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The [Im]Perfect End to Red vs Blue
Red vs Blue Restoration is finally here! This marks the end of Red vs Blue, but the question is... Did it live up to what came before? Was it as funny as the Blood Gulch Chronicles? As epic as the Recollection? As intense as the Freelancer Saga or as satisfying as The Chorus Trilogy? Well, that's exactly what I explore in this video. If you haven't seen my previous Red vs Blue Tribute, check out "How Red vs Blue Inspired A Generation" on my channel!
In the meantime, let me know what you thought of RVB Restoration and what game, show, or movie I should discuss next!
Thanks for watching!
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  • @subjectdelta7210
    @subjectdelta7210 Годину тому

    my only real complaint is Sarge. He died running away from a blue and they buried him in the same spot as last time. his body is going to slowly sink into the cave under the bace. not to mention he might be alive. Donuts suit automatically locked when he’s close to death and muted him. Sarge could be alive, Unconscious, hurt, and slowly sinking under the bace. the first meta kept going even with the same injury and only died after drowning. i wouldn’t be surprised if they were so shocked they never took of his helmet to check his pulse

  • @MelonTartVA
    @MelonTartVA 3 години тому

    The only thing I wasn’t happy about so to restoration was try at it felt like the advertising lied to us about church coming back

  • @IntroMind
    @IntroMind 4 години тому

    Favorite RvB moment is in S10, where the crew right the Tex drones. The music just makes it

  • @bluespartan-6628
    @bluespartan-6628 19 годин тому

    Dead space

  • @thedidacthalo4167
    @thedidacthalo4167 День тому

    Hey, you asked what series you should cover next. I would LOVE to see you cover the Arkham Series

  • @agentumbra2374
    @agentumbra2374 День тому

    My thoughts on Restoration: ua-cam.com/video/yb-hKCBvA8k/v-deo.htmlsi=Fxi3TCMEHSjtrcO_

  • @stanleywhite4404
    @stanleywhite4404 День тому

    Wonderful editing style and videos for having so few on here man. Some good quality content 🤟

  • @michaeljcaboose1152
    @michaeljcaboose1152 День тому

    My favourite RvB moment is still Carolina and Epsilon confronting the director. The big bad guy they’ve built up for years, THE answer to the question “do you ever wonder why we’re here?” When they finally confront their demon, all they find is a broken man. Carolina can’t hold on to the rage she wants to feel, as it slips away from her face, all she can feel is pity. Pity for a man so broken over a lost love, he can do nothing else but wallow in it. Epsilon, however, doesn’t feel the same way. The torture, the pain, the memory, it all comes out. As he flashes between the fragments, and each fragment gets a line in his speech, we see how Epsilon mirrors the directors brokenness, but not his emptiness. The scene never fails to make me cry, it’s such an unbelievably powerful scene that it’s bringing me to tears just imagining it. Typing this out was more difficult than it ought to be, through the tears an all. But I don’t think I’d have it any other way.

  • @EndThusIAm
    @EndThusIAm День тому

    I went into RvB in an odd way. I discovered Season 2 first at Gamestop on dvd and got it just cause, then actually watched it in the correct order in time for season 3 and from there I was hooked. Sadly I'm one of those who technically dropped out before Freelancer, satisfied with Church and Tex getting trapped in the storage unit. I kept watching, but that's where it ended for me. And like many of us, it got unbearable to watch. So I watched Restoration thinking I was biting the bullet just to have closure from the original creators and honestly while it was off in a few spots, it hit enough of right notes that made me glad I watched it.

  • @3mpt7
    @3mpt7 День тому

    This season felt like it got stripped down, leaving us with the bare bones. Unlike the Halo series of the last thirteen years, there was absolutely nothing wrong with the framework of the story, or the acting, and everything actually made sense. The fight choreography was lacking, and Sarge standing in front of the door for no reason could have been done a little better, but I was genuinely floored by Tex's turnaround. I'm guessing that Caboose's earlier efforts with the memory unit in prior seasons failed because it needed more points of view. As for the voice actor--he did such a good job that I didn't notice the difference at all--except Caboose did sound slightly less stupid. I'm really astonished that, unlike most stories these days, it all works logically.

  • @holliday9247
    @holliday9247 День тому

    "If I were to put my film critic glasses on I could probably tear Restoration apart for all of its flaws but the thing is that Red vs Blue never appealed to the film critic inside us. It's just not that kind of show." For someone who made a love letter to Red vs Blue... this is... a weird take. Let me put it this way. When we refuse to watch something with our critical lens, sure we don't see the flaws but we also miss the themes. For example, Washington. Outside of the question "Why are we here" it could be argued that the other most prominent recurring theme in Red vs Blue is "iteration, and the failure to let go." This entire show began because of a man who couldn't let go. And then things kept getting worse, or continuing onwards because every version of Church kept trying to find and bring back a version of Tex. Until finally he began to put a stop to it. First in the memory unit, and then in season 10 -- a scene which Church and Tex's final scene together calls direct reference to. All of Wash's scenes in this season are related to this. To how someone else's pain has been forced onto him, how he's been made the victim of this cycle more than basically anyone else in the show, and how much he's lost as a result. Doc was actually one of the few friends Washington genuinely made. By the end of season 8, that's what the felt like. Them never having had more friendly scenes on Chorus together always felt weird to me as a result of that. Anyway: The final moments of Washington in this season all tie back to that theme... Letting go. Do we let go entirely? Or do we hold on so tight we damage ourselves entirely? Yes, it's cool that they used the Halo 3 models but look past that and hear what they're saying. "Don't let go, not entirely" "Learn from their mistakes, pull from their strength." We see everything and everyone Washington has lost, with one of his friends, Doc, having been among them. All leading to Carolina saying "Whatever we will be, we will be it together." Which also provides a bow to her arc that I never fully realized I wanted for her, but now feels like it's just... perfect. Because if The Director had just... sat down and had this EXACT conversation with a young Carolina after Allison died, and said those words to her... This show's events wouldn't have occurred. Are there mistakes Restoration made? Yes!! MANY! But let's not treat Red vs Blue like it also wasn't a show that had themes, and ideas on its mind, that it presented exceptionally well. We just need to give it the respect of putting our critic lenses on and be willing to risk seeing flaws because it means seeing themes.

    • @themeaninginbetween
      @themeaninginbetween День тому

      I see your point! What I meant was that Red vs Blue is not an art house film or something. It’s a show that always leaned more on its comedy and heart than it did on having the most critically flawless story. Certainly that doesn’t mean it didn’t have its moments with deeper themes and heartfelt events as you outlined. Also I was specifically talking about the story issues and problems with continuity in Restoration, not the rest of the show.

  • @kingofmonsters14
    @kingofmonsters14 День тому

    i prefer the Shisno Trilogy- it did a lot of character development for characters that doen't even appear here, like Donut and Sister

  • @ac3ofangels897
    @ac3ofangels897 День тому

    Hey, i wanted to thank you for making this video. I had just gotten past Sarge's death and was not feeling like continuing. I just, everything felt wrong in my mind. I thought, even with all that was crashing down around in the studio, they had lost touch with the one series that almost always managed to drag at least 1 laugh out of me every now and then. But i felt like i was forcing myself to watch this send off. And then i saw your video. I really took it in, and then i started from the beginning. And before i knew it, i was laughing again. I had that same stupid smile when some out of the box nonsense happened again and again. And i think you were right. Its not perfect. And it never had to be. Goodbyes are never perfect after all. So, thanks, for helping me say goodbye to the show properly.

  • @deathmeter1109
    @deathmeter1109 День тому

    Will you cover all the halos? Every game has its messages and themes imo

    • @themeaninginbetween
      @themeaninginbetween День тому

      I plan on it! There’s several other ideas I’ll be working on along side the halo videos, like other video games, movies, and tv shows, but I plan to continue coming back to halo because, like you said, they are so rich with meaning and metaphor!

  • @thelocaldinopimp165
    @thelocaldinopimp165 День тому

    This video reminded me how much I love Red vs Blue Thank you

  • @kingturt2112
    @kingturt2112 День тому

    Red Vs Blue is one of my main inspirations in my sense of humor and story telling, I will miss it but I'm also happy that it's finally ending and I'll keep watching and remembering it

  • @BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly

    The ending was super disappointing.😔

  • @IsPr0xy
    @IsPr0xy День тому

    It may not have been the best season but it was better and that’s good enough too me

  • @Tristan_Homewood
    @Tristan_Homewood День тому

    Make a live action red vs blue show

  • @jsapphire6940
    @jsapphire6940 День тому

    This is probably the best RVB review ever....of all time

    • @themeaninginbetween
      @themeaninginbetween День тому

      Thanks, that means a lot! I plan to make a lot more like this!

  • @user-sn6zr6wi5e
    @user-sn6zr6wi5e День тому

    Hambuger

  • @gracewhite8755
    @gracewhite8755 День тому

    Great video!

  • @Greatdictator
    @Greatdictator День тому

    That line about narrative therapy was honestly wonderfull. I feel like sappy is okay, and honestly ....sappy is something a lot of people love because thats kind of how love is, its sappy , at least if your ernest with people / your audience. Honestly looking back on the show its kind of amazing how it evolved from its early seasons quite frankly from a story perspective, but then again unlike a lot of shows it HAD TIME and popularity to keep evolving and improving which is something a lot of machinima never get. ''You just got Sarge'd '' its simple but it always reflected sarges type of humor very well lol Wonderfull video

  • @Greatdictator
    @Greatdictator День тому

    As someone who grew up with machinimas...and kinda still doing them, the internet has shown us that we can just create without needing a studio. Machinimas destruction was a huge blow to internet history. Not a lot of these creations were as lucky as Red Vs Blue, but they all contributed to a whole of making us want to expand our creativity and thats something to be cherised, tho i think thankfully thanks to fan efforts, a good chunk of stuff has been saved. But it can be hard to know, memory is a bitch like that.

  • @SkyDoesWell
    @SkyDoesWell День тому

    Burnie Burns, the writer for the series, has spoken about how they had such a low budget for this final season, I'm not surprised it wasn't a bigger ending. It wrapped up nicely, but at the same time felt like it was missing things. It had to hit plot points to tell the story, which left too much out for the characters themselves. It was a really good ending. I'm sad there'll be no more.

  • @m0urn1ng5tar5
    @m0urn1ng5tar5 2 дні тому

    As soon as the sun began to set in Blood Gulch, and the music kicked in - I was just in tears, man. Where do the years go?

  • @jonathandiaz4997
    @jonathandiaz4997 2 дні тому

    15 hours ago 😮

  • @salzwurst3026
    @salzwurst3026 2 дні тому

    A absolutely adore your content please stay like you are!

    • @themeaninginbetween
      @themeaninginbetween 2 дні тому

      I appreciate that! Definitely working on lots more to come soon!

  • @UnstoppableGaming1108
    @UnstoppableGaming1108 2 дні тому

    imma be so honest right now, the first of quite a few moments in restoration to make me tear up was when simmons was saying that his first order as red team’s new leader was discharging grif. that soft music kicked in and grif was absolutely taken aback by it, that really got me for some reason. i guess just seeing this character FINALLY getting something he wanted after all these years just really struck a chord with me, and grif deciding to stay for one last adventure just made the moment all the better :)

  • @Martin0
    @Martin0 2 дні тому

    In the end when we discover Wash is seeing and hearing things, it reveals that the Counselor was never actually at the hospital, and when you watch it again you realize the Counselor is talking directly to the audience. It is a key for unlocking this story!!

  • @MusicByAndrewHolmes
    @MusicByAndrewHolmes 2 дні тому

    Love this!

  • @BenisWenis.mp3
    @BenisWenis.mp3 2 дні тому

    14:22 I like to see this fight as the the Best parts of Leonard Church fighting the worst parts of Leonard Church. You have Tex and Carolina the best parts of him being his love and his best creation facing off against all the worst parts of him that corrupted him, His creations and mind that went too far.

  • @Mariopwnzu
    @Mariopwnzu 2 дні тому

    Restoration was far from perfect, there's plenty I'd change. But, it was exactly what it needed to be. A goodbye.

  • @SquattingxBear
    @SquattingxBear 2 дні тому

    Maybe move back from the camera just a lil bit!

  • @SilverNStuff
    @SilverNStuff 2 дні тому

    something I love about rvb is that you get to pick your own ending with it if you didn't enjoy restoration's ending then you can go back and decide how it ended you could've stopped watching after season 1, 5, 6, 8, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 and all of those would be fine endings

  • @gracewhite8755
    @gracewhite8755 2 дні тому

    I thought the pacing of this season was a little weird, but overall I really enjoyed it! I thought it was a fun way to end the series and say goodbye.

  • @windy6587
    @windy6587 2 дні тому

    Interesting followup to your tribute Honestly im glad its over, if i really wanted to connect to the show i'd just watch to 13, but this is just the ending that finishes the 15-19 era in a way i dont feel empty about those seasons anymore, they are nice

  • @brycehatfield4103
    @brycehatfield4103 2 дні тому

    Hearing the Barenaked Ladies track play really did something for me, it was super cheesy but it felt like we were really cruising down Blood Gulch Avenue one last time

    • @sgsmike9015
      @sgsmike9015 День тому

      Honestly that campfire scene was the most emotion I felt during the “season” which I equally loved and hated.

    • @BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly
      @BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly День тому

      Little disappointed they didn't use older music like the blood gulch blues, contact, or I say ohh

  • @Lokiawa
    @Lokiawa 2 дні тому

    I'll always love the moments of Tex knocking around the guys. Monty and the team back then did an amazing job helping to making Halo look great. Tbh, I have no intention in watching Restoration. Don't get me wrong, I love hearing that they brought back the character Tex to lay down more smack down one last time, but to me RvB, RT and its subsidiaries, died almost a couple or few years ago when I felt they were on the WB chopping block when multiple layoffs were occurring and then some more allegations/true facts came out about some of the leadership and some of the on screen people.

  • @inspectorwhoreacts
    @inspectorwhoreacts 2 дні тому

    I went into this season kinda not expecting a perfect finale, because IMO season 10 & 13 were the perfect finales that couldn't be topped. And i will say it didn't satisfy everything (donut really should have been there, but at least shizno gave us enough to fill that hole) But the weird thing is that the way this season ended in a simple way, it felt real, like even tho some characters didn't die... They probably won't ever see each other again, its like after high school or military, ya can split apart from close bonds kinda causally. It did feel like a mix mash of all that came before, and a final bow to the plot, and when those credits rolled my heart felt those years I'd been with the show. As you said, it being imperfect was perfect.

  • @shisn0598
    @shisn0598 2 дні тому

    I can’t pick a favorite RvB moment, there’s honestly so many great ones. The Reds and Blues coming together to fight Meta, any of Sarge’s speeches, just about any scene with Washington (my beloved), the very first 3D animated scene in season 8, and all the running gags throughout the series. But I guess if I had to pick an absolute favorite moment, it would be season 10’s finale. It just showed how much all these characters had progressed as people and as a team, and it was a great send-off for the show… until they came back and made my favorite Trilogy ever, of all time.

  • @MasterFrag91
    @MasterFrag91 2 дні тому

    My main complaint with Restoration is that it felt like there was about 30 minutes to an hour missing from it. It felt like an idea that was scoped out for a normal season-length movie (which since Reconstruction, were normally about 2 - 2 and a half hours) but the shut down of the studio forced them to scale it back massively. For a last hurrah, a final send off that people actually wanted, it wasn't bad at all. It was a lot of fun, and felt right at home with early RvB. But it still feels like it's missing a chunk. That said, with the shutdown of RT, the likely budgetary and time constraints, it's a damn fine showing for the last push of a dying company. And a far better send off for RvB than the last several seasons. It's sad that we lost Rooster Teeth, but I'm glad that, in their final moments, they created a worthy goodbye for RvB. It's a shame that RWBY probably won't get the same.

    • @themeaninginbetween
      @themeaninginbetween 2 дні тому

      I completely agree!

    • @Zer0Ab1lity
      @Zer0Ab1lity День тому

      it was confirmed on Burnie's new podcast that it was, in fact, budgetary and time constraints. he said he would have loved to put more to it, but he just didn't have the time or money.

  • @HarrySausage7
    @HarrySausage7 2 дні тому

    It was great. Im glad i was here.

  • @KrazyKaiser
    @KrazyKaiser 3 дні тому

    The Arbiter is honestly one of Keith David's best voice roles, and he's an *incredible* voice actor.

  • @jaredbryant8297
    @jaredbryant8297 4 дні тому

    Bungie, old Bungie, really focused on playing with the concepts of the hero, of destiny “luck”, and on you being a part of that marriage in storytelling That’s why Halo is compared to Marathon so much. It’s the same essential story.

  • @jaredbryant8297
    @jaredbryant8297 4 дні тому

    Thank you for making this video

  • @drakeversteeg2782
    @drakeversteeg2782 9 днів тому

    what is isle of B and I found your channel trough a video taking about every season of rvb he is called Gazpacho1

  • @drakeversteeg2782
    @drakeversteeg2782 9 днів тому

    cool editing

  • @JamesVermont
    @JamesVermont 11 днів тому

    2:39 For the record this was my favourite version of the RT website. Also, that was an absolutely fantastic video! Well done!