Red vs Blue: Revelation

[FRain]

New series by RoosterTeeth. Don't know why anyone hasn't posted it, so here!

Chapter One: For those of you just joining us...

http://redvsblue.com/archive/?id=1191

Chapter Two: Drink your Ovaltine.

http://redvsblue.com/archive/?id=1210

[sevlag]

will watch episode 2 this week, saw part 1 earlier this week

[thehoodedsmack]

RVB: Reconstruction was a good series, but after that the quality really fell. RVB: Recreation crawled along at a snail's pace, and while RVB: Revelation seems to be getting back to the enjoyable, important bits of the story, it's more far-fetched than usual. Washington's character is completely erratic, and seems to be written on the fly. Hopefully they'll find a way to ease out the inconsistencies, but for now, the current season isn't as great as it could be.

[Arteen]

RVB: Reconstruction was a good series, but after that the quality really fell.

Yeah, I definitely agree. I enjoyed Reconstruction, but after that, it's just a mess. RT really needs to make RvB: Resolution already. Tie up all the Freelancer plot threads and start a new story. With Maine and Washington still around, it feels like Reconstruction really didn't accomplish anything. Donut was brought back just to be killed (for no apparent reason), Sister was also killed (for no apparent reason), Tex was in a trailer (for no apparent reason), and I still have no idea why C.T. was even in the story. I don't know what RT's trying to do with the story, but it's not working. The previous season was easily the weakest of all RvB.

I don't know why RT even bothered to kill Donut. Death is cheap in RvB (see Church, Tex, Flowers), so it doesn't make for compelling drama. He was out of the story for a long time, and only seemed to be brought back to kill him off. I don't even know why Washington shot him. It was pointless!

[thehoodedsmack]

I don't know why RT even bothered to kill Donut. Death is cheap in RvB (see Church, Tex, Flowers), so it doesn't make for compelling drama. He was out of the story for a long time, and only seemed to be brought back to kill him off. I don't even know why Washington shot him. It was pointless!

Donut's actually human though, so it makes more of an impact than Church or Tex. I believe they'll explain the reason they killed Donut off was to give Simmons a reason to call for Doc. But since Simmons was ordered by Washington to call Doc, there's no good reason yet presented as to why Donut was killed off.

And on that note, Washington is not working as a bad guy. He was fine as an anti-hero in Reconstruction, but going full-out is not doing well for his character development. It's inconsistent with his personality from the past season, and just poor plot. The series is starting to seem like a soap opera.

[Arteen]

Donut's actually human though, so it makes more of an impact than Church or Tex.

The thing is, it doesn't make more of an impact, because RT didn't try to make it seem significant. Also, Flowers was brought back to life too, and he was just human. I have a feeling that RT will just ignore the issue, like how we never really learn anything about CT.

[Rob Oplawar]

RvB has been meh for years. I was really excited when they "ended" Red vs Blue on season 5. Come on guys, focus on your other work now. It's so much better than RvB, at least, better than the dead horse you've been beating recently.

e: RvB used to be purely comedy. The first few episodes were supposed to be it, just a bit of goofing around. Then the goofing around continued. Then the goofing around got a coherent storyline, which was fine, because it kept the goofing around going. But now they're pursuing the storyline first and humor second, and to be quite honest the storyline was never very good.
Back in the day I watched RvB because it was funny hilarious, not because I wanted to know what was going on in the freelancer project.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: you can let your series end gracefully while people still love it or you can keep it around long enough for people to start hating it. Simpsons, Scrubs, South Park, Monk, Star Wars, Red vs Blue, Halo, Heroes... all fantastic series that lived long enough to become the villain. At least Dollhouse, Firefly, Arrested Development, etc got to die as heroes.

[Inferno]

Season 1 Supremacy~

[Kornman00]

As long as there are stupid people or dramas in the news, South Park will exist to point them out with an episode.

[Delta4907]

New episode: http://redvsblue.com/archive/?id=1221
I didn't really find the series that interesting recently, but I thought this episode was really cool, with the CGI part and all.