mmm the more i think about it the more i wish allura hadnt died. theyd never even looked for an alternative.
allura was just like guess ill die ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and sure she went out with agency, and got a moment with everyone and i loved that scene but bcuz it was so slow and planned i could see the other paladins feverishly trying to find a way to stop her
like in the last ten minutes just thought of three different ways for her to survive-
1. as she starts doing the magic reality restoring thing, the other paladins grab her, refusing to let her go, and use some of their quintessence to ensure that allura makes it too, even if only in the universe they originally came from, and none of the others
2. the og paladins’ souls give up their existence to maintain reality- gives zarkon a redemption that almost undoes the entirety of what he did when poisoned by quintessence and not just a cool robot fight
3. they give up the lions sentience and then theyre just cool ships now that cant combine thus actUALLY ending voltron from then onward and all the paladins losing someone so close to them and it still feeling like an ending hard won
like they were MADE from research on the rift- i could believe their sentience was bcuz of rift creatures all along- theyd then help heal the damage and take the entity in allura out too! there is SO MUCH ROOM 4 ‘magic did it’ bs in this show but this is the way they went bgosh
like this is the only thing about the show/season 8 that i didnt like that i believe the showrunners had full control over and planned from the beginning and to be clear its not even an objectively BAD move its just one i wish hadnt happened but thats what fanfic is for i guess~