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vacation-grif · 3 years

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What kinda feelings?

A LOT, ACTUALLY. Like I said before, the RTNY group was telling me to skip it because it wasn’t a good season, and I want to express how much I wanted to just form my own opinion, only to end up agreeing with them in the end. Let me break this down as best as I can now that I am on my PC. I mean no disrespect to the director and writer, as well as the cast and crew. Honestly, I’m worried that my opinion makes me feel like a boomer at this point.

First off, if anyone was going to tell me that I’m going to have headaches over bright flashing lights and colors over a Red vs Blue series, I wouldn’t have believed you. As I said before, they should’ve just called this “Red vs Blue: Epilepsy Warning THE M0VIE”. I understand that they are using the Unreal Engine, because my god the graphics on this is INSANE. But everything is...too bright. TOO. BRIGHT. Everything has a lens flare no matter where the camera turns, and with the high paced action, all the lights and colors, it HURTS.

Next, this is a fully CG-animated season. We haven’t had one like that in SUCH a long time, and this is the first in the 20-ish years of Red vs BLue. When I was a kid who didn’t have a cellphone, I could only imagine what Red vs Blue was like when my best friend would play it over our landline on a weeknight before we would go to school the next day. And I would come over and be like, HOLY SHIT. IS THIS FUCKING HALO?! So imagine my excitement when after 8 years of Red vs Blue using Halo 1 to Halo 3 assets, you see a Warthog just crash through the walls of Valhalla, something you’d never see in a Halo game. A fully animated scene of Grif running over Washington (hell yeah), and an angry Washington outside of his game model just climbing onto the hood of the car and shooting at Grif through the windshield at pointblank range. Then cut to episode 10 of the same season, Tex makes her triumphant return, fully animated instead of her Halo 3 game model. And in the last two episodes of the season, you get OUR VERY FIRST FREELANCER VS FREELANCER FIGHT. You find out this was the work of the late Monty Oum (rest in peace), and until Season 10, Red vs Blue was THE HIGHEST POINT OF YOUR FUCKING LIFE.

Then we go to Season 12 where the animation post Oum (he was working on RWBY at this point but iirc this was just before he died) was choppy at best and didn’t feel right until Season 13, where within the one year the animation team REALLY stepped up. And this actually carries over into Season 17, Singularity, where it became more animation and less game effects, or rather it was balanced. It wasn’t extravegant like Oum’s works, but given that these are the Simtroopers, some Freelancers, some Mercs, and time gods, it felt par for the course. It felt right.

We cut now to these upgraded graphics, which felt like when you were playing on your Xbox 360 and you jsut FUCKING SHOT into the Xbox One. It was, as you would say, unreal (lol). But it felt...off. The first two episodes, the entire action didn’t feel like what you spent 16 seasons watching. It felt like a whole another beast entirely. With the use of super powers, you would think oh the Freelancers had that! Yes, but those were all suit enhancements. These...didn’t feel like it. Zero’s and Phase’s teleportation didn’t feel like something that Fragmented AI can control. Shatter Squad’s at least felt more at home.

The models themselves were a bit off too. Choppy at best, but understandable given that they were using the Unreal Engine. But you notice that they do a lot of hand on hip pushed out to the side type of thing a lot? Everyone does it. Except Raymond, West, and the big dude. Like the SASSY STANCE. Also, there was way too much power stance. Where if your feet were shoulder width apart, it was a bit wider, and also the pelvis was out a little more. A bit weird. Finally, everyone has an ass. Everyone. Even West. West has an ass, it was like, everyone was dummy thicc and the clap of their ass cheeks was alerting Viper.

Next, voice acting. I...absoultely could not stand the voice acting. It was completely over the top, overdramatic, over exaggerated. Granted, I’m a singer, a perform, but I’m not exactly a good actor myself in the few shows I’ve actually done. It felt like watching an anime. When you wtach something with dialogue of your own language, you can tell when you feel something is to over the top. If you watch something of a language you don’t speak, it’ll go over your head, unless you start to speak that language, and you speak to people who speak that language, then you start to pick up what is regular speaking and what is acting. When an anime gets dubbed, most times, the voice actors tend to over dramatacize in the same way the Japanese due, and some times it works, most times it doesn’t. This is because the Japanese way of acting comes from kabuki theater. When English dubbers do that with this weird over emphasized emotions, it is extremely offputting.

In some places, the voice acting is poorly done. Jen Brown’s performance from just getting out of a hospital to giving an expositional lecture about the new cast in literally 5 seconds of time was...off. Carolina should’ve had more time to recover, especailly after losing Washington, one of her closest surrogate family, she felt...a little too calm and normal. Not like the Carolina who was hesitant but trying her best to be a whole better person (see the Paradox Arc, S15-17). It was jsut quick shift, and now she’s making snarky remarks in that Jen Brown voice she does (my god step on me please) and also being a mother hen. Also, she really calls Washington David way more this season than she ever did before that.

Fiona’s performance was shaky at best in my opinion, I don’t know her very well outside of what everyone says. All I know is that sometimes, the way she emphasizes some of her lines don’t fit the situation very well. I think East/Phase was a lot better done than One imo. But she was mostly angry and competitive.

Raymond is the textbook definition of what I hate about taking a character’s role and making it their entire personality. Think of it like watching Power Rangers, and all of their roles is just defined by the shit they say. Jason is the jock, Kimberly is the pretty girl, Trini is......I’m not gonna lie, I don’t...know what to classify Trini, Zack was the cool guy, and Billy was the nerd (Tommy was Jock II also the rebel/loner). Raymond reminded me a lot like Billy, where Billy was defined by being so smart, half of his dialogue was just look at me, i’m fucking smart, let me use all of these big words. Half of Raymond’s dialogue was, look at me, i’m the tech guy, I’m nerdy and loveable, it felt like it was too over the top of trying to stand out. By the end of the season, after East’s big reveal, I started to like him a lot more because he knew what was more at stake. I want to say that my initial impression of him was immature at best.

West was too stiff. Just.. Too stiff. I get he’s old. But show some emotion, please.

Why am I emphasizing on this more? When you listen to the dialogue of RvB, and then you listen at this, even with the return cast of Carolina, Washington, and Tucker, the direction was different. I think it’s because of the new medium with Zero being all super animated like an action, where RvB was just a bunch of net videos that you’re gonna laugh at with well timed jokes. It was super casual, but also super real. Geoff and Gus and everyone else aren’t big actors or anything, but that’s what made it feel real. That’s what made RvB feel like its own thing.

In terms of writing, I get that this is RvB meets FnF (Fast and Furious). But I honestly feel that it doens’t belong. The story of Shatter Squad vs Viper would have been a lot better if it didn’t have the RvB name tacked on. It’s such a cool concept, but given what RvB was before, the tonal shift is jsut too great, especially when you only have 3 of the previous cast returning.

Speaking of, what happened to Tucker?! What happened to the guy who became a leader? Responsible? Not as arrogant? Maybe playfully arrogant at best, but not stroking his ego? What happened to HIS SWORD? Did they forget how Tucker’s sword works? That it only works IF HE DIES? Tucker didn’t die, and yet Phase was able to use his sword (which by the way is now hers). One of the earliest stories/gags of RvB and they just...retconned it and threw it away! Also, Tucker’s voice acting did NOT match the scene at all. It’s like watching a video game that was localized from Japanese, and the dubbers spoke too fast before the character could finish. Tucker moves outside of his dialogue and there is this weird seconds of silence. That...that was just a BAD return for him.

My final thought is that, if RvB Zero is not...the RvB I grew up with. Maybe the jokes are dated, but the memories of what RvB was is still real. This just...doesn’t feel like RvB anymore. This should have just been it’s own show, it’s own story, replace Wash and Carolina and Tucker with new characters, it just wasn’t their place to be in this.

The only thing I liked about this? I’m glad Danielle (I’m assuming this is how you would spell her name) didn’t go AWOL and returned to the team. I actually really liked her the most next to Axel. She was done dirty, but she still held on to that one bond she had as East that Zero didn’t give her as Phase.

I know this is probably not a great opinion, and I really hope that Rooster Teeth finds the ground they want this series to go in. Sometimes, you have to try new things, or else staying stagnant will make it go stale. It’s all about trial and error. I don’t know how everyone else feels about Zero, how the new audience and the old audience feels. RvB as a whole wasn’t perfect. They had their down moments. But when you feel that way for an entire season...it’s a problem.

#grif liveblogs #grif liveblogs rvb #rvb #red vs blue #red vs blue zero #Anonymous #spoilers #rvb negativity

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redredredvsblue · 2 years

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"They hated Jax because he spoke the truth"

#Grif and Simmons WILL kiss #i will speak it in to existence #rvb #liveblog #rvb15

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boner4murder · 2 years

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grimmons stan’s come get y’all juice

#they r cute #red vs blue #rvb #grimmons #season 15 #kissass cyborg #liveblogging #dexter [laboratory] grif

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texas-hates-taxes-too · 4 years

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A Group Where We Give Only Bad Advice

#rvb #liveblog #textpost #meme #leonard l church #franklin delano donut #michael j caboose #sarge #sarge rvb #dexter grif #lavernius tucker

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caramellody · 6 years

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Rvb 16 episode 2 liveblog below:

- fjjdfjd GRIF CRASHED THE PELECAN AGAIN

- a whole hour of roasting

- PRIMARY CAST ONLY

- caboose. ily

- oh. Hrjfdnjdjdj the non ominous woods

- grif's getting meta. Its....its getting a little scary.

- "that is so stupid grif....im so proud of you." God Simmons not you too.

- DONUT IS DUBSTEP JESUS

-saving the world by going through the past? this is exactly what Grif DIDN'T want

- TIME. TRAVEL. WARRIORS.

- I mean....refusing the call to adventure has very much been a a plot point. Grif...didnt really think through all this didnt he. Of course he didnt.

-imagine if the credits DID roll when he said roll credits

-JFJFJRJEJEJE

-JEREMY! THATS JEREMY!

-"well...there is no god." Nice callback to grif being agnostic

-DONUT TRAVELED THEM BACK TO THE PAST FOR PIZZA.

- Him. With a capital H.

-suddenly...religion????

- GRIF AINT HAVING ANY OF IT.

- PLOT

- Shes only appeared for less than a minite and im in love with kahirama

- GOD SARGE IS A MOOD

-NO NOT THE PIZZA PLACE

- FINALLY SOME TIME TRAVEL.

- oh. Oh god. Id ask where sarge and simmons landed...but I think the better question would be...when???

Okay this one needed a real talk because...a lot happened in the span of 2-3 minutes after Kahirama's apperance.

- first of: I REALLY LOVE THE ART DIRECTION OF THIS SERIES. A LOT. ITS SO BEAUTIFUL BUT SO RVB AT THE SAME TIME.

-secondly, the groups that got split aregreat to say the least.

Lopez and Caboose. Which brings me to my first confusion. Um. Where he hell did lopez come from???? Wasnt his head at the bottom of the ocean by the end of season 15??? Im not the only one who noticed that right???? Anyway, that aside. Lopez and caboose will be interesting. Mainly cause one is caboose the loveable.bumbling idiot and the other is...well. lopez. Thats definitely gonna be an interesting dynamic for sure.

Tucker and Kai entered second. Which, is also an interesting dynamic, we havent seen Kai and Tucker (or just. Kai with anyone) interact since the end og BGC, so this will be interesting for sure. Also its Kai, and its also tucker. Tucket mightve grown to be a leader. But hes still Lavernius Tucker (he literately called kai babe before going in)

Then comes my next two personally favorite groups( is it cause red team bias. Yeah, probaby):

Grif and Doc (and huggins), with Doc jumping in to save grif (even though grif has been trashing on him this entire season so far). I am excited for this duo since 1. Grifs stuck with the one guy hes been trashing on so far, 2. Grifs now in the situation hes tried to avoid this season thus far and 3. Grif is stuck with doc: the one guy hes trashed on this entire season. Also with huggins around, huggens has to definitely explain themself. Which brings me to the fact that huggins couldve gone and followed anyone. By that point the only one left were the reds and doc, yet they panicked when they saw grif and doc leave. They could've very well followed the others, yet huggins panicked when grif was enering the portal.

Lastly, theres sarge and simmons, which.is definitely the secind group im interested about. Mostly for how the dynamic's going to work. And normally this wouldnt be something I would say for the duo that wouldve consisted of sarge the leader and simmons the kissass. But thats the thing. Would've is the key word in this. Ever since at least late season 11 onwards, Simmons as clearly started to depart himself from being a kissass (to the point that even grif asked him how he hasnt been kissing sarge's ass ever since the gang reunited). And thats not to say simmons turned into grif in relation to how he treats sarge, he clearly shows he still very much respects him (hell, there have been clear points to point towards the fact that simmons sees him as a father figure). its just that. there’s definitely going to be some conflict (especially if that episode 3 description is anything to go by)

overall, this is definitely the last of the set up-esuqe episodes, episode 3 definitely is gonna be plot-full with stuff.

#val watches rvb #red vs blue season 16 #rvb16 #rvb16 spoilers #guess who got a first membership and has an episode 3 liveblog schedualed for next week

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leonardalphachurch · 6 years

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Oh I’m doing... episode 14 liveblog

-I’m going to be happy when this season is over bc every time I go to the rvb series page and so much as LOOK at episode 12 I get all barfy

-it was so dizzying

-anyway let’s start

-pretty music

-should I know where they are.

-PLEASE I LOVE KAI

-Kai is chubby and she loves it

-like I said skinny Kai is illegal!!!!

-hmm. Interesting Sister backstory

-I really like it even if it’s not consistent with her character from s5

-I’m not complaining though. Her character in 5 was fun but unsustainable

-plus if we assume she was still insecure about it then she could have been lying

-aww friendship

-Kai is. So autistic.

-no it’s just friendship!

-“hell yeah~”

-aw man. Suckington is a good ship. I forgot about that

-wait. Why is Tucker responsible. Is it just him blaiming himself or do I have bad memory

-aww :( Tucker really loves Wash :(

-even if it’s mentor-student kinda way it’s still real sweet

-That’s one thing miles did good

-you go back to save WASH but not CHURCH!?

-I mean I get why from storytelling perspective and the writer in me would be mad if they did but the Alpha kin in me >:(

-they didn’t even talk about it

-what did Caboose say?

-I miss you miss something?

-why is there no closed captioning. It wouldn’t be hard they have scripts

-good Sarge line

-yeahhhh Carolina

-ooh good line

-“What’s rescuing one man from one bullet?”

-straw that breaks the camels back I’m guessing

-David.....

-what is your name Carolina...

-the trans in me says I don’t need to know ur dead name but the ocd in me says I really really do

-aww friendship

-Tucker Carolina friendship is... good

-oh noooo huggins!!

- :(

-but they’re best friends!

-shizno!! nooo :( :(

- :(

- aww :( I love Grif and huggins friendship :( I’m so sad

-lots of sad faces but I’m sad

-whose this guy again

-NO

-NOOOO

-HUGGINS!

-😨😨

-I had to break out emojis emoticons wouldn’t cut in

-I loved her :’(

-bury your gays.......

-I hope she’s not forever dead

-I do love atlas

-you don’t have to say greetings everytime

-man I loved them before they were ai but now that I know..... these are my kids

-my children

-except green fucker! He’s a bitch

-“it sounds cool” please he’s my dad

-oh that’s Genkins

-NO! She is dead :(

-nooooooo

-I’m so sad......

-whatever she’s mine now. My dumb bisexual ai ball

-she’s dating Iota.

-I’m not listening to this. Is it important.

-pretty....

-that was good

I’m so sad about Huggins. Im also. This close to spending 5 dollars to watch the next episode right now

#rvb16 #leonardliveblogschurch #i am.... sad

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agent-murica · 7 years

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RvB S15E21: Epilouge

I haven’t done one of these before but since it is the finale I thought I’d shake some things up with a liveblog. Spoilers from here forth!

-Kinda curious on why Church isn’t questioning literally all the Reds and Jax and Dylan

-YES CABOOSE DO THE RIGHT THING

-Yes Church if memory serves there is something in the water, as in that there isn’t really any water

-Oh ‘boose, you’re really cool too

-OH MY FUCKING GOD THAT SSH AND THE ANIMATION I AM DECEASED

-SAY HELLO TO LOCO- OH MY FUCK CABOOSE YOU- I AM-

-Jax i swear to fuck if you’re suggesting something that makes my boi do something fucking-

-Oh thank god it’s only VIC

-Is he really pulling a fucking Epsilon, oh VIC no one likes you that much

-FUCK ME I TAKE IT BACK I TAKE IT BACK VIC YOU GLORIOUS BASTARD HOW?? HOW’D YOU GET THE MESSAGE?

-I TAKE IT BACK AGAIN YOU SON OF A BITCH PLAGIARIST

-he’s still so relatable though

-DONUT WAIT WHAT??

-same Grif same

-Oh, Temple, you can’t get away that easily

-That moment of “oh shit what friends” now that was fitting

-Oh hey, the Lieutenants!

-OH MY FUCKING GOD THEY DID IT THEY MOTHERFUCKING JOE-

-THE HUG I AM D E A D

-...woohoo

-that was the reasonable amount of silence for my boi VIC

-No, don’t kill your Volleyball gang!

-Aw that bonding moment was cute

-NO JAX OH MY GOSH

-...poor Carlos geeze

-Aw he’s a caring Uncle that’s really sweet

-Nice monologue Dylan

-Oh they really did throw him into the ocean??

-Oh boy so did Gene die? Or is he still out there? And Lorenzo too?

-Oh Joe, you didn’t...

-OH MY GOD YES THEY DID DO IT CAROLINA MY LOVE

-CABOOSE ROCK THOSE DRUMS

-TURN UP THE AUX CORD

-And of course, we end it out with Blood Gulch Blues

-Oh Alpha...

-And that’s the season! This was such a great season!

#This season man #this season got me fucked up ten ways to hell #rvb15 #rvb15 spoilers #rvb S15E21 #liveblogging

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epsilon-church · 7 years

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i woke up earlier than usual and actually liveblogged the ep so. here!

rvb first spoilers (so for ep16) under the cut!

- hhhhh temple sees grif and just goes "....biff" in a really quiet voice the what homosexual. the ultimate gay coded villain /s - “howdy everyone! how are our fine guests doing?” “fuck. you.” “charming."‬ - "GRIF!" "SIMMONS!" putting them in diff cells so we don't get grif touch simmons edition is homophobia bc im gay and ///s - "it's okay, i know he's still out there!" "[laughing] really?" "stop it." "i don't want to.” hoooooo, - ‪temple called the bgc out for constantly treating caboose like a child?? its good but. temple treating him like shit isn't rly better - - "what the fuck ever, okay? he's an adult. maybe if you all didn't treat him like some big baby, he'd be able to understand something as simple as death, as dying and being gone forever" when did temple become my thanatophobia - when temple walks away he just goes "haha nailed it" oh my gOD - "but i never got to say goodbye....or thank him for being my friend........" :’{ - a pretty fucking sweat diversion hoo rah - wash needing to scratch his nose omfg. carolina in a god damn yoga pose. - ‪"well, im hallucinating again. this time it kinda looks like locus"‬ ‪"wait. i see him too" 1 wash confirmed for regular hallucinations, 2 he keeps carolina updated on them?‬ reality checking bros,,

i left it out and im can't shift enter on mobile but church's “distress call” was just casual enough to reduce the pain factor. caboose still killed me but i anticipated like.....all day crying not just some sadness. so i count it as a win. ofc carolina finding out will probably kill me but let me dream

and im so fucking happy grif is back!!!!!!! he's quickly joining donut n lopez as my fave reds. simmons too. really everyone but sarge. i love grif

#text #mine #epsilon first #rvb #red vs blue #:0000

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autisticblueteam · 7 years

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RvB 15x07 Liveblog/Incoherent thoughts:

so going by the description, image, and (cheesy) title this is either going to be a dead serious episode or the exact opposite of a dead serious episode

tucker no you cannot ditch red team

dylan is this half of the group’s designated competent woman now

...kids toys

what does that mean

oH NO. SIMMONS. HE DEFAULTED TO TALKING TO GRIF. OH NO.

that’s so sad

sarge what the fuck are you doing

“don’t scare caboose sarge” tucker u do care

sarge fucking stop

sarge NO go to SLEEP only wash can survive without sleep for this long

...was that a day 5 joke

that was a day 5 joke

UNICORN MAN I HEAR YOU

the fucking reflection what the fuck is that a fucking gag or one of the fakes behind a window

caboose bless you you poor poor boy

old settlement huh. i mean i’m guessing that’s just the map’s history but it’s also nice to have a reminder y’know this is set in the halo universe to some extent

“grif woulda said its just one of life’s great mysteries” simmons

CABOOSE MY SON OH NO

his sense of death has been so fucked up by church’s constant living and dying?? look caboose has emotional intelligence he does, he knows what he’s feeling but this is such an odd situation??

he is thinking about grif

...the person creeping around is either jax or the unicorn fucker

TUCKER HOLY FUCK THAT WAS AWESOME

DON’T SNEAK UP ON THE SOLDIER JAX

HE FUCKING CLOTHESLINED HIM

tucker’s worried about booooooose

HE DOESNT WANT THEM TO DIE THAT “OH NO NO NO” IM GONNA SCREAM

UNICORN FUCK WHAT DID U DO

...oh okay. jesus christ

OH MY FUCKING GOD HE’S LITERALLY SERVING HIM PAPERS

CHILD SUPPORT

I’M CRYING

HOLY FUCKING SHIT HE FUCKING GOT PEOPLE PREGNANT ON CHORUS AND THEY SERVED HIM CHILD SUPPORT I’M WHEEZING

i’m fucking wheezing

surge. temple. they literally have knock off names.

OH IT WAS A FAKE BEHIND THE WINDOW THEN HOLY FUCK JOE

#rvb15 #rvb15x07 #rvb spoilers #rvb first spoilers

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