How do we feel about documentaries and or carnivals will we've got both on tonight's ABT Voltron we're going to talk about season 8 episode 7 and 8 day 47 and clear day. We've got a couple of special guests and we will be chatting about the making of a documentary and why you should maybe not listen to hallucinations up from your ex. We will see you guys after the opening and team. It's time to form Voltron you're tuned in to AfterBuzz TV the ESPN of tv top now look, I'm very proud of myself. I'm very proud of myself. It was the most appropriate song for the opening also have a bit of a Disney Aficionado and just that song and Keith breaking his way to love it. You gotta love it. Welcome back. We are the AfterBuzz TV Voltron legendary defend our aftershow. We are looking at season 8 episode 7 and Day 47 and clear day. We're have a grand old time tonight you guys and we promise not to play the song the entire time. 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This episode our day 47 was kind of like the breaking between hours enjoy those kind of episodes where you can see daily life and was a lot of fun and I was a little hesitant on the POV aspect was that can be tricky finding the camera angles and stuff like that, but it was a lot of fun. It turned out really really good with all the effects and all That will all the facts and the camera adjustments in After Effects stuff. So I was really happy with how it turned out. What POV. Did you find the most difficult? Well just staging everything in the camera. So it's not like you have to be aware of the where the camera is. It's always the cameras POV. It's not somebody else's POV. So you got you got to play with with like how it moves from scene to scene and how it turns on and off and so Usually those things are kind of tricky like when you do somebody's flashback or something. It's always there POV and then moving the camera around can be difficult sometimes because unlimited budget TV budget. Yeah that that entire sequence where it's just spinning around in the halls. I was like, oh man that that must have been really difficult. Yeah coordinating all this stuff and then it pans here and then it goes here and yes, we're being a spinning camera for several seconds. Good luck guys. Have fun. All right, we could have you lean in a little closer like your friend would like to get a little closer to you and then recreate what yes the most interesting aspect of clear day for you. What did you enjoy the most about? Oh, yeah. So yeah that critique we had a this episode is another fun. Yeah fine episode after after you are episode. After yeah Mike's episode. So yeah, I say it's hot. Yeah whole episode is really fun or because except except the are loaded of course. Yeah, suddenly she gets. Yeah. She suffers a lot. Yeah, but yeah, so except that it's very fun. If so the old it's carnivore. Yeah, they're not just economy between the light and the dark and yeah humor and then the The Dread yeah, so we get To see we get to see each character's personality the side of their the personality that we can enjoy. Yeah to see it. I am talking about the light in the dark of that particular episode. I really liked how everything at the carnival where was in these really warm Hues and everything with a Laura had this purple team, right? Yeah. I saw it's hard to see about it's a great apartment sometime. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Writing side on the dark outside. It was a great contrast. I think let's dig into I keep calling it episode 47 in my mind that I think episode 47 was sometime last season. Let's dig into day 47 we have this is the first time we've got a good chunk of dialogue from Kincaid. There's a lot more to him than I expected. So we have Kincaid who is a videographer and evidently wanted to go into film and being a fighter. A pilot was his backup. It's a heck of a backup job. Yeah, it just shows how like Cutthroat the entertainment is just seems like a good plan. No, I really I really appreciated this because you get somebody who obviously like studied film and has a love of Storytelling and cinematography you get his perspective on sort of day-to-day life being aboard the atlas. That that was that was probably as somebody who likes study telecommunication in school. I really appreciated that. So I was like I can get behind what Kincaid's doing my love that almost immediately. We added razavi to the mix. So we have two very very different takes on what this documentary should look like because she is extremely action movie vibrant characters. This is gold we need to keep it and Kincaid would be perfectly happy making another documentary on. On fermentation and we have yeast as a through life, which I'm not a sentence. I never thought I'd say it was that the contrast between them was it was great and the humor that comes out and it also lends to their characters like you get to know them a little better. This is like can K is very matter-of-fact. I just want to document this and it's not for anybody else and there's obviously let's make something awesome. Give us a mischievous. I like a lot. I feel like she would have done really well in reality TV. Yeah, I mean the Colleen bit absolutely the extreme gardening. Yeah, it's fun because Kincaid yeah just wants to like sit back and let let events unfold naturally and razavi wants to manipulate things very much like you do in reality TV. Production. She's like we got to go in for this angle. We have to get the love angle in there and we have to spice everything up. This is so boring. I think we need Sabe Hoss actually. Yeah, she is really good at making that great sense of the Canada the conversation work right angle. Yeah. How many cameras do you have? What's your special effects budget? Looks like we've all worked with someone like that. Like can you can you just you're you're the second ad can you let me make two my profits? It's just fun because he want he just wants to see the day as it happens. And she's like this is my vision. I'm going to make something amazing and I love for me. It's the contrast between a call of ends and qurans interviews where call of an white bread cut and dry boring is anything it's very factual and then She intercuts and says, alright. Well, you know, that's the facts now. Tell it like you were telling an awesome story to a buddy at the gym and it's the exact same story because this is how call event does and then we cut to Koran who has his own jump cuts for some reason his own sound effects provides his own Shiro voices, which are wonderful like Koran is kind of everything resolving wanted to the point where she's almost not necessary for his interview. Right. Yeah, documenting call Devon and the Quran. Yeah, it makes somehow funnier. I really liked how the sparse use of Music in this episode because you know, you go into a documentary most of the time you're going to focus on diegetic sounds but when correct is being interviewed all of a sudden there's a sweeping score to accompany himself made sound effects because it's Koran Like that's just it. I wish we could have done a episode just on the day in the life of crime. I've been amazing follow him around. Yeah, he's dating life. I want to see it. Honestly. I would have loved a full up and down recap show where it's just him telling the story. Maybe some interjections, maybe a couple people going you forgot this part or that isn't how that happened or I never said that but I would love Koran doing a recap show. I I think it's kind of funny that in this episode. We have Quran relaying a story in a very exciting Dynamic way and then in the next episode, we have a piece of merchandise that refers to him as Quran Quran the lying people the next episode have a bit of a problem. That's also true. But you just you live with his foibles. But yeah back to the music we have it for current we have elevator music which I think is one of my favorite things ever that the atlas has elevator music and we have that rock and roll riff for Colleen for the again extreme gardening right music was really good. It was really well thought out on on balancing between live footage and accentuating the scenes. I was working on the the sound design for this episode a particularly challenging because a lot of times you're there are deliberate distortions and you have to make it sound like parts of it are being captured by an internal microphone. Wow. We didn't have any we left that to the composer and Joachim and Lauren and and how they sought sought it we mostly just like we add a little sound effects during the animatics stage. We don't have anything to do with the music. But yeah, it was it was pretty amazing. Just watching the final product for the first time. Like wow that pulls the scene together. So well, I love this through line of the battle scene with I'm calling it The Space Kraken because we don't really know what it was. It was a giant squid and a gas planet that's two things. You don't ever want to deal with together at the same time but going from but becoming this found-footage aspect and it's picked up by BB. It is picked up by the mice and we get to see what's going on on the bridge and out the window and just all of those different movements and all of those different perspectives on what happens on the atlas when there's a battle going down. It was incredible to watch. Oh, yeah. It was it was a lot of fun to figure out like what does what and how how the interior kind of collapses and what the view is and and hint at things. It was a lot of Finding that story borders did an amazing job of capturing that yeah, I think it's very clever to show the transition. Yeah, it goes out that at some point they drop to the camera then that baby. Yeah, Mom's than going to the the Commander's station then we saw that yeah, it was a shape of that. Even the shape of the camera is perfect. It's a ball. Yeah dogs pick up balls to retrieve also be a natural thing to do so The POV the dog is POV. Yeah, so we are seeing the pentagirls on the part around. Yeah. Yeah, it's great. Yeah the great anger for okay for a couple minutes. It was very reminiscent of Cloverfield. And so I wanted to ask where there any specific films or TV shows or documentaries that you guys Drew from for direct inspiration. I've seen Cloverfield and a lot of the found footage with Paranormal Activity and stuff like that. I don't know if I pulled anything maybe subconsciously I did but not directly. There's no point where we turned on the night vision and found a monster in this field may have traumatized me. I have a love-hate relationship with a lot of found footage horror movies. There's a lot of cleverness, but then there's a lot of contrived Miss to so like every time there's something clever and a found footage horror movie. There's also something kind of cliche and so I always appreciate when when the documentary style is done and something is new is done with it. So I really liked this episode. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Yeah doggie cam Mouse can actually we had I think we're pretty long on this episode. So we had to cut out some of the some extra footage of the camera floating through the atlas and like there's a one scene that was cut where the cameras floating through and you see the wolf just floating just floats by You see the wolf just gnawing on something and just floats by a lot of seems like that were cut for time. I thought was kind of fun funny. Yeah, but that the whole way the cameras fans are really cool. Yeah, they really are was were there any other cutscenes were there? I like this is the kind of stuff. I really loved are asleep. I think it's left on The Cutting Room floor. Yeah, I think that was one scene and then there was a cup. I think some scenes are just cut shorter like some of the Logs cut out or something. There's some great Quran takes that were unfortunately cut out for time. It was like just just so funny Rhys Darby's just amazing and just like I don't we don't have time but it's so good. We want a whole episode of just Corral ya 30 minutes of Quran outtakes and then speaking it like I have to say my favorite line in this episode because I am a terrible person. Person was cutting back to the MFE Fighters after the space squid fight and Griffin just going. Oh Chuckles. Oh, honey. This can't be the worst thing you've ever seen poor Griffin. It's those what it's just this little teeny scene, but I absolutely loved it because we mostly just see the combat facing side of things. We don't usually get afterwards after the Unless there's some big dramatic moment going on. So talking about it afterwards just like tentacles we can just imagine. Can you imagine how the tentacle was of time on the internet? I will refrain from yeah, no comment. That's none of my business. We're all just like, oh, okay moving away from that. I did love the individual interviews that we had going on. On that resolving was trying so hard to set up with varying degrees of success. We talked about call of an and Koran but our other interviews gave us a through line for the story. We had an interview with Keith and Pitch talking about heading down to the surface finding a disabled robeast. We talked with Romel. There we go. That's the name and talk with a Laura and we have this through line about finding the finding the altay and pilots and trying to get through to them and this marked lack of success. And frustration on a Laura's part. Yeah, it's it's it's been really hard watching her this over the course of this season because she's been hit with roadblock after roadblock and especially after episode 6 where she made the the choice to let her nerve ago like those decisions are weighing on her and you I feel like we really see that play out in episode 8, but we'll get to that. That we have I wrote down three or four lines from her and I'm having trouble finding them in my notes because I need a better note system though talking with a Laura. Do you think we'll ever find on irva? No, I think she'll find us. Yeah pretty dark. I mean most things around Elora this season have been pretty dark and I this is going into spoiler territory. So we'll save it for a little bit but knowing what happens and then re watching In the season bit by bit. It's easy to see the ending developing the way it is like when you know that that is what's going to happen. It's easier to see the steps that led there. It's easier to pick out the mounting frustration that she has and all these roadblocks. She's experiencing. And yeah, the the ending to me makes a lot more sense on a second watch through right? Right. All the little seeds that have been the writers and what came in Lorne planted along the way to get you to To the very end. I think it makes it satisfying especially on the second watch through or the Third Watch. There was like, oh I see where it comes. Sometimes you're watching like other shows like, you know like that came out of nowhere, but when you kind of watch on a second viewing, you're like, oh I missed that. Oh, I get it now. So this is where that came. Yeah, and this watching this season the first time through you know for one you probably Marathon it for the most part for another you spend so much time going. Oh my God, how are you going to end it what's going on and screaming into the void and every development that you miss stuff. So a second watch through and I say this to everyone who's watching this who may not have watched it a second time second. Watch through is really beneficial. Yeah, plus you enjoy it a lot more of the second time. Oh, yeah. This is the documentary episode. Yes. Yeah, it's cool to see where those Platt threads ultimately end up leading. But I also like it and again, we'll talk about this a little bit more when we talk about the next episode but I like the sort of dark mirror aspect about how a lot of this season is building towards this confrontation specifically between her nerva and ellora. They they come from the same Planet. They experienced a lot of the same loss and they're both feeling this relentless. To get when they want so it's an it's an interesting parallel looking at the two of them. Yeah, especially on Laura's story line for the season. It's like she should be elated to see the other LT hands and should be a happy moment. But it's now it's just dread and roadblock after roadblock and it's like she's getting turned away by our own people and it's it's definitely yeah, you spend so much time thinking you're alone and then you're not and then it turns out you're just as alone as you thought you were right, which is almost worse like oh my God. I'm not the last one. So my people are still around and they've all been brainwashed and identical great. Also, like how a hunk tries to help them. It's so perfect. Yeah. She made she makes sweet. Is where our yeast through line and are all tan through my come together and seriously the sentences tonight. This is where they come together because we've seen a lot of work trying to bring in the all ten pilots and trying to reach out to them with varying low degrees of success. And we've also seen hunk working on different batches of things trying to find a specific strand of yeast from Colleen all in order to make this traditional alt a into served and presenting it to the ltalians with Just the most awkward moment. I promise it's not poison really good. Come on guys. I will say though. I feel like given enough time hunk, you know in the kitchen could definitely achieve Universal peace. Just give it enough time that man could bring peace to the entire universe just from his kitchen. I met we talked about that a little bit on a Garfield powerful snake. Yeah, like choosing hunk as the Diplomat because he gets along with Everyone. So yeah. Mmm put a good meal in front of anybody. They're not going to be they're just going to be eaten and join themselves. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, actually it opens up. Yeah, they are hard work. So I really like I really like the way he put it like foods have the ability to bring up certain memories and maybe the memory of this particular dish will remind the moat of a time when they could smile a lot easier. It was really poignant. It really sweet. Yeah, and I do like that Tova is the first to open up and Tova is the one that they're looking to kind of as their leader. Yeah, it was funny like just watching everybody like as he's like lifting the cookie everyone looking at these are our enemies and they're trying to feed us and oh, oh, this is actually really good. Just stop it. Like home and this is like, oh it tastes like a home. They never knew right because this is multiple Generations removed from well, we don't know how long I'll Tans live on average but 10,000 years I'd say is longer than they have. So this is Generations removed from the last all day and who would have ever seen I'll Taya so presenting them with this traditional dessert and then saying well, I can't answer your questions about all Taya but we have I'll take it serious. You should maybe talk to them and it works. Yeah, and it's the first time that this has worked. So it's less reaching out with compassion and more reaching out with a different angle of compassion. Yeah. Well, it stopped being an interrogation at that point because they weren't cooperating. So every time yeah, they went to talk to them. It was very much an interrogation setting bringing food into the equation is it's nowhere Making bread together. Yeah. Well, how long will not so much in a holding cell though? You are here's some food. It's a cozy holding holding sad throw pillow. Great. Try to make it a little homier. Yeah a whole be cell. All right there. I think we've touched on just about everything in terms of overarching things. One of the things I do want to touch on before we move on is we have a scene with Kincaid saying goodbye to a character named seok Jin which seems like it's just a normal scene on the surface and then you hit the end credits of the series and there's an in memoriam. So can you tell us a little bit about sub Jen? He was an amazing. I only got to work with him a short period of time but he was an amazing storyboard artist that studio mayor who tragically passed away in a car accident and then the Sun and kind of touched us all how hard he worked and how talented and how much you know, we had looked forward to his he had can't say how you know, that's kind of tough. Yeah. Put into words. But yeah, so the crew really wanted to do something special for him and his family and Studio mirror and it was it was kind of a last-minute thing, but I think it was very poignant and It's kind of in the tradition of in or not tradition, but part of in war you have people come and go so it kind of fit the theme also. Yeah, it was a beautiful send-off and thank you for talking to us about it. Is there anything else we want to touch on for this episode? Is there anything else you have to say about it? Any fun moments that we forgot? I always like asking what was the most challenging aspect about directing any given episode. So I am assuming it was the extended sequence within the hallway. But but yeah it was was there anything else that was a particular challenging thing to choose sort of tackle? I think every episode has its challenges. I think this one was Finding. Transitions trying to lock the camera POV down and keeping track of like the battery life and all that stuff and just the multiple things to juggle stuff. You don't even think about but yeah, the the battery starts to deplete as time goes on there's a continuous time stamp the entire time. Yeah. There are a lot of little details to keep track of when you change the point of view like that then that One moment where we get footage from pidge's visor? Yeah unexpected, but great. See ya. Ya ya coming up with those transitions was the check the Big Challenge in that that episode now it was very well put together. We enjoy the hell out of it. Obviously, I think so. Yeah because the chance that it's a documentary so it doesn't have to be set up but actually we have to set up here each. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Very challenging. But yeah, it's paid off its great episode. Yeah, those transitions were seamless. Oh, yeah, it helps a little bit antastic lie. All right. 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Yay reminded me a lot of space small and that one care. Doctor has a life-changing spiritual and everyone else gets to go screw around. I love it. Absolutely. So yeah, it's pretty fun fine. If soda yeah, except are rude. I have to mention that when we should start with a Laura. Okay, although you were saying something I was just about to ask. What was your favorite part about directing this episode? Oh, yeah, of course Connie body part. It's a lot of fun putting people in different. Yeah. Yeah older adults Paula Dean's and other arthropods crew. Yeah just goes to go to that product to provide free security Council today old enjoy talking about. It's very fun. Yeah, then Keith being the only one to take it seriously because he's Keith and this is yeah it does. I think one of my favorite bits was him going around and asking people like have you seen any suspicious activity and they're like, yeah, it's real suspicious and real shady at least happy enough to go. Wait a minute. It's me. Okay. All right. I've been around long enough that I can pick up on these now. It's like oh sarcasm. That's what that was. I get this he's Learn how to people I don't so I really yeah, enjoy the to see all those carnival games. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, for example the pH praise our workout I could correct the wrongs. Yeah. Absolutely. I stirred by the ring. It was just incredible to watch like oh my god, dude. How did you fall for literally all of the tricks every single one? Yeah the shoe think the games and that it's a fun ride Korea Dave, right? Yeah. Where's Hong Kong the kiss that's your best part two to that moment in there when they're riding is so funny. Yeah. I absolutely like. Oh honk we've had It's a off-camera that that was their favorite everyone who's been to Disneyland or Disney World at some point has probably gone on Small World and they've revamped it. I want to say within the past decade. So it's a lot nicer than it used to be but it's definitely the last ride that you want to get stuck on when the ride breaks down because that earworm of a song is that it's a thing it isn't thing that songs. I think it starts off with hung saying I don't like rides. I don't want to do that right and immediately going I love and he he is in his own personal. Hell, it's like yeah hunk went on to this right thinking. It was going to be like a one of those scary dark rides. We're like, yeah sort of creepy carnival ask but Keith ends up being the one terrified. Like I did two years in the quantum Zone. I'd rather be back there man. That's better feel like hunk would really enjoy Disneyland. We had this conversation a couple Seasons back about what would they do at Disneyland who would ride would who would run into park security and then the wonderful princess Ponies made us our own Voltron Mouse ears, which was great. And and now we know that hunk would absolutely Fantasyland and keep putting it in trouble for trying to leave small world for Lucifer. I'm just straight up busting his way out of the Ride Like That is desperation. Well, I love the the comedic beats of it of the they get stuck on the ride. It gets going again after after an extended period of time and then it gets stuck and then he's like, okay. No, I gotta go. I'm down. It's just not been fun for Keith. He takes it too. Seriously. He finally does something fun. And it's just the one thing where nope I thought that was a great opportunity. Finally kiss. Enjoy something but no no, yeah too much Call of an influence at the carnival. That's true. What would he have done? Left I don't understand that. What does that word mean? He is actually keeping up a perimeter around the carnival doing this to keep writing rehab security. Yeah. It's like I'm good out here that's called a man's Carnival experiences. It was a great day. We provided security. I want exactly 30 Paces to the north. All right at this time. I did this and saw this. It's nothing happened. It's amazing because that's great. And he's just like why didn't you take me with you if I was had by all except for Keith? But yeah, this this was also a morale-boosting exercise because the conceit is yeah. We're here to provide security and also make it up to these people for ruining their last clear day, but also everyone's been really depressed since we lost honour of us. So let's just let's just chill for a day. Well, Make some time. Let's feel better about things. I think they need it. Oh, absolutely. Yeah and also cold on. Yeah. I'm getting to the competition. It's called Yama Yama Yama amazing. Yeah. I love that yellow mores and learning to call ya'll Morris from his great grandpappy and whatnot. Just been a running thing with Koran and it comes to fruition with this competition. Yeah, then that ya then. Yep, I not eat ya called on is what's given I'm a lard in recognition of your mark audience Kim. That's amazing II think I was astounded that there were other people who had that skill and then on top of that that there was a contest to determine who the best and just oh she didn't twist on this technique. She's good. I can just imagine Reese just I don't even know what the directions For the vocal direction for that would have been would have been just like, oh just make noises you'll we'll figure it out. Here's the audio of the y'all more call. You did like four seasons ago do this, but more. Yeah, how did amazing? I mean, it's restar be you just believe in him he found a way but I that was a fun thing to watch Pidge. Judge here trying to win prizes and getting tokens from her parents. I know if that the pups to yeah, and just Colleen being Colleen is the reason that this family stays together and is amazing as it is because Colleen gets things done and she doesn't let her kids run roughshod all over but like I love Sam Sam is wonderful. Sam also has a big soft spot for a dog is like, oh, okay. How many do you have? He's like no, Just cancel didn't I just begging she's never made puppy dog eyes. Okay. Yeah how much I love that that's this is the relationship that she has with her dad and the relationship she has with her mom is a hundred and eighty degree turn like Colleen drives the hardest of Bargains. Yeah caught in its above a cop a bob. Yeah. She's incredible. She's one of my favorite aspects of the the this season in the last one adding her as a character is just a wonderful decision Colleen is a Queen We Stand a queen. She is incredible. And again, she she's the reason things get done in this family and I wrote down the bartering sequence for this because I loved it so much and I'm trying to find where it is. Yeah she calling you. Family picture Pidge gets to pick the costume Colleen gets added something and Pitch has to smile a smile deal. It just it does such a great job of painting what their home like painting a picture of what their home life is like you just the fact that Paige went to her dad because she knew that her Dad wouldn't be able to say no and the mom not standing for that. It was it was really fun watching that whole sequence play out as a pair. Not that that really Rings true. My daughter's my daughter's play off my wife and I all the time I asked my mom says no they come to me. I'm like, what did Mom say someone do that to me at work today Beyond angry when I found out. Oh, yeah, no adult still do that too. But just this family Dynamic and Matt's girlfriend partner question. Is he dating a robot? I think it has some Adrian. I think she's just in a helmet. Yeah, it's hard clients. I'm not sure but yeah, I like that so she's part of the family now sweet. That's hot alien girlfriend dresses up with the kigurumi picture with the family. That's how you know, it's real. It's so cute. It's absolutely wonderful. And so pidge's eye is on the shiny helmet prize because something shiny for a Laura is a thing and they this is not a society that believes in crowns. This is a mining Society. They're going to have a golden mining helmet with all sorts of jewels on it because of course. It was a nice touch. I think that the level of Ass that this Carnival this Carnival employee had like a really excellent writing just when it came to writing her every prize is the best prize and here's a shovel so I can dig yourself out of that hole. Yeah. Yeah, I could away she is saying okay then and just to give it. Yeah just this disaffected teenager who this holiday comes once every God knows how long and she's He's working it. Well, it definitely read to me like a teenager who's here as a summer job that she can carry, I guess it. Yeah, every prize the best prize even gonna try to sell this because let's be Real it's funny money and she prizes but whatever it pays whatever bills I have as a disaffected teenager and then Shiro an arm wrestling. This was a thing of Wonder and Glory. Oh my God. This is fabulous him on degrade or Italian character water. No. Yeah and just this conversation about oh, you got me fired and it was the best thing that ever happened to us. I figured out what was good in my life. Life and I my favorite thing was your comment because again honoree watch were noticing. Oh, hey, that's Curtis. So Curtis. Does this we watch with the subtitles on boiler alert? It's a character that's there on the bridge. And and so yeah, I think I do have to put your comment behind a spoiler alert. I guess we'll save that but it was like a good one. I am I what I really love about this. First of all, I love just the whole set up to this particular point. Hotline because it's like this this guy you could tell like he was really annoyed about Voltron sort of role in the last clear day, but and he just sits down and basically manipulates them and she did exactly what he wants for the entire episode. He gets Voltron to come down and then he gets the the leader of their team to participate in this big championship by just throwing all of this shade armor. Curling is for the young and strong. You're old like me those kids. Where do I sign? She really gonna recommend and he's like dance puppets dance, but then it's just so much fun to watch and it's nice to see and everyone at this point has converged on the arm wrestling finals and it's great to have this Victory. Not only for sure. Oh, but for all of them, they're all kind of living vicariously through this. The I think probably a really great touch was when they were getting ready for the championship. They get like these cute stances where it looks like a fighting game connections that's available and choose your character character locking fighting game entrance like Shiro with the arm and then the Lord and just like you I love it the great bits of character animation. Yeah, you want the Voltron fighting game like the Voltron Marvel vs. Capcom. Might I am in I am in sign me up. Let's do this. We are real short on time. So we have to talk about the extremely upsetting Vision Quest is because she is we start with interviewing Tavo and turns out owner about has a long range kill switch installed and Oliver audio bands, like holy want to give out it. It's like if someone else was able to trigger cyanide pills and spies. What's pretty each what this is and Alaura manages to remove what is essentially a piece of the entity this thing that we haven't seen since the flashback episode from Tabo and we have it under lock and key and then she's she's feeling ill she's having a hell of a day everyone else go to the carnival. I'm going to take some R&R except that she starts hallucinating things hallucinating lotor. Mostly. Yeah, mostly just her ex coming back and being like, you know, you are. To yeah, that's yeah, that's very Hollywood Way. Yeah, that's said use are like, she's hallucinating lands doing and hundred when that doesn't work. It's like oh your current squeeze won't work. Let's work with your ex. I think one of my favorite aspects about this entire sort of Side Story is the the camera angles that you guys guys chose because it's meant to be very domineering very off-kilter. So was it sort of challenging sort of figuring out ways to show the the shifting power dynamics all ya got the sequence actually a lot short on those the Lord. Mm. Yeah Nolan takes thoughts it loading took a deer's sequences amazing. She's really good at finding the emotional emotional stuff. Yeah emotional. He'd send ya how to shoot it and she's amazing at doing that and this extended Vision with being back on all Taya seeing her mom seeing herself as a roby's pilot and killing part of all Taya to try to save it like and then the juniper berry and her room is sucked dry of quintus is like it was all a dream or was it spoilers? It really wasn't because that with long story short. Or convinces her to do drugs kids because it's kind of and she takes in the entity at wipes out like yikes. Yeah, those those seams are very quick quick cut spot. Yeah. Yeah those gets feeling a lot these days. I lie. I think the most emotionally devastating thing was seeing her mother just fade away. Yeah. I was rough. Yeah, her mom basically got fan. Oh snap a little. I'm so proud of you. I don't feel so good. So as much fun as we had this episode, we definitely ended on that extremely dramatic note of ellora making some very bad decisions and getting completely knocked out as a result just yikes. Yeah this again. It was it was a really good balance. Yeah of really really heavy high-stakes drama that was Really well balanced with the the fun sort of hijinks going on at the carnival. I do want to throw the spoiler warning down real quick because I do have to share that comment learn you haven't finished the the series put a I guess plug your ears come back in like 35 seconds. Yeah watching the Armwrestling finals and she goes this is when Curtis fell in love. Yeah, she's there. Yeah only it's all right. Yeah, he's looking over that stage going man. I can't whoo but all-in-all. Yeah, both of these were fantastic episodes. These were a lot of fun to watch they were emotional and all the right places. Incredibly. Well executed just Chef kiss beautiful. Thank you. Thank you so much. Do we have anything else to say about these episodes where we start to wrap? Anything you want to let fans know about the behind the scenes? Yeah. Mmm, I do kind of wonder what Colleen warned about a certain type of yeast and what it would do. So Cody mentioned in your episode. So yeah, she gave actually, yes. She gave her she gave it to her without living juniper berry and then the hallucination killed. Yes. Deaf kid was a really good. It was a really good setup. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah coding. Yeah Cody Guru after those dirty ready a lot. So just she can bring another one. So question mark are there any other projects that you're working on that? You can tell us about I'm still at DreamWorks working on a show called. Called keepo that will debut sometime this year late. All right, but that's all I can say really? Yeah. I'm walking out on Netflix Animation Studio then I'm working on the show called Maya and do that 3. Yeah. So it's it's a movie. It's came out of three or four years ago. Yeah. At the Netflix it's gonna be that got it. I gotta get you on the Netflix PR emails. That is a yeah, that's gonna be a blast. Yeah, um, where can the fans go on social media if they'd like to keep up with you? Got maybe Twitter Instagram and Tumblr. Yeah, what's your Twitter handle? I'll take the Honda is a it's a te. Kooti K. So Tek you are I okay. All right could be found on Instagram. It's MC underscore and then animate. Thank you so much for joining us tonight you guys, this is great. Oh, thank you so much. Thank you for having. This it and make it work in the people find you. I you guys can follow me on Twitter and Instagram at the main one. That's thei mean Guin. I also deejay lost retrospective podcast called no love lost. So be sure to check that out. I'm Katie Cullen. 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It’s time for a movie and a carnival on this week’s Voltron after show! Hosts Katie Cullen and Megan Salinas are joined by episode directors Michael Chang and Rie Koga for Season 8 episodes 7 and 8: Day Forty-Seven and Clear Day! Day Forty-seven chronicles a day in the life aboard the Atlas, with plenty of found footage and a compassionate through line about food bringing people together. Clear Day brings us another Space Mall episode, in which one character (in this case, Allura) has a life-changing spirit quest and everyone else gets to go have a good time at a fun location. It’s carnival hijinks, upsetting hallucinations, and moviemaking all the way around on #ABTVVoltron! The Voltron After Show: Join the robotic lions in this intergalactic war against the Galra Empire by listening to the various recaps, reviews and in-depth analysis and discussion on each episode of the series. Not only will we break down the episodes though, we’ll also deliver all the latest news surrounding the show and have cast and crew join us. It’s the VOLTRON LEGENDARY DEFENDER AFTER SHOW! Show Summary: Voltron: Legendary Defender is an animated web television series produced by American companies DreamWorks Animation and World Events Productions and animated by South Korean Studio Mir. It is a reboot of both the Beast King GoLion anime series and the Voltron franchise, and its animation is a mix of anime-influenced traditional animation for characters and background and CGI for Voltron action sequences. Voltron: Legendary Defender is set in a science fiction universe where planetary energy called "quintessence" can be used to power vehicles and magic. The series follows the adventures of the Paladins of Voltron who must learn to work together to form the giant robot Voltron and use it to defeat the evil Galra Empire. 