Breaking up is Hard to Doom

Breaking up is Hard to Doom

Here it is.  The last episode of Voltron's original run.  It's been quite a ride, watching these since June.

We open for the first (and last time) on Merla's castle.  Merls is brooding over her desire to turn good. Then Lotor arrives and claims he wants to turn good, too.  And rent a modest castle on a quiet suburban castle.  This is so absurd that it's actually funny.  Lotor swears to help Voltron on her behalf.  Then Cossack shows up.  Apparently he's Lotor's chauffeur. 

The Voltron force is already running to the launch chute on Arus. Apparently they just needed the space between episodes to rest before heading back to Doom.  As they're en route, Lotor's command ship catches blue lion in a tractor beam thing using stock footage from Pidge's Home Planet.  More energy blasts hit the rest of the team, and the attackers are apparently invisible.

Zarkon threatens them on the ultrawave.  Coran tells him to release the slaves and he'll recall the lions.  Zarkon treats it all as a joke.  Allura says they must stop his slaving ways once and for all.  Then another attack begins.  They form Voltron.

As Voltron, they fly to the source of the laser bombardment.  They find Lotor in his ship.  Lotor acts all weird.  The team defies him.  And . . . he says he wants them to attack Zarkon.  They don't listen to him.  He tries to warn them about a trap, and then we see the Omega Comet footage.  Lotor tells them to use their positron.  Keith does so, by using the lion head attack stock footage.  They get loose.

Lotor explains that he wants to thank them for freeing him from the pit of skulls.  Then Merla appears, and apparently they find her easier to believe than just Lotor.  Voltron, Lotor's lavender ship, and the star cutter close in on Doom.  Haggar zips by them in her space coffin, taunting them, and then a cougar/lion/some big cat robeast appears.  This is pretty cool looking as far as the 2nd season mechanical designs go.  They trade blows, and then Lotor and Merla gang up on the robeast while it's got Voltron in its flame thrower.  The robeast tumbles out of orbit and crashes on Doom.  Voltron lands to face it, and forms the blazing sword.  Dang.  That robeast didn't last very long.  Haggar's space coffin, apparently caught in the blast, crash lands.

Zarkon postures and sends skull tanks to meet Voltron.  This doesn't last long either.  As Voltron plunges forward over the flames, Doom robots hold some Arusian slaves hostage.  Zarkon appears and tells them to bring Voltron to him.  They land.  Lotor and Merla land behind them.  Lotor emerges from his ship and throws a sword at one of the slaves.  The slave turns out to be a robot and explodes.  They blow up the other masquerading srobots.  Then more robots arrive and start shooting.  Voltron steps on them.  Zarkon gets upset. 

The fire weapons at the castle.  Fortunately for Zarkon, the castle can hold out for a while using footage from the last episode of the first season.  Then Voltron overcomes all of those obstacles and blows up the castle in new, lame footage.  As the team admires their handiwork, Lotor and Merla run up and Lotor shoots some snipers.  Lotor leads them into the castle.  He puts the moves on Allura, but she rebuffs him.

They enter the throneroom, trade taunts with Zarkon, and then he traps them under glass with a tentacle bomb.  Lotor walks up to the throne and Zarkon takes a mask off--he's really Cossack.  He and Lotor reveal they were just kidding about being good and escape in a bubble ship.  Pidge breaks the glass with his belt buckle bomb.  As the team leaves, Merla confronts Lotor.  The tentacle bomb explodes and takes the entire planet with it.  Keith sees Lotor and Cossack fleeing, and he suddenly develops super powers and jumps after them.

Keith lands in front of them, steals Cossack's sword, and starts swashbuckling with Lotor.  Merla calls him a fool and, um, leaves Keith to face him.  Keith knocks Lotor down, and then lava starts shooting out of the ground.  The team panics that Keith won't make it, but then he teleports to his lion, and we see footage of the Drule homeworld collapsing. 

Back on Arus, Zarkon calls them up in Castle control and he taunts them from the real planet Doom.  Keith says they'll get him yet.  And thus, the Voltron goes out with a fizzle.