Reflection and Analysis

Voltron: Quote (7/27/2020)

I discovered the following quote online. I won't name the person who said this as - while it is public knowledge - I also don't want to direct people directly to this person, but her is the quote.

"Lance and Keith egg each other on, but neither has attacked the other to the point of real hurt. They compete, but neither feels like the other is an enemy."

This sentence really irks me. The implication of this sentence is the following.
- It doesn't count as abuse if there isn't any "real hurt" done.
- It doesn't count as abuse if the two don't treat each other like the enemy.

I guess one of the first problems with this sentence is this. Keith doesn't compete nor does Keith egg on. All of that is on Lance. He's the one who tries competing with someone he doesn't stand the slightly chance of coming close to because his ego gets in the way of letting him see the actual progress he needs to make, but he's the one always starting things with Keith, not the other way around, but Keith is responding in kind, not egging on.

More importantly, Lance's behavior isn't okay. We laughed at his behavior during the earlier seasons because - hey, we thought he would grow up with, but how possessive he becomes of Allura in the eighth season, how she becomes a trophy for him and how his feelings and wants come before her feelings and needs, he's not grown at all from the begining. He's nothing like his DotU counterpart, which is one of the hardest parts regarding the eighth season, hearing Hunk say Lance is the closest to his original counterpart when he's far from it.

Of course, someone accused me of being a toxic part of fandom because of the above opinion - the proof they held up being that they'd been in not one, but two emotionally abusive relationships, and my thoughts were - good job trivilizing the emotional abuse others have gone through because it's not the same type of emotional abuse you went through, but particularly trivilizing the emotional abuse African American girls go through which is exactly like the emotional abuse Allura suffers.

Yeah, I know she's not "black", but she is color coded and treated like a colored character often gets treated. There were girls who looked up to her, but there were fans who didn't let younger girls watch the series because of what happened to Allura. I'm still tramitized by the eighth season and I'm an adult, but I'm tired of this idea that a guy can wear a girl down until they can get them, not to mention a girl having no choice in who she ends up with.

Seriously - Allura never loved Lance.

"But Yemi, she said so at the end!"

After she ended up getting her mind messed with, but also after she'd been placed in a situation where she felt she had no choice but to be in a relationship with Lance.

"But Altor said the Red Paladin was a match..."

Altor would never have approved of Lance who has absolutely no redeeming qualities by the end of the series and doesn't make his daughter happy. The plot was forced, but...

Egads, there's not getting around the fact Lance is an ass hole.