Voltron the 3rd Dimension what went wrong?

[I.R Joey]

I was mulling over this series last night just thinking about what went wqrong that would cause it to be canned. The story seemed coherant, the charecters fleshed out (especially when compared to some of the shows on at the same time) And while I'm not the biggest fan of totally CGI shows I still think that the animation wasn't that bad. Any ideas?

[Sandoz]

Well, I'm a huge fan of the original 80's Voltron anime, and I thought a *lot* was wrong with V3D.

1.) Weak Characterization: All the characters were pretty one-dimensional. Keith was the straight-laced hero; Lance the reckless daredevil; Hunk, the lunkhead with a heart of gold, etc. The 80's Voltron Force may not have been the most developed characters either, but they had a depth that V3D lacked.

2.) Supporting Cast? What Supporting Cast?: Many major supporting characters from the original Voltron seemed to just fall in a black hole without any explanation. I was glad that dead weight like Nanny and the Space Mice was gone, but Sven (the original pilot of Blue Lion!) and Princess Romelle were cast out as well, and they were two of the series' strongest characters.

3.) The "Reformed" King Zarkon: Bull$%#&. The guy was responsible for genocide, slavery, and other atrocities, and they made him a flippin' Secretary of Defense! And then he shows his true colors, and it's like "Wow! I never saw *that* coming!"

4.) Amalgomous: While the idea of The Galaxy Alliance being run by one measly little robot was good, Amalgomous was too bloody annoying for words. I rejoiced when they took him apart.

5.) The So-Called "Humor" of V3D: Awful, just plain awful. When ever they tried to play something for laughs, like the recurring newscaster and the two bumbling criminals that worked for Lotor (danged if I can remember their names) it always fell flat. And some of the plots were too ludicrous to take seriously.

6.) Stealth Voltron: 'Nuff said.

Sorry for the little rant, but that's my piece. I wanted to like V3D, I really did, but it had too many bad points. However, in the show's favor, I thought it was brilliant to cast Tim Curry as Lotor.

[Supernovametalstar]

Wow, that was pretty much what was bad for me as well, all 6 points. And you are correct, it was a good idea, not only to cast Tim Curry, but to get together much of the original VA's from the 80's series (too bad they couldn't get Peter Cullen as the narrator, but oh well).

Although, I didn't mind the 3D Voltron. It looked pretty good, and the fights were at least on the same level as the 80's show (robeast shows up, form Voltron, slice with Blazing Sword, end with heroic pose). And they even made some intersting modifications to his arsenal and introduced that evil combiner Dragotron or something. But that stealth thing had to go. It just looke awful.

[Manhunter]

I thought the CGI was weak,especially compared to Mainframe.The motion-captures were stiff and the character designs were horrible. Nobody looked like what they should have.Zarkon was too soft looking.

Curry as Lotor was OK,but I would have preferred someone who sounded closer to the original voice actor,like,say,Mark Hamill.