Hi guys! You know, after this season (which had some issues, but I overall did really like) I was like: I know that fandom is going to have a strong reaction to this, I’ll not post my opinions for a little bit.
But, yeah. There is a couple of things that fandom is going way too far with.
This post will cover:
Adam.
…Yeah.
Fandom, I get that there were a lot of people that were hyping up Adam. From the moment we found out Shiro was gay, people turned their attention to the person that Shiro had been in a relationship with. Say what you will for their reasons for this (though I would argue that it’s hard to deny at least part of it was a strong desire to keep Shiro in the safe ‘taken’ zone) they soon took it way too far.
What we were told about Adam: He and Shiro had had a good relationship that ended after the ultimatum Adam gave Shiro before the Kerberos mission. We would see Adam again. Later, we found out that Adam broke up with Shiro because he felt that Shiro often prioritized his job and wasn’t wiling to make sacrifices for Adam.
None of this- none of it- implies that we were going to get a healthy LGBT couple on our screen. We weren’t told that Shiro was going to get back together with Adam. We weren’t told that we were going to be spending a lot of time with Adam. We were never, EVER told that we were going to see Shiro and Adam get married on our screen.
Those? Are all things that the fandom came up with, and hyped up to the point that they were convincing people they would be canon. When in fact? The only thing they ever were, was fanon. In fact, none of the canon information we had even really suggested that Shiro and Adam were characters that were good for each other, because their relationship on screen was heavily coded as negative.
If Adam had lived? That doesn’t mean we would have gotten another LGBT character with meaningful screen time. That doesn’t mean we would have gotten a healthy LGBT couple in the show. That doesn’t mean Shiro would have gotten a great deal of happiness. It probably would have meant that we got a barely there mention of Adam, and then we would have moved on. To the show’s actual characters.
I would have preferred that he had lived and in his brief moment been shown to have moved on, but…..
Guys.
Stop acting Adam’s death robbed you of the greatest LGBT love story this world has ever seen.
you guys can say that keith isn’t an artist all you want but answering the question ‘are you a good artist, keith?’ with ‘uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh’ is the most artist thing i’ve ever heard
Season 7, please give me some good katt interactions. I have so much fun with them and I want more ideas than just “there is a chance we already knew each other” and “I tried to stop you when you almost sacrificed yourself”
like ok. character development but also i think keith is getting real sick of hunk pulling him in close and then NOT kissing him
edit: ALSO both of these scenes happened because hunk was in a state of distress and in response pulled keith close to him. hunk feels comforted when keith is close to him its happened multiple times it’s canon.
We’re the audience. We’re the ones consuming this show, and if we say it’s bad….. it is. As the audience it’s literally up for us to decide, they can’t just override all of our feelings and opinions about it just because they don’t like it. If your audience doesn’t like your show, then it’s a bad show!! It’s not complicated.
The fact that time and time again the show runners and cast just ignore criticism or flat out say that it’s wrong is frankly embarrassing. They’re like children that can’t accept they’ve done something wrong so they just ignore you or pitch a fit instead.
If you hate it so much then leave, seriously no one wants to listen to your whining and complaining and overall negativity. There are many of us that love the show and while we may have some criticisms here and there we understand that at the end of the day it is the producers and writers choice and either we consume the content they give us or we stop watching. This “the audience is always right” attitude is disgusting and you need to grow up and understand that just because something isn’t catered to your specific tastes doesn’t mean it’s objectively bad.
if you are watching a show with a cast the size of voltron’s purely for the interaction/relationship between two characters and aren’t prepared for other characters to exist in the narrative you are setting yourself up for disappointment, pure and simple.
