#rvb commentary

[robotnuts]

red vs blue season 1 commentary (2003)

lets do some more commentary recaps! click here to check out the other ones i’ve completed! the season 1 disc actually has two different commentary tracks, the original one from 2003 and a new one they recorded in 2010. this post will just cover the 2003 track, recorded by burnie and geoff (all the way back when his name was still geoff fink)

the classic blood gulch intro was made for the release of the season 1 DVD. the original intro (please click this link and go watch the original, it’s a masterpiece) was scrapped because it didn’t actually fit the tone of the series since it’s much more action based, and also the limp bizkit song would have cost them tens of thousands to license

it took around 45 minutes to shoot the opening shot. if you’ve seen season 15 the way the shot is created has already been referenced by jax (to emulate a crane shot, they stood a cameraman on top of a tank turret and then raised the turret to get a smooth transition)

when they first made the show, they were staying up until 7AM to finish and post each episode on fridays, and then go to their day jobs right after 

they changed some parts of the original episode 1 they posted- they didn’t originally have sarge cast until the second episode, so it was burnie saying sarge’s line at the end of episode 1. burnie also tried to sneak some of grif and simmons’ conversations ontop of blue base because he figured people wouldn’t notice and he liked the lighting better there, and people “went nuts” so they had to go back and fix it 

burnie was the catch-all for whenever they didn’t have time to cast someone (lopez, tex’s male voice)

they got a ton of emails from people in the military who told them they really nailed the experience and asking if they had military experience because of how accurate the show is- geoff was the only person with military experience and he didn’t write the show. 

burnie says he didn’t watch a lot of military media or anything, it’s just shows how universal “bureaucracy” or office humor really is, and they were able to play with it even more because of how structured the military is. 

geoff makes fun of burnie for pretending hes smart and says he doesnt think burnie has any idea what hes talking about. Burnie liked using the word bureaucracy because it was long and fun to say :)

 the second episode was the actual spark for the entire series- a real conversation that burnie and co had while playing halo about “whys it called the warthog if it looks more like a cat?” lead to the entire show being made.

they never asked bungie if they were actually correct about the reason it being called a warthog being due to the tow hooks looking like tusks

they tell the vegas story to explain the “vegas quadrant” reference - you can hear it yourself with even more detail here. 

two differences from the RTAA story though- the note he left said “see you in austin, gus” (not assholes, though that’s burnie recounting the story so maybe gus just remembered it better) and geoff claims he didn’t actually end up going back to austin- though burnie starts speaking over him so I can’t really hear what he’s saying about it. 

 the shot of grif and simmons walking into the frame to watch donut run off into the distance towards the store at the end of episode 3 was redone over and over again at 4:30 AM and drove them crazy. the hardest shots were the ones when a character had to walk into frame, hit their mark and stand still, and then deliver a line.

caboose didn’t originally have a character concept according to burnie- he just knew the blue team was going to get a rookie counterpart to the red team’s donut. donut’s character was much more planned ahead

the pink armor was actually one of the first jokes they wrote for the series. originally the entire series was only going to be 6-8 episodes and the pink armor was going to be the gag of the final episode. homophobic kings

they had to work with a lot of limitations and pace themselves with what they wanted to introduce-they had limited armor colors, limited vehicles, etc. so introducing them to the series at the right time had to be paced out, and donut’s armor joke kept being pushed back

if there is a flag in the shot, the only people that can be in the shot is anyone with red or blue armor (caboose, sarge, and donut for a bit), so they had to get creative with the plot and cinematography to make sure that they could just isolate those guys . this is because in the capture the flag gamemode, the only character colors are red and blue. so if you see a flag, that’s a shot that was sewn in from a whole separate game and recording session than the surrounding shots 

this is the reason donut shows up in red armor instead of being pink from the start

geoff says he loves the joke where church ignores caboose because he relates to being ignored by burnie when he tells burnie important information

the limitations of what the characters could do forced them to write around humorous scenarios so they can be envisioned by the audience, even if the characters couldn’t do it on screen, the big example being the fact that they can’t actually have church and tucker throw rocks for the teleporter to test it so they just reference the fact they already threw rocks through it earlier

to editorialize a bit, i honestly think this really helped the show have it’s unique identity and ended up being a plus for the show, not something it lacked. like, i don’t know if the visual humor of tucker and church throwing a rock through the teleporter and it coming out black would have been as funny as just the delivery of “WE THREW ROCKS THROUGH IT” “yeah, and they came out the other side didn’t they?”

the teleporter is another example of them having to give a bit of personality and new traits to the halo objects 

they reference lopez dancing in the background of a scene and say jason (tucker’s va) was the one to improvise it, but it doesn’t happen on the remastered graphics. i cross-referenced with the original upload and I think they’re referring to when lopez’s pixel in the background changes for a second at this timestamp, but the quality is so bad it’s hard to tell

there was absolute hysteria about tex on the RT forums because tex was in the original intro with the cloaking device, so for the first few episode before she showed up, people would claim any graphical glitch or weird amalgamation of pixels had to be tex, and insisted RT actually put her in the background of every episode. this wasn’t true at all but it’s funny to think of old RT fans furiously posting screenshots of nothing to the rvb forums insisting they found him. it was funny enough to them that they never shut it down

the warthog had rules that only characters of the same color could be in the same warthog in s1, so they used post-production to splice shots together whenever you see grif and simmons in the same car in halo 1

this broke one of their rules where they tried to make most of the series things that you could actually replicate in halo yourself if you wanted to

the shot of the warthog flying over the camera where you can see the underside when the reds ambush is one of geoff’s favorite shots in season 1, and also it was first take

geoff also really likes how the bullet casings from the machine gun fly off and frame the background of some of the shots when simmons is assaulting the rock the blues are behind. he said he thought it was really interesting and dynamic and then would log on to the forums and read a post from a 14 year old about how boring everything was and they were all just standing around and would want to strangle them

the original visuals would often have blood splatters or explosions going off where they weren’t supposed to be, because tucker’s va thought that blowing everyone up and ruining their work was funny (he was right)

the control for throwing grenades was really finnicky in general, if they set down a controller to stop using it there was a high chance that character would throw a grenade and blow up the whole shoot. “not a common problem in traditional filmmaking” says burnie

they kept tucker in the black armor for a while because burnie could never find a chance for the characters to have a chance to breathe and wipe off his armor

geoff likes how the scene with grif and simmons being targeted by a tank because its true to life, he loves gus as a friend but would sell him out in a second

its hard to get shots of explosions happening near the camera because the explosions would just kill the cameraman lol

they also ended up blowing up grif and simmons around 40 or 50 times, just for the shot where the two of them are crouched behind a rock while shelia fires at them, which got made into an outtake

burnie is very excited about the church’s death scene and called it an inspired choice, but then said it was also a horrible choice because it was hard as hell to make him semitransparent whenever he showed up

they tried to use the in-game engine shake whenever an explosion went off near a character as much as possible 

the shots you think would take hours and hours, like the warthog flipping up on top of the base and sliding into place, only took 4 tries. they seemed to get lucky with the stuff you’d expect to be hard like complicated actions and then got fucked by the stuff you’d think was simple like standing around and talking

sarge in a plane at command is the only shot they used from the halo singleplayer 

burnie had to avoid giving long lines to most of the characters because nobody was a professional actor (except for joel, so they gave caboose longer lines). matt hullum was great at making shit up on the spot though

sarge only had 4 lines in (episode 18? i think he says) and for those 4 lines matt hullum somehow ad-libbed 58 minutes of recording to be cut down. he was literally just obsessed with ad-libbing. god what i wouldn’t give to have those original recordings of sarge just being completely bonkers

blue command was originally played by someone called Randal Glass who originally made videos on his own website in halo of him exploiting the physics engine (for example, him using tons of grenades to propel a warthog 10,000 feet in the air) which ended up inspiring them for some of their shots of the warthog flying around as an homage to his stuff. 

(this is the cursed, wrong, strange vic that we see for a little bit before he ends up getting vicified by burnie in the second season. I’m not at commentary 2 yet but I’m pretty sure it’ll be because of scheduling errors, but honestly, burnie’s vic is funnier. sorry for the additional editorializing) 

in order to get church to be transparent, they would have to shoot every shot twice, one with church in it and one with just the background, and layer them on top of each other and turn down the opacity. this is a simple solution but ended up being a pain if there were any other characters other than church in the shot, or when they’d forget to shoot the background without church and have to go back and re-film everything.

the main questions asked on their forums was- will tex ever be in an episode, are you ever going to use another map, and then (after episode 8) will church ever come back? and they answered all of those questions at the same time with the sidewinder gag.

there were two real groups of people that worked on red vs blue- the austin crew, who worked on websites that failed like drunkgamers, and the LA crew, who worked on movies that no one saw, who then came together to “make the worst failure of their career” with red vs blue

12 people worked on season 1, and 8 of them were voice actors only, leaving them with only a 4 person production crew

the bullet holes they actually wanted for the shots (tex using caboose as target practice) would fade instantly, but if they accidentally made a bullet hole it seemed to stay forever and they couldn’t get rid of it, leading to them having to come up with Halo Engine Bullet Hole theories to figure out why (hours and hours of shooting walls trying to figure out a pattern that they never nailed down, according to geoff)

it is pretty funny hearing them talk about the reticle in the center of the screen when the graphics are completely updated. i have no idea what youre talking about lads this is full HD no UI what reticle

it’s very hard to make a character look like they’re talking if they’re holding a flag or, basically anything except for the pistol.

geoff makes fun of burnie for the pity party they’re throwing for themselves- hard to make a character look like they’re talking, hard to match up eyelines, hard to get shots with the camo unit because it runs out so quickly. geoff makes sure to also emphasize that they were drunk for most of the production

there was a line of several donut characters all ready for the part with the grenade on his head because of how tricky of a shot it was- they’d have a donut step into place, throw a grenade at him, kill him, have donut number two step up, throw a grenade, etc etc.

there was controversy on the forums over who died in donut’s explosion- people were certain one of grif or simmons had to be dead. burnie makes fun of them for thinking they’d just kill off all of red team 

the sniper rifle shots are mostly cheated to get a good shot- you don’t actually see those angles from halfway across the map where the character holding the sniper rifle is standing. it makes the sniper rifles look like they work really well 

the even numbered episodes were more popular than the odd numbered episodes, which made them debate if they should end the season on an odd episode

i believe they’re saying that episode 11 was originally going to end after tex ran off to get the flag 2 minutes in, but they ended up combining two episodes to beef up the runtime 

the question on the rvb forums was always “if you can see them with the sniper rifle why not just pull the trigger” 

the ‘twist’ of tex being a woman was their first big twist and it got guessed by a ton of people and they concluded that was a problem with trying to put twists in serial shows. burnie than pointedly says “we won’t try anything like that again, we won’t try to hide something” 

obviously they do try stuff like that again, thank god, seasons 6 and 10 thank them for it. however from the way burnie says it i’m literally pretty sure he’s being incredibly sly and referencing the fact that he’s already put in hints about church being an AI, since i’ve heard people say that he started planning that as early as season 1

they talk about what parts fans latch onto and make content for- an early psa tucker references a drawing he made of an octopus flipping you off 8 times, and apparently they got TONS of submissions for that. burnie says he made 40 of them his desktop background. they say they want to find their favorite and make it into a tshirt- i wonder if they ever actually did that. ultimate rare rvb merch

they gave away dvds to the original sponsors as a thanks for sponsoring

they needed 17 TB of bandwidth only 3 months in which was their biggest cost and challenge. a company called 01 communications donated a ton of bandwidth to them to help out

they looked at pennyarcade and homestar runner as references for delivering serialized web content and how they were able to support their site without running ads, which is what lead to them going the sponsors and merch monetization route instead

the yellow/orange joke seems to come from the fact that church refers to grif as the “orange one” in season 1 which lead to them getting fan emails of people telling them “actually, he’s yellow” 

hegahergerk was one of matt hullum’s improvs, he was just told to make a “possession noise” and he gave them a few options. hegahergerk was the best. 

when church posesessed sarge, they weren’t sure if they wanted to have burnie reading the lines as church pretending to be sarge, or matt reading the lines pretending to be church pretending to be sarge, and they recorded both versions. they ended up going with burnie’s because it made more sense

matt’s voice acting was so strong with codifying the sound effects he used for being possessed that by the second time they were able to have it happen off screen and the viewer could still understand what happened

tex saying that sarge is pretty short to be church is a star wars reference to when luke rescues leia

the idea to have church and sarge in the spirit world was made on the monday, before the episode was actually released on friday. they said it took them forever to get the voice filter right

the wind sound effect was burnie. he’s proud of it. he wasn’t able to replicate it on the commentary though because he had too much whiskey

the heaven and hell jokes were a reference to a film burnie and matt had worked on called ‘the schedule’ (which is now lost media)

they were originally going to bring shelia back as a ghost tank like church coming back as a ghost but couldn’t figure out how to fit it in, so they put her in the purgatory sequence instead 

geoff says that its sweet that grif cares that sarge is dead considering how much sarge hates grif. they were originally going to have that scene be a turning point where sarge would like grif after he saved sarge’s life but it was ‘too big of a leap’ 

people didn’t understand that church offering less and less money to take sarge to heaven was, a joke, and they thought it was just them being inconsistent 

typically machinima wasn’t done on console, it was done in quake or half life- they were actually thinking about doing a project in half life 2 but the source code was stolen and leaked which pushed the release date back several months

the trailer for blood gulch chronicles was actually made for their drunkgamers website, which went under, so they gave up on the series for a while and didn’t release episode 1 until 6 months after the trailer

they said they made a conscious decision to “stop doing vulgarity” or at least try to limit it for their younger audience, after around episode six or seven

burnie says there are a lot of dumb vulgar jokes you could make about the pink armor but ‘why make them’ if you can be funny without it

they thought it was funny to use a huge rifle as the speech unit for lopez and pretend it could fit inside his head

lopez was originally just going to be a mexican guy and then they decided to make him a robot. it was also matt’s idea to make tex a woman

they weren’t sure if they should put in the “shock bracelet” joke because they weren’t sure if it was too outdated or if people will get it. i can say 20 years later, i have no idea what they’re fucking talking about

the spanish was just made with an online translator babelfish- burnie read it on his own the first time but gus (simmons’ va) ended up helping with the pronunciation

they lost a few concepts because they were busy wrapping up the season and focusing on developing the website and the dvd 

they wanted to have lopez’s introduction be a pov shot where you could see some text in the corner of his visor. they ended up reusing this gag in season 2 when they bring lopez back to fix shelia!

they got invited to some film festivals which ended up eating into their production time 

burnie recording his season 1 commentary voice: it was cool but we’re over the hey, aren’t we great, an internet phenomenon thing aren’t we? now we’re just focused on the episodes

no burnie. you will not be over it 

burnie and geoff both worked 45 hour a week day jobs and then would work for 30-40 hours a week on red vs blue when they got home

the hardest shot they did was one where caboose is turning around and talking at the same time tex was moving and fliping over the tank, and they got it on their first take

when tucker talks about caboose keeping an eye on red base, it cuts to caboose and you can see he’s actually staring back at blue base. burnie thought it was really funy but nobody got this joke when it aired lol

jason and gus moved out of town as soon as red vs blue started getting popular. halfway thru the series tucker’s lines start being recording over the phone instead of in the studio 

there’s also one episode where his brother plays tucker, since there was a huge blackout where he lived in new york, so they had to use his little brother instead 

in the final episodes people would complain about characters sounding different and insisting that the voice actors changed 

church was the boring exposition character- there was always a battle between pushing the plot along and making jokes

burnie: “i find it funny as tough as tex is, she’d actually be offended that she’s not considered a real girl”

a few lines from the original release were actually cut for the dvd- lines where there were big run ons of characters talking at the end of the episode over the black slate. for a few of the funny ones they went back and recorded more footage so they could include the lines in the dvd, but there are some that they ended up just getting rid of.

burnie also says he hopes people have it archived on their hard drives because after the dvd release they won’t be able to find them anywhere else?! so i guess those lines are lost to time

they considered calling caboose “omalley” in the new intro they made for the dvd

they tried using online sound directories but they usually ended up getting stuff that didn’t really fit, and they ended up doing their own foley work

they tried to end the season with a lot of shots that had been used throughout the whole season as a walk down memory lane

to get a cool effect, they used a shot of the warthog driving off from a distance that was just the halo camera focusing on other characters when your character had died and was waiting to respawn, which got a smoother camera motion and removed the reticle from the screen for a few seconds

the hissing noise of the bomb donut throws going across the gulch is also just burnie going hissssss

they would get some emails saying hey, really good webseries, you should get some adults to do the voices next time

#rvb #journal entry #rvb commentary

[january-summers]

So I've been assuming that Restoration is going to end up with Epsilon dying, with the entire season being him trying and failing and finally coming to terms with the fact that he's going to die because it's the only way to save the others.

And this assumption was based on the idea that "new season retcons all the seasons you fans hated, haha whoopsie no it doesn't" is pretty much the last possible way RT could screw the fandom over.

@tvckerwash brought up some stuff about rampancy and metastability on one of my other posts, and one of his own posts, and it sort of got a pot on the mental back burner simmering.

Cause like, I'll admit I was an RVB fan first and I've only played like five minutes of any halo game (got shot while I was trying to figure out the controls until i just gave up on the idea that I'd ever have five seconds to myself and took over ten years to touch another first person game), my knowledge of the lore comes more from the fantastic essay videos of the more hardcore fans, so I don't know that much about rampancy and metastability beyond pretty much the basics.

But I am wondering if I've been looking at Epsilon's simulations the wrong way.

Melancholia, Anger, Jealousy, Metastability.

I've been assuming that Epsilon shattering was the end point, but only broken things need restoration. So what if the simulations aren't just to drive home the point that he doesn't get to stay, but to let go of the jealousy of them getting to live and being able to live without him, of them letting go of him, because the only way out is through.

It's not Epsilon's last hurrah, it's speed running strats, Epsilon is trying to hack himself to Metastability because that's the only way he gets them all out of this: Metastable or Bust.

...

Or I'm talking out my ass because I haven't slept properly* all week and honestly after Shizno Paradox (time travel shenanigans my beloved) and Zero, we might as well brace ourselves for The Triplets and Sherry's team to bust in riding purple space kangaroos that shoot lasers from their anatomically incorrect nipples eyes.

*I legit thought I'd solved for why the live action "silver timeline" halo show was so ... the way it is, and that the answer was the gen/jen/geo theory that @joltning introduced me to, because you know who else is green? thankfully(?) master chief is wearing the wrong helmet... when he's wearing one, anyway.

#rvb #red vs blue #ai program epsilon #epsilon (rvb) #rvb restoration pre-chatter #crack takes in the author's commentary

[chromaticroses]

sometimes i genuinely feel like i’m insane when it comes to online media analysis because like. i’ll come out of like the barbie movie or the newest scott pilgrim like “woof, that completely failed at what it was trying to do there, huh” and then i’ll come back on here to people celebrating it as this feminist masterpiece and i’m just left thinking. did we even watch the same thing???

#then i’ll talk to my friends and be like. oh no okay i’m not off base people just refuse to engage with media critically #i’ll look at a part of something and go ‘oof that was really a miss there’ and turn around and there are ppl acting like that exact thing is #the most poignant commentary they’ve ever read and it’s like. huh?? what??? no thats. thats the bad part??? thats the thing they got wrong?? #i don’t know man. i don’t know #sometimes ​i’m really glad we’re in the rvb fandom bc even tho i do see a lot of horrible media literacy most of the fandom is in agreement #the show has major MAJOR problems. i don’t feel completely awash in a sea of surface level takes and terrible analyses

[leonardalphachurch]

actually looking at torrian’s tweets if you shittalk zero anymore i’m just fucking blocking you. no more attacking artists because they were in terrible positions and weren’t able to create a good product because of it. move the fuck on with yourselves. one bad season of a webshow is not more important than the abuses workers faced creating it

#everyone knows zero wasn’t very good! it’s not relevant anymore! #it literally does not matter! move the fuck on! #ANY commentary on zero MUST be made while acknowledging the working conditions the artists were in during it #rvb #red vs blue

[brittlebutch]

better meta writers have probably said this before me but i do think that maine’s injury is a Vital aspect to why sigma was able to turn him into the meta

speculation on character personality wrt whether the meta would have been a Thing if sigma had been paired with anyone else, i think, overlooks the fact that sigma had complete control over what maine said and who he spoke to. regardless of whether sigma convinced/manipulated maine into working with him or gradually essentially lobotomized maine until sigma could take control of him, the fact that maine was silenced and utterly isolated in plain sight means that he couldn’t tell anyone what was happening to him or ask anyone for help, creating the perfect environment for sigma to do whatever the hell he wanted to him

#N posts stuff #what do you do if your only form of communication is monitored censored and reinterpreted? #especially if it can speak for itself as well and has its own goals and plans #since AI induced brain damage is a running theme in rvb i am inclined to go with that possibility #bc i also think it means wash continuing to Only call maine ‘meta’ when they work together in s7/8 important #not as commentary on Wash’s character but as an indication that even though the AI are gone maine is still not Himself #there’s still some Aspect of him that’s absent. he may not be an AI conglomerate anymore but he’s still not quite maine #which Also makes his attempted theft of Texas and Epsilon a bit more interesting than just #‘oh he just. really liked having good armor’. instead it’s him trying to fill a part of his brain that was torn out #first by sigma (pieces of Himself) and then by wash’s EMP (all the AI that replaced him) #N watches stuff

[t4tails]

I remember showing the short term memory rvb clip to my dad. He loved it and he watched s6 with me cause I happened to be n he loved wash, said it’d be funny to watch him grocery shop. Anyways cool final rvb season, kinda mad they just made anything past s13 non canon but whatever

they really said fuck red team development 😭 i couldnt follow s16 because it got waayy too fantasy for me but FUCK. season 15 was GOOD. and grimmons fucked in a CLOSET. and LOCUS WAS THERE! also yeah it would be fun to watch wash grocery shop. hed probably be oddly good at it

#og post #ask #anon #i dont know what ill do if they dont confirm grimmons. maybe commit murder suicide #but for serious i think s15 works in the shows greater commentary on bureaucracy and the military. and its funny #the 2 important rvb facets #s16 felt waaaay too meta. like idk they just kind of lost the plot #which makes me sad because :( i <3 kai and donut <3 and it might as well be their season :(

[dynamitedragon]

Ok so, consider this, you know how in that one episode in season 11 Grif says that he’s an ‘emotional eater’ and then you consider that he’s been mentioned eating for almost his whole time in the show (not the first few seasons which I know is due to not having decided wholly on the characters yet but I’m still gonna make it work for my theory) and so you may ask yourself ‘what does the laziest person in rvb have to be emotional about?’

I offer you this:

Being in love with his best friend and never being able to say anything about it.

Such a thing may weigh on the mind of an emotional eater and trigger their constant desire for food. Which if you consider him falling in love with Simmons as the series goes on it would explain him developing an overeating problem. And I would love if after confessing his feelings to Simmons he finally turns down food and get over his (possible) eating disorder.

#that is all I have to say for now #headcanon #obviously #but it’s been running around in my brain for days now #and this is not like a commentary on grifs weight which I don’t want him to lose #I like fat Grif #and would love if he could be fat without jokes but I know that’s asking a lot #but it’s more about the idea that he’s ignoring those feelings by way of food #eating disorder #eating disorder mention #rvb #red vs blue #red vs blue season 11 #grimmons #dexter grif #dick Simmons

[heroesxdemons]

"Hey."

"Yeah?"

"You ever wonder why we're here?"

RIP Roosterteeth

#lightning empress: amelia #shadow demon: sombra #ic dash commentary #i'll miss RT #granted I loved them years ago and don't really love em now but now that they'll be gone i just feel....pity #Time to rewatch all of RVB i guess

[justanotherfanartist]

taps mic. ahem.

help a student write a dumb rvb research paper? pretty please?? for funsies???

This is exactly what it sounds like.

My current final of the year for my language composition class is a massive synthesis + argumentative research paper on any topic of our choosing, and Roosterteeth + RVB has too much messy junk going on that I’m knee-deep invested in mentally at this point to pass up the opportunity to write about it.

And yknow, I see a ton of media analysis posts coming out of the fandom all the time and I’ve always loved seeing it and reading into it and sharing ideas and whatnot and this feels like my way of doing that too.

Essentially what I’m reaching out for is for you guys to help me crowdsource resources and share your ideas with me to include in my term paper*.

things that would be wizard cool of you to send me are:

any interviews or behind the scenes with the cast and creators you happen to know of

your own analysis or hot takes of the characters or the show as a whole

what the show has meant to you

any clips of old Roosterteeth expos

for the older fans, a rough idea of what the release timeline looked like for the episodes and what the buildup and fan reaction was for each one

any commentary or hot takes on how the fandom has changed since you joined/that you know of

what Roosterteeth did wrong (writing wise and irl)

what Roosterteeth did right (writing wise and irl)

tropes within the show you noticed whether originated by the show or not

tropes within the fandom, things like similar portrayals or bad/good takes on characters or face canons that span artists

literally anything you can give me, media, commentary, or opinion wise

(not to say I can’t find things on my own, I already have, but this is also about varying opinions and the general outlook of the fandom as a whole and measuring the broader impact of a show like RvB and it would be incredibly cool of you to help me out even with just crumbs of character opinions)

The idea is to get evidence together from clips, personal anecdotes, and opinions so I can present an accurate read on the fandom, especially when it comes to fan interpretation of RVB vs Roosterteeth’s intentions for the show (and behavior as a company) and explore what the show was supposed to be, what it literally is, how people see it, what its impact has been, and a general overview of the it’s legacy and lifespan, that sort of thing.

My thesis is most likely going to end up something in the ballpark of “How Roosterteeth exemplifies the Franchisation of Indie Media” or “Why RvB is one of the most complicated/misunderstood/divisive shows in modern media” or “How Fandoms interpret and recontextualize media”

I’m going to guess that I likely won’t be able to post the finished paper up online without a solid buffer window to avoid the two mortifying scenarios that are (a) being accused of creative plagiarism and (b) having to tell my instructor that the tumblr account with a 100% match to my course final is, in fact, my tumblr account, are two things I desperately want to avoid.

However if I can, simply for the sake of contributing to the fandom and creating something for us to all contribute to and discuss and crediting various peoples’ help and input would be ideal and, if at all possible, that would be the end goal.

so yeah. if you’re up for it I’d love for you to dm me your thoughts or (more conveniently for the both of us) fill out this Google form down here!

*im not gonna, like, repost your detailed character analysis as my own or something. I’m just trying to find some good quotes, general opinions, and ideas from the fandom so that I can accurately represent them and do our little corner of the internet Justice. And also because the audience of a work is a massive factor in media analysis lmfao. and also to create a community sourced Fun Thing™️ we can all look at and bite the corners off of instead of watching Roosterteeth crash and burn in the backgroun

#rvb #red vs blue #roosterteeth #research #me and my dumb little projects #rvb paper

[demon-of-side-quest-hell]

"Seeing what on Earth went wrong"

(Commentary under the cut!)

character belongs to @joltning! Thank you for sending in the request!

Reblogs > Likes If you would like your Halo or RvB Spartan/Elite rendered pleass shoot me a message or ask!

Okay so originally I had an entirely different idea in mind for the render of recreating a doodle of Josies but I was told the character I wanted to have be the POV wasn't theirs so I changed the idea.

Near the end what I was doing was mainly fiddling with lights and camera angles but FUCK was it annoying to figure out how to do the sword glowing (tutorials make me wanna claw out my ears and eyes)

There's some texture funkiness around the armpit but I can't/won't do anything about it since it's well outside my wheelhouse, maybe one day, but not today.

The lighting and color grading makes it look someone more orange to me? but that honestly might just be my stupid eyes since I'm so used to orange spartans.

Spartans in reach have such fat asses that I actually curved him inward real hard so it didn't look painful as hell with how much the back arches.

Unlike the other one I basically knew immediately what I wanted and how I was gonna get it so I didn't need multiple renders to convey the ideas.

Also this one is at A4 paper resolution, just in case you wanted to print it out ig lol.

#rvb #halo #leave the demon to it's requests #reqs open #requests open #taking requests #halo reach #blender #red vs blue #leave the demon to its fandoms #leave the demon to its art

[bloodgulchblog]

Apparently RvB Restoration is only gonna have 7 episodes, and you have to be a member of RT FIRST to watch them. Amazing how RT managed to ruin all the goodwill they got from announcing it in just a few months.

RT always resented how they couldn't get the RvB core audience to care about their other properties, from what I saw back when.

Anyway: my commentary is mostly "lol".

#fun zita fact i watched all of season 15 back in the day via the pirate bay #someone was uploading them one week at a time #true hero

[eri-223]

#poll

[saint-bestial]

i finished rvb s10 the other day and i just want to ramble about carolina and director thoughts.

it’s so fucking sad that the director basically ignores his familial relationship with carolina because he can’t let go of his dead wife. his own daughter is right there no doubt also grieving her mother but he instead chooses to chase a ghost. based on their interactions prior to their confrontation at the end of the season, you would never know they were family. the director is basically a huge warning of what will happen if you can’t let go of the past, you’ll just end up neglecting what you have.

and i think the confrontation provides a bit of good commentary about punishment as well. throughout the season carolina is trying to find the director to kill him, make him pay for all the wrong he’s done. yet when they finally meet she doesn’t kill or even apprehend him. it wouldn’t change anything. he’s already broken down by his own hands, watching the last clip of allison over and over swearing to himself he’ll bring her back right this time. there doesn’t need to be an external consequence, his life is a living hell as it is and carolina can recognize that. she even obliges his request for her pistol.

i love carolina’s resolution to do better at the end. she can’t go back and fix her wrongdoings, all she can do is be better in the future. she won’t end up like her father, so ensnared in the past that he’s trapped in a hopeless cycle that breaks him to nothing. you can either let it consume you or move on from it and improve as a person, recognizing new opportunities in the present. and yet there’s an acknowledgement that doing good now won’t make her good as a whole, but better is good enough and is something to strive for. i really wish that mindset was more prevalent in the world.

anyway i love carolina

#saint bestial rambles

[leonardalphachurch]

uhhh. rvb steamer au.

church is like. guy who gets mad at video games. you know the type.

tucker DOES stream games but tends spend more time talking to chat and is basically a just talking streamer at this point

grif and simmons are nearly always guesting in each others streams. they say it’s because their roommates so they can’t stream at the same time but it works fine when they do group streams 🤔

grid does a lot of commentary/reaction streams bc you can do those lying down

simmons plays a lot of puzzle games and bans anyone in his chat who says he’s bad at them. they all move to grif’s chat to shittalk simmons instead

donut doesn’t really stream games very much but he IS on tiktok promoting every beauty/wellness/diet scam imaginable. not because he’s trying to scam people but because he truly believes in every one of them

kai also doesn’t stream but she has an OF and guests in blue teams streams. sometimes invited sometimes not

sarge is a weird old man that plays like. historically accurate rts games and literally everyone is like. how the fuck did this old guy get into your guys group and none of the reds and blues can remember

caboose streams like once a month just the weirdest things possible. like socpens but you can’t tell if he’s serious or not. or if it was an accident. he’s by far the most popular of the group.

#rvb streamer au #these are all like 2 months old from discord but. here a gift to you now.

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

There's a real double-think to a lot of the RWDE. Rooster Teeth is framed as this company that sold RWBY out to the man after Monty died or isn't the crew of dudebros when it was just RvB and a few commentaries. Yet when RT shows concern for their staff in trying to avoid as much crunch as possible even if we miss a year of RWBY, the RWDE turns on them for them. I'm sorry but is late stage capitalism a bad thing or a good thing?

Seriously anyone who thinks that RWBY avoiding crunch is a bad thing needs to get the fuck over it and wait it out. The more examples we have that avoiding crunch is not a bad thing, the better case we can build against it. Gods know they need it given how Texas is actively hostile to unions.

[goodluckdetective]

Welcome to the blog

Who are you?

I’m Iz (she/her) a late 20 something white cis lesbian who has been on this website for a very unsexy decade.

What kind of blog is this?

I post whatever I want on here there is no theme. But generally you’ll find stuff about media I like, arts and crafts, cats, occasional political commentary, tabletop games and other stuff. My interests change but I do tag for everything (almost always by the name of the thing) so Tumblr savior to your hearts content should you not want to see my latest interest.

Tags specific to this blog:

#iz-rambles is texts posts I make myself or posts where I add significant commentary.

#Iz-writes is for fanfiction I have written

#Iz-draws is for art

#agent-Ginny is for my cat (She is named after the state not the book series written by a notable TERF).

Are you on AO3?

Yep, you can find me at Goodluckdetective.

Fandoms I have written for:

Batman/Batfamily (comics)

TMNT (2003, comics)

Ace Attorney

RVB

Good Omens

Supernatural

Overwatch

The Magnus Archives

Dragon Age

And an assortment of other fandoms and things

Can I send you prompts?

Sure, but I make no promises as to filling them. I don't write as much as I used to.

Can I make podfic/remix/drawing for your writing?

Yeah sure, though if you’re gonna monetize it, please run it past me first. I’ll probably still say yes, I just want a heads up.

#iz rambles #about