Wanna see Lotor in action.... ?

[botias]

OK, hopefully this will be the last you hear of my new obsession. *sigh* Their love is so epic. So what if his idea of courtship is to abduct her and threaten to enslave her entire planet unless she agrees to marry him? I'm sure marriage would mellow him considerably.

I am so stuck in the eighties. I love this vid so hard, the music, everything.

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[bendy1.livejournal.com]

See, my first thought is that he thinks he's in love with her but really he's just obsessed with having whatever the man in the white romper suit has, and their love will be so pure when they work it out.

What. I accept he's hot at least :D

[botias.livejournal.com]

Heh. If this was the Buffy fandom, there would be so very much Lotor/WRSG slash. They are both hot and squabbling over the same blond. As it is, I haven't run across any.

The reality is almost as good. Lotor literally wants to kill his father, and Allura is a dead ringer for his dearly departed mommy.

[bendy1.livejournal.com]

That really does sound fantastic. Where d'ya find the eps?

[botias.livejournal.com]

Well, here's the thing. It's... Voltron really kinda sucks. They took the fairly adult anime GoLion and used the animation as raw fodder for a children's cartoon American style. Which is to say they ditched all the gore, character death and Oedipus issues.

They didn't dub it, they completely rewrote it, and they often really had to stretch to make their new story sorta match their recycled animation. For example, Lotor's nightmare in The Sleeping Princess it clearly involves two different women although the dialog indicates they are all Allura, and ogre guards is totally wtf. The first woman is actually his mother who was murdered by his father. If you know what's actually going on it's more interesting. I think that's why Lotor feels fairly menacing and complex even though the American version white-washes him considerably.

The Sleeping Princes (1/3):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QlOYWn1nvuw&feature=related

[bendy1.livejournal.com]

S'okay. My fave cartoon ever sucks monkey balls :D

I'll wiki it so I know what's supposed to be going on first.

[botias.livejournal.com]

:D Then you know whereof I speak.

Episodes 1-52 are the GoLion ones and most seem to be available on YouTube. Because the series was so popular, the Powers That Be actually did another season that was written and animated for American audiences. I can't recommend those really, tho the one-liners aren't too bad. The second season even has the little moral at the end, omg. I guess there was some regulation that children's programming had to be educational so they kept doing the same silly cartoons, but at the end some character summed up what we were supposed to have 'learned' from the episode, like: He-Man learned today that Good always triumphs over Evil when it has a magical sword and good friends.

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

Lotor rocks! He's evil and hot, two for two in my fantasy book. How can she not see that getting together is for the good of the planet? I don't think her sex life will suffer, either.

Thankfully, that song is not stuck in my head. Much.

[botias.livejournal.com]

OMG someone who understands!! I'm not surprised to find a kindred soul among the Spuffy fans. The parallels are so very many. I think she should definitely save the planet one hot evol would-be conquerer at a time. I don't think her sex life will suffer either. No guy could possibly be THAT smug if he had nothing to back it up with.

[botias.livejournal.com]

Mrawr indeed. Though in his defense, I think that's his idea of a drinking goblet. His decor is definitely 'classic Evol'.

[botias.livejournal.com]

Why are bad boys so hot? *questions the heavens*

[mere-ubu.livejournal.com]

Holy crap! And check out the harem--there's so much smut potential here that it could almost just write itself.

I think it's really the belt buckle that does it for me. . .

[botias.livejournal.com]

OMG I know. I'm trying to resist giving the smut a helping hand with that writing thing. I notice he's very... big. *shifty eyes*

Hee! Nothing like those skull accessories... A bad boy must.