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prophecydungeon · 1 year

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rvb15 part 3 (how is there a part 3) liveblog, i still remember nearly nothing about this season

grif's monologue to volleyball simmons has lyss's mic clipping out again

lyss: the way he did not deny grabbing ass... blue: with dick? all of us, instantly: yeah

"i wasn't aware you're bilingual" everyone @ me when i'm at work

this all hits so different after covid lmaoooooooo

lyss, during the grif-and-locus stuff: this is me and basia

(she's right)

this part has started off so strong that it makes the previous part even weaker lmao

"but i never got to say goodbye or thank you for being my friend" :(

"are you here to kill us?" "i sure get that a lot"

this armor color combo for locus is really great actually

carolina's interrogation of locus is good and i like the idea of her struggling with locus being a mirror of her and wash

i also really love locus being the new straight (lol) man to all the clownery

man season of the grimmons no kidding

i remember the first time i watched this season i didn't like locus's entry or exit but honestly i liked it well enough this time round

tucker!

lyss, after the time machine reveal: is this the riverdale plotline?

honestly if the middle chunk of this season was cut out or only about 10 minutes long then this whole season would have been much better

"the blues and me and carolina" red team carolina confirmed

this sarge moment!

simmons knife moment...

me and lyss out here metaphorically gripping each other's hands till our bones crack over the grimmons content

oh i'm pre-emptively sad

: (

oh i forgot about this version of contact, it's good

"i mean, PTSD is forever, right?"

the character moments in this season were soooooo good but the plot was so all over the place... i will Think on all of this

#rvb15 tag #this plot was so.................... what even happened actually #there really was just an extraneous hour of... something in this whole season #the grif stuff REEEEAAAALLY hits different after March 2020 good lord #red vs blue

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etoilesbienne · 6 months

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was glancing at peoples event liveblogging and got absolutely JUMPSCARED by the names grif and simmons. its been so long .....

i have been a red vs blue fan for a decade. Not stopping now

#asks

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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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lavernius · 5 years

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i love that smith is very obviously still a rebel at heart even if hes really obedient because despite his willingness to do wash's training (and most likely all other training he's made to do) he still helps the other rebels and feds jump grif for making them train more

#lt logs #he just stands with the rest of the lts and helps them just... **get** grif. its so funny #nick liveblogs

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kirbyfanclub · 6 years

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barry,.....

#thamks grif for that very good boy #taz liveblog #txt

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ghosty-schnibibit · 6 years

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new amnesty liveblog ^u^

i'm actually listening to this between classes in my college's science building. i wasn’t expecting it to drop this early in the day and i’ve got like... three different essays to write later (gotta love midterms that got super delayed because of hurricanes -_-;;) so i’m just gonna listen now :P

justin asking the hard questions lmao

i haven't seen any, and i hope i never see any

jesus why is this happening

l i l p a r t n e r

duck this is maybe a bad idea? maybe?

yes, please hug the goat man

griffin's goat english is very good

i want to know what this means but we're only like six minutes in and i'm so invested, griffin how do you do this

i love this goat buddy

aww :'(

GOAT WEED

multiple ducks

clint no

"okay, i am now billy" nice

oh snap :o

i'm with you here barclay

... is aubrey still wearing shades? what does barclay think of this?

P I Z Z A

i never thought about how much i laugh at this show and make weird ass faces until i had to do it quietly in a venue where people can see me

"you did a good job connecting it to canon" griffin ilu

it's gonna be indrid again, calling it based on the description

"this is some i am groot shit" "oh very much so" ... please tell me this is not another davenport situation, i will cry

nice! good roll!

all i can picture is journal 3 r/n

is ned going to find out more about the weird glowy dude from the end of the water arc???

"fur folk" you can say furries griffin it's okay

so has stern just been like... living in amnesty? wtf

indrid! my boy! :D

that relatable dm moment

duck is my favorite, my good polite boy

i would die for indrid

OH NO WHAT

WAIT WHAT THE FUCK

OH NO ITS THE SPOOKY MUSIC

OH NO THIS IS BAD, NO NO NO

OKAY, WELP, I'M NOT FUCKING SLEEPING TONIGHT, OR ANY NIGHT EVER AGAIN

"this is the aesthetic ideal of ned chicane" love it, love it

aww billy

HOW DO YOU DO A VERTICAL TACKLE DUCK???

“like trying to catch a bat” CATCH HIM DERRY

"it could become a fight" rowdy boy duck

oh fuck has duck been contaminated?????

travis what are you doing

bless you justin

"alchemize" griffin are you aware that is a homestuck word

THIS IS BAD, THIS IS VERY BAD

oh snap

hell yeah, good rolls!

BAD IDEA THERE DUCK

“the scruff of the tatters” love that mental image

what are you doing ned???

PFFFF HOLY SHIT WHAT IS THIS

NICE :D

safe-rooms don't typically have windows grif

jesus this is bad, very very bad, how are they going to explain this to mama???

god i'm so excited for the motrl graphic novel

are they talking about destiny?

WHAT IS THIS SONG JUSTIN

oh dang is this a second recording?

yay, my boy :D

travis you are saying this while aubrey has an orange eye that she is hiding from everyone

oh duck, i love you so much, my bad liar boy

griffin don't tease me like this, its still in the low 60's where i am and i'd kill for that kind of weather

i love this flavor

jesus indrid 0_0

"no that sounded douchey" god i fucking love indrid

what is this scene even

that sounds unpleasant and sticky :|

... is that a reference to that one nick cage movie

WAIT WHAT, INDRID CAN DO THAT??? is this just a thing all sylphs can do, or is this a specifically indrid thing? did he make the disguises for everyone in the lodge? i need to know this griffin

oh nice, go ned

no ned, he listens to duck :T

oh snap, is that theory about it targeting duck right?

"you say it like it spoiled and turned to ash in your mouth” this is a really good line but also i love duck “it’s a nickname“ newton being so defensive about his deceased friend’s nickname

griffin is desperate to prevent another barry bluejeans lmao

"or gal or non-binary individual" bless

awww, that's so cute

indrid you garbage boy ilu

good god i love you duck

duck you're not going to get any fucking weregild out of a goatman

awww billy you baby :)

"i've googled goat anatomy" to be fair i would also google that in this scenario :/

the tradition of making taz npcs look like celebrities continues

d u c k d u c k g o s l i n g

i was literally listening to the last mbmbam on my morning commute, this is surreal omg

god i love these boys :')

final thoughts: this was such a mostly fun/goofy ep after how super intense the previous two were and i'm grateful for that tbh, this arc needed some levity. also more of my favorite moth son! yay!

see you guys again on the first! ^u^

#taz #taz amnesty #the adventure zone #taz spoilers #ghosty liveblogs taz

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