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Red Vs. Blue Final Episode Airs
Wired discusses the last episode of the Red vs. Blue web series, which ends tonight with its 100th episode. The long-running show has been lauded as highly influential in the world of machinima, and made the folks at Rooster Teeth into household names among gamers. If you enjoyed RvB, their current project is a Machinima set in the Shadowrun FPS entitled 1-800-MAGIC. "'We didn't even know what machinima was,' says Burns. 'We played a ton of Halo at LAN parties because Xbox Live didn't exist yet. The humor of us yelling across the room led to Red vs. Blue.' The videos are recorded directly from three Xbox consoles running a linked game of Halo. Players on two consoles play the red and blue characters, and one player on a third game console records all the action from the first-person viewpoint. Burns ... promises that Wednesday's final episode will 'honor that unique distribution method -- we have the ability to do some things on the internet that you can't do in television or film.'"
Just kidding.
Who gives a fuck?
The following replies are posted by unwashed nerds.
Two weeks ago everyone was out of town and I was stuck at home alone with the dog. I watched Season 1 and Season 2 off of Google Video. That was like 3 hours of RvB action! I felt like a complete nerd but it was highly entertaining.
Best episode isn't even an episode at all, it's their PSA on Zombie Plans. It's just so well done and completely random. Since watching it I have made certain that everyone in my office has a Zombie plan.
Couldn't agree more. This has been the best machinima series ever. I can't wait to see how they wrap this up. If you haven't seen them, start watching now! Their other series are pretty funny but for geeks like us Red Vs. Blue has been a must watch since season 1.
I watched the episodes of the first season with anticipation, downloading each when it came out. I watched most of (perhaps all of - I don't remember) the second season but wandered away at some point and forgot to go back.
Now I'll have to watch all of them in a couple of marathon sessions.
Sorry to see them go. But glad that MS was smart enough to have these guys do commercial bits for them instead of suing their asses off. I couldn't believe it when I saw the RvB characters on an XBox at Target. It did seem kind of weird without all the cursing, though.
Meet these guys when they were first starting season 3. It was great to sit down with them, and it's just amazing what started as a couple geeks at a lan party (who hasn't been there), some drinks, and a willingness to burn every minute of your free time has turned into. My hat's still off to these guys, and the autographed dvd of season one will always hold a special place on my shelf. I know you can download the shows, and they have corporate sponsers for funding, but I enjoyed what they did so much, and thier shinning example of geekdom soo much I wanted to own the dvd's, my little way of investing in a memory.
Red vs. Blue has been a great show and inspired many to begin doing Machemima (sp?) themselves. I always enjoyed watching their episodes, each one is funny in it's own way. There aren't many things where, after seeing almost 100 of them over the course of a couple years, I can still remember the defining joke of the first few episodes..."Looks more like a Puma." :P. It will be missed, but, at the same time, I'm glad it's over, it's far too easy to fall into a rut with the same characters/background all the time and it's amazing that it hasn't really happened yet. Moving on to a new set of characters should make for better shows (PANICS was fun, this magic one looks okay, and I've never seen Strangerhood).
May I be one of the ones to say Thanks RvB for a lot of entertainment.
Completely from memory and paraphrased
Simons-"Looks more like a Puma."
Griff-"What, like the shoe company?"
Simons-"No a Puma, it's a cat, like a Jaguar"
Sarge-"You're making that up"
Simons-"I tell you it's a real creature"
Sarge-"Griff, I want you to poison Simons' next meal"
Griff-"Yes sir!"
Sarge-"See these two things, they look like tusks. And what animal has tusks?"
Simons-"A walrus"
Sarge-"Didn't I just tell you to stop making up animals?"
Sarge-"So if no one else has any ideas, we're gonna call it the warthog. How bout it simons?"
Simons-"No sir..."
Sarge-"Aww come on, how about Sasquatch"
Griff-"A Leprechan"
Simons-"He doesn't need any help"
Sarge-"Hey Griff, what's the name of that mexican lizard, eat's all the goats?"
Griff-"Uhh that would be the Chubacabre sir"
Sarge-"What about that Simons, the Chuba-thingy. I like it, got a ring to it"
There are two kinds of fool One says 'This is old therefore good' Another says 'This is new therefore better'- Dean Ing
Without RvB, I wouldn't be able to tell Shisno jokes! a) Knock Knock! b) Who's there? a) You are! b) You are who? a) You are a dirty dirty shisno! all) HAHAHAHAHAHA
Is it Red vs. Blue that's ending, or the Blood Gulch Chronicles? I'm told it's the latter.
After all, RvB could be resurrected later on in another series (and another location). Like how we had "Star Trek", "Star Trek: TNG", "Star Trek: Voyager", "Star Trek: DS9", "Star Trek: Enterprise" (or "Enterprise" - the series title kept changing season to season).
Haha yes, the shizno thing has become a regularly used insult between some friends and I.
Church: "OK, what does it mean?"
Gary: "What is the most foul-smelling animal on your planet?"
Church: "A skunk..."
Gary: "Does this skunk defecate?"
Church: "Yes..."
Gary: "Does the skunk's defecation in turn produce its own excrement?"
Church: "EW NO!"
Gary: "Then there is no equivalent for shizno in your language."
She's built like a steak house, but she handles like a bistro....
Rooster teeth the production company has several other projects going. one based on the sims, and a new one called 1-800-magic. RvB however will most likely be sidelined for commercials for Halo 3.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Best exchange of the entire series was in Episode 20 when the doc showed up:
Doc: I'm a pacifist.
Caboose: You're a thing that babies suck on?
Tucker: No dude, that's a pedophile.
Church: Tucker, I think he means a pacifier.
Tucker: Oh yeah, right. I was totally thinking about something else.
Everyone should believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.....
It's been well over a week since I last got to plug one of my Escapist articles, so let me mention " Red vs. Blue Makes Green" from issue #68. I also wrote another machinima-related article (not about RvB, though), "The French Democracy," in issue #88. (Both links go to the plain HTML text version of the articles.)
With Halo 3 coming out, and the plot having something to do with Africa, it would appear there is AMPLE opportunity for satire there. I mean, really, Africa? Is Master Chief going to ride into combat on a REAL warthog? Are The Flood really Nigerian spammers or vice versa? Since when has anything on Earth had anything to do with the ancients and all that? That was the genius of Halo - it was completely alien and yet didn't go too far into the incomprehensible except as a promise of something cool and alien to be explained later.
Plus the new stuff would be HD, and they could have played with that. Maybe if Halo3 is as awful as it has the potential of being, plotwise, maybe they won't resist reviving it. I say this as someone with a downpayment on both the final RVB DVD and Halo3 Legendary Edition. I really, REALLY hope I'm wrong about them screwing up Halo3. But if they do it's a loose-loose - A crappy Halo plot and no Sarge to make fun of it.
Coming from Rooster Teeth's home space: The local newspaper quoted the team as stated that they would continue to make shorts, PSA's and other series shorts like Out of Mind Tis not the end my friends... They are also moving their studio to a new location that is more opertune for their work.
I am a sponsor on the Rooster Teeth / Red vs. Blue site. They haven't posted the final episode yet, it goes up tonight.
Rooster Teeth only announced "The Blood Gulch Chronicles" would be ending. Its easy to speculate that they chose not to say "Red vs. Blue" is ending for a reason. RvB is their flagship machinima, and is by far the funniest. 1-800-Magic is described as being a "mini-series," and their The Sims based project hasn't seen a new episode in well over a year. So, hopefully, RvB will come back in some incarnation.
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
or Google Video RvB seasons if you prefer.
Im going to miss this show, quite a bit. Really enjoyed the humor to it. Did anyone else grab a copy of there Dvds? Or was I the only one. Is there new project going to be the same style or more serious?
Me: Its over? Son of a bitch!
Roommate: Son of a bitch!
Mexican: Madre de dio!