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."

Comments

Eh?

[lukewarmfusion]

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.

Puma? What's a Puma?

[drfishy]

Because of Red vs Blue myself and all my friends have started calling the rocket launching Warthogs Pumas...

Information please

[MacBrave]

Since I'm cable TV challenged and the site appears to be /.'ed, could someone explain what Red vs Blue is about?

Re:Information please

[merlin_jim]

Red vs. Blue is machinima, that is, animation made with the help of consumer 3D software; in this case, Halo for the XBox.

So they took a bunch of guys, hooked them up in Halo, wrote a script, got some cameraguys, and recorded a DVD. It's VERY VERY funny stuff.

Re:Information please

[geekdoc]

Ok, so here's the skinny.

Red vs. Blue is based on Halo, and in fact, the videos are created by a group of guys choreographing the movements of a multiplayer Halo game to follow their story.

The story is a relatively simple one. Between the Covenant invasion (Halo) and the invasion of Earth (Halo 2), a brutal civil war broke out between the human marines (the reds versus the blues). While in most places, the fight is ugly and bloody, the boys in Blood Gulch Canyon can't seem to figure out why the hell they are where they are, seeing as though their location holds no strategic value.

Throw in lines like "Women are like Voltron. The more you can hook up, the better it gets," an overbearing sergeant, and a retard of a blue recruit, and hillarity ensues.

I hope this helps.

Why does it have to be Red vs Blue?

[WIAKywbfatw]

Why do Red and Blue have to be up against one another? Can't they just get along? I bet if they worked together they could make a lovely shade of purple.

Re:Why does it have to be Red vs Blue?

[AveryT]

Reminds me of the joke about the two ocean tankers that collided. One was carrying red paint, the other blue paint.

Both crews were marooned...

Re:I wish they'd put more effort back into writing

[Marsala]

I know whatcha mean....

I feel the exact same way about fetchmail.

:)

I keed! I keed!

Favorite quote from episode 20

[Ignorant Aardvark]

Medic: "I'm a pacifist."
Soldier 1: "You're something that babies suck on?"
Soldier 2: "Isn't that a pedofile?"
Medic: "I'm a PACIFIST."
Soldier 2: "Ohh, my mind was on something completely different..."

I'm doing this from memory, sorry if it's slightly off, but I found it to be hilariously funny.

Re:High quality videos

[peterb]

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.

Re:High quality videos

[SkunkPussy]

here is a link to a torrent from suprnova:

Season 1 Episodes 1-19