I remember when certain episodes ended with the obvious death of a character and the animated characters where crying, the voice over would say "But he's ok!". I always found that funny. Anyway on to the reason for this post.

Apparently Transformers has lit a giant robot sized fire under someone's ass because now Voltron has been given the green light. I was as diehard a Voltron fan as you can get, I even liked it more than Transformers (the toys weren't as good but I liked the show more). This was announced a few days ago but I had to digest this news before had to update on it. Honestly I don't know what to think, this movie will essentially be one big Super Robot show and those are a Japanese trademark. Their hyper action, violence, tears and tons of screaming leads to hours of fun and unquestioned heroism. Good times.

I honestly don't know if an American written gattai (combining/combination) Super Robot movie can capture that Japanese style of storytelling. Some might say that Transformers was ported over just fine from its animated form. To that I say Transformers isn't a Super Robot Show, never was. The genre is seen by some in the States is that it's "too silly" to take seriously. Then again it might be all for not since they might be going for a totally different approach. For all I know they might "teen" it up with 20 something’s and American Idol rejects (and no I sincerely doubt that they will use the KING OF BEASTS original Japanese story).

Still, I am very curious, bordering in on excited when it comes to the prospects of seeing the lions combine on the big screen.

All I hope for is that Price Lotor is written as the pimp he is.