Monday Musings - 20161003

Yes, more Voltron ... can we all take a moment to appreciate how hard Allura is?

I really like the implementation of Allura in Legendary Defender, and it wouldn't be much of a stretch to say she's probably my favourite character. There is a tendency sometimes, particularly when attempting to create "strong" female characters, for that "strength/badassery/whatever" to not quite gel with the character, to feel pasted on, as it were. Worse, perhaps, are the times when a character is ostensibly in command, but someone else is making all the decisions. I wasn't getting any of that off Allura: it's pretty obvious who's in charge here. She gets final say in what's happening and, when she does do something badass (say, jumping into the middle of a firefight... from orbit), the character slips so easily into that action that it doesn't even click until ten minutes later and you realise "hold on, that was awesome".

Or, at least that was the frame of mind I found myself in.

Allura is (c) Dreamworks and Netflix.