Today’s hot take: Lotor killing Narti for being used as Haggar’s spy was shown for the sole fact that Lotor is going to figure out about operation Kuron and (attempt to) kill Shiro/Kuron and THAT’S what causes the rift between the trust he has with the paladins, not an active betrayal but attacking them. No matter how weird “Shiro” is acting it’s unlikely they’d want to side with Lotor over Shiro if the prince tried to kill him. And this is going to hurt all of them.
i can also say, with full confidence, the reason shiro got his TOTALLY VALID AND CUTE haircut is because haggar didn’t want this to happen when she be peeping in on them:
