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Geveric Since: Oct, 2010
#201: Sep 17th 2011 at 3:33:35 PM

^...oh hell you're right. then again he shut off his short term memory shortly after that, so Captain Flowers may have been a casualty to said loss. Speculations, speculations...

EDIT: Looks like episode 13 involves more Freelancer stuff from the header picture at least, I won't know for another hour >.<

EDIT II: And nearly two hours later I finally watch the episode (Damn Roast of Charlie Sheen...funny though). Lots of new info now; that ODST we saw on the rig is part of the Innies, Alpha isn't split yet (or at least not enough that he isn't functional), York's expertise in picking locks seems to be his specialty in the Freelancers, still no word on our mysterious blue Freelancer, and boy was it good to hear Wyoming again :)

So South is the only one not on this mission...I think her eventual betrayal is becoming more and more obvious. This new heist has to involve a highway scene. One thing that's kinda tweaking in my head now; just how legitimate is Project Freelancer? Are they fully supported by the UNSC or is it possible that this heist could come under scrutiny if the Insurrectionists aren't actually prosecuted or even worse; if ONI covers them due to possessing some sort of top secret technology.

Anyway, it's good to finally learn what Project Freelancer's primary (or at least current) operations were; to act as a current Operation Trebuchet while the UNSC proper (and of course the SPARTAN-I Is) are focused on the Covenant. I really like how they've knit themselves into the unofficial extended Halo Canon (Like Fistful of Arrows and Enemy of My Enemy)

Hope to see this Operation next week, or at least by the middle of October (Just so long as it's not supposed to be the Finale, I think the Break-In will be that.

edited 19th Sep '11 9:01:09 PM by Geveric

BaleFire Since: Dec, 2009
#202: Sep 19th 2011 at 10:53:55 PM

I actually really liked this episode. I hope we get to see and hear more of Wyoming and Maine before this is all over.

Anyone else think this might be setting up for another trilogy? All things considered this season seems to be taking place very early in the timeline. Before the fracturing of the AI's and all that.

Dreamkeepers Prelude, check it out!
Emperordaein Grant us eyes from Australia Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Hugging my pillow
Grant us eyes
#203: Sep 20th 2011 at 1:59:18 AM

I definitely feel this is leading into a new trilogy, or at least continuing into next season. We all know this mission is going to go very, VERY badly. So badly, that it may be what prompted The Director to fracture Alpha. As for Epsilon, it seems that they will be going into next season as well.

wild mass guessThose tremors are actually a result of the Chairman's team trying to break into Epsilonwild mass guess

wild mass guessChurch's actions within the Epsilon unit will wind up restoring Omega, who will escape from the unit and become a villain again.wild mass guess

A corpse should be left well enough alone...
Legionnaire The Leading Man from Australia Since: Oct, 2010
The Leading Man
#204: Sep 20th 2011 at 3:58:11 AM

Ah, Alpha-Church. I have missed you.

Against all tyrants.
dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
#205: Sep 20th 2011 at 4:00:40 AM

I've so got to watch Reconstruction...is that the last entry in the franchise?

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Legionnaire The Leading Man from Australia Since: Oct, 2010
The Leading Man
#206: Sep 20th 2011 at 4:02:26 AM

Nope. If memory serves, it goes Red vs Blue, Red vs Blue: Reconstruction, Red vs Blue: Recreation, Red vs Blue: Revelation and we're currently on Red vs Blue: Season 9.

Lotta content there.

Against all tyrants.
Mullon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
#207: Sep 20th 2011 at 6:03:35 AM

Looks like we're getting Dead Fantasy 2, except we know who is cannon fodder and who isn't.

I really hope the Director is pistol-whipped by the end of this show. Useless unhelpful asshole.

Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.
Geveric Since: Oct, 2010
#208: Sep 20th 2011 at 7:24:53 AM

^Well he can't serve in the military for whatever reason so while he may have become a brilliant doctor of whatever in order to start his own private army, he probably loathes them on some level for doing what he always wanted to do. It's not the most solid explanation and maybe he doesn't need one, but I tend to think that MOST people do have reasons behind their mannerisms.

Mullon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
#209: Sep 20th 2011 at 5:18:53 PM

[up]Fuck his reasons, he's a stupid asshole who needs to get his ass kicked.

Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.
gwonbush Lurking Puma Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Lurking Puma
#210: Sep 20th 2011 at 5:28:54 PM

However, since this is a prequel of sorts and he is a proven Karma Houdini, I doubt anything like that will happen to him.

Geveric Since: Oct, 2010
#211: Sep 20th 2011 at 5:46:23 PM

^^...Wow, why do you hate the Director so much? I mean sure he's no Saint, but you can't say that all of the crap that's happened to him and all the crap he did didn't weigh on his soul in some way or another?

"...while the law has many penalties for the atrocities we inflict on others, there are no punishments for the terrors that we inflict on ourselves." -Doctor Leonard Church

Emperordaein Grant us eyes from Australia Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Hugging my pillow
Grant us eyes
#212: Sep 20th 2011 at 6:56:13 PM

I really can't call the Director a Karma Houdini. His narration at the end of Reconstruction more or less revealed that he's a broken shell of a man.

Also, I like to call this season Red vs Blue: Remembrance.

edited 20th Sep '11 6:57:00 PM by Emperordaein

A corpse should be left well enough alone...
Geveric Since: Oct, 2010
#213: Sep 20th 2011 at 10:35:12 PM

^Ooh, that's a good one! I've been calling it Reflections but yours sounds a little better.

stingerbrg Since: Jun, 2009
#214: Sep 21st 2011 at 4:12:03 PM

wild mass guessAlpha!Church and Tex's relationship will be the genderflipped version of Cortana and Master Chief.wild mass guess

ZidaneFlameMouse Since: Sep, 2011
#215: Sep 21st 2011 at 5:01:31 PM

Grif,Church,Wash,Tex...Those are my favorite characters...And dude...THE FREELANCER FIGHT SCENES...THE EPICNESS IS AMAZING!

GleamEyes from Birmingham, AL Since: Oct, 2010
#216: Sep 21st 2011 at 8:17:14 PM

Oum really doesn't skimp on the epicness man.

My only complaint about this episode: it was barely four minutes long! I was waiting to see my buddies York and Maine again, and I didn't even get to hear Maine's voice! WAAAAAAAAH!

edited 21st Sep '11 8:17:33 PM by GleamEyes

Geveric Since: Oct, 2010
#217: Sep 21st 2011 at 8:49:30 PM

Wow, it's cool that RT has hired another animator to help Monty out. Seb is really talented with talking and I LOVE the Mother of Invention's design and rooms

SpaceJawa UTINNI! from Right Here Since: Jan, 2001
UTINNI!
#218: Sep 24th 2011 at 3:45:59 PM

I miss the days when it was safe to assume that new episodes of Red vs. Blue would feature the humorous antics of soldiers from the Red team and the Blue team. sad

Geveric Since: Oct, 2010
#219: Sep 24th 2011 at 4:54:23 PM

^oh perish the thought that a series in it's NINTH season wouldn't focus solely on a set of bitter bored 'soldiers' in a box canyon bickering for the nth incarnation of what the funny Mexican robot is saying or what the brain-damaged man-child is talking about. and who could possibly want anything else than the same perverted cracks and inane wailing of inadequacy, or over-aggressive homoerotic undertones, and of course slacking work ethics?

...OK you know what? I'm not going to apologize for that sarcasm, because it's true. (not for everyone, but it seems that at least a portion of complaints stem from this.) We've had EIGHT seasons of the Red Team and Blue Team and we DO still have them (at least, in interpretative spirit) but the light is being shed on a group that until now has been universally one-dimensional as Mission Control and the source of all the lies that made a set of one-off gags in an originally 8-part series turned 100+ into a legitimate story. Let's face it; If Red vs Blue only ever stuck to the same jokes with the same characters, it would be the web version of Family Guy, or the Simpsons, or any other tired metaphor for a series that's overstayed itself that you have.

Medicus Sierra 117 from Australia Since: Sep, 2009
Sierra 117
#220: Sep 24th 2011 at 6:45:59 PM

Of course, it's not at all possible that some people preferred RVB back when the show was FUNNY and before it had been overtaken by Cerebus Syndrome, right?

It's not over. Not yet.
gwonbush Lurking Puma Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Lurking Puma
#221: Sep 24th 2011 at 6:49:24 PM

You are making it sound like that Red Vs Blue has lost all of it's humor, when it hasn't. I will agree that the humor is much more spread out than before though.

edited 24th Sep '11 6:49:43 PM by gwonbush

SpaceJawa UTINNI! from Right Here Since: Jan, 2001
UTINNI!
#222: Sep 24th 2011 at 7:26:05 PM

[up][up] Again, I really think that instead of trying to jam "Project Freelancer" into Red vs. Blue, they should have just made it a brand new series and simply called it "Project Freelancer" or something else to that effect. Red vs. Blue has been a comedy series since the beginning, and it saddens me to see it overtaken by the need for some kind of self-important attempt at a drama/action series the way it has been.

Teebert kingslayer from boxcar's noggin Since: Sep, 2009
kingslayer
#223: Sep 24th 2011 at 7:54:23 PM

I honestly think Rv B is at its best when it mixes the drama and the comedy, rather than try and separate them. Reconstruction and Revelations are probably my two favorite seasons, because I was genuinely interested to see what new twist was going to be next and I was still getting in my laughs. The BGC were fairly funny and did have an actual plot develop, but it started getting strained and tired towards the end, and half the jokes were basically just the same ol' same ol'. The "Rv B" half of season nine kind of annoys me because of in their quest to keep the comedy part separate from the dramatic half, there's very little plot progression to this season, not to mention I don't really feel any connection or pull to the characters because they're simply copies in the memory unit. Really the only point of their existence is to try and go back to the "original flavor" if you would, but still letting Rooster Teeth expand on the more dramatic parts of the Rv B-verse.

edited 24th Sep '11 7:56:59 PM by Teebert

"Teebs is a total grump, but he's usually right." - NLK
Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
#224: Sep 24th 2011 at 9:09:43 PM

You guys do know that there are funny scenes in the freelancer segment. Admittedly, they're kind of obscured by all the epic combat, but they're still there and of high quality.

edited 24th Sep '11 9:10:10 PM by Ekuran

SomeName Person Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
Person
#225: Sep 25th 2011 at 12:26:08 PM

Do we really need to have the same conversation every week? I mean, the fact that some people didn't like the shift in tone and character was established around the release of the trailer. The issues with watching Epsilon versions of the main crew was established around episode one.

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