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As they tired the Indian bowlers out on a tricky pitch on Day 5, Ian Chappell, a former captain in the Border mould, would say on commentary that what Australian crowds look for in their team is a show of guts and gumption, even if they end up losing. By keeping the Indians on the field for nearly the entire day and coming within 31 runs of an unlikely win, Paine's Australian team had certainly done that. They didn't fold like India did on the fourth evening or the fifth morning in Perth. Border's team went seven series without a win in the 80s, before they turned the corner.

But never did the Aussies turn their backs on him or his young, determined outfit. Border never let his players give their fans a reason to do so. Border's Australian team lost matches very often, but they never let their collective pride be compromised. They never gave up, and earned the reputation of being the tough-as-nails Aussies. It was under Border that the 'take no prisoners' culture of Australian cricket was born -- though not to be mistaken with the "win at all costs" attitude that would eventually lead to the Cape Town fiasco and the subsequent need for Australian cricket to look into the mirror.

The new Perth Stadium's maiden Test was Australia's fifth under Paine, the fourth in the new era, the second with regards to winning back their fans. And they showed that they can just not play their cricket within the lines drawn for them, but beat the best Test side in the world while at it too. It was a good toss to win, and the pitch had enough in it to keep Australia's fearsome bowling attack interested throughout. None of their batsmen got a big score but they did do enough to keep their team ahead at all times in the match.

They were tested like few Aussie batting line-ups have been at home by an inspired Indian pace attack and they survived, led by captain Paine on the fourth evening. The lead wasn't still a substantial one when he walked out to bat. But despite having come into the game with a sore finger, he battled like his life depended on it and he pulled his team through. It took an unplayable delivery to finally dislodge him. Kohli was too, at times literally, from behind the stumps on both ends.

It was perhaps Kohli's way of testing out how the new Aussie captain would respond to being on the other side of the fence in terms of being verbally challenged. While Paine didn't take a step back, he gave it back to his counterpart without ever crossing the line drawn in the sand in this present era of Australian cricket, without ever slipping up or even coming close to it. There were enough provocation for him to do so. But by being unassumingly tough, he won both the mind games and the bragging rights at the end of the day. His unfussy reaction at Kohli's dismissal in the second innings as compared to the ebullience shown by his opposite number went a long way in sealing his victory on that front.

We know our best cricket is played when we put emotion aside, or most of it, and just concentrate on skill. Having said that there are times when you have to get involved, you have to stick up for your mates and I think we are finding a really good balance in that sense. I'm really happy with the way we are going about it. It's my role as captain to make sure we are staying on track. We know what works for this team, for me it is about making sure we keep going down that path," he would later say during the press conference. You could make out that Paine had figured out that Kohli gets motivated by indulging in verbals and banter with the opposition.

While they seemed very intent on not agitating him while he was batting, to avoid giving the world's best batsman any added motivation to keep them at bay, Paine made sure that he got into the "playing on emotion" Indian skipper's head whenever he thought the time was right, and he did so very successfully. The clean-up on Tuesday morning was very swift, but except a loud yelp in delight, there was no overt show of emotion from Paine or the rest of his team.

He did share a very exuberant high-five with coach Justin Langer but then the rest of the afternoon was spent with the local Aussie cricketers, the Marsh brothers in particular, sharing some fun moments with their families. Border would write in his book about how he wasn't a "natural captain" and about being disappointed in the "circumstances" leading to his appointment. Spare a thought for Paine then. This cheap, cowardly ending that I have seen almost no one enjoy.

Shiro loves to fly, loves to live, and yet they grounded him on earth and made him into exactly as you said, a househusband with no desires of something more. DW and the crew at Voltron took what could have been amazing and then threw it in the trash to try and seem progressive. They failed and destroyed seven seasons of wonderful character growth. All Shiro needs to be happy is bake apple pies for his no name husband. You are giving them way too much credit for Adam.

Thank you for this article so, so much. You explained everything thoroughly and fairly in a way I have been too upset to. I only pulled myself together by hoping the leaks were fake. I have trusted and supported this show for two years throughout the hardest points in my life—it helped me when my father died unexpectedly at the beginning of this year. And all of that trust and hope and love is gone.

I feel so betrayed and humiliated. Shiro, who left his relationship with Adam to go on the Kerberos mission? Shiro, who suffered PTSD and yet used those painful flashbacks to help the team strategize in seasons 1 and 2? Shiro, who flew without food or fuel for seven days to reach the team in season 3? Thank you for this article. If you try to argue that because Adam had died. Well so did many other things. For example the many universes, Adam and Two planets. Um sadly, no its not. Its the communication ex machina guy in episode 5.

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I honestly would have been happy for them if we had even a shred of actual interaction, some kind of development. I feel like I watched a turkish drama where they gave away a child in a forced arranged marriage.

Enjoying the rest of what the season had to offer. Not only did they throw together a romance for Shiro, but they did the same thing with Allurance. Allurance had no romantic buildup until a random blush from her half way through s7. Then when Lance asked her out she had to be convinced to go. Gotte disagree, Lance had feelings for Allura since season 1, and it was hinted big time since season 7 that Allura liked him back. I was defending some of the decisions that was made in s7 as up until then they had been doing an OK job.

Then s8 happened and I was utterly disappointed in what they did to everyone. It felt rushed and disjointed and the ending was a tacked on PR stunt and they even handled that as an after thought. All the characters deserved better and the fans, even though I still think the fandom is one of the worse, deserved a little better than that. They told the fans one thing and did another. I hope DW learns from this mistake and do better. The writers, some of the animators and the directors were not only getting hate mail but also death treats by fans if they did not make certain popular pairings cannon in the story line.

He have up a relationship that could have been a happy and supportive one to go and do something he felt was meaningful and worthy of his life that was being cut too short by his body failing in him. We were told Shiro was HAPPY flying, he dreamed of exploring the vast space, are you really telling me all his drive came from his illness?

And without that just wanted a guy?

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No one else ended in a relationship, except Shiro, and they reduced his happiness to being in a relationship. Everyone else had a fulfilling path but Shiro, the only gay character found a relationship. It was incredibly disappointing to me.

I would have loved to see some development between Shiro and the man he marries but we get none, not even a conversation. I would agree if it was a start, with what other shows have done is not even a to middle, we have akready seen gay relationships develop over the course of a kids tv series, they do not get kudos for a pasted scene they ordered like a month before they relased the show.

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I agree with Leela. You see, the EPs did not want to add the epilogue in the first place nor was it their idea, they were forced to by DW because of the Adam backlash to make DW look good. The epilogue boils down to being a Dreamworks PR stunt and nothing more. We have seen gay relationships develop over the course of a story. The same should go for here. The series would be far better off without it. We, as queer people, should receive far better representation then that.

I dont care too much about the shipping because so many other things went wrong in terms of writing but why didnt they just let Shiro marry Keith or something? Cause those two had the strongest relationship out of all the paladins heck that was even stated in the show it self in one scene. Awesome article, with some very good points. But instead they married him off to a rando he never even interacted with and made Shiro and Keith behave like distant work acquaintances at best the entire season, despite 7 previous seasons of their relationship and love for each other strengthening.

They horribly botched what could have been a very positive ending. A lot of people would rather pander to networks as large as this. What I am upset about, is the inequality so glaringly obvious in the show. Maybe if this was , it would be understandable. It was a different and oppressive time then. However it feels like this was a huge step back. Why are the excuses of having lgbtq relationships the same one that was said about interracial relationships in the media during the 80s? I know that a lot of countries are blind and ignorant about same-sex relationships and other orientation relationships.

Other shows have done it, they braved it, and they are breaking ceilings. Even though, we have children that have same-sex parents that could be watching the show… well if they were interested still after season 3. Oh but hey… They can show a burnt corpse, child abuse, genocide, violence, physical violence, gun violence… even space politics that borders hidden agendas that became more complicated further into the season…. Having them talking or flirting or interaction…. After being conditioned most of our Lives to be in secret and have to search for little gestures and hints that gave a nod to representation.

We grew up with Dumbledore being gay but never shown… just told in passing outside the show. It was always something of a secret if they were….

Is this our car?

Then when we ask publicly. When are we going to stop looking for little hidden gestures and hints and whispers in secrets or told outside the circle, just so we can feel as if we were represented? Why when we hope to be part of a show… they tell us we are… but not too much.

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How many times are we going to be treated differently? Because some countries would rather see us killed than be beloved? Or being open can get us killed? And you wonder why we look for Clues?

They use Shiro as a PR stunt. Or maybe it was just a last-minute slap on so they could be featured on Entertainment Tonight and GQ and the entertainment industry, as a breakthrough?

So they can be hailed as Heroes and wave a rainbow flag? Yet still be appealing to the folks at Fox News? A lot of people say to me, why do you look for hints? Well, what are we supposed to do? The entertainment media tells us on the side, yeah this guy is gay yeah this might happen, hint hint, elbow nudge. Two girls or guys kissing? Let me ask this… apply the same treatment to any other characteristics… and how does it seem?

As much as Dreamworks mishandled the situation, considering the circumstances, having Shiro get a happy ending with a husband was the best thing they could have done. Besides, the last thing the audience sees before the credits roll is the first gay male kiss in Animation. That has to count for something. I have a feeling that the creators might make a spin off or at least give us more details about Shiro and his new husband his name is Curtis, btw. He appeared in the background of season 8 a bunch.

LM came out and said that they never planned out that epilogue and even the actors or even the Studio Mir directors had no clue of its existence. As I mentioned in my other comment, Random Husband was a last minute addition. The only time we ever see him with anything that could be seen as a Shiro moment was during Clear Day, and they forgot to delete the animation where Random Husband was actually hanging out with the people from the Garrison.

I put much less thought into it than that. He clearly marries one of his subordinates on the Atlas whom he has no dialog with. Considering your comments about it being inappropriate for him to fraternize with anyone, how is this acceptable? Seriously this is a lot of make believe for the audience to come up with to justify nothing.

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