18. Season One, Episode Eighteen - “Zarkon Is Dying”

Doom Log File Title:  “Zarkon’s Deathbed”

Summary:  Lotor finds out from Haggar that Zarkon is deathly ill and might not recover.  Haggar expresses her concern and sends him to get some healing ingredients and says she can help him just like she does his father, but Lotor brushes her off and tells her he has his own new witch to do his evil magic.  Sundra, Lotor’s new witch, gives him a potion that allows him to bring things to life, but rather than use it on Zarkon he uses it on the trees on Arus to form a trap for the Voltron Force.  The enchanted trees trap Allura, Nanny, and some of the castle handmaidens but Keith rescues them and they defeat the tree monster with Voltron.  Lotor escapes back to Doom with the ingredients needed to heal Zarkon but first he goes to Sundra to punish him for the failure of his potion.  He threatens to poison him, but Sundra convinces him to use it on Zarkon instead so he can finish him off and be king.  Lotor does so, but to his shock Zarkon drinks the healing potion laced with poison only to wake up stronger than ever.

Notable Doom Highlights:  The footage of Haggar doing her ritualistic spooky witch magic is pretty cool, and her fire effects would be great at parties.  Also, you get to see King Zarkon without his crown and Haggar tending to him at his bedside, which is pretty affectionate for around here.  The best is at the end though, where Zarkon points out that even if Lotor had poisoned him – which of course, he did not, as Zarkon says – Haggar reinforced him with magical strength to resist any such attempts on his life. No one plays hooky like the King!  That was an Acedmy Award-worthy performance.  Where's my Oscar?!

Notes:  This was Lotor’s first of many attempts on Zarkon’s life during the Voltron incidents.  Their relationship only gets worse from here.  It plummets like a function on a Calculus graph.  I would also like to emphasize that HE tried to kill ME first.  I would also like to note that I saw it coming a light-year away.  Among the things Lotor lacks, like respect, self-control, a job, subtlety is on the top of the list.

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