User blog comment:Thomasfan502/Season 8 Discussion Blog/@comment-26122857-20190407213303/@comment-4979063-20190408102230

Yeah, I have the feeling the fans are more loyal to the show than the creators. The first seasons were (a bit) corny, but you had some character development and the drama was based on something.

I honestly like the concepts of the later seasons, but they hardly reach their full potentional. New transformations are given and not earned and the girls become more generic with each episode. (Don't start about WoW) That's one of the reasons I love Voltron. Robot gets an update? Great! The villains get two.

Maybe if they used season 9 as a spin-off it would have worked. A spin-off, a reboot, an alternative universe. But not a season 9. The difference with the previous seasons is too big and disturbing. Seeing how much the creators seem to care about continueity in the previous seasons I doubt Valtor, Riven and the Trix can save the show.