Oh the creators would TOTALLY make shieth canon after having keith say “you’re my brother”. Especially in a kids show. Maybe YOU’RE the blind one, lol.

LMAO IM ACTUALLY LAUGHING. You have to be delusional if you think a kids show is going to make shieth canon after they have made keith say “you’re my brother”. And calling klancers fetishists when the sheith fandom is made up of women that fetishize gay people and incest. Thats rich. Sheith is not “awesome rep”. It literally pushes the harmful stereotype that gay men are predatory. Sheithers are the ones who were celebrating a gay mans death because he was getting in the way of their disgusting ship. I honestly don’t know how disgusting people like you exist.

Typo: But I’m not go to hate and threaten

Srry

I come to Voltron for space adventure, comedy and now, thankfully due to the well written personalities, I come for the characters. Shiro’s relationship was handled like (hopefully) any other past one. Gave us a glimpse but was not the overriding focus of the character. Shiro is gay, but that isn’t what defines him. Let’s remember that this is a giant robot kids show, not The Coming Out of Shiro story.

That being said, no, we shouldn’t be threatening the actors, but I’m also really fucking sick of being told how to feel and react to shit like this. We’re mad. We have every right to be mad. Don’t dismiss and diminish this because some of us have crossed a line.

Im not even gonna comment on the stupid flying super guns, that were nearly invincable, till they weren’t….or the senseless appearence of the Robeast, or how the Atlas just suddenly turns out to be a super mech that makes Voltron look like sh#t….yet is also totaly useless.

In light of the sudden turn to ridiculousness in the 2nd half of season 7, I could give a damn about some subliminal hints about Shiro being gay, or the mentaly stunted social avengers who are butt-hurt about how it was handled.

Maybe if they focused on writing a good sci-fi animated show, instead of giving nods to dumb-ass social agendas, they would’ve actually made something worth watching. As for me; season 7 pretty much killed it for me. I will not be watching anymore.

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I can’t blame you for your irritation with fandom, but we’re tired. This wouldn’t be as big a deal if they hadn’t just made such a huge deal of Adam being Shiro’s signifigant other at SDCC, only ti kill him off a little over a week later. I’m tired of being promised rep only to have it snatched out from under me, but the issue isn’t just that Adam is dead. It’s that Shiro, who was engaged to this man, didn’t even get to cry over it.

I know how a leader mourns. I know how a lover mourns. Leaders cry. Lovers cry. Not even allowing Shiro grief feels like a slap in the face.

…but I’ve gotten on a tangent, and I apologize. Please do further research into your points in the future, in particular if they’re going to otherwise incorrectly scold an entire group of people who are innocent.

I think, to that degree, that all the anger and threats towards the studio and cast is unfortunate though not really surprising. It’s like rioting after a ball game.
The fans are sometimes more fanatic than fan.

But sometimes a good team reaches out to the fans and remind them to “be cool!”

Your article and message was very cool. Very responsible.
I hope it’s viral-ed. People need to be reminded to “be cool!” Even during disagreements. I think it will be cool if that sentiment becomes worldwide because of VOLTRON,
…. Or this article/author.

I’ll share it

I’d also never engaged with or had any awareness of the fandom online, until I decided to look up the reaction to Season 7 to see if anyone else shared my feeling that something was “off” this time around. Instead I find people freaking out about gay representation (or inadequate achievement thereof) and see that I’m dealing with the sort of people who rant about their “ships” and “headcanon”…

Pretty much all of my hobbies and interests are geeky, and I’d love to have people to share those with. But every time I’ve ever tried to look into the associated communities and cons… just so much cringe.

Also, saying Adam’s sacrifice made a lasting impact on viewers is laughable. Yeah, it made a lasting impact, because they queerbaited with him and killed him. It sure wasn’t because of anything he actually did in the show, because he didn’t do anything. The fact that he made an impact for all the wrong reasons is not a defense of his role.

I can fix some of it:change the break up scene to Adam saying he WILL wait. Add at least a hug. Then, if he dies at least we feel something. But yes, the longer Shiro of course was the one who lost someone and continues to be alone… It’s just… bleh. I was looking forward tk Shiro showing up and being all: Hey Adam. Look whose still around and I DESERVE BETTER THAN YOU.
Anyway, all that incoherant rant above aside, this article 110%.

I feel like season 7 was Hunk’s season sprinkled with disappointment for Shiro.

It’s a weak rationalization that this was death that was meant to show the effects of loss and war when the character wasn’t even written for. If you take away the entire Gay thing… Adam lifts right out of the narrative and nothing changes. NOTHING.

Now let’s put it back in…

Adam was a plot poin to say: Shiro is Gay

Only: Never was it mentioned they were boyfriends. Never was it mentioned they were engaged. We have one scene and Adam walks out. his next scene is his death.

Again: Why should the audience care?
The only reason any one in the audience knows Adam matters is INTERVIEWS.
They didn’t bother to make Adam real, Keith never meets him, we never see a scene wiht him and Sam Holt. We learn more about Lance’s sister Veronica and the cadets than anything we learn about Adam.

The writers: He was our way to show Shiro is gay, he was a way to show the audience the impact of loss and sacrifice? HOW They didn’t EARN it. They gave Adam no care at all — and what does that say to gay kids watching the show, people who see themselves in characters like Adam and Shiro.

And oh Shiro loses his ex, he loses someone important to him, Shiro, who has been through hell death and a million other tragedies, he is the one who loses someone but that’s the big way to show war has consequences — the character who lost the most, loses more — but oh He happens to be gay, tragedy always befalling the LGBT is another harmful trope.

Sam Holt could’ve died.
Veronica could have died — they did the whole fake out after all.
Someone in Hunk’s family could’ve died.

Adam could have been a real character and died (yeah they’d get the same flack they’re getting now but at least it’d be good writing.) More than one member of the team could have lost someone.

But nope it was Shiro, the most put upon at all, because media is once again choosing the queer character to deal with the most trauma.

Why didn’t anyone else lose anyone?

Yeah, it’s war — but they took the easy way out, they chose the one character they didn’t bother to even make real to the audience. He just also happens to be gay — and wow does it all fit a million harmful tropes and queer baiting.

It was bad writing and bad rep.

So yeah, maybe all the reasons people are upset re the representation would be gone if Adam was Anne, but the fact would remain it was bad writing for Anne, because she would’ve been a non character, they didn’t bother to write for and how they expected anyone to be impacted by her death makes no sense because again why would we care — you could lift Anne out and nothing in the narrative would’ve changed.

Maybe people should be talking less abut how fans are expressing their age and focus on actually listening to good points people are making about WHY they are upset.