Animation Voltron: Legendary Defender

[TheVileOne]

Why would it leave Netflix? They didn't co-produce it? I guess DreamWorks/NBCUniversal own and might put it on Peacock?

 

[Sithborg]

I have no idea how some of these deals work.

 

[TheVileOne]

I have no idea how some of these deals work.

I guess because Netflix doesn't own the IP rights revert after a while.

 

[Sithborg]

I guess because Netflix doesn't own the IP rights revert after a while.

I think it is less the Voltron rights, and more that the deal with Dreamworks is more of a traditional one we see in broadcast television. As they are just paying to "air" it for a certain amount of time, and not actually owning it. Similar to how may shows are made from different companies than the ones that airs them. I think we all assumed that Netflix would make these shows to own them for all time. But, I guess with their first originals leaving, we should assume anything mad eon Netflix won't necessarily stay there forever.

 

[Sithborg]

Officially leaving Dec 6 if you want to watch it before it leaves.

 

[Sithborg]

Last week to watch. Its been fun going back through this series. How good it largely was. A pity that it didn't stick the landing, and well, the fanbase.

 

[Still Wynning]

Last week to watch. Its been fun going back through this series. How good it largely was. A pity that it didn't stick the landing, and well, the fanbase.

I too remember enjoying most of the show, even the penultimate season when I noticed some of the cracks that were starting to show. It was only in the final season I found myself constantly saying a lot to myself, “Wait, he/she did/said what?”, “Wait, they’re going in that direction with that character?”, “What just happened?”, etc.

Stuff kind of just happens because the plot requires it and not because it felt natural for the characters and the story. Everything in season eight feels so rushed and slapdash. I kept thinking that there’s no way this can possibly get any worse than it already is, only for it to get even worse and my begrudging obligation to finish the series gradually turned into immensely growing frustration, like the show was purposefully trying to spite me for having dedicated so many hours of my life to watching it. By the last moments of the series finale, I felt so bummed out and burned that. I began wondering why I had even watched the show in the first place if this is how it was going to end. I felt so cheated. I put so much in my time into the show, and this is what you give me at the end? A half baked, forced romance between two characters that hadn’t been developed at all in the show before and a heroic sacrifice that, while in character, without any proper buildup and coming out of nowhere feels unearned and unfulfilling. And don’t even get me started with the whole invoking of the “bury your gays” trope and the queer baiting.

Can you tell I’m still salty about how this show ended?