felixazraelAnonymous asked:
Anon, I’m going to assume you’re new to this blog, so… hello. My name is Felix and I have a background in literature and creative writing, which I teach professionally to the upper range of the target age group of VLD.
In my spare time I co-host a more adult oriented podcast, in which I spend an ungodly amount of time analyzing literature and film. Two associates and I correctly predicted major Force plot motifs in The Last Jedi based on familiarity with Milton, Jung, and creation stories, and their relevance to a heroine’s journey. So let’s go ahead and miss me with the “Lotor/Lotura fans deluded themselves” stuff.
I’ve addressed the literary evidence for both a redemption arc and an endgame romantic arc for Lotor and Allura post Season 6 on both this blog and my podcast, and both will be readdressed post 8. You’re welcome to peruse and find both to answer your question in a more thorough manner, but let’s iron something out here: The character WAS textually vindicated inasfar as it was acknowledged in the text his intention really was to preserve life in the manner he perceived as most feasible and he was then shown to be happy with his family in the afterlife. It was just a cheap, shittily written, and ultimately unsatisfying character arc with grotesque imagery that had no place on a Y7 show.
In storytelling, if something doesn’t move a plot forward, it needs to be cut. The reason Lotor’s death is blindsiding (it is – that isn’t personal bias, Anon) is that there is no good storytelling reason to leave a character’s death vague and repeatedly bring them back up unless they aren’t actually dead since that would not advance the plot. There’s also no sensical narrative reason to hammer home how sympathetic a character is without the intent to make your audience root for that character in some manner. The reason his death was vague and he was repeatedly brought up prior to S8, I have to assume, is because the writers knew they’d lose a significant portion of their audience if we already knew he was dead. You could write S7 and S8 with the paladins knowing full well his ass is rotting in the rift, and it doesn’t change the plot structure one iota. All the finality of his corpse did, after the dramatic tension built toward his return, was provide shock value, which again is out of place in a children’s coming of age story, even one that is darker in tone.
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