Review of Red vs. Blue Season 1

I recently got my hands on the full DVD set of Red vs. Blue so I felt I should share what I thought of it with you, the interweb! First off, the Remastered edition has the entire video taking up all of the screen without those black bars on the top and bottom of the screen that usually cut off most of the video. This made it much cleaner and easier to watch, and downright more enjoyable.

So the last time I spoke of this, we got a simple introduction of the characters: there's a Red Team and a Blue Team in the middle of a boxed canyon and they're fighting each other. The Red Team's rookie, Donut has accident secured the Blue Team's flag and Caboose team kills Church with the tank, Sheila. Church returns as a ghost to warn the Blue's not to bring someone named Tex to the canyon to get involved. However, Tucker and Caboose have already hired Tex through Blue Command to help secure the Blue Flag from the Reds. Tex is successful but is captured...and a girl!! A badass girl, I might mention. Church mounts a rescue mission and Tex is saved. Back at the Blue Base, Tex asks for help in destroying the AI she received in her Freelancer training and repairs Sheila to mount an attack on the Reds. Church attempts to warn the Reds of the attack, but ends up possessing their robot who only speaks Spanish. Donut, who was previously wounded by Tex via plasma grenade, gets his revenge by chucking a grenade across the canyon right into the driver canopy of Sheila, killing Tex. With her last breath, Tex thanks Church for ridding her of the AI...but something seems off with Caboose...

At first look, Red vs. Blue seemed like a foolish series that was just going to be about pointless laughs. As much as I love that about it, the story has only just begun. This series has proven to be an in depth plot conflict with more twists and characters to come. The random jokes and crazy lines are what make this series one of the best things I've ever seen!

Stay tuned for my review of season 2.

Review of Red vs Blue Episode 1 "Why Are We Here?"

Rooster Teeth's machinima series started back in 2003, and what great progress it has made since then. Using Halo's multiplayer function, the guys at Rooster Teeth made the first episode that started their trek to greatness.

The first episode gives us a little introduction to the series as well as 5 of the main characters: Tucker and Church of the Blue Team and Simmons, Grif and Sarge of the Red Team. Both teams are stationed inside a boxed canyon with no way in or out and the two team are caught in a never ending battle of...for a lack of a better term, wits and skill? Would those be the right adjectives to describe them?

Anyway, right off the bat, Grif goes into a rant about his own existence are Simmons poses a simple question "why are we here?". Simmons is confused at Grif's answer and remarks that he only meant why are they in the box canyon. Add in a one liner about Master Chief and this series is already doing well with humor.

The point of view then switches to that of Tucker and Church, the two members of the Blue Team who are spying on the Red Team with the sniper rifle, something that Tucker complains about never getting to use. Church and Tucker immediately fight about what the Reds are doing, something that will set up future tension and arguments between the two...teammates.

The scene switches back to the Red Base as Sarge arrives and orders Grif and Simmons to come down from the base.

A relatively good start to the Red vs. blue series but trust me, there is more greatness to come.