Voltron’s Season 4 Trailer Delivers The Legendary Defenders We’ve Been Waiting For

To be clear, Legendary Defender is the Voltron we deserve. The Voltron we’ve always deserved. Not the bootlegged GoLion and Armored Fleet mashup we were given in the eighties. In my opinion, the first season started off looking like real pedestrian fare. Then. Shit. Got. Real. By the end of this third season, the narrative evolves into a sci-fi fantasy with dark overtones and a modest sprinkle of political espionage! This ain’t a TMNT-type reboot. There is no tied-in Michael Bay flick that dumbs down the quintessential essence (see what I did there) of the story. Voltron: Legendary Defender draws a line in the sand for nostalgic reboots and stands guard. To avoid spoilers, scroll down to the last paragraph. You’ve been warned. Fight and flight choreography in VLD is top notch, Lauren Montgomery and Joaquim Dos Santos (known on the block as ‘Dr. Fight’) play no games. Y’all may recall them giving you that work in Avatar, Young Justice, and Legend of Korra. Furthermore, Voltron goes hard in the paint like Shaq in the 90s with swordplay alone. Never mind the dogfights (I’m talking space ship battles people)! Add to that RoBeasts catching them lion hands from the god body Voltron itself.

What VLD Season 3 gave us was a seriously well-designed story. It hit us with one of the most deadass richest backstories in animated history! Montgomery and Dos Santos used copious amounts of previously unused lore mined from all of the source material for the original Voltron: Beast King GoLio…