I’m going to try a different format today in order to see if it will appeal more to readers. Instead of doing what I usually do, recapping and sharing my thoughts on the episode, I will focus solely on criticisms, likes, and dislikes.

Transreality Comet

When it was revealed that the paladins were in an alternate reality, I was interested but thought that this episode wasn’t going to affect the series in anyway. But I was thankfully mistaken. It turns out that the comet that Voltron was made out of gives one the ability to travel to different realities. Voltron is also the only one who could go through the portal, which is why Lotor tricked them with the fake Altean distress signal and ended up with the comet. Why does he want the comet? Maybe he wants to create a Dark Voltron. He has five members if you include Lotor himself. Maybe Zarkon also wanted Voltron in order to travel to alternate realities. It was revealed that King Alfor found another comet and tried to hide it from Zarkon. Though Zarkon seemed more concerned with the Black lion than Voltron itself.

Alternate Realities

The whole alternate reality concept was well done. Cookies for the writers. The audience probably thought Slav was just talking crazy, but it turns out that the smartest being in the universe wasn’t wrong. Who would’ve thought? I love how everything is reversed. Slav isn’t annoyingly pessimistic, but more badass and optimistic. Also I really like how all of Slav’s plans work out fine in this reality, which is why the paladins even escape. Shiro is now Sven and when Sven told them to take him to the space hospital, I just cracked up. It is obviously the writers making fun of how poorly the prior Voltron series handled Shiro/Sven’s death. Also Sven and Slav are part of the Guns of Gamara which is a reverse of the Blades of Marmora. And instead of the Galra Empire it’s the Altean Empire which was ruled by Empress Allura. I really like that it wasn’t the Alteans want to dominate the universe. Instead they want to spread peace throughout the universe by taking away the free will of every living being. Also I love how hard the scientist guy is trying to defend their efforts by saying, “No, they’re not slaves because they have no free will.” The line is delivered so nonchalantly. They honestly want peace and an end to wars, but they are willing to sacrifice freedom for the sake of peace.

Allura

If someone told me to describe Allura this episode, I would say she’s a hypocritical racist. I guess it doesn’t make sense for Allura to immediately stop being racist after Season 2 . But Keith is trying to remind her that not everything is black and white even after the alternate Alteans told her that they control people’s minds. She just can’t fathom the idea that a single Altean can be bad, but believed that all Galra are bad. Don’t get me wrong. She had every right to believe that all the Galra are backstabbing scumbags. They killed her dad and destroyed her planet. But you’d think she would be a little more open-minded after finding out that Haggar was Altean.