Red vs. Blue is one of the funniest things around. When the original show finished 1-2 years ago I promptly forgot about it, but I recently learned they did a whole 'nuther series and I just finished it on DVD!!! It's called RVB Reconstruction, and it's done on the glory that is Halo 3.
Reconstruction was mostly great but there were a few disappointments for me. The Halo 3 graphics were an amazing improvement, of course. And the level of cinematic storytelling they can do is just amazing now. It really does feel like a tv show and not some dudes playing with Halo. I did appreciate the increase of plot and action with a single larger story.
I did appreciate the attempt to explain and legitimize the crazy storylines of the original series. Church all along was an AI, the mental copy of the Freelancer Project's Director! Woah. This explains Church's crazy ghostly body-hopping and why he wasn't possessed by O'Malley the way the rest were. Cool. However I just rewatched the first season and they complain about the stink his decaying corpse is making, which doesn't fly with the new information. Unless he was supposed to be in a human body whose mind was erased or something?
Not to mention the fact that the entire RVB series was apparently just a huge experiment / deception. There never was a Red vs. Blue faction, which we kinda knew from Vic playing both sides against the other. Yet at the beginning of Reconstruction, we see Caboose with a Blue unit...
However this also brings me to my number one confusion about the series including the fifth season and the Out of Mind mini-series. I thought they were propelled five hundred years into the future or something. Yet when Tex goes off on her own she meets her buddies just fine, and the way Reconstruciton plays out they're clearly in the present. So did they not actually go into the future then? How did they get that wrong?
That said, I did miss the endless do-nothing antics and bits of the old show. I always enjoy when they have a purpose but there must also be a place for the standalone gags as well. The new main character, Washington, is a straight man from an actual drama, which I wasn't crazy about.
But here's my major complaint: where are all the characters! Sister makes a single episode appearance. Tucker only makes a single on-the-radio cameo. Donut doesn't appear at ALL! He's listed in the credits, though. They make it seem like Tex survived (after all she's a ghost body-hopper as well, remember? Which doesn't make sense given the new explanation for Church) but she never appears. Omega/O'Malley doesn't appear but I guess he was just absorbed by Meta. Andy the Bomb and Gary the Computer don't appear. They don't mention Captain Flowers or the aliens or Tucker's alien kid.
According to wikipedia, the next RVB series they do will be more irrelevant comedy and less serious. Sounds good to me! I enjoyed Reconstruction very much, but I look forward to more silliness.
Reconstruction was mostly great but there were a few disappointments for me. The Halo 3 graphics were an amazing improvement, of course. And the level of cinematic storytelling they can do is just amazing now. It really does feel like a tv show and not some dudes playing with Halo. I did appreciate the increase of plot and action with a single larger story.
I did appreciate the attempt to explain and legitimize the crazy storylines of the original series. Church all along was an AI, the mental copy of the Freelancer Project's Director! Woah. This explains Church's crazy ghostly body-hopping and why he wasn't possessed by O'Malley the way the rest were. Cool. However I just rewatched the first season and they complain about the stink his decaying corpse is making, which doesn't fly with the new information. Unless he was supposed to be in a human body whose mind was erased or something?
Not to mention the fact that the entire RVB series was apparently just a huge experiment / deception. There never was a Red vs. Blue faction, which we kinda knew from Vic playing both sides against the other. Yet at the beginning of Reconstruction, we see Caboose with a Blue unit...
However this also brings me to my number one confusion about the series including the fifth season and the Out of Mind mini-series. I thought they were propelled five hundred years into the future or something. Yet when Tex goes off on her own she meets her buddies just fine, and the way Reconstruciton plays out they're clearly in the present. So did they not actually go into the future then? How did they get that wrong?
That said, I did miss the endless do-nothing antics and bits of the old show. I always enjoy when they have a purpose but there must also be a place for the standalone gags as well. The new main character, Washington, is a straight man from an actual drama, which I wasn't crazy about.
But here's my major complaint: where are all the characters! Sister makes a single episode appearance. Tucker only makes a single on-the-radio cameo. Donut doesn't appear at ALL! He's listed in the credits, though. They make it seem like Tex survived (after all she's a ghost body-hopper as well, remember? Which doesn't make sense given the new explanation for Church) but she never appears. Omega/O'Malley doesn't appear but I guess he was just absorbed by Meta. Andy the Bomb and Gary the Computer don't appear. They don't mention Captain Flowers or the aliens or Tucker's alien kid.
According to wikipedia, the next RVB series they do will be more irrelevant comedy and less serious. Sounds good to me! I enjoyed Reconstruction very much, but I look forward to more silliness.
And the aliens! They need to use the aliens again. Blaaaaaargh?
