27. Season One, Episode Twenty Seven - “The Green Medusa”

Doom Log File Title:  “The Medusa Robeast Experiment”

Summary:  Lotor and Mogor are on planet Medusa looking for robeast subjects and find one of the few still-conscious Medusans ripe for the kidnapping.  After Lotor makes a quip about angry redheads being something to look out for (maybe this is the real reason he shoots down Princess Corral a few incidents later?) they nab her and take her back to the arena to perform as a robeast.  Zarkon’s not too impressed at first, until she gets pissed, sprouts venomous snakes from her head, and changes her opponents to stone.  One of the greatest robeast attacks, and it’s one Hagar didn’t use her magic to make.  Just wanted to point that out, so everybody knows what I’m paying her for.  Not much.  Next thing you know they’re off to Arus to get the Voltron force stoned.  A battle with the lions ensues, and in the middle of it Pidge gets knocked out of his lion.  The robeast grabs him and runs off with him, but unfortunately instead of eating or killing him, her maternal instincts kick in and she treats him like one of her young, eventually going so far as to turn on us to defend him.  When it becomes clear that Haggar’s motivational speech on insect behavior doesn’t change the fact that the Medusan robeast was a flop, Haggar attacks her and the Medusan changes back to her original form with some serious injuries while Lotor deploys a backup robeast to mop up.  The Medusan makes one last stand running Pidge back to his lion to join his team so he can form Voltron with them, but she drops on the way.  Unfortunately Pidge still makes it back and Voltron wins again, sending Lotor home in another depressing defeat.

Notable Doom Highlights:  Haggar gives an impressive little schpiel about bugs playing with their prey to sell Lotor on the fact that her robeast doesn’t suck.  After this, a royal decree was issued barring her from making any more speeches.  I signed that lickety split.

Notes:  The GA has an interesting take on this incident in which all the clearly dead Medusans were just knocked out, and that the Doom ship flying over the countryside had nothing to do with it.  They also had a unique interpretation of the facts (which here on Doom is colloquially known as “bullshit”) stating that Anga (the Medusan) didn’t bite it while rushing Pidge home.  Uh, guys, we can see the bloody footprints and see her drop dead.  Next time you might want to edit out the soggy red footprints if you’re going to splice in stock footage of Coran saying how wonderful it is that she went home to recover later on.  Also I’d like to point out that it seems just wearing green is enough to convince these Medusans that you’re one of them.  Makes you wonder what would have happened if Mogor got up close and personal to one of those things – maybe ol’ Anga would have found herself a new boyfriend.

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