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Voltron Forms Less-Blazing Sword
Since I was outnumbered 4 to 1, I had to watch whatever my younger siblings wanted to watch on TV. This meant being tortured by The Dukes of Hazzard and, later on, by Voltron. At least Hazzard had Daisy Duke and car crashes. Voltron had nothing but tiresome repetition and the exact same ending every single episode. My brothers and sister thought this show was Heaven-sent. They even had the (admittedly cool) toy robot that came apart into the five pieces that created Voltron. I dredge up these painful TV memories from my adolescence because, thanks to the Transformers (robots I actually liked), Voltron is now becoming a slightly less expensive CGI-encrusted movie. New Regency has put the Voltron movie in turnaround, and it's getting taken over by developer Relativity Media to be made into a more moderately-budgeted film. (Yeah, that should work out well.)
For the uninitiated, Voltron was a Japanese cartoon whose underlying message of teamwork was severely undercut by its unwatchable nature. Every single episode went like this: There's some robot tearing up town, and five people individually try to fight it. There are four guys and one woman, who is also a princess. These folks are driving different colored rocket ships that look like lions. The robot beats their individual asses for 20 minutes before someone gets the bright idea to combine their ships into a robot called Voltron. Each member would yell out the body part they formed (two lions for legs and feet, two lions for arms) before their leader, Commander Keith, would yell out the pornographic sounding "AND I'LL FORM THE HEAD!!!" "Whatever!" says the villain robot, before starting to whip Voltron's ass. After a few minutes of this, Voltron yells "form Blazing Sword!" and then splits the offending robot in two, ending its reign of terror. The music goes "dun-dun-da-dun-dun-da-dunnnnnnn!" The end.
I am purposefully repeating that this happened every...single...episode. Why not just form Voltron as soon as the killer robot shows up and split it in half? Geez! What the eff was wrong with these people? I kept hoping that something new would happen; say, the Princess battles the robot with an Easy Bake Oven with a jet headlight in it or something. But no. Same shit, different episode. And now I'll have to put up with hearing about an equally repetitive movie that will surely be a hit and spawn many sequels. My only hope is that Russ Meyer's directing this thing. Aw crap. Russ is dead.
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