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• LM & JDS don’t really know Altean time (like ticks, quintants, decaphoebs, etc.) and all that lore was made up by individual writers.
• They don’t remember their initial pitch to Andrea Romano.
• There were always plans for 78 episodes–no more or less.
• Netflix played around with the season episode counts but it “never affected production.” At one point they wanted to have Voltron release one episode every two weeks, but LMJDS shot it down because it was “too much like network TV.”
• “Our bible was about as loose as you’ll find,” JDS said. They also add in later that they specifically kept things out of the show’s bible so they could sneak it passed the higher ups later on.
• Characters arcs were adjusted as they went and while they knew Zarkon would be the main antagonist of arc 1 (s1-2) and Lotor for arc 2 (s3-6), they had no idea what arc 3 (s7-8) would be like until later on.
• Shiro’s arc was originally meant just to set up Keith’s arc while still not feeling like an expendable character (because he was slated to die early on like in Go Lion). Keith & Shiro’s arcs intertwined more closely after they were told they must keep Shiro in the show to sell toys of him.
• JDS pitched a flashback for Shiro’s childhood that showed him with his family at a young age but it became “not as important to tell” as other aspects of his life, and LM added that his backstory felt “repetitive” against all the other characters (familial) backstories.
• Matt’s voice actor was often not available so they had to write him out of a lot of episodes and replace him with Sam.
• They had to work in lion upgrades from the toys into the show and also had nothing to do with the elemental lion symbols used in all the marketing (official website, toys, apparel, etc.) and actually disliked them and tried to re-design them but marketing didn’t use the re-designs.
• A lot of things like Altean science were kept abstract because they felt as though explaining it explicitly would “take the magic away.”
• Ezor and Zethrid were allowed to be together because they were not “front and center” characters nor were they the ones that the higher ups were “hanging the franchise on.”
• The original Shiro/Adam scene had them in their apartment (later changed to Galaxy Garrison lounge) as explicit boyfriends (later changed to flight partners) but the higher ups would not let it pass so they had to change a lot of aspects about the scene but tried to keep as much of the original staging as they could.
• It wasn’t until “Shera was in development” that the higher ups came back and said they could revisit the scene, but Adam had already been killed off at that point, so they had to choose whether or not they wanted to have the scene be more explicit or keep it platonic, knowing Adam was dead.
• They didn’t want to bring Adam back for the finale epilogue wedding scene because it would be a “far jump” that would open up “too many questions” about how Adam survived the crash.
• In the original storyline, Veronica was going to return with the rebels and Adam would’ve been with her and he and Shiro would’ve reunited.
• LM said that Allura’s sacrifice only restored planets that were killed before their time should’ve been up, like Altea, and that her powers did not apply to souls because it would’ve been “too godlike.”
• LM & JDS wanted to walk away at one point but they felt bad for the crew so they stayed on the project.
• “Maybe someday someone will fix our mess up.” -LM
• They confirmed there were never any options for a “happy ending” and JDS said while he “hates to burst any bubbles…there is no alternate cut of Voltron.”
• They avoided social media due to the backlash of season 8.

• She-Ra began production in April 2016 - so Adam’s scene could have been changed if She-Ra was “in production.” VLD Season 2 was going through ADR in October 2016. Season 5 wasn’t finished until April 2017. Season 7 wasn’t nailed down until at least August 2017 or even later, and Season 8 wasn’t completed until October 2018 - three months before Season 8 dropped and only a month before She-Ra premiered. In a month’s time, the EPs could add an epilogue, but MORE THAN A YEAR OUT, they couldn’t figure out how to save Adam? Are you freaking kidding me!?
• Btw - just want to put this here - Adam is He-Man’s real name. 
• Also, who decided to kill Adam off, making it impossible for him to be brought back in any capacity? The EPs. They didn’t have to kill Adam. As JG said, the execs were supposedly surprised that Adam died, so why couldn’t Adam - boyfriend or flight partner - live and be that connection to Shiro’s past? Instead, the EPs junked a family flashback, kill Shiro’s only potential family, and even decided, “Let’s make him gay and write that terrible trope into our story. And let’s blame the higher ups for not letting us make Adam gay to begin with, though obviously She-Ra‘s EP fought harder than we did for rep - and succeed on some level.”
• Also, that’s means the supposedly heart-felt plea of “we’re working on gay rep” was bullshit from NYCC 2017 panel, too. 
• Shiro’s “death” - Let me explain this in a Marvel metaphor, so the EPs will understand. If you are killing a character, then you deem him expendable. There’s no ifs, ands, or buts there. And if you set-up that character up as Steve Rogers in Captain America: The First Avenger, then you can’t make Bucky Barnes Cap in the sequel. It’s not gonna fly with your viewers. And if you thought it would - never mind. You already proved your incompetence, JDS & LM. 
• What the EPs actually said was regarding the time elements: “The lore was set up by competent writers - and then they left.”
• As JG said, Ezor and Zethrid were only together because of backlash. Even the storyboard artist admitted Ezor was killed.
• So who did DreamWorks hang the franchise on? Shiro? Keith? I’d like to know. And if it is Shiro - I’m guessing there is more Voltron on the way. 
• “Too godlike.” DOESN’T MATTER cuz yet again, it’s not in the story. Seriously. We have no idea what happened after all realities restarted other than Altea and Daibaazal came back. Anything else is up to the viewer’s interpretation. And Elsa created Olaf. ALLURA CAN BE WHATEVER GODDESS HER VIEWERS DEEM. Plus - Allura and Lotor are in the stars/space, appearing like a goddess and god. But that wasn’t “too godlike,” apparently. 
• …wait. So in LM’s mind, all the planets are empty? Creepy…
• The EPs couldn’t walk away. One word. Contract. (It’s like they think we’re all children who don’t have jobs of own and similar deals.) And they didn’t consider walking away. You know how I know? Cuz half the team leaders left - HEAD WRITER, THE ONLY FEMALE WRITER (technically, half the writing staff left). THREE DIRECTORS. Who did they feel bad for who was left? The artists they have never mentioned at all? I think they spoke about Ryu, the supervising producer, once. Even the intern on Tumblr said she met JDS once in the hallway. The situation is akin to a c-suite where the COO, CFO, CMO, and CCO left, but the CEO didn’t cuz he felt bad for that coordinator in marketing.
• “Hate to burst anyone’s bubble - but I deleted any files the second before I walked out the door. Otherwise I could have been sued for copyright infringement due to the inclusion of Roy, which I left out of the bible so the higher-ups didn’t know I was setting them up for a lawsuit. Toodles!”
• JDS & LM avoided social media cuz Marketing told them to. They were off the month following Season 7, and they did the NYCC panel. That’s it. They didn’t give another interview after SDCC until after their contract was done with DW. They didn’t even do after-panel interviews for NYCC. 
• Even Marketing didn’t want credit for their stuff, hence the call-out that the production team made the trailer. And btw - I have more faith in Marketing now cuz they said, “Nah, we aren’t using your designs.” Though…I do wonder if that’s what the redesigned Black Paladin insignia was. And also - since when does Marketing make content for the show? They take content from the show. They wouldn’t have been the ones making those paladin logos unless the EPs were supposed to and someone in the higher office gave the CMO the O.K. to do so - because the EPs weren’t doing their jobs.   
• Considering the bible is the foundation of your story, I see why the series went off the rails. Incompetence abounds with these two. 

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