Inconsistencies I Found in Voltron

INCONSISTENCIES

The Legend Begins

In Season 3, Episode 7: The Legend Begins, Coran narrates the building of Voltron and the origin of the war. Here we find out that Zarkon married an Altean alchemist, Honerva, who became very ill and delirious from prolonged exposure to quintessence through her work. Then, in trying to save her, Zarkon takes her to the rift and exposes the both of them to raw quintessence. Both Zarkon and Honerva die from overexposure to quintessence and then are revived by the dark rift creatures. Zarkon wakes up as pure evil, and Honerva wakes up as Haggar.

But, if Coran knows that Honerva is Haggar, then why was Allura surprised by Haggar being Altean, in season 2?

[Season 2, Episode 13: Blackout, 18:08]

Allura doesn’t seem to know that Haggar was Honerva, but she also doesn’t act surprised when Coran retells the story??

And also… Allura was a grown up by the time Zarkon and Honerva died, were resurrected and attacked Altea, so she must have known about Honerva by that time… especially if she was a friend of her father’s… who gave her a gift for her birth…

So why didn’t she know that Honerva is Haggar?

[Season 5, Episode 5: Bloodlines]

(Also notice how her perceptiveness is immediately dismissed by Lotor… I understand where he is coming from, because he hates Haggar, but still… It’s a bit telling to me of their dynamic. He clearly holds all the power and authority between them.)

Besides that, here Coran says that the reason Zarkon wanted Voltron was because he wanted to create another rift

But… I don’t know if that’s the case, because in the first two seasons, Allura and Coran both say that it’s because he knows it’s the only weapon that can defeat him.

His motivations in seasons 1-2 imply more ATLA’s reason for the war, which is imperialism. He wanted Voltron to help him conquer planets and gain more power. With Voltron he would be unstoppable, but this new reason implies that Voltron is only a means to an end. That imperialism isn’t the goal. The reason from the first two seasons align better with his motivations, and I don’t know if this new reason does. It kinda seems like retconning Zarkon’s goal to inform Lotor’s motivations, rather than a continuous, consistent drive.

Garrison Junior Cadets

This caught my eye during my rewatch of Season 7.

ummmm where the hell is Lance??? Where are the last two cadets in the lineup ???? Where did he go… We see Hunk’s reaction to Keith and James, but not Lance’s ??? odd…

Lotor’s Bayard Form

In Season 5, Episode 2: Blood Duel, Kuron gave Lotor the Black Bayard to free himself with and fight Zarkon after Zarkon double crossed them. It seems to have two forms already:

retractable grappling hook and a sword.

A bit later, Zarkon powers up and kicks Lotor, who is holding the retractable grappling hook, but in the very next frame, as he falls, he is holding his sword form:

[Season 5, Episode 2: Blood Duel, 15:53]

This is very odd, I haven’t seen an inconsistency like this at all through all of Voltron, especially not in a fight this important. All of Voltron’s animation is very high quality, so I can't believe they oversaw a mistake this obvious.

and also… How is Lotor able to activate the Black Bayard at all??? Especially when in the episode after this, the Red Bayard deactivates in Allura’s hands…

The Three Year Time Jump

In Season 7, Voltron finds out that they have been gone for three years. Pidge explains that the time slippage happened due to all the inter-dimensional jumps they did while fighting Lotor

So, everyone else, outside of the inter-reality gates, experienced three years passing, but Voltron did not, nor did Lotor, because they were all in the quintessence field. But… Coran was also outside the quintessence field… so why didn’t he experience three years passing ??

What Acxa says here doesn’t make any sense. Voltron didn’t jump between dimensions after the castle exploded, so how did three years pass for everyone else but not for Voltron, after the castle exploded?

Alteans’ shape-shifting abilities

In Season 7 episode 3, Coran uses shape-shifting abilities, even though Lotor said in season 5, episode 6 that only alteans with a special connection to alchemy could shape-shift.