Bring us in, Optimus! We open on Doom and Merla plotting with Haggar. They're testing a new ultra-robeast on a copy of Voltron. Despite the somewhat bland and tepid coloring job, this faux Voltron looks kind of cool--in a Transformers: the Movie sort of way. The robeast defeats the faux Voltron by freezing and stomping on him.
A skull ship lands on a Galaxy Garrison planet, claiming to be crewed by the muses of norn. The Garrison officer lands his ship and is communicated to telepathically. Apparently, telepathy changes his uniform color. The muses hand over Merla.
The officer tells his superiors at Galaxy Garrison that they'll only turn Merla over to a high-ranking official.
Merla and Allura are reminiscing about their childhood together. Huh? Today is the eclipse of Alfor. Meanwhile, GG calls Bandor launches a fleet from Pollux. He meets the muses (and apparently his men can afford GG uniforms now instead of the togas). Oh, look., the head muse is actually Haggar. They capture Bandor. Lotor's fleet destroys his via stock footage.
Galaxy Garrison decides to interrupt the
Pidge tells the team that Bandor is in trouble. They launch in the lions. They arrive on the planet to find Bandor outnumbered. Bandor himself is planning an escape, though his men are pessimistic. Then the lions arrive and engage Lotor's fleet. Guess who wins? It's actually a pretty protracted affair. With a lot of stock footage padding. Then they form Voltron. They charge Lotor's ship. Lotor sets course for the Norn sun.
He leads them into the heart . . . of . . . the sun?! And only he knows the way out. One of the robot ships tumbles off the path, but Lotor leads the rest of his ships out a secret space warp--so secret we don't even see it animated. And Voltron is getting cooked.
Then a crazy bird robeast appears and makes some Filmation bird sound effects. It damages Voltron with a halberd attack to the back. Merla and Haggar are somehow watching all this from the planet. They block an axe strike with the spinning laser blades, and then use the solar arrows because that's all that will work in the heat. Volts forms a giant glowing bow and implaes the robeast. The explosion hurls Voltron out of the sun and back to the planet. In a cheaply animated sequence. Voltron lands.
Merla mocks Voltron and unleashes the robeast she'd been testing earlier. He's a lot taller than Voltron. And he's got the good ol' standard robeast growl. Voltron charges and the robeast fires it's freeze ray. Boring. Voltron is covered in ice. The robeast launches spikes out of its hair. I've seen other redheads do this, too. Pincushioned, Voltron collapses and the robeast closes in as Bandor and the GG crew watch in dismay.
Allura is sad that they'll be defeated on the day of her father's eclipse. The moon blocks the sun (huh, apparently, it's an eclipse that happens on EVERY PLANET AT THE SAME TIME). Haggar sees it as a bad omen. Allura "feels the energy of the eclipse" and the ice melts. Hello, Deus ex Machina. Voltron forms the blazing sword and absorbs solar power. The robeast doesn't stand a chance. Instead of stabbing or slicing, Voltron opts for the flambe. Lotor says it was luck. Haggar and Merla are stuck in the space coffin together.
Back on Doom, the two . . . guys from earlier report the defeat of Lotor and Merla to Zarkon. Zarkon laughs and gloats. Voltron leads the GG fleet.
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