Will Shiro Going to Be the Black Paladin Again Voltron
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Voltron: Legendary Defender season two ended on a major cliffhanger. After finally getting his black bayard, Shiro was able to actuate i of the hidden powers of the Blackness Lion. Zarkon seemed defeated and the Paladins raced back to the Castle Ship…. Only to notice Shiro was gone. He wasn't dead only… gone.
In the hiatus between seasons two and three fans speculated what happened to him. Was he somehow fused with the Blackness Panthera leo? Was he really truly expressionless? Did he somehow bond with Zarkon's Quintessence? How long would it take earlier Shiro was brought dorsum? How would the team deal with his absenteeism?
The opening episodes of the season began to respond that last question. Keith struggled with taking on the drapery of leader. The team was in disarray. They needed someone to airplane pilot Black Panthera leo. Everyone tried but somewhen Keith had to accept on responsibleness. Lance moved into Crimson Lion and Allura into Bluish Lion.
Not only had the team reverted to the archetype Voltron line up from the original series but they were also beginning to find their way in this new configuration. The 3rd episode featured everyone struggling with Keith's leadership and Allura doing her best to work with the Blue Lion. While they fabricated it out of that adventure mostly unscathed, they still had a lot of work to do to bond equally a team again.
It seemed like the new condition quo for much of flavor three would be the Paladins learning to work together, particularly focusing on Keith'due south reluctance as leader and somewhen embracing the function he had in original Voltron as the confident leader.
Then Shiro came back in episode five. Later merely two episodes with the new team in place, we cut to an episode that was totally focused on Shiro escaping from the Galra. Afterwards meeting up with some rebels Shiro eventually fabricated his way back to the team, although he didn't resume command or pilot the Blackness Lion.
Why was he brought dorsum so shortly? Certain, there's probably something upward with him since it looked like the Galra let him escape but bringing him back and so soon did a huge disservice to the arcs of the other paladins, peculiarly Keith. Even Allura, who was the make new Paladin, had some of her fire stolen.
Information technology felt very strange and out of place for a show that had been and so well paced upward to that betoken. Why couldn't take Shiro come back later on, perhaps a season or two down the line? Executive producer Joaquim Dos Santos has a fairly blunt respond.
"Nosotros weren't immune to from the executives. That's information technology. He had to come dorsum. That's pretty much it. We wanted him to exist gone for a much longer menstruum of fourth dimension and we weren't allowed to."
Co executive producer Lauren Montgomery adds, "Shiro's gotta sell toys."
With the action figures of the Paladins hit stores around the fourth dimension flavor three debuted, Shiro included, this makes sense.
Montgomery elaborates on the thought process of this decision, lamenting "at that place's a lot of give and take when you lot're working on a show. It's a very nice happy thing to remember we have carte blanche when making this show and everything we do is our choice merely that's simply not always the case. Sometimes we have people we demand to please."
Montgomery lays out the original third season they had planned, back when information technology was originally going to exist thirteen episodes instead of seven.
"I call back in our wildest dream we had a flavour planned out where Shiro just wasn't a part of it and our guys got to exist the original Voltron lineup and be a mess and learn on their own and learn together and evolve. Only when information technology comes down to information technology sometimes we don't become out way. Things are required of u.s. so we practice those things and we accept to make information technology work with the story."
Montgomery does point out that there are some fans out in that location that are very happy that Shiro is back and they were upset he was gone the first place, but "you tin't please everyone. We just have to do what nosotros gotta do to make the show and we try to brand it the best show nosotros tin."
"That'south the politically right answer" interjects Dos Santos, "Creatively, nosotros aren't gonna lie, information technology's frustrating to deal with some of those things when we had creative ideas that we wanted to extend a bit farther. Like Lauren said, there'due south a lot of moving parts to an IP this big. Concessions have to be made and we're still happy with where the story has gone, it merely wasn't our original idea."
And so did they already have the outline of the season planned and it was vetoed? Had they already written the episodes and had to change them at the last infinitesimal?
Dos Santos worries they've said too much already but that there was a "a certain amount that we pitched early on. It's an organic system, things change along the mode and you merely have to be able to adapt. Unlike people chinkle in. Different departments chime in. There's a lot of moving parts. That'southward kinda how that works."
While it's a shame that the Paladins weren't allowed to develop in Shiro's absence, we're intrigued by how the Voltron team will adapt to Shiro'due south forced presence in the storyline in the fourth season and across.
Shamus Kelley is glad we at least got Sven out of this. Follow him on Twitter!
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