black lion, he can control it. So Voltron has to keep his distance from Zarkon until Shiro can develop an even stronger connection with the lion. It is also revealed that King Alphor was the original paladin of the red lion as well. It's also revealed that King Alphor built the black lion on what I can only assume would be planet Doom. It's destroyed now, but it was Zarkon's home planet, which I believe in the original series was Planet Doom. I can't remember what it is now. There is a Galra resistance against Zarkon, basically rebel Galras, which is the species that Zarkon is. They don't want to be ruled by Zarkon. They want to be, you know, they want to be a part of this new galactic alliance that Princess Allura and the Voltron Paladin, sorry, are forming. And they do actually start forming the galactic alliance as portrayed in the original few series. It is just a start, it's more of a resistance movement, but they are forming this alliance with all these other planets. These rebel Galras actually have people inside Zarkon's forces working against him in high ranking positions too. It's also shown that Voltron's sword can increase in size as shown where Voltron has to cut through an entire massive ship, Galra ship. And in order to do that, it has to increase in size in order to get it all in one swipe. So it goes from being like this, you know, to being about twice the length of Voltron. As I told you guys before, Zarkon has this incredibly strong connection with the Black Lion. So much so that he is able to track down the Voltron Paladins and Princess Allura and the castle and everything by mental, psychically, by the psychic link between him and the Black Lion. It was briefly shown in season one that the alliance can evolve, but it was more so shown in this season. The Black Lion is capable of so much more power. It gets, when he and Shiro are able to bond, create a super strong bond, you know what? In the original series that one little computer thing came up and, you know, Keith did the activate interlocks and, you know, did the switches and everything. Well, that thing comes up and he does the same thing, but he doesn't do the whole activate interlocks, dinotherms connected thing. He just, you know, immediately turns it on and everything. Power boost, the Black Lion gets these enhanced wings that almost look like mechanical feathers coming off of it. And when they do that during, when it forms Voltron, they actually are able to create a version of the blazing sword. Before we've only ever seen the sword itself, not blazing power or anything like that. Once all five lines or once all five paladins are able to create superior bond with their lines, they're able to form the actual blazing version of the sword and end up destroying Zarkon. It's left unclear if Zarkon actually gets destroyed at the end or if he is just severely injured and left in a comatose. I'm not sure that part wasn't really specific. Shiro did tell Keith that if anything happens to him, he wants Keith to lead the team, which Keith takes very reluctantly. It's also revealed, it was kind of hinted at in season one, but Shiro and Keith aren't actually brothers. Keith was an orphan and I guess he was kind of adopted by Shiro's family or whatever, but apparently Keith is part Galra on his mother's side. It's not really specified how much Galra blood he has in him. I know in Voltron Force, it was revealed that he was the same species as Allura, but in this version, he's part Galra, which is the same species as Zarkon. His father was human. His mother, it's not really specific on how much Galra blood she had in her if she was just half Galra, full Galra, whatever, but this really creates a, it upsets the dynamic between Allura and Keith because Allura is so prejudiced against all Galras because they wiped out her race. So it really creates this tension in the group. Before that's revealed though, it's kind of hinted at that Allura is actually in love with Keith. Keith kind of feels the same about her, but it's only hinted at. It's not really bluntly stated, you know. Towards the end of the season, towards the end of the season, it's revealed that Zarkon has this armor. It makes him about the size of Voltron, and the Voltron paladins have an extremely hard time fighting him. He gets super powered by Hagar and her druids, and then while he's fighting the Voltron paladins, then Hagar and her druids are creating this super powerful blast to destroy the castle of lions. So it's very, it's kind of an epic battle. Almost a little bit more epic than Fleet of Doom. It's also revealed. Hagar's not Galra. It's actually revealed that Hagar's an Altaian, which is the same species as Allura and Koran. It's not exactly specified why she turned against her own race or whatever, but Allura does eventually defeat Hagar hand-to-hand, causes her to retreat, and at the end of the season, Shiro goes missing, which strongly hints that Keith will take up the position of the leader of the Voltron paladins and the Black Lion. How they're gonna work that is, I'm not really sure about considering the lions have to bond with their paladins. So they didn't really quite make that clear. And since all five members of the Voltron Force, or excuse me, I keep saying Voltron Force because that's what they've been called up until the Legendary Defender series, all five members of the, or all five paladins have bonded completely with their lion. I'm not really sure how they're gonna be able, how they're gonna switch lions up like that. In the original series, and all the way up until up through Voltron Force. Keith was the Black Lion, Sven was the original pilot of the Blue Lion, and then it became Princess Allura. Lance was the pilot of the Red Lion, and then Hunk, Yellow Lion, and Pitch, Green Lion. Well, they kind of changed that up this time, made Shira, which was actually Sven. They just kind of changed his name to more fit the Go Lion version. They made Shira the pilot of the Black Lion, Keith the pilot of the Red Lion, Lance the pilot of the Blue Lion, and then Hunk and Pitch kept their lions. I'm not really sure how they're gonna work that. I was, there were a few scenes in the series towards the end that made me think that, it actually gave me a little bit of hope that they were gonna go the route of the first three series, Voltron Defender of the Universe, third dimension, and Voltron Force, where you know it does the activate interlock, dyno therms connected, intracells up, megatrossers are go, and form feet and legs, form arms and torso, and all form the head. It really kind of hinted that they were gonna do that at some point during the series, but they don't, which is a little upsetting because I really miss, that's one of the things that made Voltron iconic was the music and the dynamic, the whole sequence they go through before when they form Voltron. It's very memorable, it sticks in mind. Now it just, let's form Voltron, and then they all combine together, and I don't know if I like that too much. I understand why they did it because they need to be able to do it faster, but they could have done it in a similar way that they did with Voltron Force. Overall, I like the season two. I like the series on a whole. I just wish they would incorporate more elements of the original series. I wish they would turn the Blazing Sword back into the original version of the Blazing Sword because that's an iconic looking sword. I really wish they'd go back to the, Voltron formation sequence that they used to do, and bring back the music. Everything else, I don't mind too much. I don't mind that the Paladins of the Lions are switched around and everything. Just a few of those nitpicks that as a fan from way back in the 80s, I grew up with Voltron, I wanna be able to see stuff that I recognize. And this new version of Voltron, they took away the original chest plate and the Voltron cross, which I understand why they took away the cross. I don't wanna offend anybody or whatever, but that was still kind of an iconic look for Voltron. And they turned the chest plate blue instead of the original red and the multicolors or whatever on the emblem. They could have changed up the chest emblem a little bit and kept the entire red chest part though. So I'm not really quite sure why they turned it into a blue V. Like I said, overall, I liked it. I hope you guys enjoy it. The toys are out at Walmart and Target now. I got the legendary black lion and I got my son the small six inch black lion action figure as well. Here soon we'll probably be getting the other lions so that I can form Voltron. But yeah, that was my season two Voltron legendary defender review. I will try and do a review on this every season. And hopefully we'll get a little bit better with the Voltron legendary defender. The only thing I don't like is that they only release it once a year. They release an entire season at the beginning of the year. So you've gotta wait all year long catch the next season. So that's the only thing I, that's one of the things I don't really like about the way Netflix does their shows. I wish I'd kind of do it like they released the first part of a season and then like six months later, they released the second part of the season. And then that way every six months, at least we'd be able to get 10 to 13 episodes to be able to watch. Instead we get 10 episodes, then have to wait a year to be able to watch 10 or 13 more episodes. I'll rank it about an eight out of 10. As a Voltron fan, I liked it. I have some Netflix but they're minor. So hope you enjoy it guys and come back for more Come Again. There was one thing I forgot to mention guys at the very last scene of the season of the show, Hagar reveals that in this Voltron universe, Prince Lothor does exist. When after Shiro is missing, Hagar goes to the body of Zarkon. It's not really revealed if he, like I said before, it's not really revealed if he's dead or if he's just a coma or severely injured or whatever. But she orders her troops to summon Prince Lothor. So that's gonna be pretty cool. I'd like this, I really wanna see how they do Lothor next season. Lothor has been kind of the constant throughout all of the different incarnations of Voltron. Voltron, the defender of the universe, the main villains were Zarkon and Lothor with a few generals or sub commanders or whatever. And then in Voltron, the third dimension, Lothor was the main baddie. Same with Voltron Force, he was the main baddie. Voltron Fleet of Doom, which had both the Lion Force Voltron and the Vehicle Force Voltron. Zarkon was the main villain, I believe. It's been a while since I've watched it. But Lothor ended up being the main villain. He kind of turned on his father and teamed up with the two Voltron forces and specifically Alura to help him. And then he kind of turned on them towards the end off to go back and re-watch it. But so that's gonna be pretty cool. I'd like this, I really wanna see how they do Lothor next season. Hit that subscribe button. Make sure you hit the like, comment below and share with your friends.