Coran's Son Runs Amuck/The Last of Hys

Coran's Son Runs Amuck

Optimus Prime tells us how everyone wass overjoyed when they found Coran's son Garrett--who was really an evil clone. 

Voltron fights with the robeast.  Keith maneuvers Voltron so that the robeast is in the way of the pulsar cannon.  Lotor lands in his flagship and enters the cannon.  The troops manning the cannon won't fire at the robeast until Lotor orders them to.  When the cannon fires, the foundation begins to crack.  The lions grab the robeast in their jaws, and disconnect as the cannon blast destroys it.  The five lions crash all over the countryside.

Lotor gloats and celebrates, and then Garrett calls.  He wants his promised starfleet of 10 million clones with him as supreme ruler.  Lotor just blows him off and goes back to gloating.

The five lions are inert in the mountains.  In castle control, Garrett starts ranting.  Some ununiformed guards are drilling into the control room.  Coran has them cut the power.  Garrett brags that he's an X4-11 clone and has neutrino sensors.

An Arusian tells Coran that Voltron's been shot down.  He sends some more troops to try an offensive against the cannon--with the "robot" fleet.

Garrett opens the door, and Nanny tries to reason with him.  It doesn't work out, and they end up exchanging fire.

Zarkon calls Lotor, who's apparently drunk.  Zarkon tells him Coran has ordered a robot attack that is flying in below the scanners.  Really?  Lotor sends some fighters to scout out for Voltron.  An alarm goes off, and a soldier tells Lotor that a robot fleet is attacking.  They open fire on blips--and it's the fleet from Pollux.  Which is destroyed by the Pulsar cannon.  The cannon foundation cracks just a little more.

In a mountain lake, Keith regains consciousness in black lion.  He contacts Pidge, Lance, and Hunk, but not Allura.

Blue lion has crashed near some tents(?) in the mountains, and some guy with a horrible Michael Bell voice and an even more horrible name is caring for the injured Allura and blathers on about leading the force to her with ki.  And Zarkon's men were, ahem, digging tunnels.  WHile surrounded by grave markers.  This weirdo says he summoned a fleet of ships from another dimension to take Coran's wife and son, and built a grave marker to fool everyone.  Yu-huh.

Doom fighters suddenly appear and strafe some, um, blue cars.  Then the lions appear.  They discuss that Garrett was an imposter, and that the pulsar cannon is solar powered.  And then Keith says he has to leave the princess behind.  Lance and Pidge go outside, and Lance remembers how he grow up in the mountains and lived in huts.  Huh?!  Then the four take off again, leaving Allura while blue lion is being repaired.

Lotor and his troops are preparing to destroy the castle.  Lotor has a huge fleet-that gets downsized by Zarkon.  And he twirls his sword in anger at the soldier who tells him Zarkon cut the fleet in half.  Then the sun comes up, they prepare to fire--and the four lions start strafing the cannon.  Smaller batteries provide AA cover and score hits on red and green lions.  When things start to look bad, blue lion arrives.  They form Voltron.  Then the form the blazing sword and perform a "Pike attack."  Which is diving headfirst into the cannon with the sword held out in front of him.  Volts destroys part of the control center.  Then they drop the sword and twist thebarrell of the cannon until the foundation shatters.  Lotor flees in his flagship.

Garrett is still in castle control when the power comes back on.  He sees the ruined Pulsar Cannon on the screen.  He opens the door out of castle control, and sees Coran and the team in the doorway.  Allura confronts him.  Garrett fires his "stun gun" and strikes Corran.  The rest of the team fire on Garrett as Coran slumps in Hunk's arms.  The door closes, and Garrett dies snivelling on the floor.

Outside the castle, Coran is tendering his resignation to Allura for his lapse in judgment, but she refuses.  And then we see Voltron posing on planet Nemon on the pedestal of Zarkon;s birthday statue.

The Last of Hys

Oh, my, but this title sounds promising.

The narrator brings us up to speed on Saint, Raible's imposter son and Galra sabetour.

Fala's auxiliary thing in the last episode must have worked, because Golion takes off, still taking fire from the beastman.  Kogane flies Golion right into the cannon's sights.  It takes .7 seconds for a cannon shot to reach them at that distance.  That's how he times the disassembly.

Ah--the Galra trooper confirms that this beastman is Mecha Beastman Beta.  And Sincline ruthlessly targets the center of the beastman.  Sincline is understandably stoked when he sees Golion fall to the ground in pieces.  Then Saint calls.  He calls for troops to attack the castle gates.  Sincline is in know hurry, tells him to have some wine, and he'll get around to it.

The lions have crashed in the Altea alps. 

Raible and some workmen?  I dunno--they're not wearing guard uniforms, their in the weird yellow-hooded suits--are drilling into castle control and cut the power.  Saint gets a gun out of a locker and turns on the emergency power.  Another guy appears and tells them that Golion's been shot down.  Hys squeals "HIME!!!" about a hundred times.  Raible sends a search party into the Alps.

Saint opens the door and shoots two of the hooded guys.  Everyone puts their hands on their heads, except for Hys.  Hys keeps blathering on and on, refusing to understand that he's a Galra sabetour.  Raible challenges Saint to shoot him.  And HIT HYS INSTEAD.

Best.  Episode.  Ever.

Some more shots are exchanged, and Saint dives back into the control room--but the emergency power is hit.

Goddammit.  Even Hys' last words are irritating.

Daibazaal calls up Sincline, who tells him Golion is no more.  Daibazaal asks him if he's actually confirm it.  Sincline sends four fighters to investigate.  An alarm sounds, and a soldier tells Sincline that the Heraclean armada is arriving.  Sincline fires the cannon at them and puts a quick end to that threat. We watch the Heraclean ships explode to the strains of violins.

The team regains consciousness, and Kogane freaks out a little when they can't raise the princess.  Fala is being cared for by Pao of the Meo tribe.  He tells her about a time when their ancestors' graves were desecrated by  Galra soldiers, who stole the remains of an outside woman and her child.  A woman named Mrs. Raible was killed while carrying her child into the mountains (the ship that hits shoots them looks a little like Sincline's batplane).  The son's name was Roland.  Pao shows her the graves.

The blue things that were being attacked by Galra fighters?  They're the search party Coran sent out.  The lions take out the four fighters with no problem.  That night, they find out that Hys is dead.  Kogane points out that now is the time to strike, while Galra thinks they're dead.  Fala must stay behind to repair blue lion with the search party technicians.  Suzuishi complains that Kogane's too cold-hearted, but Kurogane says he's giving Fala time to deal with the loss of Hys.

Sincline sees a blip that appears to be blue lion's wreckage.  He wants confirmation from the reconnaissance unit.  A soldier admits that they lost all transmission from the unit four hours ago.  Sincline kills him.  The cannon operators lock Heracles in as a target.  Just before they fire, the lions start attacking. 

Golion combines with the blue lion theme as background.

Glion charges straight down the barrel of the cannon and then twists the barrel down, crumbling the rest of the foundation. 

Raible takes a hit when he leaps in front of Fala to protect her from Saint's gunfire.  Fortunately, he's only injured.  And here, Saint dies sniveling--though it's actually explicit that he's dead.

Raible and Fala are outside, at Hys' grave.  He again tries to resign, and Fala refuses.

Return of Coran's Son/Reunion with the Phantom

Return of Coran's Son

The five lions are streaking back towards Arus.  Pidge and Hunk are hungry.  Hunk suggests a race home.  Every jumps in on it.  So they . . . split up?  Meanwhile, a cloaked figure watches blue lion fly by.  Allura sees a mechanical failure in blue lion, and then she crashes.  The team continues their race into castle control, and Coran and Nanny are displeased that the princess isn't with them.  They scan, um, aparently she crashed on an entirely different planet.  Anyway, the monitor shows some dude helping the princess out of her downed lion.

The stranger removes her helmet as Allura regains consciousness.  She pulls her gun on him.

The team, Nanny, and Coran land at the crash site in an ornithopter.  The stranger is about to leave, but they ask him for his name.  He introduces himself as Garrett, a former Arusian.  The damaged joint of blue lion explodes and he evades it with some acrobatics that impress everyone.  Coran invites him back to the castle.

They're all have dinner when Coran gets thoughtful and asks Garrett who his parents were.  Garrett gives him some story about his father working in the castle and sending Garrett and his mother away during Zarkon's attack.  They fled into the mountains, but Zarkon captured all but Garrett.  coran remembers the day Zarkon attacked and he sent his wife and son away.  He gave Garrett a necklace with the Arusian coat of arms. 

Coran sits in his study and drinks while looking at an old portrait of his wife.

Garrett is training on some sort of lion simulator.  Pidge is watching.  Coran comes up behind them and sees an old scar where his son was struck on the arm during Zarkon's attack.  Keith breaks in and announces that blue lion is repaired and ready to start Garrett's training.

Garrett does some aerobatic stunts in the lion--strafing targets, power dives ending with flips--y'know, the usual.  Naturally, Garret is awesome.  And the pendant Coran gave his son 15 years again falls out of Garrett's uniform.  He also rolls up his sleeve to show his scar.  Coran and Garrett get all teary-eyed.

This couldn't possibly end badly.  They all go to church.  Garrett dedicates himself to protecting Arus. 

On Doom, Haggar is watching this whole seen, and Zarkon is angered that they have a new ally.  But then Lotor and Haggar reveal that Garrett is a clone.  It was all a sinister plan. 

Coran and Garrett are armwrestling when Garrett uses a ring to poison him.  Garrett gets himself in castle control and leads the team on a wild goose chase after "robot" fighters.  While they're occupied, Lotor enters Arus orbit with a new robeast.

Garrett sends a transmission to Mura, and allows a rooster frigate to enter their airspace and steal the great big cannon--the Pulsar Cannon--they'd built for Doom a few episodes ago.  Lotor's plan is to install the cannon on Arus.  He launches the robeast again the lions.  They form Voltron.

Voltron throws the electro-sabre at the robeast, who responds by firing missiles at him--hey, did Shoji Kawamori design this one?  Both the lion head attack and the blazing sword fail to damage the robeast through its sheilds.  Lotor's fleet installs the pulsar cannon on a mountain facing the castle.  Guards enter castle control to confront Garrett, who just shoots them.

Voltron carries the fight into the atmosphere, and calls castle control for help.  Garrett just taunts them and tells Keith the pulsar cannon will give them the energy boost they need.  Coran, Nanny and more guards pound on the door, but Garrett reveals his nature as a clone--whose going to replace Arusians with a race of Doom clones.  Coran doesn't take the news well. 

Voltron takes a glancing shot from the pulsar cannon and crashes.  The robeast lands and reveals its right arm is a chainsaw.  Then Optimus prime tells us all this excitement is to be continued.

Reunion with the Phantom

This episode pretty much goes the way the Voltron ep goes.  There's not a lot of edited violence, and the dialogue was pretty straightforward.  There were only a few key differences.

The narrator explains that the lions are returning from defeating a mecha beastman.  They split up to try to find the shortest-and fastest way back to Gradam.  Blue lion's engine output and control balancers fail and Fala crashes.

After seeing Saint do his acrobatic dodging trick, Raible tries a recruitment spiel--that's why they bring him back to the castle.  During Saint's narration of the fall of the castle, the music is a piano rendition of the usual "sorrowful" bit that's usually played when stuff like this is happening.  When Raible is remembering sending Raiza and his son away, the usual arrangement of the same song plays.

Oh, yeah, Garrett is called Saint here, and Raible's wife is named Raiza.  And, in his quarters, Raible is pretty obviously into the castle's wine store . . .

Saint poisons Raible during the arm-wrestling contest with a trick ring.  I didn't know Galra had Renaissance Festivals.

Saint calls Mura and tells them to cancel alert status because Golion is on the way.  Then troops in uniforms a lot like those worn by the guys on the blockade runner in Star Wars are surpised to see a rooster frigate.  The missile emplacements on Mura are almost the same as the four corner turrets on castle Gradam.

They merge into Golion with the black lion theme as music.  Again.

The beastman sure uses a lot of missiles.  Seriously.  I mentioned before that it's like something out of Macross.  And so Galra finds a way to counter all of Golion's main weapons: just add really thick shields on all the arms and legs.

The glancing blow from the Mura cannon "messed up" Golion's drive system; blue lion can apparently provide auxiliary power.

The beastman isn't named, again, but it has a giant B on it's front so I'm calling it Beta.