Why Red Vs Blue Deserves To Be Remembered
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
4:18 - Season 1
9:20 - Season 2
15:00 - Season 3
24:18 - Season 4
28:53 - Season 5
39:09 - Season 6
1:02:45 - Season 7
1:08:50 - Season 8
1:37:44 - Season 9
1:58:00 - Season 10
2:34:26 - Quick look at the spin offs
2:36:12 - Season 11
2:46:06 - Season 12
3:09:23 - Season 13
3:45:49 - Season 14?
3:48:17 - Season 15
4:03:15 - Season 16 D:
4:06:56 - Season 17
4:12:23 - Zero:(
4:21:27 - Finishing thoughts
4:22:28 - NVM RVB MOVIE
4:32:28 - Real Closing Thoughts
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All right I have been made acutely aware of various mistakes during the video I would like to clear up. Sister does get named way later I just forgot her name because it was said during season 16 when I was already in a coma watching, I called Florida a random dude as a joke to make people pay more attention when he's reintroduced at the end of season 10, and I have been made distinctly aware that church was not in Doom but in fact the game marathon
And calling Theta Beta. But you did address that, I guess. Technically, Tex is Beta.
One small correction it is pronounced del Ta not data
Sigma was not just creativity, it was also ambition. pure, unrestricted, ambition.
also, when Caboose said one of them then did what they wanted, he was talking about church.
Him going to Marathon has a double meaning with Church being blown to the past since it's the series Bungie made... in da past. Never realized that as a dumb kid but I realized it when your vid got me to sit down and rewatch the series. Love the video man.
58:01 I will say that the ending to season 6 is pretty dark
Church(alpha) had been tortured so much, he couldn’t come to the conclusion that he was an AI here and thought he was gonna survive here, only for Wash to kill him
Its still comical that sigma is just randomly voiced by elijah wood
Also holy fuck you're younger than me (has an existential crisis)
"Just saw somebody younger than me that's more talented day ruined" kind of vibe lmafo
@@just-a-guy-dat-loves-Adventure pretty much yeah
I know the feeling, I just recommended RvB to someone younger than RvB and it made me feel so old
Its crazy that the entire reason the voice filter exists is because Jason (Tucker's VA) and later Gus (Simmon's VA) literally had to phone their lines because they weren't in Austin and they just kept with it.
Yeah, the reason for the helmet muffle is because numerous characters are being VA'd thru a telephone into a mic, so Burnie chose to make everyone sound this way to make things consistent. RvB has some editing mastery that will always be remembered; I've seen someone mention the flags and the bomb with only red-Donut, Sarge, Caboose, and Flowers(?). The much more popular shocking moment that no one today will notice is that Sarge (red), Simmons (maroon), and Grif (orange?) all get in the warthog almost at the same time. That, in original Halo CE, wasn't possible; only the same team can get into the same warthog, but Bungie loved it so much they added it from Halo 2 onwards.
I absolutely adore the running joke in the Chorus Saga where each time the ship crashing is mentioned we get a scene where in some way one of the characters messes up the ship and causes it to crash, and it’s paid off way later by their antics being what caused them to survive due to the ship completely breaking apart and not being brought to the ambush spot by the tractor beam
YES! its so funny
The best part about it is that Caboose of all people seemingly did NOTHING wrong
The flag applies to the same rules as the oddball, where only blue and red teams could be on screen. That’s also the reason for Donut starting out in red armor, so he could hold the flag
Wow, thats really interesting. So that’s why it was Sarge and Caboose in S3 together at the start in the flag sequence. Both of them use the standard red or blue armor.
Red vs blue will be missed for sure. And awesome video. Thanks for the shout out!
Hey it’s you! Will you be making a RVB Restoration video? Was wondering if you’ve seen it yet
@@troqu3molasses26 I've seen it. I'm still trying to gather my thoughts on it.
Tex not being able to pick up Andy the Bomb despite lifting Shiela before was because her original body was killed and at that point she has the weaker robot body the Reds made.
The fact that that quote at the beginning is from a machinima that started like 2 decades ago and also goes so unfathomably hard will never not be both awesome and hilarious.
"Don't get too attached to-" oh York still hurts to this day. And not even his death. I'm talking about *THAT* scene. It broke my heart
NO WAY I MADE THE THUMBNAIL!
Awesome art good work!
Goated
Good job what do you want now a cookie or something wasn't money enough unless this guy pulled an Amazon and gave you vbucks
@@codepompomdude relax. Don't be an ass
@@codepompomchill bro lmao
I think Washington having a AI to help with the brain damage could have been a interesting conflict and character study
Red vs blue is a great show but the company of rooster teeth is such a cockbite
Well it's in their name
@@mercury2157 I mean they went broke got woke and now they croak and the worst part is they tell the fans if you don't like a content you can go 🖕
@itzorin600 please tell me you intentioned that pun
@@UmmNovumn nah I didn't meant to. Before seriousness rooster teeth as a company sucks I glad It got shut down
@@itzorin600 yeah I’m not disagreeing. But cockbite was a funny term of phrase in this particular circumstance :)
I really liked the paralel between Church in the trailer for Restoration and the Director at the end of season 10. Both essentially stuck in a room trying to "get it right" the Director with Tex and Church with his simulations for the reds and blues. Both done for people who they cared for and both equally sad. Goes to show that despite the things they both did and the direction their lives took they are both still the same person at their core, for better or worse.
one of the many reasons I love about restoration even though some characters have grim future or separated & weren't in the final season doesn't mean we can't create our own ending on what happens afterwards. Burnie gave us the key to write a story for these characters on how we see fit.
I mean for what it's worth even Restoration suggests that it itself could be another simulation. The only true definitive end we have is the 'final' stand on the _Staff of Charon_
@@username1660 true but since restoration is a interpretation ending you can choose which ending you want.
If people don't like restoration they can believe it's a simulation therfore season 13 canon.
If people like the final season it can be they're canon ending.
Both parties win in this situation
@@jsapphire6940 oh 100% open enough that Restoration could be a 'canoncial' end, 'just wanted to point out for the people that wanted Season 13 to be the capital 'E' End could take it as one
@@jsapphire6940I feel like it COULD be the ending, and I was in that camp for a bit, but I definitely believe it was a simulation now. After all, the final clip of the trailer has Church saying “Let’s run one more”, then it immediately cuts to the title card, lol.
Maybe that is actually how events go after they leave, though, so it could technically still be canon! Same with 15! 16-17 definitely aren’t because they don’t even fit the canon (I do really like 17 though).
I would love to read some RVB Restoration redux or directors cut in the future: flesh out the season to a full 2 or 3 hour long escapade like how Bernie really wanted, at least in written form.
20:30 He’s not in Doom, he’s actually in one of the old Marathon games by Bungies. Games that, which I should mention, delve into A.I. , cybernetic soldiers and time travel a good amount. Needless to say, Marathon was a big inspiration for Halo, so seeing Church literally go back in time to one of Bungies earlier games was pretty funny.
Also, it also adds even more credence to the theory that Church was actually intended to be an A.I., not a ghost, since Season 1-2. Besides him and Tex having the same ability as Omega to go into other peoples heads and that holograms do exist in Red vs. Blue, Church just so happening to go back in time to a game that is based around rogue A.I. adds even more evidence. Not to mention the entire time travel section orchestrated by Gary (Gamma), which showed us that Church was going through multiple simulations to try and escape the “Past”.
One interesting part of Season 2 was when Sarge ordered an air strike, and afterwards when Tucker realized that the war was a lie, Tucker got exploded by a missile when O’Malley showed up. In Season 3, when Church is trying to fix everything in the first simulation, he shoots a rocket launcher at O’Malley, only for it to blow up Tucker. What my theory is, is that Church didn’t know that the Reds had called for an air strike on Tucker, so he assumed that O’Malley had somehow shot it, only for Church himself to end up shooting the rocket at Tucker accidentally when he was in the simulation. In reality, that missile was actually the air strike done by command to kill Tucker. This led me to believe right off the bat that Church’s time traveling was actually all a simulation.
Kept up with RvB since the end of season two, Im 30 years old now and have gone back through the series atleast a dozen times and to see it all come to an end still blows my mind and I hate to see it go. "Ain't that a bitch."
Here's a few extra notes that you missed out on.
1. Some of the freelancers were part of secret experiments, whether they knew it or not. For instance, North and South Dakota were a sibling test to see what would happen if one was given better treatment than the other. This is why South always got the short end of the stick: it was to see how it affected her motivation and dynamic with North. This gets North killed, but I doubt the director ever really cared about anyone other than Carolina and Texas.
2. The Epsilon stuff in Season 9 was meant to be an altered version of the events of season 1 only, hence why Wyoming doesn't show up. As shown in some of the season 14 stuff, Epsilon's memories of Blood Gulch are based on what Caboose told him, paired with details he gleamed from the others that sort of stitched an incomplete image together. His knowledge of the events also causes it to be a "What if Church always knew he was the Alpha" type of story. Given what we see in season 14, the events we see were basically just Epsilon's last attempt at getting to Tex after multiple failed attempts, which parallels how the director's memories of her failures doomed her every time.
3. Theta's personality trait is actually Trust, which makes sense given that he was paired with North, the most laid back freelancer. The AIs Carolina got, Eta and Iota, were the Fear and Happiness, two rather odd combos for her... until you realize they were supposed to go to South and Washington. It's never specified who would've gotten each one, but given her role in the secret test, my guess is South would get Fear Eta.
4. A detail that often gets overlooked in season 10 is in Church's rant. When discussing the plan with everyone, he stands at equal height with everyone. When he gets pissed, he grows to tower over them, as a symbol of his, and by extension the director's, arrogance about being better than everyone. When he begins to regret what he says, he regresses into a smaller AI form, which represents his insecurities about being lesser than the others due to being a cheap copy of someone else.
5. People seem to forget this, but the Sigma AI was voiced by ELIJAH FUCKING WOOD in season 10. I don't even understand how they managed that, but it's cool as hell and was the catalyst for what RT got to do with RWBY and GEN:Lock later down the line.
6. In the last scene of season 10, all the visors are wrong and Caboose and Carolina have the wrong helmets. This is because Halo 4 was not out yet when season 10 was releasing. RT got early access from 343 so that they could film the final scene, but didn't have access to the multiplayer to unlock the right accessories. Caboose not having the right helmet at the start of season 11 was their attempt at preserving continuity. Bonus fun fact: the season 10 finale actually released the day before Halo 4's release, meaning that they were some of the first people to get a proper look at the game's PVP.
Sigma was voiced by WHO!?!?
@@just-a-guy-dat-loves-Adventure Yeah, that one seems to surprise quite a few people. I only got up to the start of season 13 when I posted the comment, so I'll be adding a few things to it eventually.
@@just-a-guy-dat-loves-Adventure It wouldn't let me add onto the original, so here.
7. Felix having the sword instead of Locus is actually way more important to the story than it seems. If Locus had it the whole time, it leaves a chance for Felix to have survived the fall off the communication tower. When Locus activates it, it confirms that Felix did not survive without anyone saying it outright, which is great visual storytelling.
8. They showed Sister/Kai in season 13 during Church's message because of a plot point from an earlier story. When Sarge got the message to go after Washington in season 6, only Kai and Lopez were left in the canyon. In Relocated, Lopez tells Grif that he choked her to death to win the war; her presence shows that she survived the ordeal and, in her own words, found the strangling hot.
9. When speaking to FILSS/Sheila at the console during the finale, the status update can be seen at the bottom being constantly randomized letters. If you pause it correctly, the letters become a clear message: CHURCH DIES IN THE END. You can see it in this video at 3:39:34 If you go through frame-by-frame.
10. Hargrove's office is littered with Project Freelancer "trophies." The collection includes Tex's helmet, the Epsilon recovery unit, Maine's armor, Epsilon's monitor body from seasons 7 + 8, and the Grif Shot. The pistol confuses a lot of people, but it's the magnum that Carolina left for Director Church... that he killed himself with.
11. Season 14 has some really great stuff in it. The animated episode was actually a failed pilot for an RVB animated series, one episode is a Death Battle crossover, two focus on a Project Freelancer triplets experiment, and one shows off how Vic was a normal AI that got screwed up by Flowers tripping on a power cable, jumbling up the deployment list. Plus, the Epsilon memory unit genderbend episode confirms that Church is bisexual, a play on the "gay robot" line from Caboose.
12. Jax name dropping a bunch of movies isn't meant to be funny. He's a pretentious film guy that spouts movie references to make himself cooler, which is why everyone in the show hates him. When he makes a comment about how cliche Temple's backstory is, he's shot in the leg; it's how everyone wants to react to him, but they're too nice to do it.
13. As for everyone else making a bunch of references, I think it's fine since it only happens in the recap. They've been there for a while, so they're just highlighting a few moments and leaving out the more mundane stuff. My favorite bit is Tucker and Grif starting a band to pick up chicks, only to shut it down when Carolina joins as their lead singer and ends up being terrible at it.
14. There's a theory that went around for a while that Biff (the anti-Grif) was actually Grif's father and that his girl back home was pregnant with Grif. Unfortunately, the timeline doesn't match up at all since that would mean Wash and Carolina are at least in their 40's or even 50's, which just seems wrong.
15. Caboose's lack of rage comes off as growth to me. Season 14's "how to make friends" shows that he has started to grow past needing Church around. Getting him back would be great, but it's like he says in the finale: "I know we're all gonna be okay."
16. The giant drill makes sense since they don't want to come at the UNSC from above. It being powered by a time machine actually loops back to Loco. Caboose is really good with machines and Loco takes that to its natural extreme.
17. All of the "Blues and Reds" names are plays on the OG team's names. Surge, Cronus, and Biff are similar sounding names, Loco is short for locomotive (a caboose synonym), Temple is a church synonym, Lorenzo is Italian instead of Spanish, Gene is a play on Gene Simmons, and Shelly is their Sheila replacement in the flashback. Buckey just kinda has the same "uck" sound as Tucker, but I'm not sure if there is anything more substantial there.
18. Less facts going forward, more just opinions. As someone that likes seasons 16 and 17 more than most people, I can't deny that it definitely jumped the shark. Some really nice character moments here and there, but ultimately meaningless and weird. Making Jenkins into Chrovos at the end was a really clever twist, though.
19. Another opinion: RVB Zero isn't good, but I think it could've worked if they put more time into it. If it had gotten a full twenty episodes, I think it would've turned out better. For example, the pink one being evil could've had an impact similar to Felix's turn or maybe even the Alpha reveal if we had known her for longer than four episodes. "Killing" Tucker for the sword was also dumb; at least killing Locus would make the villains look tough.
20. The Family Shatters series that followed RVB Zero is recognized by the RT staff as its own season of RVB, which makes them seasons 18 and 19. This then means that Restoration is technically season 20.
21. Seasons 15 through 19 being retconned into being Church running simulations inside of Maine's armor is brilliant. It also makes sense plotwise, since Maine's armor is Freelancer gear that allowed Church to run the sims without issue. This is also how he was able to leave all the recordings; in his last moments, he had basically decades to run all the possible scenarios.
22. Restoration was obviously meant to be an entire season, which is why certain plot details just kind of fade into the wind. Lopez is never seen again after fixing Caboose's helmet, Donut is mentioned once as an Admiral on Chorus (probably because he was the only one that stuck around), and Sister is at the convention briefly.
23. There are some references to the retconned seasons. One (the blue chick from RVB Zero) is the pilot that takes Grif away at the end and the reporter from season 15, Dylan Andrews, is the host of the panel that Meta attacks.
24. Your observation in season 3 about how Sarge sees Caboose as his son when they're together makes the fact that his last heroic act was saving him even more touching.
25. According to the RVB crew, there's a cut part of the script where Sarge's dying words are the "today is a good day to die" line, except that he trails off and dies after day.
26. The fact that nobody knows Sarge's actual name is long-term consistency. Nobody actually knows his name; I don't even think they came up with one behind the scenes.
27. Having the backup body in Blue base is actually a direct callback to the fact that they had the robots at all. The backups never being mentioned before now makes sense when you realize that Epsilon wouldn't have known about them until at least season 8, maybe even season 10. Since he hasn't been back to Blood Gulch since they originally left in season 5, he's never had an opportunity to go and check to see if they're still there.
28. Caboose actually tells Grif and Simmons what his plan is with bringing Church back, but they just assume that it doesn't work. As a bonus, they actually play the Barenaked Ladies song "Waning Moon" over the campfire scene.
29. This is notable since, and I can't believe I didn't know this until looking it up, the band's lead singer Ed Robertson loves RVB and was the VOICE OF CAPTAIN BUTCH FLOWERS AKA AGENT FLORIDA.
30. The Sigma voice is sadly not Elijah Wood in the last season; it's Miles doing a damn good impression, though.
31. Caboose being the only one to know that Tex and Church are Carolina's parents is fitting, since he's the one that completes the process of filling up the memory unit. If you recall season 8, Church said that Caboose was the only one that was allowed to remember him, since Tucker would just fuck it up. In the end, Caboose fulfilled that promise by being the one to remember him. This also makes it tragic that he's the one to finally put them down, putting him in the same spot as season 15.
32. Simmons' shotgun stand-off against Meta is a direct callback to Sarge's last stand in season eight, even down to Meta's slow march forward.
33. During the fight, Tex does several moves that reference previous fights. The big one is probably her slamming the recovery unit on Meta's chest being a callback to the punch she gave to Tucker during the season 8 fight.
33. You said that Allison and Leonard didn't get a lot of time in the unit together, but that's not the case. Given the fact that Caboose breaks it after Tucker wakes up from being exhausted, its likely that quite a few hours pass between Meta's defeat and Tucker waking up. Since time moves differently for AI (recall Church's explanation of the recordings), the two likely had decades, if not several lifetimes, to be together.
34. When thinking back on his Freelancer companions that were lost, Wyoming is oddly absent from Wash's vision, despite people like South being there that he was on worse terms with.
@@just-a-guy-dat-loves-Adventure Few more things I thought of:
1. The simulation that the Blues and Reds went through was just an exercise for the Freelancers. Carolina's presence indicates that this takes place before the season 10 flashbacks (we know it's post-9 since we see the highway chase on a screen next to The Director). It was also the simulation that ran the longest, which is why the Blood Gulch cast emulates them.
2. Texas uses the Omega voice during this flashback too, indicating that this takes place after she gets the Omega AI, which also happened between seasons.
3. Temple and Biff being on opposite teams was an oversight on The Director's end; they figured out what was going on due to enlisting together. However, their constant efforts to prevent bloodshed accidentally led to the perpetual stalemate that The Director was looking for. This is why we got those setup episodes in Season 14; this was their precursor.
4. Temple's flashback also confirms that they did not have a Doc counterpart; instead, they just had Doc. Before he worked in Blood Gulch, he was the medical officer for ALL the simulations involving red and blue soldiers across ALL of Project Freelancer.
5. Speaking of Doc, his betrayal in season 16 makes a lot of sense when you realize that the whole "remaking O'Malley in his own mind" thing was never resolved. That, paired with the Reds and Blues' reaction to him siding with Temple, actually gives a decent timeline of his mind degrading over time.
6. Caboose's whole "not being mad" thing has another factor to it: he genuinely doesn't know how to get angry. In the season 10 fight against the Tex bots, he explicitly says he can't remember how to do it. Epsilon has to use his knowledge of Omega to get him properly angry, which is why we get the "I hate taxes" line.
7. The reason why Tex is able to make Church properly in the memory unit is because she likely took the Epsilon recordings from Caboose before tossing him at Meta Tucker. Those, paired with the memories the guys gave her and the fragments she locked up, allowed her to create a default Church to be with.
8. It's a theory on my end, but it's possible that Tex and Church don't actually die when Caboose crushes the unit. Given what we've seen of the AIs in the past, it's possible that they could have been ejected from the unit and turned into "ghosts" like in the earlier seasons. I prefer them dying for real, but the idea of them peacefully giving in to the unit's destruction, only to wake up on a ridge overlooking the canyon while muttering "son of a bitch" to each other, incredibly amusing.
tldr
3:17:07 "Well, apparently they found Santa." [Cars immediately screech to a halt 😂]
“Don’t get attached to Carolina ether.”
*sniff, to late, she was my favorite.😢
umm she doesn’t die
20:30
Small correction. Church is actually blown backwards into Marathon not Doom. Marathon was the FPS that bungie made before Halo so it's a cool little reference to that.
4:04:30 Small correction.
Burnie Burns only wrote Seasons 1 - 10 and Restoration.
11 - 13 was Miles Luna, also one of the main writers on RWBY.
14 was a hodgepodge. Miles wrote the Locus/Felix backstory trilogy, Joe Nicolosi wrote the Megablocks one, etc.
15 and Shisno was Joe Nicolosi, and even though Singularity is the ending to the trilogy as far as I know Nicolosi had little to no involvement. They had a different idea they were going to do but there was some budget shenanigans involving fellow RT show gen:LOCK (something that also affected RWBY I believe, it was a mess) so Singularity is what we ended up with, and written by Jason Weight.
God I wish they gave season 18 to Jason Weight, he did such a good job tying up a trilogy he had nothing to do with, I couldn’t imagine what he could’ve done with a season all for himself
a four and a half hour long RvB video essay is exactly what i need in my life right now, thank you 🙏🏼
"It's so broken I changed its pronouns"
“Sum up the world in one sentence” 😂💀
1:53:13 "Don't say goodbye."
That line always hits hard. Especially a couple seasons later
I had stopped making my animated covers of the Blood Gulch Chronicles because I felt that I needed to let go, and move on. You made me realize that it's up to us to keep these memories alive. Thank you not just for the shoutout, but for reminding me why I'm here.
Also, holy hell that was really well edited and put together. "super talented" Man get outa here 😂
Dude I just watched it. Your reanimation was AMAZING! Keep going dude. It rocked!!
Please keep making your reanimated videos!
"Memory is the key"
19:32 I honestly believe that Caboose was part of the Spartan program but got brain damage from the enhancements since it is likely from the Halo lore that not everyone can survive the enhancement process of the Spartan program 🤔🤔🤔🤔
The timeline would work out for him to be a Spartan III but not a II. We could narrow it down by assuming Caboose would be between 18 & 22 at the start of the series which would mean he was most likely part of Beta Company like Kat and Noble Six.
@@MrPikaGammer I don't think even that makes sense, why wasn't he sent on a suicide mission with the rest of his company?
@@InitialPC I said the timeline would line up not that the theory makes perfect logical sense. I'm pretty sure Caboose is from The Moon/Luna which isn't a colony that was glassed by the Covenant and as for the reason he wasn't sent on Operation Torpedo? A mix of his intelligence and pension for shooting friendlies.
Well if Caboose happened to be one of the people who didn’t survive the process, like you said, he wouldn’t be alive
@@TheCopyNinja733 The spartan program barely had any successful candidates, those like Master Chief are the extremely lucky ones. There are two more categories one are the somewhat lucky ones they survive the surgery but ended getting brain damage which made them not qualified to be in active service which explains about Caboose strength and the other ones are the unlucky ones who didn’t survive 😰
What I believe is the most underrated joke comes from Season 17 when the gang gets their memories back after time traveling. When Caboose meets Carolina he says something like "Hey I know you, weren't you in a movie?" Then later he says "Bruce Willis."
The reason I bring this up is that when they did the Meta vs Carolina Death Battle in season 14, Caboose says "He didn't have a head under his helmet, he was a ghost the whole time. Like Bruce Willis." That's such a crazy callback to for something that could've been a random Caboose line.
I haven't seen anyone talk about this, but a big thing i like about monty's animations was that they were integrated with Halo 3's engine so well! The very first fight scene, with wash and the reds, has wash flung across the map into some explosive barrels, knocking them over. Those barrels, however, weren't animated, but made in engine! They somehow knocked over the barrels in a way that it could fit with the animation, causing a roger rabbit effect. And THEN when Wash gets up, he stumbles around a bit and knocks over a barrel, WHICH WAS ALSO IN ENGINE. Little details like that didn't make the animations feel jarring when compared to the machinima. They paid attention to map lighting, details, physics objects, etc! That reason was my exact problem with the new animations. When locust gives Freckle's brain, he's in a completely different lighting. For some episodes in the later half of the trilogy, there's an inexplicable BAR at the top of the screen whenever there's an animation. Of course, nothing will top Monty's animations, but they could have at least looked at the little details.
Restoration is a very fitting ending IMO, its not a good one, and its not the best season by far, but its fitting, had it been longer it could have been perfected I think. And its up to us to choose whether its cannon or not, I mean its hinted to maybe still be a simulation. Great video
I used to think it was like a 7, but it’s honestly like a 5.5. It has way too many glaring issues for me to think it is a good season.
Genuinely might be the third worst season, only better than 15, which is around the same rating, and 16 which is like a 4.
I thought it was good. It ties up pretty much all the loose ends.
the doc reveal, tex and church finally getting their happy ending, everyone going their separate ways. A lot could have been better but overall Shit was pretty much perfect imo
@@russian_knight yeah, especially given the budget and shutdown time limit
Just watched Restoration to the end and I was so happy Tucker got the last scene. "BOW CHICKA BYE NOW."
Watching RvB was watching Roosterteeth grow from some friends making videos to a professional studio and then zombified corporate host.
The growth in writing and voice acting, editing and all the other necessary skills.
RWBY was one of the few things I got invested in early in its life cycle and that felt like a culmination of everything they learned through this series.
Literally thank you so much for archiving RVB
RvB should be remembered for a number of reasons, but my favorites are 1. character-based comedy, such as Griff being the lazy guy, Tucker being the ladies man, Simmons being the nerd, etc, and 2. running jokes, like 401K and overtime/time and a half, "the best X ever, of all time", "Ever wonder why we're here?", etc, and how they're all remixed to be fresh when they come back.
I swear I think about "time and a half over 40 hours, time and a half and a half over 60" at least once a month.
I like this. It is nice to reminisce on the good times. And to repress memories of Zero again XD. (Also thank you for the shout out!)
I was just trying to rewatch the series earlier today, and I was gutted when I saw it was members-only. Thanks for providing a way to watch the series for anyone who wants to. Thanks a bunch!
P.S. I have that same Kirby T-shirt. I find that nifty.
2:05:45 thats florida flowers man
I was just about to type this too
It’s still funny if you apply American politics to the two sides. “Son, all I need to do is stay Red and die”
*racks shotgun*
19:55 actually, same thing with earlier when Sarge & Caboose are teamed up. FFA Slayer has a player limit, so they had to film those scenes in team slayer to have all the religious flag guys.
Watching the last season was like loosing a best friend. This show meant so much more to me than it has any right to. I showed this show to everyone who would watch it. Reluctantly my girlfriend agreed, skeptical at first, she ended up loving it. Despite watching this show long after season 13 but before restoration, she shed a tear with me over this epics closure.
Every year since i discovered this show in season 3 ive watched every season in order (up to 14). Im greiving seeing it go but the memories ive made with it are priceless. I cant wait to either tell or show my child this show when they are old enough.
With that said, after all this time we finally know why we are here....for the memories. Whether we realized it or not we watched this show together and im glad we all got to experience this gem in time.
Edit: if you made it this far, give me your favorite quote, RvB era, or favorite memory that has to do with the show. Mine is "parabola of mystery" and Revelations (second is Chorus).
i fully just noticed rewatching RVB that Maine actually speaks during the scene where the medics are coming in to help York, if you can hear it in the background he says "get off me"
I’ve been waiting for a video essay like this, I have so much love for RVB seasons 6-13 I revisit it every year. And it’s amazing that a group of friends went from making high school humor in blood gulch to telling one of the most captivating story with freelancer and chorus. Great video
Honestly thinking back RVB was one of my favorite series growing up. It had me more hooked than most cartoons i was watching. I never anticipated new episodes more than i did for RVB.
I still can't believe its over. I remember watching them before youtube was even a thing. Red vs Blue kept Halo alive during its decline for many of us. The chorus trilogy was a worthy addition to the original 10 seasons. It started to dip but we ended with the original team coming back together. I love it.
Also RIP Monty
I’d just like to say, thank you for giving this show the respect it deserves, it annoys me when people ask if I’m from the state and don’t get the reference
I will miss this show. I will miss warching it on youtube with stolen wifi back in 2008, watching the mini series, laughing when i found the easter egg in halo 3, contributing to the wiki and the rt site back before it turned into the mess that it became.
I will miss this part of my life.
Thank you for reminding me of it.
You know that comment about Wash and Meta being mirrors reminds me of the moment in season 16 i wanna say where Wash blows up in frustration regarding his brain damage and you hear a twinge of The Meta's theme
Damn that sounds really cool. shame I'll never get to hear it because I refuse to watch season 16 ever again
@@just-a-guy-dat-loves-Adventure I do not blame you
When I was rewatching the series in like 2022 I skipped season 16 because I enjoy season 17 far more just in general
But honestly Agent Washington is the highlight of Season 16
I caught that when I first watched 16 and it made me SO hyped (the only time I got elated while watching 16 😑) because I thought that was signaling a descent of Wash’s psyche, possibly mirroring him to the Meta’s loss of identity and mind
But …then it just went no where. That made me so pissed by the end of the season, because why have the Meta theme for when Wash is blowing up at his friends if it wasn’t going to lead to anything
When the cool looking video essay you got recommended turns out to be just another plot summary 😔
Chruch is actually in marathon not doom as marathon was one of bungies original games so there is no need to say that is clever joke that was well thought out, but I will say it anyway because Burnie knew what he was doing.
I literally never knew that lol
The thing with marathon is that its story is all about AI and cybernetics altering minds and in Marathon infinity reality itself, so in retrospecting it almost feels like foreshadowing. Also Marathon today is basically the template for Halo's story as well as Myth (with all of them including destiny having some kind of multiversal conection and 343 weirdly enought kept the way marathon and halo relate by having story elements that keep them tie, as the cycle of development of species and incomprehensible beings as the W'rkncacnter and the Precursors.)
PD: Also MYTH also references higher beings (most probably the same as the W'rkncacnter and the Precursors are) and is the most front and center with the idea of the cycle.
I actually liked the montage of things the group did while on the moon in season 15. Not only did MOST of the things they did feel pretty in character for the group by that point(MOST of them, the water park and stranger things reference did feel kinda weird), but they actually did have a few callbacks, like Grif's shrooms being used in the final fight, and Carolina trying to get away from being a violent person. It felt like they got up to a whole season's worth of crap off-screen in a sort of natural way.
Hey id just like to say thank you for the video, a couple of years ago i rewatched the show and all the way till around season 14-15 and i felt it was starting to have the seasonal rot and i felt that watching further might diminish my love for it, i might not have seen or known about 19s quality and what a WONDERFULL and touching send off it is, a lot of shows dont get to say ''Goodybe and thanks for the memories'' and im very gratefull for your video on it, because the summary here helped me remember why i like the show in the first place and catch me up at the same time so i could watch that final season and take it all in.
I genuenly liked your enthusiasm throughout the video and i hope you keep making videos.
OMGSH THANK YOU SM😭
1:42:07 Did you watch the miniseries RvB had? Out of Mind, Recovery One, and Relocated? Because York and Delta were first revealed in Out of Mind where Tex went off to find Wyoming; Washington, South, North (dead body), and Meta were first revealed in Recovery One and Relocated explains where Donut came back from. They're really good shorts that help lore build during the early seasons.
Edit: nevermind I'm sorry for barking lol
Honestly the ending of season 13 was one of the best endings in media I’ve seen, still sticks to me this day.
Red vs Blue fans be like “Dude, trust me. It’s get like, REALLY good after 9 hours”
I say this with love. I will greatly miss this show ❤💙
Just one note, about who was RvB's lead writer when:
Burnie was the lead writer from seasons 1-10, he also wrote one episode of season 12 (the one that explains where Church and Carolina were) a few episodes of season 14, and then he returned for the movie
After Burnie, the lead writer became Miles Luna, who had previously worked as a writer in Season 10, he stayed at his job from Seasons 10-14, and he returned to help with Season 17
After Miles, the lead writer position went to Joe Nicolosi (who wrote a few episodes of Season 14) who stayed in that position for seasons 15 and 16, but he left after the bad reception of 16. In that season he started dividing his writing responsibilities with Jason Weight (who previously worked on the PSAs) and he would stay for Season 17, becoming the lead writer at that point.
And finally, for Season 18, the lead became a man named Torrian Crawford, who previously worked on Death Battle
Thank you for this video man. I’m in my 20’s and I’m usually pretty isolated at work so longer form videos are usually just about the only thing keeping me from blowing my brains out. There is a huge lack of RvB content out there, it’s a beautiful series and a wonderful exploration of silly characters that holds a special place in my heart. This video allowed me to get through two days of my job without a bit of boredom, so thank you!
You are literally the exact audience I try and cater for. I'm happy you enjoyed it!
@@just-a-guy-dat-loves-Adventure Well I’ll be following what you do in the future! Keep it up, you’ll just keep growing with this kinda work I know it!
Season 14 is an anthology season and I think it's pretty underrated like it's just fun with some good lore moments like Locus and Felix whole backstory.
They added the voice filters in season 1 because the voice actor for Simmons lived in Puerto Rico at the time and did his line reads over the phone. They added the filter to everyone else so that everyone matched Simmons
You’re a hero for saving it every episode!
Thanks for making this! A proper love letter to an excellent series!
One factual error I noticed here was you mentioning that Burnie Burns was the main RvB writer up until season 16, which is false. He was the main writer and director until season 10 and was then swapped out with Miles Luna who helmed season 11-13 and became the showrunner. Then season 14 had multiple different writers and directors which was used as a sort of recruitment process to see who best could handle the characters. The position was then given to Joe Nicolosi who wrote and directed season 15 as well as being co writing and directing season 16. Season 17 was then written by Jason Weight who was the co writer of season 16
God I need to fucking touch grass
Red vs blue was the GOAT
Edit: I realized Red vs Blue was on netflix for a while
My dude, thank you for giving me access to my childhood memories, archived all the freaking seasons, that's some big stuff man! Thanks again :)
Thanks for making this video, you deserve all the interactions
I’m really happy this video exists. Thank you for the time and effort it must’ve taken to make this :,)
Man i love this series. RVB was so darn awesome and so to was this video. A part of me is happy and sad to see it end. Your work on this was fantastic. So until i watch RVB again and notice a new detail or some joke i didn't remember, Perhaps the next time around.
Commenting for the algorithm, because this was an amazing retrospective for a series I have loved since my teenage years. Keep up the great work!!!!
THANK YOU😭
Restoration gave me something I craved ever since the start of the entire Series, Agent Texas finally getting a win. Agent Texas is my favorite character in the franchise, not just because she's a badass. But the fact she's a complete badass but no matter what she does she is designed to fail. Failure is her fate. No matter how far she gets, no matter how hard she tries, she is doomed to fail. Seeing her finally fight and win was just the best thing Rooster Teeth could have done when bringing her back. They did it in such a well-written way too. She's a tragedy that finally got a happy ending, and her arc in the series is just filled me with hope as she finally took down the Meta.
20:20 Marathon, not DOOM, Marathon was a DOOM-like made by Bungie. (I notice others have said the same, so, sorry for a dogpile.
Thanks very much for this btw, I've seen plenty of videos going on a bout how good RvB was, but none do it as well as yours. Was quite the fun watch as well with how you paced it & had fun while doing it. RvB really was formative to me, and obviously most of us, really felt special beyond words. Just a culmination of talent, friendships and passion. It'll take a long time to forget this.
I love RvB up to season 14 (cus I thought even tho some episodes were mid, it still was a nice collection of different scenarios and felt like one last gift for fans of the show, like a celebration or something. A perfect way to cap off the show…. And then they made more.) But, I just wanted to share that I had this video on as background noise while I was trying to beat Manus at SL1, and after many hours and attempts, I finally did it, and I’m gonna thank you and your video for making that happen. You’re an awesome person and I can’t wait to watch the rest!
I’ll remember. I’ll always remember.
I pride myself in my skill at fighting games. I practice every day. I don’t take days off, and I never let up. The reason I picked this game up, the reason I use active camo, the reason I fight to get better is because of this show. These characters. Carolina, Washington, and their friends inspired me to try. When that show came out, I couldn’t even throw my grenades properly. Today, i practice against three spartans at once, just like Tex. North, Maine, everyone. Without them, I wouldn’t be able to do any of this. I never wonder why I’m here. They’re the reason I’m here.
I was friends with a couple of the voice actors on Xbox. They were really cool people
It really is absurd that RVB works considering how much they had to break the rule of show don’t tell. Truly a testament to the dialogue
30:24 Ive had this whole scene set as my ringtone for years
Imagine they put the whole box set into the National Movie Archive😂, now thats REMEMBERED
I kinda want to petition that now
Sometimes when I’m feeling cheeky or just need cheering up, I’ll shout “yeah, suck it blues!” It gets weird looks sometimes but it will usually do the trick.
Yell that during a political rally
Love this show, and I’m on my like 4th or 5th rewatch rn (thanks for the link to the RT archive! I was watching on the RT website, that got killed, then on the Internet Archive but it’s been really slow to load, and it looks like the RT archive will be much more convenient), I’m halfway through Season 8. Loved the deep dive, and the many comments about the music has made me want to go in and listen to it all. I’m just staring to DM my first DND campaign and I’m 100% using Tex’s theme in a boss fight.
It is actually insane how good (at least season 6-13) of Red Vs Blue. It actually had very good themes, monologues(Director season 6, Church season 8,9),very impressive side characters (Carolina, Washington), and some of the most emotional scenes ever (I forget You, Director’s conclusion). It is genuinely probably in my t5 media ever.
this was a crazy good watch made me nostalgic!
I’ve watched this whole video over like 4 days and just realized you only have about 2k subs, that’s not fair for this quality, keep up the content man
Your pronunciation of epitome speaks to me so directly lol. Definitely have me an epiphany
Wonder video man!!!
I use rhe last stand shot from season 13 as a background to this day
Thank you
This was an amazing hit of nostalgia having watched in highschool up to lile season 10
Beautiful video
They kinda help show people can make content on internet and with that inspiration for others to do the same
4:04:30 Miles wrote the chorus trilogy
Miles did an amazing job on the chorus trilogy sometimes writers can have a few hiccups
@@xavierpeterson7139miles didnt write after chorus it was some guy called joe i think
@@WhitenameI can say you are correct about the chorus trilogy stuff however I can’t help you in the writer who did whatever came after
@@Whitename Miles helped writing season 17 because Joe Nicolosi left after season 16 (probably because of the backlash) but he had written an outline. But i think most of the scripting was really done by Jason Weight (who also wrote season 16 and who many people believe wrote the best parts of that season) but Miles helped out a lot.
@@NobleCaboose117 to make a long story short, miles was in charge of The Chorus Trilogy after that there were a bunch of different writers because Season 14 was an anthology (and unnofficially a way to get a new showrunner) because they didn't know what to do post chorus, after that Joe Nichololosi at least did the first season of The Shisno Paradox, beyond that I have no clue beyond Burnie coming back for Restoration to end the series.
"I'm as old as this fight scene" 💀
Also you should watch Arby n' The Chief, the evolution that went through is almost as striking as RvB's
Ah good Ole Jon graham
You are such a legend dude for having the episodes on the 'RT Archive'. You earn my sub and enjoying the review so far! :)
An amazing love letter to rvb... Made me watch the movie, made me cry, made me reminisce. Just so much love to them and will miss them
Great video
This might be the greatest video ever made
...of all time
I’ll keep this in mind…very good
I remember getting into RvB simply because some British dude was reacting to the series over a decade ago, and he was also reacting to other stuff I liked, so I decided to give RvB a shot. I’M GLAD I DID.
Granted, I stopped once I got done with Season 15. As far as I was concerned, I got my answer for the Season 13 cliffhanger, and I just didn’t feel like watching it anymore.
Then Restoration came out. I watched that movie mostly out of obligation to a show I hold so near and dear to my heart. And it’s just okay, with a rushed as hell first half and a less rushed second half. The ending nearly brought me to tears though, simply by giving that feeling of being over. It was done.
I will never forget this show.
I loved the dyslexia getting more prominent as time went on it was very relatable 🤣
U are a god for perserving all of this for free thank you
Sisters Name is Kaikaina Grif, easily missed as its only actually spoken twice in the series, once in season 15, and the other in Restoration. both by Dylan andrews.
3 times actually wash call her kai whenever he was in the memory fear thing and is loading the hydra for a final stand in season 17
@@wordlesslfiddling good to know, forgot about that one.
Season 15 is a real Cars 3 scenario
They tried to add very important plot points and it still ends up just ok
Epsilons speech at 2:24:20 still gives me chills after all these years, i think its how all the fragments join in.
RvB was my childhood i remember being hyped to watch every episode each week during the chorus saga