#RvB the recollection

[carbonateddrinks]

“And I mean, hell. If you’re have to live the rest of your life in a memory… ya might as well make it a good one.”

#RvB #Red vs Blue #red vs blue the recollection #RvB the recollection #rvb church #guess who finished season 3 #no spoilers for project freelancer btw I’m gonna bawl my eyes out and then watch it #I am so glad im going in this blind #like yeah. some of it didn’t age well but dear GOD this was so good #AND THE FIGHT SCENES???? TEXAS KICKING ASS??? #she was making sure griff was the last of his legacy dear god #AND THE GLACIER BOMB TRAP SCENE MADE ME LOOSE MY SHIT she is my favorite #it’s moments like this that make me proud to be a Texan #god. and. just everything. SARGE’S DAMN SPEEECH i was so convinced he was going to die and I was gonna lose it. #the griff death fake out gave me a heart attack. AND SIMMON’S REACTION TOO LIKE BRO WAS SAD #AND. GOD. HE (church) REALLY DOES CARE. HE’S WILLING TO SPEND ETERNITY WITH THESE GUYS WHILE WAITING FOR TEX. ur honor im. emotional

[justtkatt]

May I present

#rvb #red vs blue #just katts art #i thought about it after my s17 rewatch #guys please its a valid ship trust me #rvb donut #rvb doc #rvb wash #agent washington #like cmon s17 has alot of washnut alr #and then still has some docnut #and ik docwash is a thing from recollection #what if they all started dating each other #THEY WOULD HEAL WASH #DO YOU SEE MY VISION

[smilysstuff]

You cannot deny deez nuts.

#rvb #red vs blue #drawing #memery #face headcannon #red vs blue art #rvb washington #rvb church #Man I miss drawing these blorbos #Also I'm partially back from the dead #Recollection s6

[texas-hates-taxes-too]

On the note of Maine... I always kinda liked the idea that post ai meta was actually Maine, and that he liked working with wash again, would've been happy to keep doing that. If it wasnt clear that Wash refused to acknowledge him as Maine. Instead Wash saw him as a empty husk left over from the meta and Maine didnt like that so eventually he went "fuck it, I'll do my own thing"

#rvb #additionally i think. part of wash knew. but i also think it was easier to pretend #so he didnt have to acknowledge all the horrible things Maine had done #and i think when carolina had the events of the recollection told to her she didn't ever doubt it was Maine #idk just some thoughts

[bornonthebob]

Not even sure what the situation is with the Red vs. Blue fandom on here nowadays (my last time as an active part of that was in 2016) but I figure if there’s anyone around, they’ll dig this thing I made:

A 46-minute celebration of the music of Red vs. Blue, in the form of a mega-compilation of clips from seasons 1-13—set to a massive medley of themes, leitmotifs, and other musical cues.

There is also a VFX breakdown video for the original portions, if you wanted to feel insane for eight uninterrupted minutes with how much unnecessary work I did.

There are currently two CC options—regular English captions for subtitles and lyrics, and “music citation” captions, in case there was a song you don’t recognize and felt like hunting down. I hope that’s helpful.

Enjoy!

#red vs. blue #red vs queue #red vs blue #rvb #trocadero #roses are red violets are blue #ghosts that linger #flying by wire #jeff williams #david levy #soundtrack #musical score #blood gulch chronicles #blood gulch blues #recollection trilogy #freelancer saga #chorus trilogy #rvb church #rvb tex #rvb tucker #rvb grif #rvb caboose #rvb carolina #rvb wash #project freelancer #rvb sarge #rvb simmons #rvb meta #monty oum #animation

[louiseazy]

Red vs Blue Swear Count Season 8

104 swear in total this season

Grif was the first to swear and last

swear words used :

boner was used once; dick twice; crap 4 times; bitch 8 times; ass 10; damn 16; shit 24; and fuck was most used with 40

Fun Fact: first and last swear word said was damn

Ranks

last place non-swearers Caboose/meta/ unnamed extras & aliens*(if don't count shisno)

9th is FLISS with 1

8th is Doc with 2

7th is Texas with 3

6th is Washington with 4

5th is Sarge with 7

4th is Epsilon with 15

3rd place is Simmons with 16

2nd place is Grif with 22

1st place is Tucker with 34

#red vs blue #rvb swear count #agent texas #church #rvb sarge #dexter grif #lavernius tucker #red vs blue season 8 #rvb #red vs blue revelations #red vs blue recollections #washington #fliss #sarge rvb #frank doc dufresne #richard simmons #michael j caboose #meta #aliens #halo

[clearlyaginger]

#i might do a poll with individual seasons idk how many choices tumblr lets you put on here #rvb #red #vs #blue #red vs blue #grif #sarge #simmons #donut #lopez #doc #sister #tucker #church #caboose #cabose #lol #washington #carolina #agent carolina #agent washington #locus #felix #tex #freelancer #project freelancer #roosterteeth #animation #halo

[high-voltage-rat]

Actually I'm still thinking about it. Another interesting way in which RvB is anti-war is the way that the Director fills the role of a villain and antagonist (especially in the Recollections trilogy, where he's a faceless villain we never see but is responsible for everything that happens).

In his memos to the Chairman, the Director emphasizes his sense of duty and obligation to the military- he becomes irate for the first time when he feels that it's being implied that he was derelict in his duty... or that the work he did out of that duty is being criticized for being against the military's interests. He also talks about Allison's death in a way I find... interesting.

"You see; I never had the chance to serve in battle. Nor did fate provide me the opportunity to sacrifice myself for humanity as it did for so many others in the Great War. Someone extremely dear to me was lost very early in my life. My mind has always plagued me with the question: If the choice had been placed in my hands, could I have saved her? [...] But, given the events of these past few weeks, I feel confident that had I been given the chance, I would have made those sacrifices myself... Had I only the chance."

The idea of sacrifice is central to the way he talks about his wife's loss, to the way he talks about the war in general. He talks of sacrifice with a sense of veneration- that it's something he aspires to do, that he longs for. There's a few ways we can interpret "I would have made those sacrifices myself"...

-That in Allison's place, he thinks he would have laid down his life too.

-That if given the chance, he would have given his life to save hers.

But most interestingly...

-That he would have sacrificed Allison's life for the continued survival of humanity, if that was what duty called for.

...And personally, I think all 3 are true.

In most war media, the Director's perspective on sacrifice is very common. Sacrifice is glorious and heroic- to die in battle is an honour- and it's the only way to ensure the group you serve survives. This is a tool of propaganda- nobody wants to go to war just for the sake of it, you have to give them a reason that the risk of dying or being permanently disabled isn't just acceptable, but desirable. Beyond that, most people don't want to do things they think are immoral- you have to convince them it's important, a necessary lesser evil. You teach them to sacrifice their morals, too.

The way they train soldiers to follow orders and to kill, is to convince them that they, and the people around them, and the people they care about, will all die if they don't. It's drilled into your head from day one. It's the way they ensure their commanding officers won't shy away from sending their men off to die. The message is constant- sacrifice is your duty, and duty ensures your people's survival.

In the Director's eyes, the damage Project Freelancer caused was his sacrifice. He never got the opportunity to sacrifice himself during the war- so he sacrificed others, as military brass do. The Freelancers- including his daughter. The countless sim troopers. Any people he considered "collateral damage" on missions. And when the opportunity to do so presented itself, he sacrificed a copy of himself- Alpha- and he sacrificed a copy of Allison- Tex.

The very thing that derailed his life- the loss of his wife- he made it happen again. He put her copy in dangerous situations, let her exist in the position of constant repeated failure, created the circumstances that would eventually lead to her death. He put their daughter in deadly situations that nearly killed her repeatedly, provided her with impossible expectations leading to self-destructive behaviours in the name of duty, implanted her with two AI knowing they could cause her permanent harm. He was confident he "would have made those sacrifices himself" because he did.

The Director is the embodiment of the military war machine. As an antagonist, he is a warning against buying into the glorification of sacrifice. He's a condemnation of the idea that one should be willing to do anything to win a war- that duty to the military is the thing that ensures survival... All the messages that are pushed to ensure recruitment and obedience of soldiers.

He's a reminder that swallowing the propaganda leads to you doing terrible things... and in the end, you're a broken man left mourning the losses that you suffered even as you repeated them, convinced that it was all necessary.

#late nights with ali #ali watches rvb #not video games #rvb #red vs blue #leonard church #the director #director rvb #idk why I'm so fixated on thinking about the anti-war interpretation of rvb right now but I'm apparently going ham #it's just so fucking. wild to me. listening to the director's messages in S6 always has me thinking 'oh man this guy ate the propaganda up' #the OPPORTUNITY to sacrifice yourself??? homedog you sound like the kid in high school who brags he's joining the army as soon as he's 18 #to be clear: a lot of my thoughts on this stem from the fact that I come from a military family. I spend a lot of time with people who... #...bought in to the military propaganda and indoctrination. I see an amplified version of their perspectives reflected in the director. #to the military man sacrifice is the highest calling. sacrifice of your life. sacrifice of your morals. sacrifice of your wellbeing. #the things the director did were all in line with that fucked-up form of sacrifice. #and that they're portrayed for the evil they are is an important protest against the war machine's messaging.

[sodium-chloride-blog]

Thought I’d share some of my thought process behind my blue team face hc’s since so many of you seemed to like it so much

I’m absolutely biased since Church is by far my favorite (if that wasn’t obvious enough already), so he probably had the most thought put into his design.

According to the ultimate fanbook, the Director got in a fight with another private when he was in basic training who apparently broke his nose, up until Allison beat up the other guy. It’s not as noticeable in the hc sketches but in most art of Church I try to keep a small bump in the nose because of that. I just thought it was a cool nod to how Church is based on the Director.

Honestly I just can’t help but agree with the combination of glasses, black spiky hair, and goatee as the most widely-agreed upon design for Church. Like yeah, that’s what that crusty screaming blue guy would look like 👍

Compared to Tucker and Caboose, he goes through the least amount of drastic changes, somewhat due to the fact that he isn’t in a human body for very long. I like to think Church in his original AI form resembled a younger Director, maybe in his 20′s or 30′s, and the body they picked for him later just needed to look similar enough that the Alpha AI wouldn’t question it. It’s not exact, finding a perfect match is probably impossible, but I like to think poor Private Jimmy just happened to look enough like a younger Director that he ended up the Alpha AI’s host.

Seeing as Epsilon is based on an AI who’s based on a person, it made sense to me that the details got muddled somewhere down the line like a game of telephone. Since he’s only a fragment, the details aren’t as precise as they were on Alpha Church, hence more straight edges (like a model with less polygons).

Tucker was by far the most fun to work on, honestly. The fandom seems a little more divided on how he should look, but that just gave me more ideas to work with.

I like the idea that all 3 of them started off with shorter, ‘military-approved’ length haircuts which grew out as rvb went on.

Can’t forget Florida’s comment about Tucker’s ‘metrosexual good looks’

After the BGC and Tucker went on to become an ambassador, I imagine he got more confident with his energy sword and himself as a soldier. He’s got a few scars, a little stubble, and he’s grown up a bit, but he’s still good ol’ Tucker. His hair kind of worked perfectly for me to illustrate how he grows and develops as a person, for better and for worse.

In The Recollection Trilogy, it’s grown out a bit, but Tucker still keeps his hair neat and up in a ponytail. He’s still figuring shit out, but he’s doing well for himself.

Then the Chorus Trilogy comes along and BAM, hit ‘em with the depression. Some more facial hair, another piercing, a few more scars, but mostly the eyebags and his hair growing out more. First Epsilon leaving with Carolina, then losing Wash, Tucker had to balance the sudden responsibility of becoming captain to the lieutenants on Chorus along with the stress of losing his friends. He was never the leader, Church was always around 'to take the blame when shit went wrong’, and then Wash took his place. A ton of responsibility is suddenly thrust onto Tucker (bow chika bow wow), and I wanted to illustrate visually that he’s NOT taking it well at ALL.

Not only did his hair get longer, but it’s more disheveled now, hanging lower and not as neat anymore as he struggles to keep everything together.

Finally though, I like to think he eventually felt worthy enough as a soldier, a leader, and as a warrior to shave the energy sword symbol into his hair. I’ve seen a ton of fantastic art where people gave him that, and I loved it, but to me it felt almost like a sign of honor, something that he didn’t feel he was ready for until later into the Chorus trilogy when he’d start getting his foothold and regaining his confidence. Eventually he felt he was ready as he truly became a warrior deserving of the symbol.

Caboose was probably the hardest to pin down. There’s a ton of variation in designs, and I don’t think a single design has really become the most agreed-upon. It took some time to think of a design that, at least to me, felt like it matched his voice and personality.

Just like Church and Tucker, I gave him a shorter haircut for his BGC era when he was still a rookie. I had to ensure he looked friendly enough, so after a little searching around for ideas I settled on curly hair. I imagine he’d probably be a brunette. Real warm vibe.

Shoutout to @picz for the idea to give him freckles, outstanding move.

Of course during the Recollection Trilogy his hair grows out like it does for Tucker since they’re... Not really in the army anymore...? They’re sorta... Doing their own thing, so I imagine no one’s sticking to army protocols for hair length anymore (Except Sarge, obviously. Might make some red team face hc’s sometime too....)

I get the impression Caboose doesn’t outwardly show signs of stress quite as badly as Tucker during the Chorus Trilogy. He’s sad Epsilon left, but he isn’t anywhere near overwhelmed or distressed enough to develop eyebags like Tucker.

His hair has grown out longer, so Tucker or Wash probably tied it up into a ponytail for him.

Of course, Caboose grows up too, so I put some facial hair on that boy, plus a few more band-aids and patches here and there. He’s probably got a few scars by now, but not as many as Tucker since Tucker seems more the type to get up close and personal in combat with his energy sword.

#red vs blue #rvb #leonard church #lavernius tucker #michael j caboose

[joltning]

Joining the RvB anon asks except I’m not going anon and my questions are irrelevant to the conversation - what’s your favorite season/story arc?

“that’s such a basic answer” ok well it’s the right answer and it’s the recollections and my favorite is s6. fandom could write the chorus trilogy from s10 but they could never write s6 from s5

i have a soft spot for s12 and s14 (< wow who coulda guessed) and The Most Feelings about s15. not good feelings. not bad feelings. worse

#I HAVE A LOT OF ASKS I WILL GET TO THEM #rvb #red vs blue #txt #ask box

[tokkias]

What is your favourite fic of yours you have done and why?

okay that's actually a really hard question because i'm not one of those people who hates everything they write, i actually like a lot of what i write and i have sooooo much of it. i literally have 77 nalu fics rn that's too many

i think about this a lot but the answer literally changes all the time and i cannot settle on just one so i will give you a handful even though i know that's cheating but i don't want to give you a boring answer

i don't want to be your friend (i want to kiss your lips) an early banger. i very specifically remember having vivid thoughts of the scene where gray is like "yo are you okay? this is weird" to lucy. it was the first fic i felt like i really executed the idea exactly how i wanted to. i also hold a lot of fondness for it because i know that a lot of people love the jealous lucy trope but don't like the villainisation of "the other woman" and i'm really happy to be able to give those people an option. it's also one of jodi's favourite fics so i like to go "hehe jodi <3" when i think about it

what you mean to me kind of an underrated banger ngl??? another early idea that i remember having such vivid ideas for but as opposed to the last one, i feel like it ended up turning out different from how i originally envisioned it. sometimes that's a bad thing but i think with this one it turned out better than i could have hoped for. i think it's just a really unique concept that was executed in a fun, silly, fluffy way. i'm really proud of it and i hope more people read it

under your hands (i come undone) i did this as a warmup request for hannah that just got out of control??? i had just finished reading some really good rvb fic by an author i admired at the time (but now realise was entirely up their own ass but c'est la vie i suppose) and i had been really inspired by their portrayal of male vulnerability during sex and i wanted to do something with that. i had asked for requests in the aan server and i can't remember what exactly it was but i remember things just falling into place between the prompt and my need to write a truly vulnerable natsu during smut. this fic has some of my rawest lines ever and i think it's pretty great

ten baby dragons (or less) i have no recollection of what inspired this but i remember thinking to myself "can i write a fic in one sitting?" and then i wrote this. i feel like the "i want ten of these" line was inspired but like a nahdie art from back in the day? i'm certain it wasn't an original line but i just had to yoink it. usually i'm not one for kidfics but with nalu i just feel like it really works for them and i love writing about natsu's internal dialogue and his wants and needs and how they change over time. natsu grows a lot as a person over the course of the series and i love exploring that and i think this fic was a fun, cute execution of that

what it feels like to fall in love september was really the start of when i started feeling just shitty garbage poopoo about my writing and i just felt like i couldn't do it, everything i wrote was bad, felt like i had peaked etc. etc. now looking back i realised what triggered this was actual real trauma i had been through over the past year so i don't blame myself too much but this was the one fic i was like. oh i can still write and i can still write well. it was sort of based on this old "do you believe in soulmates?" ficlet i had written a few months before and i felt like this was the evolved version of that. it also helps that i got a lot of really positive feedback on this one in a time where i was struggling really badly with my worth as a person and a writer so this fic sort of represents a sense of hope for recover for me as i try to grapple with the lingering effects of what happened to me

#mya's mumbles #asks #anonymous #this was a lot of fun thank you for the ask :] #i appreciate it

[dragongirldg]

For everyone wanting buy red vs blue optimally (as I haven’t)

There is a box set for seasons 1-5. (The blood gulch chronicles)

A box set for seasons 6-8. (Recollection)

A box set for (the first) 10 seasons.

9 and 10 is project freelancer saga.

A box set for seasons 11-13. (The chorus Trilogy)

Season 14 is the anthology.

The Shisno Paradox is the name of a season and the trilogy.

15-17 is the Shisno trilogy.

Season 15’s summary talks about a news reporter.

Season 16 is called The Shisno Paradox.

Season 17 is called Singularity and talks about Donut in the summary.

Season 18 is called RVB: Zero, that’s the one that doesn’t have anything to do with the rvb cast.

Season 19 hasn’t come out as of this post.

Wish I knew all this when I was buying the DVDs and stuff because I could have done a better job at buying them efficiently. Whatever man.

I’m still confused on the Shisno Paradox trilogy and I couldn’t figure out what Combo meant.

I could have saved on the Chorus trilogy if I knew there was a dvd set for before getting individual ones.

Heck there was a set for 12 + 13 that I wish I’d seen before ordering them individually.

Amazon sucks and I suck and it all sucks.

Fxck me I guess, I’m an idiot.

In total there are 19 seasons. (Again season 19 hasn’t come out as of this post)

#red vs blue #rvb #dvd #blu ray

[biggiedraws]

mannnn the rvb writers did washington so dirty. like, theres the obvious example from the Season That Shall Not Be Named, but even from the very beginning......

when he first shows up, hes shown to be very traumatized by what happened with epsilon. refusing to let another ai in his head, and spacing out in the middle of a conversation..... like he doesnt even have much screentime and hes so clearly affected by it.

then in the recollection they write it off by saying that the ACTUAL reason he didnt want another ai was because he knows about the alpha and stuff. then theres one throwaway line from alpha about "youve got some heavy stuff in there" and thats it. and not saying that he couldnt ignore it and push through it and ACT like hes fine, im just saying that they made it such a major part of who he is and then never addressed it again.

and also: the fact that he fully betrays the reds and blues for his own personal gain??? and not only did the reds and blues take him in after he did nothing to redeem himself (believeable tbh), there was no conflict! no tension! i mean, a couple seasons later tucker and church get into a HUGE fight because church left them without saying goodbye, but when someone who legitimately tried to kill them for his own gain shows up, theyre all just like "yeah thats chill". ??????

and like, my problem isnt that it HAPPENED, lots of nonsensical stuff happens in this show. its that they never addressed it! wash didnt do ANYTHING to show that he had changed, at least on screen, and now we're supposed to believe that hes part of the family? the freelancer saga would have been a GREAT place for a wash redemption arc, especially as tensions rise after carolina shows up. i mean, sarge does have some distrust in washington, but its framed as "silly sarge, wash is a friend!" like- he literally shot donut!! hello???? and the bit where wash stands up to carolina would have been that much more meaningful if wash had to fight to earn the trust of the reds and blues, instead of playing both sides.

and then on chorus he FINALLY actually gets a character arc, but it doesnt really fit him at all?? like, the fact that hes focused on surviving, and frustrated that the reds and blues are dicking around? totally plausible. but why the obsession with turning the blues into good soldiers? to prove himself as a leader? why?? im not saying its a bad arc, i really like it! it just doesnt really track with what we've learned about wash so far.

season 15 he gets very little screentime, and most of what he does get is actual brain damage used for a cheap joke (which.... disappointed but not surprised, given how the show treats caboose)

the rest of the shisno trilogy he has a solid arc about coming to terms with his disability, but i feel like at some points its still used as a cheap joke? idk id have to rewatch it, i think the characters are pretty serious about it, but i feel like there were times where youre meant to laugh because "haha hes so silly now!" which...... yeesh

and then. AND THEN. THE ABSOLUTE AUDACITY TO WRITE IT OUT IN THE VERY NEXT SEASON???? as if the whole shisno trilogy didnt happen???? the fact that they immediately sidelined wash and carolina is bad enough, but thats just a whole new level.

anyway wash is my fave and theres so many things about him that i would have LOVED to see explored in the show. and instead we got this.

#ramblings #rvb #rvb wash #this isnt to say that wash is the only character who was poorly treated #caboose for example #but i just got thinking about wash and here we are #anyway this is why i read fanfiction #man i love tumblr tags #its like a little post script where you can be more annoying #if you read this far ily

[razmerry]

“Would you say you have feelings of anger and a need for revenge, Agent Washington?

More than you know.”

Lol sorry for being dramatic, but I feel like it fits Washington. I’m also slightly obsessed with him in this AU. I keep looking at this drawing and being like holy shit!! Wash is real and he’s on my screen!!

Here’s some notes about our favorite angsty Freelancer:

- Only two of the Reds and Blues needed name changes (Simmons/Simron and Caboose/Mikall), but I actually ended up changing a lot of the names of the Freelancers; nearly all of them, I think. Wash’s name is derived from his first name David. I could’ve done something like D’Vad, but I didn’t want it to be too close to his real name, and I think D’Vak has more of a rhythm to it. 

- Now that I’m drawing the Freelancers, I get to expand more on my ideas for the Project. Basically, the Director is trying to integrate Borg technology into his subjects to make them more effective soldiers. See, if they can achieve the mental synergy between subjects without actually creating a true Hivemind, they would theoretically be able to communicate extremely well, becoming a deadly force for the Federation’s armies. As you can guess, though, in the end the Project failed and Wash was one of its victims. 

- I just realized I actually have so much to say about this, so Tumblr gets to have my full rambly thoughts whereas Instagram cannot. Similar to what happens in the canon of RvB, Wash’s implantation goes horribly wrong. Except in this case, instead of Epsilon breaking his brain, the process of assimilation that is supposed to be slow is hasty and sped up too much at the end, and Wash is aggressively and rapidly plunged into a Hivemind, then yanked out just as quickly. Along with what happens in canon, this is going on as Tex and York break into the MOI, so Wash is left alone as alarms are going off. The reason he has so many scars is because he was trying to tear as much of this tech out of his as possible, in a very messy manner. Poor Wash :(

- Vulcans are one species in Trek that I’ve frankly never been too interested in, but I thought it fit Wash’s character very well, and even played into his arc in some really interesting ways. Wash starts as a Vulcan who’s been reprimanded for his temper, outburts, and inability to retain emotional control - in that Vulcan way where he still seems stiff to outsiders, but you can kind of clearly see he’s trying way too hard. After the end of the Project and his disastrous final surgeries that lead into him becoming Recovery One, Wash swings way too hard in the opposite direction, completely locking off any emotional contact with himself or anyone else. It pains me a bit to tweak this part of his character, because in RvB Recovery Wash is cold and calculating, sure, but he’s also kind of stupid and dramatic? So Trek Wash still has his charisma and iciness, but the yelling is toned down. 

- Coming out of Recovery and moving into Chorus and his post-Recollection arc, I wanted him to start coming to terms with what it means to be himself and to be a Vulcan, and get in touch with his feelings and culture in a healthy way, as opposed to the back and forth-ness of his PFL time and the complete shutdown of Recovery. This is also reflected in his final uniform, which still remains a little reminiscent of his Section 31 leather, but is made of looser fabrics and in the style of a Vulcan pel-el. He also completely bleaches his hair as Recovery, but lets it start to grow back to its natural black after Recollection. AND he has a beard because I love beard Wash. 

Damn, that really ended up being a lot more than I thought it would. Apparently I just have so much nonsense to say about Wash, so my immense thanks to anyone who bothers to read any of it. 

Next is Carolina!

#rvb trek #red vs blue #star trek #agent washington #rvb wash #rt animation #rooster teeth #tng #ds9 #tos #the next generation #deep space nine #the original series #vulcan #alien #recovery one #fanart #digital art #alternate universe #fanfiction #this post is practically fic-length lol #project freelancer #pfl #mother of invention

[the-hydrogen-hydroxide]

ok i am finally writing my review of RvB seasons 1-17 (plus all the mini-series that i chose to watch)

I’ll review them in terms of the arcs that they followed, not in terms of individual seasons.

TL;DR: It was great. Please please watch RvB at least until the end of season 8 (don’t worry, the seasons are way shorter than typical TV seasons). The best the series gets is after that point (seasons 10 and 13 in particular), but if you don’t like the show by the end of The Recollection, then it’s probably not for you.

Interested people who I promised I’d tag once i finished this: @math-and-musicals @elitheradguy 

Spoilers ahead! Keep reading at your own risk.

-The Blood Gulch Chronicles (Seasons 1-5): 6/10. The focus is entirely on comedy, with plot only serving as a springboard for that comedy. It works! Most of the jokes are really funny, and what little plot they have doesn’t take itself too seriously. The characters are great, but there are some serious growing pains in the early seasons (Caboose in particular feels like a completely different character). A lot of the jokes really have not aged well, but the offensive jokes are pretty easy to ignore because the timeless ones are far more frequent. This arc is probably the weakest in the series, mostly because they haven’t quite figured out some of their characters, but that just means there’s nowhere to go but up!

-Out of Mind (Mini-series): 6/10. Very little comedy here, which is disappointing because it focuses a lot on Agent York, who typically has a really funny dynamic with his AI and the other Freelancers. But the story with Tex is pretty interesting, recontextualizing some of her actions near the end of Blood Gulch Chronicles. I would actually recommend watching this after finishing season 10, because Tex’s and York’s actions in that season are integral to truly understanding their relationship here.

-Recovery One (Mini-series): 8/10. This mini-series is absolutely fantastic. Not only does it introduce Agent Washington, my favorite character in the entire series, it also gives us some info on Project Freelancer drama that will take another five full seasons to resolve. The Freelancer drama is an amazingly-written slow burn that they reveal just enough information about to keep the viewers interested, but never so much that it becomes predictable. This mini-series also introduces The Meta, the primary antagonist for the upcoming trilogy, in a way that makes it very threatening. Watch it right after season 5.

-Relocated (Mini-series): 7/10. Don’t have much to say about Relocated, because it bleeds so much into season 7 in my memory, but I remember that it’s funny. Watch it in between seasons 6 and 7.

-The Recollection (seasons 6-8): 8/10. What’s there to say? This arc is the platonic ideal of Red vs Blue. It’s got your everyday great comedy, but it starts throwing crazy story at you like nobody’s business. The twists in this arc, especially the one at the end of season 6 (RvB fans, you know what I’m talking about) are insane. Plus, this arc is the point when Monty Oum began working on animating some of the fight scenes, so starting now, the big fights are absolutely fantastic.

-The Project Freelancer Saga (seasons 9-10): 9/10. Season 10 is my favorite season in the entire series. Season 9 is less good, but it sets up some really important story. I really wasn’t a fan of everything that happened inside the Epsilon memory unit, but the Freelancer flashbacks were top-tier and all of season 10 was a hit. Plus, it introduces Agent Carolina, who is one of the most consistently-interesting characters in the series. 

-The Chorus Trilogy (seasons 11-13): 9/10. This shit is WILD. After the resolution of the Freelancer drama, I was kind of worried where the show would take Wash, Carolina, and Epsilon (some of my favorite characters). Turns out, I should not have been worried. Their characterization is absolutely fantastic throughout this trilogy, but that’s not to say that the reds and blues don’t get great stuff too. Our Blood Gulch crew, especially Tucker, gets great development. Seasons 12 and 13 in particular were great for Tucker, turning him from one of my least favorite characters to one of my favorites. He works perfectly as a foil for Felix and as a representation of the thoughts of the entire Blood Gulch crew at this point in the series. The only thing keeping this trilogy away from a 10/10 was season 11. It was just so slow! It takes until the very end of that season for the plot to kick in, and that was just too long to wait. Other than season 11, however, the pacing is damn near perfect throughout this arc. Finally, the end of season 13 got me super emotional but it was also so good. Probably the best ending they could have given to that character. I know a lot of fans aren’t happy with that ending, but I think it was the best decision to make for the future of the show itself.

-Anthology (season 14): 8/10. This season doesn’t follow the typical plot structure; instead, it is an anthology of smaller stories in the RvB universe. Most of them are really funny. My favorite ones are the story about Felix and Locus earlier in their lives and the story about The Triplets.

-The Shisno Trilogy (seasons 15-17): 8/10. This is a really tricky arc for me to rank, because seasons 15 and 17 are great, but season 16 is...well...probably the single worst in the entire series. It’s not funny, the plot is really not intriguing, and Donut (the character who is supposed to be more three-dimensional in this season) is more annoying than he’s ever been. The only redeeming parts of season 16 were Grif’s pizza quest and the fact that ProZD voices one of the characters. However, I gave this arc as a whole an 8 out of 10 because the other two seasons are great. Season 15 is just incredible, with villains that are original and make a lot of sense, great character development for people like Grif and Sarge, and excellent comedy poking fun at the characters themselves. And then season 17 is short but sweet, with a nice “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” plotline and some interesting twists, plus top-notch Wash characterization. My only complaints about these two seasons are the fact that Carolina never apologizes for her (frankly kind of evil) actions that are brought up in season 15, and that I really don’t like Genkins as the primary antagonist of season 17 at all. He’s kind of just a less interesting version of O’Malley.

Thanks for reading all of my ramblings (or just skipping to the end). All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed Red vs Blue. No I will not be watching RvB Zero. If you want to know, my favorite characters are Wash, Simmons, and York. My favorite part in the series was The Reds and Blues v The Meta at the end of season 8, and the saddest part was the end of season 13. My favorite running joke was “The worst ___ ever. Of all time,” but an honorable mention goes to “I ran track in high school.” Fuck you, Chairman, you’re evil and your face looks weird. 

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Red vs Blue Swear Count Recollections

Fun Fact: rvb is averaging 100 swears per season so far

with the recollections total at 301

swears words used :

bastard/r-word/pussy were only used once; douche/boner twice; dick 4 times; bitch 12; crap 13; ass 38; damn 43; shit 54; and fuck a whopping 130 times

Ranks:

last place non-swearers Caboose/meta/aliens/chairman/extra reds&blues/command/consular/South/Delta/Shelia

11th is tie between Donut/FLISS/director/Sister with 1

10th is Doc with 2

9th is a tie between Texas/LT Miller with 3

8th is a tie between Washington/"CT" with 9

7th is Lopez with 11

6th is Sarge with 21

5th is Epsilon with 30

4th is Simmons with 36

3rd place is Alpha(Church) with 39

2nd place is Grif with 56

1st place is surprisingly Tucker who was only really in S7 with 78

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