The amount of times I've re-watched RvB is insane. Literally grew up on watching it and then re-watching it from the beginning whenever a new season came out

The strange removal of Donut is weird, that Simmons throw fits Donut much more cause it started with him killing Tex with his first throw and its more fitting that the final throw is the throw that helps save Tex

I think the absolute peak of the writing was season 10. Specifically the ending. The reveal that the director did everything he did over his obsession with his dead wife, I still get all misty eyed thinking about him sitting in that room, watching the footage of Alison on repeat.

it really is sad to see something so important to my childhood end but under these circumstances i am happy it did

I think I know why the Reds didn’t want to help Caboose. They’ve gone on tons of crazy adventures that should’ve killed them, but didn’t. Seeing Doc (someone who’s been there from almost the beginning) probably made them realize just how lucky they’ve been all this time, and actually losing someone scared them. They probably didn’t want to die like Doc.

RvB was one of the first things I ever watched on KZfaq. I still own seasons 1-13 on DVD. I'm gonna miss it, but I'm glad it finally has an ending. I still love it.

I do agree with you on Donut should've been the one to throw instead of Simmons. I honestly thought Simmons was gonna throw it like 5 feet and it'd be a funny moment.

I agree with the complaints about some of the main characters being missing, like Donut, but I think I kinda get why though. This season was originally meant to be longer but when Rooster Teeth shut down a lot of complications arose. So what was meant to be a full season ended up getting cut down to an hour and a half film as a result, which meant a good bit of content and storylines had to be dropped. If they had their original full episodes to tell the story, I'm sure they probably would have gone into more details on some things, but it's understandable that they chose to focus on the main parts of their story so that we could get an ending at all, and on that I think we managed to get a satisfying ending, all things considered.

I wish you touched on Tex and Church's final scene together. The idea that Tex finally went back and actually finished what she started all those years ago on the Mother of Invention is something I really loved. There are very few moments where Tex shows genuine love toward Church, and I was not expecting it this time around. The fact she used both her real name and the married version is something so touching to me, especially when it's shown she told Caboose what to do with them. It's also kind of touching how, in a way, this was her final way to protect her daughter. Church wasn't lying when he told her that she would've given up anything to save her.

Rvb is so good I saved it to my apocalypse library.

Well, technically Simmons is robot arm was a robot arm. You can’t really work through the pain of a robot arm.

The season should’ve included Donut and Locus. Donut for the throw, Locus for an inclusion in the final fight. Would’ve been nice seeing an energy sword vs energy sword fight.

I'll never forget the enjoyment I got from the blood gulch chronicles, the freelancer arch, and ect. I was very happy to see how they ended the series.

For me, season 13 is still the definitive ending for me: Everyone was there, what had to be tied up was tied up at least to a satisfying extent. I might check out this last season, but probably not.

Rest easy red vs blue

i remember a friend in high school always watching either RvB, Vocaloid MMDs or just random youtube stuff everytime we were at our PCs half the year. Pretty sure it was cuz of him that i started watching it and that was probably around 2010 or so

I didn’t grow up with Red vs Blue even though I’m old enough I should have. I’ve been a fan for less than ten years and found the show during my college years. Despite this I feel like I’ve had the show around me my whole life. I enjoyed it so much I was a huge fan. I laughed, I cried, even the seasons that weren’t very strong I enjoyed immensely. This final season is no different. I have my issues with it, about the same as you Mike, but the thing is this finale felt like it had heart and that’s what made it feel good to me. Even if a joke didn’t land, even if I wish they did some things one last time or involve the others, I can tell this was made with heart and soul and love and that’s what it really needed here. I’m sad it’s done, but I’m happy I found this show when I did so I could enjoy these last moments with everyone else.

I stopped at season 13 and watched it more than 10 times front to back over the years. It's not that I wasn't interested in 14 and up, it's just the move to RWBY GEN LOCK and everything with what rooster teeth was doing was way more interesting than what RvB was trying to do at the time.

I have heard that Burnie didn't have really much of a budget for the final season so that might be the reason as to why they didn't have Donut show up at the end as well as why they didn't have a lot of the cast return as well. Not to mention with roosterteeth shutting down I imagen they might have been pressed for time.

RvB is one of those things that you can rewatch over and over, even when it's just background noise. I never expected to ever feel any big emotions over this show, but the final season really made me tear up. I'm sitting here right now after finishing this show for real for the first time and I can feel that feeling in my throat that you get right before the tears start flowing. I never could have guessed that this show, of all things, would get me so emotional but it's taking everything to not cry at my computer over the funny Halo machinima series. All I'm going to say is that if you're a sucker for romance, especially reuniting two characters so they can be with each other for their last moments, you're going to be like me.

Man you weren't kidding when you said you didn't remember much of season 15, you went on to describe the 2 seasons after it instead

I love red vs blue and it’s been my favorite show forever and I grew up with it and with your channel so this is literally my absolute favorite video tbh

in a VERY short dialogue scene with dr gray and wash she mentions donut became a admiral

I think season 8 was the last one I watched? The whole thing with the "finale" for Church. There was this entirely satisfying ending that happened, and then when a new season launched, I watched one episode, and......... just wasn't in it. A very small part of me is sad it ended, but at the same time, it ended a very, very long time ago for me.

Season 8 Revelations was one of the first videos on KZfaq I watched!

Thanks for the shout out!! Love your work!!!

Mike that ending to this video hit me in the heart. I remember that episode and getting a flood of nostalgia for red vs blue. You continue to carry the torch

Was a good vid, I really enjoyed it. Thank you. Shows ending on a bittersweet note are completely OK because that’s life sometimes kinda like what happened with rooster teeth in real life. Everything kind of just fell apart in the end.

I started watching RvB around the time season 12 was airing, can't remember how many times i rewatched that show over and over. It was sad watching it die from season 14 to 18 so it's good to watch it come to a true end

I’m really bummed out that the series has ended but i still remember watching this with my older brother and Caboose was my spirit animal.

It’s hard to see something that was a big part of my childhood end. It was such a journey

As much as the final arc of RVB wasn’t the greatest it still had some really good moments things like the group promising to be there for Washington instead of leaving him when he was hospitalized, the banter between donut and wash, etc. It feels unfortunate that RT animation never became as big as it wanted to be because it seemed like a lot of the writers for RVB wanted to do more but we’re constrained due to outside influences. RVB was the the launch of so many careers and it’s really weird to think about how this small internet show developed into a huge entertainment company that’s influenced so many lived personally for me seeing Monty Oum work on this show and then work on RWBY is why I’m majoring in animation and I can’t think of what life would be like without this show

I kinda get the feeling Griff leaving was written in either last minute or from the start to give Geoff some closure of RT being shut down as far as the company has gone Geoff has been pretty much the corporate punching bag and had to deal with the eight of all of Rooster Teeth's problems, so to find out the company you started with a few friends is being liquidated by a group who only own it because of mergers and sales over your head must be heartbreaking, but having Griff, Geoff's not only character by true tie to Rooster Teeth finally go be it AWOL or relived of duty by Simons aka Gus one of if not the last remaining member of the OG Rooster Teeth member who hung on though Wave 2 and Wave 3 of hires it might allow some form of closure with the company compared to a suit from finances saying "you're not profitable anymore collect your things"

I signed off after season 5, but im glad a lot of others enjoyed it.

I'm sad to see the show end, but I'm also happy it's finished. The final part of the video made me giggle.

i saw up to season 10, ill have to give 11 thru 19 a watch eventually

I still remember the alternate ending for the original blood gulch saga where it was just a really wild custom game lol. i'll take that as a canon ending.

it could have had in the final fight that Simmons tried to be a leader with griff and donut and he is terrible at first but he gets better during the battle learning from all the years he's been with sarge

I was born the year you joined the marines and I, too, grew up with RvB

That's actually a really good idea bout Donut, it would help explain the reds' apparent backslide in their relationship with the blues. I think he was barely in this because they couldn't get Dan in for more than a cameo. My understanding is Dan always had an actual job and never worked for RT full time, so maybe he had other commitments. And yeah, the throwing bit really felt like it was a scene they wrote for Donut but had to repurpose because they couldn't get Dan in. I think I'm a little disappointed how little Tucker was in it as Tucker. He's had a hell of a lot of character development in later seasons, and I'd love to have seen him put up more of a fight against the new Meta, of all the main characters he'd have been best able to. One thing you didn't talk about that I think deserves mention though, they got Kathleen back to play Tex one last time! Honestly that was a big moment for me because I knew there was bad blood between her and RT, so seeing them working together again gives me hope that they can patch up their real life friendship if they can work together on one more project. I do have to respectfully disagree regarding Simmons though. He has had his own growth over the years, he's been a leader, and my read on him was always that he could be a competent soldier if he could just get over his self-confidence problems. I loved that he stood his ground, not for the hollywood drama of it, but just to see this character who we'd expect to run away staring down the guy who he's sure is going to kill him was just awesome. Was it perfect? No, far from it, it was obviously made on a shoestring with whatever resources they could work with instead of what they may have actually wanted (No Dan being the most obvious sign of this), but was it a good send-off? Absolutely!

Wish it could have been as fleshed out as they envisioned, but glad they at least went out on the note they wanted.

Rvb was so important to me and as sad as I was to see it end im glad it ended well

I've only watched seasons 1 through 10 so now with Mike's recommendation I will finish the whole series

Farewell to an icon of my youth.

This is a welcome surprise.

I started watching RvB back in middle school and I loved the series instantly I watched up to the freelancer era stuff with the Monty Oum combat scenes, that shit was the bomb. And during the later end of high school and into 2020 and 2021 I looked back at RvB, watched through it again getting nostalgic until I hit the Halo 4 era and was just not feeling it luckily the shisno and Halo 5 series was locked so I didn't see it.

I was introduced to RvB by my big brother back at the end of primary school before going to highschool, those were hilarious times and i kept up with it ever since and ju ped on the band wagon for RWBY. I loved the characters, comedy, action and emotional storytelling that it honestly outshines Halo and understood the message of moving on, changing and healing from pain, something that Halo fails to see or acknowledge the state itself it's in with the tired escalation of stakes with universe is in danger plotline repeatedly with no gap inbetween for down time and for the characters to just rest and have peace and quiet and an unnatural forced reset to square 1 and status quo reinforcement to the detrement and regression of John Master Chief. But thankfuly, RvB got it's ending, not perfect, but it understands that things need to end and move on, thanks RT

After watching the final season just now, I really share your sentiment. It's not perfect, and in some ways, the previous seasons' endings work better, but it's just glad to know that it's over, and this is how one story ends. I wasn't around to see the series at its height, I'm only a few months older than Halo 2, for gods sake. But after a very boring summer a few years ago, it entertained me enough to keep me around for its last bits. I will likely see its aftermath and effects on all mediums for many, many years. Hell, I'm keeping up with CRASH as well. But, just seeing it get closure is well enough. It's had its impact on the world, it can rest now. Those who were impacted by it will move on, but not forget it. Just like Wash.

I enjoyed it, I cried, I’m sad and I’ll miss RvB and RT in general.

Pain. Just utter sadness and an empty void in my stomach knowing that another thing I loved from my childhood is just gone, never to return.

Much of it felt a step back to me and felt far to rushed. With how little they had to work on it I understand why things ended the way they did.

I think we're all going to feel something else about how RvB went. That show was so pivotal for helping establish how internet media got produced, promoted, and eventually bought by megacorps. The outcome of what could have been the name brand of Internet Media being mishandled in consideration of that long-term scope or scale. Where do you go when you plateau? Do you sell it and try to budget up quickly, or do you slowly keep growing the brand? Also it's based you're a 6-8 (and lesser 9 & 10) fan!

RvB will always hold a special place in everyone's heart and don't forget that memory is the key

My sister watched strangerhood and then led me on to RvB. It was probably like 5-10 episodes before the end of season 5. I was

As much as it was kinda sad to not get much tucker, seeing a little of what he's going through just makes you see more into what happened to agent maine, being stuck with the AI's for years, i did like the slight disdain that delta seemed to have for sigma. Also, simmons arm seems to be a robotic one from when he was made a cyborg early in the show, which means its not that his arm is hurt and he could have worked through the pain, but that the hinge was fully broken/out of commision and we couldn't use his robot arm at all. Wish we did have a moment of tucker knowing what happened, because him just not remembering anything if a bit of a cop out imo when you could have had a nice moment between him and simmons about sarge.

An interesting end to a great series. Mike should give Leet World a watch.

RvB is held near and dear to my heart, but I am glad it's over in a sense, finally the show got it's closure that the show deserved.

I am fortunate enough to own a signed box set (not all members, missing Griff, Sarge, and Doc). RVB really was a great series but it died near the end. hard to keep a show running like that for so long. I still mandate that seasons 1-5 are the best in the series. They capture the perfect blend of story + comedy + outlandish drama, that later seasons never could. that's not to say later seasons of RvB weren't good in their own right, but seasons 1-5 ascend beyond just good. Now, lets get out of this sun, and go stand in the shade.

Had the box set of the first couple of season on dvd back in the early 2010s when I was kid. Parents let me buy it without knowing what it was. Loved it but it got taken away because they cursed and shot each other! Really sad to see the way roosterteeth/rvb went the last couple of years but nothing lasts forever and can’t always be amazing. I have my good memories and that’s all I need.

Honestly it feels like there was cuts and changes to the script, since Donut's exclusion and the clunky small part to Lopez's involvement, plus how Doc's not being there was something I saw coming just from reading the room, which is often hard otherwise.

It's fitting that the last series Rooster Teeth worked on was its first. It sucks how much the company had fallen, but looking back I can't help but remember how much joy and laughter they have brought to me. The final season was bittersweet, but I'm glad how it ended.

I still wish we could’ve seen what happened in the battle that season 13’s finale left off on. It would’ve made sense that when Tucker was tortured by the AIs he would’ve seen different versions of that battle ending terribly for the Reds and Blues

Ughhh. Mike pumpin the contents. I still got like 8 hours of stuff to catch up on this channel!!! Petey and Jojo are really makeing them work

For me the series really ended at 13, 14 was a nice bonus but everything up to that point was good enough. This finale was fine.

YOU! I didn't know you even knew about this! Yes!

It's sad to see it end, but man... Blood Gulch Chronicles, Trocadero's theme - I had the first 3 seasons on my iPod Touch and would watch it with friends at lunch for 30 minutes. Such a classic and it shaped a lot of machinima media as whole. Without Red vs Blue, there'd have been no Lyle Rath and without Lyle Rath / Lyle McDouchebag, I'd be sad.

I wonder if Donut's actor wasn't available? I will note he's the main character of 15-17 too, especially 17 (the best of the Shisno trilogy). He got a good epilogue there.

I read a comment somewhere that around the time of making, 343 didn’t have lightish red armor. I believe it because when Donut showed up for that one voice line he was in actual red armor.

It really hurts ina strange way still, to see it end. It wasnt perfect. And even they werent given a good hand in the end RT. Might have affected some behind the scenes stuff. But i still feel happy to see it end this way acter being a kid and watching it with me for so long.

The throw IS Simmons final closure During this whole show Simmons (and some others) have been described by Wash as "bad thrower", that's why Wash and Carolina say "that the best throw I've ever seen, ever" it's the final closure, everybody knows that donut would have succeeded at throwing the data remover, they wouldn't have been any tention, but since it's Simmons that throw it, we can't be sure until Tex grab it

The amount of times 'Season' was said made my think my KZfaq was broken and reloading.

The final season felt like saying goodbye to a good friend. After many years of knowing each other, one day you know you will have to say goodbye. And I hate goodbyes. Ain’t that a bitch.

Part of me thinks that the Military Humor was never really intentional, as it felt more like they were joking about being Spartans at least to me, than regular soldiers

It's odd, I was on KZfaq when this show was popular, but it never caught my eye. So I have no nostalgia for it, but it still feels... weird that its gone.

Donut showing up for a few second is pretty funny and in my opinion somewhat fitting for him xD

Haven't watched RvB since season 15 and hold the opinion that 13 was when the series ended. Shame Rooster Teeth fell off the deep end.

I'm gonna cut off before the spoilers, because now I'm actually curious enough to go and watch that final season at some point. The weird thing is, I didn't even know there was one. The last thing I saw of RvB was a trailer for... this 3:26... and I saddened by just how far they'd fallen. Figured that was the end of it, and when I heard Rooster Teeth was shutting down after all this time, I didn't really look into it. I was a fan of Rooster Teeth from the very first episode of Red vs Blue. I loved damn near everything they produced for many years, and still would today if I watched it all again. Then there was a point, don't even remember when, that it flipped and started getting worse over time. Was eventually bad enough that I stopped watching anything, and didn't give it any thought. Long while after that, it's going away for good, and I don't even know how much of what was there when I left is still there now. It's a sad thing, to not even care that much about the downfall of something I loved so much back in the day.

I could also see Donut just... leaving on his own accord because he was close with Doc, they both had common hobbies from what I remember. Maybe he couldn't handle it and left and that's also why the Reds turn their backs on Caboose because they're all still grief-stricken. Just my take on it is all.

Oi Donut is implied to be an admiral

I saw the throw as him being inspired by donut. To make up for being absent, his memory inspires simmons into winning the fight. He wasnt’ included because his development in 17 was way too good to outdo here

I honestly agree with the Donut portion of this video, wish they mentioned why he isn't there instead of a flashback. I also would've loved the Reds to be unmotivated to not help Caboose if he actually did die in the Chrous final battle.

Amen to shows being cut off before their time. Never forget Final Space. Never forget.

I can tell what happened, you can see it start happening after the first couple of seasons, theres no cohesiveness, like as the project got bigger they started to have too many cooks, then it gets worse and worse, and im not even saying that always made it bad but it progressively got worse, they stopped knowing what people liked and got bogged down in all these different ideas, even getting away from the original characters that people were there for and bringing in ones that were drastically different than the originals, there was just no organization or structure to it. They could have simply said "every 5 episodes we will do someone's big idea" and anything that does well they try again next season and slowly work it in rather than doing what seems like entire "idea seasons".

I disagree on the Simmons point. He only had one way of reloading his shotgun after his robotic arm broke and he learned how to use the shotgun in the fight. It's perfectly fine.

I caught on around Season 4. Have yet to go back to the first 3 fully after watching the first 4 episodes of Season 1. Season 13 was the true end imo

I'm actually currently working on a rvb final review.

I absolutely loved this Season, although I definitely do agree that somethings could've been better. Due to the runtime it felt.. rushed? I feel like certain character moments would've happened if it was more of a traditional episode based season. I would've loved to have had a scene where Carolina and Tex had a moment to talk. Although I feel like at the end of the day the Season is the way it is due to Rooster Teeth being shut down, I feel like that cut a lot of the potential it had. Although at the end of the day I do feel that they did the best with what they had.

I was late to the party when it came to RvB because I wasn't interested in the Halo series but I got hooked and I thought it funny that right about the time I was finishing the Corus trilogy they had announced this season before all the delays & the drama happened. Which I thought would be cool, I would have continued on & skipped all the crazy dumb stuff. I could tell this was cut & edited for the crunch. But it was still worth it. Of the small things I would have liked to have seen, Carolina actually acknowledging Tex was her Mom, and....okay I was actually kind of shipping Carolina & Washington. Maybe Church's memories would have made it awkward but I don't know. It seems like they were either heading in that direction or at least maybe said they felt like siblings.

Man I wish Donut had a bigger role, him & tucker, just felt weird

Donut was stated to be promoted to Admiral offscreen, so he is no longer present. Still, it sucks.

So sad to watch Rooster Teeth slowly drown in its own feces.

Mike, if you’re interested in another show kind of like it there’s a show called Avalanche from blue flame Studios that’s basically takes place in the universe, but focuses on a different group of reds and blues. It’s for that reason. I hope that RVB goes public domain

I just realized that, they completely scrapped season fifteen. like season 19 takes place nearly directly after the battle for corus, so season 15 never actually happened.

The throw is a call back to one of the previous seasons when Simmons through the thing and Wash commented that it was the worst throw he'd ever seen. It's supposed to be a funny call back, which is why they gave it so much "oh my God is he actually going to try and do this".

Meh sounds disappointing. I'll just call the season after they deal with the director of project freelancer as the finale- it's more fitting.

Hey mike donut physically could not be presemt due to halo infinite lacking pink armor schemes rn. The throw was lined up to reference the warthog tow hook throw simmons made to wash that he failed in season 8. The lack of content for lopez is likely due to bernie voicing him and church. He probably didnt have enough time to record for both. And as far as i know donut dies at the end of 17 when he saves the universe anyway. So theres an in universe/out of universe explanation. I know you probably got a flood of comments mentioning all these before but i figured id combine it into one so you can get it all at once. Also the red even simmons being reluctant is likely due to the events of season 13 and the last few seasons where the blues constantly just kept getting into trouble. I grew up with this show. I remember every season. I was pained to watch the last few before restoration. I think this is a great end for a 21 year old show. It sucks they couldnt put aside their differences with the og caboose voice actor to have him comeback for the finale. And the weird intro certainly was jarring. But overall. It was a good goodbye. Something the cast 10 years ago wouldve hated being so final and rigid. Seeing as not saying goodbye was a huge part of the shows larger theme. But it certainly made it good with the fans especially those scorned by the issues at rt after they were sold to WB, the drama inside rt the last 8 years. And the animation department seemingly falling apart in the absence of monty oum. They gave the fans what they wanted. A big old retcon to 14-17, and gave each character a fitting end to their stories. Sarges death by tucker being by far the most significant with the fact its a blue killing him again for real this time. And that it was the old leader finally passing on the torch. Overall. Your opinion on it is great. I feel like as a a lifelong fan. (Im 23. This show was originally released when i was 2. Crazy) it did right by me. And i think thats what they wanted. A sort of apology for the last decade of animation content and their final company closure this year. This isnt just the end of rvb. But of rt, and all their ips. They all get to move on and find new work i hope.

The reason donut was written out from what I can tell is because I didn’t know this, even though I played it all the time halo infinite doesn’t have a pink armor

That was a good season. But... Where is DONUT?!

I said it before and I’ll say it again, I kinda wish that Grif and Sarge switched places for their endings. Not because I hate Grif but because it would (at least for my retarded brain) make more sense for their arcs. Grif sacrificing himself after years of pain helping his friends and Sarge getting out after having one of his own die and living a life of peace that Grif couldn’t get.

Season 15 was the one with the second group of simulation troopers and dylan andrews, not the time gods