Camera movements and the overall animation seem “jerky” rather than smooth. I’ve added links to official YouTube videos of Episodes 3 and 5, so that viewers can watch Voltron’s origin story “gap-free.” Golionīefore I began to watch Voltron 84, it was pointed out to me by fellow Voltron fan SGB that the Voltron 84 episodes have an odd stuttering effect in the video. That’s fine, unless a viewer wants to watch the entire origin story.īelow is my recommended sequence for watching Season 1 of Voltron 84.
(It turns out that many of the less serialized “middle” episodes of Voltron: Defender of the Universe originally aired out of sequence with respect to the narrative sequence of the Beast King Golion episodes however, this presents no significant continuity issues.) Missing EpisodesĪpparently Lion Force episodes 3 and 5 from Voltron: Defender of the Universe aren’t favorites of the Voltron: Legendary Defender creators who are featured in Voltron 84. Voltron: Defender of the Universe isn’t as serialized as Voltron: Legendary Defender is, but its first several episodes and last several episodes are very much serialized.
VOLTRON DEFENDER OF THE UNIVERSE RELEASE TIME SERIES
The episode numbers are perfectly reasonable to a viewer who wants to sample select episodes of the original series.īecause the sequence of Voltron 84‘s episode numbers is inconsistent with the narrative sequence of Voltron: Defender of the Universe - and Beast King Golion, the anime series from which these episodes of Defender of the Universe were adapted - a viewer who wants to experience the original series in narrative sequence might find the numbering of the Voltron 84 episodes… confusing. Season 1, Episode 12, is introduced by Chris Palmer, one of the directors of Voltron: Legendary Defender. For example, Season 1, Episodes 1 and 2, are introduced by Lauren Montgomery and Joaquim Dos Santos, respectively, both of whom are executive producers and showrunners of Voltron: Legendary Defender. Voltron 84‘s episodes were numbered based on the Voltron: Legendary Defender production roles of the people who introduced each episode. This article is an attempt to explain them in hopes of maximizing viewers’ enjoyment of the series. Unfortunately Voltron 84 has a few, minor hiccups. The ubiquity of Netflix, and the popularity of the Netflix-exclusive series Voltron: Legendary Defender, make Voltron 84 uniquely positioned to introduce new Voltron fans to the original series, and to re-introduce old-school fans to the series.Įach episode of Voltron 84 is introduced by one of the creative talents behind Voltron: Legendary Defender, giving more “cred” to the original series in the eyes of fans who were introduced to the Voltron phenomenon through Voltron: Legendary Defender. Episodes of Defender of the Universe have been re-packaged before - in the mid-1990s, as The New Adventures of Voltron - and episodes are still available online through outlets such as YouTube and Amazon Video. On March 24, 2017, Netflix released the first season of Voltron 84 - a re-packaging of twelve episodes of Voltron: Defender of the Universe, the television series that introduced Voltron to the universe in 1984.
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