Lotor Deserved Better - Tumblr Posts
Hot take
people are gonna hate me but adam taurus and lotor deserved better character development
Hell they deserved to be better villons or antagonistis.
Same with felix.
I mean. Look at zuko.
Great antagonistis and best redemption ark ever.
Is is to high a standerd to want great written villain and antagonistis ?
Louder for people in the back
LOTOR DESERVED FUCKEN BETTER OKAY !!!
About Lotor and the colony Alteans
I rewatched all the past Lotor seasons…
And I’m suffering even more now..
Seeing the urgency and the emphasis by Lotor on how the quintessence is a life giving force…who might you ask in Lotor’s life, would he need healing/life giving energy for? The 2nd colony Alteans. I mean yes he also desired access to unlimited quintessence to sate the galra’s conquer lust…but that use of energy isn’t for “life giving”.
I now have no doubt that he planned to restore the colony Alteans, especially based on his dialogue with Allura after they got out of the quintessence field. This along with many other comments he said, that I picked up on while rewatching..
Remember when he was testing the Alteans to be chosen for the second colony? It was assumed this was purely because of their magical essence, but….rewatching it and seeing all the emphasis about choosing Alteans that could/would SURVIVE the “journey”? Obviously they didn’t know what they were in for, but they were told that it would be dangerous and that it was a sacrifice to help them avoid being discovered, and despite the deception, no one was taken unwillingly.
“Some lives were lost, but it was to save millions.”
I’m going to reiterate Lotor’s telling of the planet he ruled over, and how “just enough energy would be taken at a time, to allow it to replenish.” I believe the intent was the same, and I believe this was foreshadowing that the Alteans were never meant to die. I don’t think nearly as many died as Romelle thought. Some likely couldn’t handle it, and there were likely others like Bandor, who made an escape attempt and became a liability. Also speaking of Bandor, Lotor looks visibly upset at his fate, before hardening his expression to give the order to remove the evidence. That is not the face of someone who lost one of his batteries, that is the face of someone lamenting the loss of even just one life. A life that he likely would’ve been able to restore.
Don’t get me wrong. I absolutely believe that Romelle had every right to feel the way she did about Lotor given what happened to her brother….but even she admitted that she still didn’t know everything…which foreshadowed Lotor’s line of “you know nothing of what you speak…”. I don’t believe she was being shady, but there were things we were supposed to learn, and the show FAILED to deliver.
And I’ve said it before and I will say it again: Lotor NEVER lied to Voltron about his plan. Unlimited quintessence, establishing peace in the universe, uniting the Galrans under his rule to end the wars…He told them this as soon as they met in person. He also never betrayed them. Even after being attacked and chased, he still tried to plead with Allura to stop them from fighting.
Of course he didn’t tell them about the colony yet. He was still trying to fix everything there and keep them protected until they could be saved.
It just kills me that he just made discoveries to save the Alteans, and that Romelle’s timing, ultimately led to him being killed, when he finally had everything he needed to save them.
I mean, shit. Even in his first season, where he came off as a villain, he still was on a strict policy of NO KILLING unless absolutely necessary. He never would have killed Narti if she hadn’t (albeit unwillingly) put their lives at risk. I always believed his true intentions, which were confirmed by season 8, but WTF I am so salty that he never came back and never truly got a redemption arc…
Lotor deserved better.
Lotor’s Life Edit
Hope this turned out okay and He definitely deserved better.