Red vs Blue Restoration Discussion

Another fun thing that I noticed is that since JD is now too old to voice Theta, they got Burnie's youngest son Finn to voice him. Thought that was cute.

Watching this felt kind of surreal. There were some really awesome moments, but I think overall it left me wanting more? Obviously pacing was a huge issue. It's crazy how short this season is and nothing feels like it has room to breathe. I love the idea of Sarge's death and some of the scenes it led to with Grif and Simmons, but it unfortunately didn't have the impact I think it should've. I also feel like there are some logical stretches to explain stuff like how Doc somehow died saving Wash on Chorus. I also wish Tucker was actually in the season, and didn't only have one scene as himself which really doesn't offer any resolution. On the plus side, I love the Simmons development which has been sorely lacking. The idea of the Tex and Carolina fight was cool, and I adored the scene of Tex and Church in the memory unit together. That was perfect. Unfortunately many of the scenes that I should've connected with more were held back by things like Caboose's voice, or sometimes rough looking animation. I still enjoyed it, and I'm not sure how exactly you end this series, but I definitely wanted a little more!

“Never say goodbye. If you don't say goodbye, then you aren't really gone, you just, aren't here right now”-carolina

I have so many thoughts so here's my scattershot of them. All my critiques can be excused by RT dying and the team working on a much lower budget.

• This felt like a full 180 minutes worth of ideas condensed into 80 minutes. The long comedy bits like the work from home security team were funny, and in a longer season they wouldn't be so put of place. But when we're racing to the end on a reduced timetable I wish they gave us more character moments

• The Wash storyline REEKS of this. It feels like in a longer season this would've been given alot more focus and it tied into the main narrative somehow. But instead in just served as random cutaway that got Wash to the final battle, instead of him just being with the team like he should have been. It felt like they were working around Sharrons tight schedule.

• Like Tucker being the Meta would've been such a cool idea for a full 3 season arc back in the golden era, but for what we got in this I enjoyed it.

• as a consequence of the reduced runtime and possible VA disputes and scheduling conflicts, I couldn't help but feel the lack of Wash, Carolina and ESPECIALLY Donut this time around.

• That Tex moment of "I'm based on THEIR memories" moment is an all time great. Not just because they got Kathleen back (I'm shocked btw) but also because it perfectly completes Texs arc after all this time. She finally gets to be more than what she was made from. It's beautifully. And that last moment where she calls herself Alison Church. I cried

• Does anyone else feel like the "best throw ever, of all time" moment at the end was a scene written for Donut but Dan couldn't make it back so they just had Simmons do it?

• Sarge is my favorite character so his death was predictable but really sad. One missed opportunity they had with that though was calling back to the S1 scene where Sarge told Church he wanted to tell Grif he was his son when he was dying as one last attempt to mess with him. But I get why they didn't do it. Sarges gravestone at Blood Gulch was beautifully somber

• I also feel like Junior should've at least come back in some way. They used CG elements all over that final fight and would've loved to see him come back to save his dad.

Idk, in the end, it's a nice little send-off to these characters I've loved for years. But it was just too short and i kept asking myself why certain characters werent there. I can't blame them, because, ya know, the company died. But it doesn't replace season 13 as the perfect end for me, this is just a nice little nostalgic trip down memory lane one last time instead of an actual full season imo.

To me this season felt like it was a Simulation. Church says as much "I don't think I got the voice right". I think they did it this way so if you like the S17 ending thats your canon ending. If not Here is this one

I think it was a great love song and send off to RvB, and there were enough nuggets of weirdness that you can say it’s a simulation and not canon, or can make it canon.

Things like Admiral Donut (mentioned by Grey at 27:25), Church saying he got Caboose’s voice wrong, Griff leaving, etc. can be chalked up to this is a simulation if you want to.

Same with saying it is the true ending and S15 - S18 were simulations.

At the end of the day, RvB is over, it was fun, it was a fun, yet not great final season, and as Griff said “I don’t know why we are here, but I’m glad I’m here with you”

I’m glad I got to experience and be apart of the RvB community my Entire life.

This wasn’t the best season of RVB, but it really did finish me off. 

Bow chicka bow wow

“Bow chicka bye now” being the last line in the series is fantastic

Gentlemen, looks like this is it.

>!Kinda wish they showed what happened after the end of S13 to explain what happened to Wash, how Doc died and where Donut is

I think the thing to take away from the entire series is that there's a time to let go.

The Director couldn't let go of Allison and dragged everyone around him through the dirt in the process. Chasing ghosts. Caboose couldn't let go of Church, and ends up miserable throughout most of the series trying to bring him back. Carolina couldn't let go of her spot as the best throughout seasons 9/10 and nearly died for it.

At the end of everything the only way anybody got closure was to destroy the memory unit with all the AI inside it. To let go of any chance of bringing back Church, Tex, Allison, Epsilon.

And now it's unfortunately time for us to say good-bye to Rooster Teeth and Red vs Blue. As much as we hate goodbyes.

The teleporter bit was probably my favourite part

I’m saying this jokingly but I think Burnie might hate Matt because he killed off both of his characters. Which is really saying something because he left caboose alive. /s

I'm really sad they couldn't get Lee Eddy back as four seven niner. She's always been one of my favorite characters.

On the other hand, I'm glad they got Kathleen back as Tex one last time. I was skeptical of the possibility given they parted on poor terms. But a final episode just wouldn't be complete without Tex to round everything off.

Donut only getting a single line was disheartening but I loved it

I enjoyed it. It wasn’t perfect. Not even close. But it was a fun ride, and I really enjoyed it. It was a throw away line, but epsilon telling other timelines they were real, means that this is just one of many possible ending.

I don’t see this as a true ending. I see it just as one of the simulations. And that’s great. I’d rather RVB have no real definitive ending. It means that people can choose how they personally believe the Reds and Blues stories should conclude.

All that being said, it was nice to see Tex again. Loved that there’s a timeline where Tex and Church get a happy ending, Simmons gets the leadership position he’s always wanted and grif get to go home. It was sad seeing Sarge die, and even sadder we never learned his real name /j.

I love these idiots so much, and I’m really going to miss them all.

Oh also ending the show with Vale Deah was great. I believe it was the credit song for Season 1, so this was perfect.

It was okay. For an ending, I am fine with it. It was a bit poorly paced and could've done with more runtime, but as an ending to Red vs. Blue I feel satisfied.

I was shocked and saddened to see Doc didn't make it off of the Staff of Charon. It was even more sad that Wash is the only one who cared or remembered (other than Carolina who was trying to console him).