jakathine said
at least s6 is very short, only 7eps overall. Very intense though. I think it’s my favorite season thus far
True. I’m not sure how I feel about the odd half-seasons that the show’s been doing since post-S2, though I think the last two are going to be full length? Either way there was still a bunch of stuff in S6 I had to really reach into my memory to recall or just cheat and look up online, so if I don’t have to do that again so much the better.
georg-prime a dit
Hello fellow Voltron fan, I would just like to say that yes rewatching before next season is a good idea, I’ve been doing that this week and seeing the whole thing with what I know now after s6 and the revelations from SDCC is nice. I also took the opportunity to watch this time in French. And this is the other thing I wanted to say, I am delited to see the term Gascon and that flag, born in Gascogne here 😉
*and obviously I am not fluent enough in English not to make embarrassing mistakes urgh*
Non, ton anglais est facile à lire! En tout cas je préfère parler à mes compatriotes dans notre propre langue, pas dans la langue des nos ennemis. C’est souvent une nécessité malheureuse parce que les affronts subis par les Français en Louisiane, mais malgré cela je peux la lire assez bien. Mon écriture, d’autre part…
Mais oui, je suis un gascon par la famille de mon père, d’où le nom de mon blogue. Mes autres ancêtres sont venus de tous les coins de la France, mais j’ai une affection pour cette province en particulier. J’aimerais la voir un jour. Le drapeau est un design populaire parmi les Louisianais ; la fleur-de-lis est un symbole commun pour les Français en Amérique – voir aussi le drapeau de Québec.
Je déteste que les médias en français (originals ou en traduction) sont très rares aux EU, même ici en Louisiane. Je suis heureux que tu peux regarder l’émission comme ça. Certes, quand je la revois ce sera une nouvelle expérience.
It occurs to me that if I plan to rewatch Voltron in anticipation of S7’s release next Friday I’m going to have to start soon or else I won’t be finished in time. It’ll be good to remind myself of all those plot points I couldn’t recall when I watched S6 without refreshing myself, and in light of certain recent revelations it’ll be good for some new character examination.
(I’m also going to be looking at ships, less so the one for which I already have a pretty solid grounding and more so the very loud and infamous fandom juggernaut whose popularity eludes me to this day. But, you know, gay-or-otherwise-into-men Shiro helps out with the former anyway.)
I’m still beside myself at that post from days ago that claimed that Voltron shipping was literally the reason that gay men got murdered.
Imagine being THAT self-important. Imagine looking at Matthew Shepard’s obituary and being like “so many lives ruined by Shiro/paladins”.
(The argument, incidentally, was that gay age gap shipping reinforces the predatory homosexual stereotype that heterosexual men are so afraid of, and by reinforcing it with gifsets and headcanon blogs on tumblr more gay men will be beaten to death in real life. As we all know, violent heterosexual men are the largest known consumers of Voltron slashfic.)
I’m not sure I could find it in myself to ask for a link to that…eesh. Predatory older gay men seducing (virginal and therefore presumed heterosexual) teenage boys – that beloved canard of fundamentalist sorts – I can at least see as a logical misreading of age gaps in M/M relationships, but gay bashing by straight men? What.
I find it both amusing and disturbing that the “pedophilia” arguments surrounding around the new Voltron has stuck with me more than anything on the actual show has. Why does no one apparently know the difference between pedophilia and ephebophilia? Why does no one point out that pseudo-ephebophilia (i.e. twinks, and the men who are into them) has always existed as a type of relationship dynamic between gay men both in media and occasionally in real life? Why does puritanical moralizing continue to be a thing in shipping wars?
Gascon-en-exil: Gallophilic Cultural Posturing 