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Emerje
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The princess is right there... ...and if this borrows enough from the original then she'll be a pilot eventually. She already has a uniform matching the boys so expect her to have a big part in the series. Emerje |
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Oscar the Grouch
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So not enough tits means it's a pass eh? What a positively charming attitude. |
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Beatdigga
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And it is only one episode in. Given the propensity for Avatar to have girls in big spots and portrayed as just as, if not more capable than male counterparts, I wouldn't worry. Even if so far the previews show one woman, who kinda looks like Mihoshi from Tenchi Muyo with white hair.
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Cyclone1993
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I'm excited for this! I only saw about 5 min of the original Voltron a few years ago. But the trailers have me hyped and the concept is still good. However I think people are overstating the connection to Avatar. Dos Santos is working on it and he directed several episodes of Avatar and they were great, but the people who actively led and created Avatar have nothing to do with this series whatsoever. The animation will look great though since Mir does good work.
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Parse Error
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I'm one of the five or six people who preferred Tranzor Z to Voltron for reasons long since forgotten, so I'll most likely continue scratching my nostalgia itch elsewhere. I'm still glad to hear that this seems to have some real love put into it when it could have easily gone the cash-grab route. If I keep hearing good things as it goes on, maybe I will have to check it out after all.
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Sprocket
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I gotta be honest, I kind of miss the days when who's kissing who only really mattered in soap operas.
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SpacemanHardy
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Personally, I'm thinking they might actually make Pidge transgender. He's the only one of the boys who is voiced by a female voice actor, and he certainly looks like he could biologically be female. Just thinking that since in the original series Pidge always looked like a girl but was voiced by a guy, perhaps the opposite could be true here. |
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Sprocket
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A lot of this speculation depends on how much risk WEP wants to take, whether they think it'll help get them a toy deal and/or that movie finally off the ground.
My advice? Temper those expectations, or you're just gonna piss yourself off when something you wanted to happen doesn't. Last edited by Sprocket on Mon Jun 06, 2016 8:13 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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FenixFiesta
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I am looking forward to this as I am the Warcraft movie at this point in time, to translate meaning I am curious but have zero faith that it will be "great" but certainly expect to be entertained.
Dance robot, DANCE! |
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Agent355
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I...I thought Pidge was a girl from the very first trailer, and the only thing that disproves that Pidge might (still?) be a girl is Mike using masculine pronouns to describe Pidge. Unless Pidge is shown using the urinal in the first ep or something, I'll continue to think that Pidge might be a girl until the show says otherwise. After all, even Power Rangers had two female rangers (as far as I know) in its incarnations. And Avatar had Smellerbee... I would love to see a smart, nerdy girl in an action cartoon with a majority male cast (as apposed to another badass action girl like Toph). If the princess and maybe that villain character are the only girls on the show, I'll be disappointed. EDIT: Actually, the more I look into it, the more I'm convinced that Pidge is a girl hiding her identity. On the official website, Pidge's character bio is the only one without any pronouns. In Den of Geek's interview with Pidge's voice actress Bex Taylor-Klaus, there are a couple of exchanges hinting towards it:
Now I'm intrigued, and maybe a bit obsessed! [/url] |
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MFrontier
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I really wouldn't look too much into Pidge possibly being a girl given the general trend for younger boys to be voiced by women, both in the US and in Anime (which this Voltron is taking quite a few influences from).
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phia_one
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I never watched Voltron (my dad is a fan of it), but I'm curious to see this.
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v1cious
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Since this is Netflix, we're getting the whole series at once right? If so, I'll probably binge watch it this weekend. So far I like what I've seen, and Mir does amazing work.
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Agent355
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If that were the only clue, I wouldn't look too much into it. But the official website's description and the interview with the voice actress, as well as another interview with the show's creators (also on Den of Geek) gives me the strong impression that something is up with Pidge. Whether it's gender or something else I can't be sure of till the show premiers. But anime has a long, long history with crossdressing characters going all the way back to Oscar on Rose of Versailles (perhaps further?). The only good thing about Netflix promoting unhealthy TV binging habits is that this won't be a mystery for long; all the episodes will be available on the 10th in 4 days. But if I'm right, I want some kind of prize |
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Sprocket
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It's certainly a common enough trope of anime that I would honestly be completely unsurprised if it turned out that Pidge was pretending to be a boy.
Trans, though? Let's not get ahead of ourselves. |
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