[Cobra]

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cringe, or whatever.

I watched the episode "The Pretty Spy" (or something like that) last night, and it looked decent at first, but then I started seeing stuff like repeated animations, and the voice acting was downright cheesy or bad (most of the time bad). The spy girl's actor was downright horrible, when it looked like she was yelling she was speaking in an abnormally high indoor voice. I couldn't understand her half the time. I think the best actor was the one who did the fat guy, but even he was bad.

Does anyone here know why Voltron is so popular? I remember watching a live-action (or CGI) series of Voltron, I thought that was a hell of a lot better than this cartoon.

Ugh. I wasted a half hour of sleep for that.

[TrashMan]

Ahh..Voltron..the old days... I remeber watching it a loong time ago.
Together with Daitarn III, Saber Rider, Transformers and Centurions... hehehe.


Seriously, If you like robots/Mecha I suggest you grab Macross/Robotech (NOT Macross 7). Far better story, charachters and drawing stlye.

[Mongoose]

Voltron's main appeal among the 20-something crowd is the nostalgia factor; most of the people who love it remember it as a cartoon they loved in their early childhoods.  It was a bit too early for me, but I know a lot of people a few years older than me who look back on it fondly.  As for your complaints about it, the business of licensing and dubbing anime series  of 20 years ago was not the the business of licensing and dubbing anime series of today.  Take a look at older series like Gigantor and Speed Racer, and you'll get the picture.  Voltron itself was adapted from a Japanese series called Go-Lion; from what I've heard, there were rather significant cuts and plot changes during the adaptation for American audiences.  For what the show is, though, it's good for a laugh in the "my God this is cheesy" vein.

[Janos]

When I get a dog I will name it Voltron

And it will only react to certain kind of shout:
"VOOOLTROOOOON!!!"
it will be magnificent!!

[TrashMan]

Voltron...hehe... what a shallow flick..I mean it's so CLICHE it can't get any worse...

[NGTM-1R]

It's old enough to be considered a "Glorious Golden Age."

[S-99]

I actually liked the voltron cgi a lot, that was so much better. And if you want to see an absolutely bad episode of voltron there is the first episode of it, that's where everything is bad, from the weapon noises to the people.