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Season 2 Premiere of Red vs Blue
brent_linux writes "Red VS Blue, winner of several awards, has started up their second season. If you missed their first season you can pick up the DVD from their online store. To view the high quality videos you have to donate money to the cause, but like before you can view the lower quality ones for free."
Not only is this a dupe, they're on the second episode of the second season. This might have been postworthy if it had gone up a week and a half ago.
The early episodes are beyond comparison, very top notch stuff.
However, as the first season got on, the writing seemed to degrade noticeably and the plot got a little wonky at the end when Church decides to do that thing he does (avoiding spoilage).
I'd advise them to slow down a bit, produce fewer episodes and take us back to the excellent writing of the first 5 episodes.
>>esr>>
the red vs. blue is reminiscent of the existentialist thought processes. it reminds me of samuel beckett's "waiting for godot" -- really great material, especially if you've ever played halo and contemplated on life
Not to be the neighborhood scold, but this attitude is really insulting.
I don't mean the "I don't not want to pay for it" attitude -- hey, there's lots of things we all don't pay for. But the idea that you would only feel guilty if you use their bandwidth. It kind of implies that the "valuable" part of Red Vs. Blue is the money that goes in to hosting their site and streaming the media instead of, oh, I dunno, the time and sweat and effort it takes to produce something -- anything -- worth watching.
I know you didn't mean it that way, but I just had to say it. If you're going to feel guilty about not donating, feel guilty because you're not paying them for the huge effort they put in to create something you enjoy. If and when you decide to donate (or buy a DVD), do it because you want to reward them for their creativity. Not for their bandwidth.
Its not insulting in the least bit to have the attitude of "its on the Internet, its machima, it should be free." We aren't talking about a corporation here. I don't feel guilty reading 10 web comics in the morning even though they put their time into it. If you want to create something for the Internet then don't expect to become rich off of it. Red and Blue was driven from word of mouth from the free versions.
I understand they work hard and want some money for their series so they offer a high-res version for paying customers. But I shouldn't feel the least bit guilty about wanting a bit torrent for the free version. If they don't want a free version then they should only sell high res versions and dvd (although the success of the show would be horrible because word of mouth on forums completely drive their high-res sales).