new discourse: did they realize what he was going to do? i’m genuinely asking. i’m not convinced they did.
matt and coran however:
i think they knew. matt was on the radio with keith, and i don’t think the others weren’t looped into that. we see coran realize after he sees where keith’s ship is headed. yeah, i don’t think the others knew though.
If I may chip in here-
I don’t think they knew either. They could hear Matt yelling Keith’s name, so they were aware he was up to some kind of Crazy Shenanigan, as Keith is want to do.
But I think the screenshot here of them looking so distraught was them reacting to their own situation; they all thought they were about to die, as well. They thought they weren’t going to make it, even after fighting so hard. That’s a terrifying reality to be faced with, and I feel for the whole team here.
But I don’t think they knew exactly what Keith was about to do at all. Because as soon as the barrier went down, and they pulled through? Shiro’s immediate reaction was to congratulate Keith.
Shiro didn’t have a visual on him, he couldn’t have known that Keith didn’t end up following through with his plan (thank god). He just assumed that Keith had supposedly achieved whatever it was he was trying to do to get the barrier to come down. I don’t believe team Voltron have any idea of how much Keith was seconds away from sacrificing.
Yikes.