salteans:

“Can you comment on some of the parallels that came in season 6, like how the meeting between Krolia and Keith’s dad and the finding of the blue lion by them, seems to parallel the beginning of the show with Lance going after Keith after an explosion and then the both of them being the only ones to actually step up to the blue lion and her barrier? And essentially how Blue brought Keith’s parents together and Team Voltron together?”

Jeremy Shada: Wow… that is uh, that is probably one of the more deep questions that I’ve heard… I like those though. Uh, thats great,  uh i think the… I think there’s always parallels, I think especially I mean the writing team and our creators Joaquim and Lauren, I think they have a ton of that stuff. If you watch the whole series there are so many… Um, there’s so many parallels and some of them are like, like you said are like kind of, they’re long spanning too even from something like the first episode to being like in season 6 I think. Anytime you can have parallels I think, as a viewer, um, there’s just that kind of… Uh, unspoken kind of symbolism behind the scenes when it, when you know, there’s a parallel with an earlier scene too and it kind of has that emotional resonance and weight to it. Uh, and so i think thats really, its a rewarding thing too and you feel the journey that the characters have taken when you have those parallels that kind of recall you back to the earlier parts of the show. And so I think those are always intentional. I don’t think, usually I don’t think those are coincidental because especially, if you’re writing something and you write it and you have seasons that are airing when they’re you know, farther through the show, um, you’re kind of going back and going, ‘oh yeah! we did that!’ and then you know, sometimes you’re like thats a cool scene that works as a good parallel for what we’re doing now. And so i don’t think those are usually unintentional, I think those are usually pretty, um, pretty intentional when the team puts those in there. and they’re always cool, I think that type of stuff is what makes a show really great, um, and what makes it rewarding to watch it uh, you know, all the way through ‘cause you get to see the world that’s been built from that first episode even to season 6, so, yeah