Red vs. Blue: Restoration

This will be my first, and only, IMDB review.

I made the account while watching this final episode, purely to warn people, so they didn't suffer as I have.

You know, I actually typed out a full review of this final episode. I went into detail and gave my history of digital entertainment, some applicable anecdotes...took me a full hour to type up. Needed to scroll 10 or 11 times to read the whole thing.

I got to the end and made a pithy remark about the end of childhood and the disillusionment of growing up.

Then I deleted the entire post, because in the end, it didn't actually matter. No one needs my history, no one reading this cares about the effect The Story had on me, no one NEEDS to know about all the background.

The important thing everyone should know is this; If Red vs. Blue was a big part of your life, or you were invested in any way in this fictional universe....

Don't watch this last episode.

Ignore RvB: Zero, and just accept that the series ended at the finale of The Shisno Paradox trilogy.

This is 100% the kind of ending that makes you hate the story. It had no deeper meaning, there was nothing special to distinguish the characters we came to know and love.

It ignored all the growing each character had done over the course of the entire series, and there weren't even any actually funny jokes, just a lot of callbacks to the good episodes to make you WANT to remember the good seasons.

Hell, hearing Caboose talk from the new Voice Actor was like screeching banshees trying to write lines on a chalkboard. I literally, physically, cringed whenever he spoke.

Do. Not. Watch.

Accept your last memories of this beloved show and its beloved characters as a complete whole, and pretend this....candle-snuffer of a story never happened.

You have been warned. Just rewatch the Chorus Trilogy if you need an RvB fix.

Do not watch this one. I promise you, you will be sad if you do.

Exclusive use of CG has run amok. This episode is the culmination of (arrgh) a fourteen year run.

The very young, from Gen Z onward, is clearly why it was so successful; excuse me if I think that far better fare is disappearing. Transformers was far better than this bunk.

Cartoons should have stayed cartoons! CG saves the need to pay real actors, saves much money, and regretfully, has increased far too much.

If this is the future of "entertainment" than home theater has become a huge waste of money.

Some CG is inevitable; and proper use has been a plus, but this an isolated example of what serves as a grim reminder of the effluent pumped out as entertainment.

Red Vs Blue has been something in my life since I first saw it more than a decade ago. When I started watching, season 9 was well under way and by the time I finished what was already out, season 11 was about to begin. As someone who has loved this show through and through for as long as I have been able to love a show realistically, I can confidently say that this is a nice and simple sendoff for the series. It does absolutely nothing exceptionally, it isn't profound or exceptional or especially creative, but it does everything right. It almost feels more like I'm back at Blood Gulch again after what, twelve years away? With all the setup and elaboration and twists and turns behind us, this is a very nice place to leave. It feels like they either didn't have time to write a better script or didn't care to, and that feels okay somehow. This is exactly how I would have wanted it to go. So long to the reds and the blues.