And calling Theta Beta. But you did address that, I guess. Technically, Tex is Beta.

One small correction it is pronounced del Ta not data

Sigma was not just creativity, it was also ambition. pure, unrestricted, ambition. also, when Caboose said one of them then did what they wanted, he was talking about church.

Him going to Marathon has a double meaning with Church being blown to the past since it's the series Bungie made... in da past. Never realized that as a dumb kid but I realized it when your vid got me to sit down and rewatch the series. Love the video man.

58:01 I will say that the ending to season 6 is pretty dark Church(alpha) had been tortured so much, he couldn’t come to the conclusion that he was an AI here and thought he was gonna survive here, only for Wash to kill him

Also holy fuck you're younger than me (has an existential crisis)

"Just saw somebody younger than me that's more talented day ruined" kind of vibe lmafo

​@@Gazpachooo1 pretty much yeah

I know the feeling, I just recommended RvB to someone younger than RvB and it made me feel so old

But there was that one line in season 1 where tucker screamed 3 in perfect clarity

@@xxpiexx3366 I think by then, he would've been able to fly down there. But the first couple of episodes were definitely phoned in

YES! its so funny

The best part about it is that Caboose of all people seemingly did NOTHING wrong

Yeah thats why chorus is my favorite trilogy

Wow, thats really interesting. So that’s why it was Sarge and Caboose in S3 together at the start in the flag sequence. Both of them use the standard red or blue armor.

You could add variations to armor while still being the same team I thought? I remember being able to be green in CE and still be considered on the "blue" team.

@@KingWesleyIV Not to my knowledge for the original XBox. PC Halo CE and cracked versions after had different rules. In any case, that's a pretty significant fact that both old Rooster Teeth and back in the day Bungie had bragged about as being either proud of or impressed by.

El Lopez

I mean for what it's worth even Restoration suggests that it itself could be another simulation. The only true definitive end we have is the 'final' stand on the _Staff of Charon_

@@username1660 true but since restoration is a interpretation ending you can choose which ending you want. If people don't like restoration they can believe it's a simulation therfore season 13 canon. If people like the final season it can be they're canon ending. Both parties win in this situation

@@jsapphire6940 oh 100% open enough that Restoration could be a 'canoncial' end, 'just wanted to point out for the people that wanted Season 13 to be the capital 'E' End could take it as one

@@jsapphire6940I feel like it COULD be the ending, and I was in that camp for a bit, but I definitely believe it was a simulation now. After all, the final clip of the trailer has Church saying “Let’s run one more”, then it immediately cuts to the title card, lol. Maybe that is actually how events go after they leave, though, so it could technically still be canon! Same with 15! 16-17 definitely aren’t because they don’t even fit the canon (I do really like 17 though).

I would love to read some RVB Restoration redux or directors cut in the future: flesh out the season to a full 2 or 3 hour long escapade like how Bernie really wanted, at least in written form.

Hey it’s you! Will you be making a RVB Restoration video? Was wondering if you’ve seen it yet

@@troqu3molasses26 I've seen it. I'm still trying to gather my thoughts on it.

Awesome art good work!

Goated

Good job what do you want now a cookie or something wasn't money enough unless this guy pulled an Amazon and gave you vbucks

​@@codepompomdude relax. Don't be an ass

@@codepompomchill bro lmao

Well it's in their name

@@mercury2157 I mean they went broke got woke and now they croak and the worst part is they tell the fans if you don't like a content you can go 🖕

@itzorin600 please tell me you intentioned that pun

@@UmmNovumn nah I didn't meant to. Before seriousness rooster teeth as a company sucks I glad It got shut down

@@itzorin600 yeah I’m not disagreeing. But cockbite was a funny term of phrase in this particular circumstance :)

Sigma was voiced by WHO!?!?

@@Gazpachooo1 Yeah, that one seems to surprise quite a few people. I only got up to the start of season 13 when I posted the comment, so I'll be adding a few things to it eventually.

@@Gazpachooo1 It wouldn't let me add onto the original, so here. 7. Felix having the sword instead of Locus is actually way more important to the story than it seems. If Locus had it the whole time, it leaves a chance for Felix to have survived the fall off the communication tower. When Locus activates it, it confirms that Felix did not survive without anyone saying it outright, which is great visual storytelling. 8. They showed Sister/Kai in season 13 during Church's message because of a plot point from an earlier story. When Sarge got the message to go after Washington in season 6, only Kai and Lopez were left in the canyon. In Relocated, Lopez tells Grif that he choked her to death to win the war; her presence shows that she survived the ordeal and, in her own words, found the strangling hot. 9. When speaking to FILSS/Sheila at the console during the finale, the status update can be seen at the bottom being constantly randomized letters. If you pause it correctly, the letters become a clear message: CHURCH DIES IN THE END. You can see it in this video at 3:39:34 If you go through frame-by-frame. 10. Hargrove's office is littered with Project Freelancer "trophies." The collection includes Tex's helmet, the Epsilon recovery unit, Maine's armor, Epsilon's monitor body from seasons 7 + 8, and the Grif Shot. The pistol confuses a lot of people, but it's the magnum that Carolina left for Director Church... that he killed himself with. 11. Season 14 has some really great stuff in it. The animated episode was actually a failed pilot for an RVB animated series, one episode is a Death Battle crossover, two focus on a Project Freelancer triplets experiment, and one shows off how Vic was a normal AI that got screwed up by Flowers tripping on a power cable, jumbling up the deployment list. Plus, the Epsilon memory unit genderbend episode confirms that Church is bisexual, a play on the "gay robot" line from Caboose. 12. Jax name dropping a bunch of movies isn't meant to be funny. He's a pretentious film guy that spouts movie references to make himself cooler, which is why everyone in the show hates him. When he makes a comment about how cliche Temple's backstory is, he's shot in the leg; it's how everyone wants to react to him, but they're too nice to do it. 13. As for everyone else making a bunch of references, I think it's fine since it only happens in the recap. They've been there for a while, so they're just highlighting a few moments and leaving out the more mundane stuff. My favorite bit is Tucker and Grif starting a band to pick up chicks, only to shut it down when Carolina joins as their lead singer and ends up being terrible at it. 14. There's a theory that went around for a while that Biff (the anti-Grif) was actually Grif's father and that his girl back home was pregnant with Grif. Unfortunately, the timeline doesn't match up at all since that would mean Wash and Carolina are at least in their 40's or even 50's, which just seems wrong. 15. Caboose's lack of rage comes off as growth to me. Season 14's "how to make friends" shows that he has started to grow past needing Church around. Getting him back would be great, but it's like he says in the finale: "I know we're all gonna be okay." 16. The giant drill makes sense since they don't want to come at the UNSC from above. It being powered by a time machine actually loops back to Loco. Caboose is really good with machines and Loco takes that to its natural extreme. 17. All of the "Blues and Reds" names are plays on the OG team's names. Surge, Cronus, and Biff are similar sounding names, Loco is short for locomotive (a caboose synonym), Temple is a church synonym, Lorenzo is Italian instead of Spanish, Gene is a play on Gene Simmons, and Shelly is their Sheila replacement in the flashback. Buckey just kinda has the same "uck" sound as Tucker, but I'm not sure if there is anything more substantial there. 18. Less facts going forward, more just opinions. As someone that likes seasons 16 and 17 more than most people, I can't deny that it definitely jumped the shark. Some really nice character moments here and there, but ultimately meaningless and weird. Making Jenkins into Chrovos at the end was a really clever twist, though. 19. Another opinion: RVB Zero isn't good, but I think it could've worked if they put more time into it. If it had gotten a full twenty episodes, I think it would've turned out better. For example, the pink one being evil could've had an impact similar to Felix's turn or maybe even the Alpha reveal if we had known her for longer than four episodes. "Killing" Tucker for the sword was also dumb; at least killing Locus would make the villains look tough. 20. The Family Shatters series that followed RVB Zero is recognized by the RT staff as its own season of RVB, which makes them seasons 18 and 19. This then means that Restoration is technically season 20. 21. Seasons 15 through 19 being retconned into being Church running simulations inside of Maine's armor is brilliant. It also makes sense plotwise, since Maine's armor is Freelancer gear that allowed Church to run the sims without issue. This is also how he was able to leave all the recordings; in his last moments, he had basically decades to run all the possible scenarios. 22. Restoration was obviously meant to be an entire season, which is why certain plot details just kind of fade into the wind. Lopez is never seen again after fixing Caboose's helmet, Donut is mentioned once as an Admiral on Chorus (probably because he was the only one that stuck around), and Sister is at the convention briefly. 23. There are some references to the retconned seasons. One (the blue chick from RVB Zero) is the pilot that takes Grif away at the end and the reporter from season 15, Dylan Andrews, is the host of the panel that Meta attacks. 24. Your observation in season 3 about how Sarge sees Caboose as his son when they're together makes the fact that his last heroic act was saving him even more touching. 25. According to the RVB crew, there's a cut part of the script where Sarge's dying words are the "today is a good day to die" line, except that he trails off and dies after day. 26. The fact that nobody knows Sarge's actual name is long-term consistency. Nobody actually knows his name; I don't even think they came up with one behind the scenes. 27. Having the backup body in Blue base is actually a direct callback to the fact that they had the robots at all. The backups never being mentioned before now makes sense when you realize that Epsilon wouldn't have known about them until at least season 8, maybe even season 10. Since he hasn't been back to Blood Gulch since they originally left in season 5, he's never had an opportunity to go and check to see if they're still there. 28. Caboose actually tells Grif and Simmons what his plan is with bringing Church back, but they just assume that it doesn't work. As a bonus, they actually play the Barenaked Ladies song "Waning Moon" over the campfire scene. 29. This is notable since, and I can't believe I didn't know this until looking it up, the band's lead singer Ed Robertson loves RVB and was the VOICE OF CAPTAIN BUTCH FLOWERS AKA AGENT FLORIDA. 30. The Sigma voice is sadly not Elijah Wood in the last season; it's Miles doing a damn good impression, though. 31. Caboose being the only one to know that Tex and Church are Carolina's parents is fitting, since he's the one that completes the process of filling up the memory unit. If you recall season 8, Church said that Caboose was the only one that was allowed to remember him, since Tucker would just fuck it up. In the end, Caboose fulfilled that promise by being the one to remember him. This also makes it tragic that he's the one to finally put them down, putting him in the same spot as season 15. 32. Simmons' shotgun stand-off against Meta is a direct callback to Sarge's last stand in season eight, even down to Meta's slow march forward. 33. During the fight, Tex does several moves that reference previous fights. The big one is probably her slamming the recovery unit on Meta's chest being a callback to the punch she gave to Tucker during the season 8 fight. 33. You said that Allison and Leonard didn't get a lot of time in the unit together, but that's not the case. Given the fact that Caboose breaks it after Tucker wakes up from being exhausted, its likely that quite a few hours pass between Meta's defeat and Tucker waking up. Since time moves differently for AI (recall Church's explanation of the recordings), the two likely had decades, if not several lifetimes, to be together. 34. When thinking back on his Freelancer companions that were lost, Wyoming is oddly absent from Wash's vision, despite people like South being there that he was on worse terms with.

@@Gazpachooo1 Few more things I thought of: 1. The simulation that the Blues and Reds went through was just an exercise for the Freelancers. Carolina's presence indicates that this takes place before the season 10 flashbacks (we know it's post-9 since we see the highway chase on a screen next to The Director). It was also the simulation that ran the longest, which is why the Blood Gulch cast emulates them. 2. Texas uses the Omega voice during this flashback too, indicating that this takes place after she gets the Omega AI, which also happened between seasons. 3. Temple and Biff being on opposite teams was an oversight on The Director's end; they figured out what was going on due to enlisting together. However, their constant efforts to prevent bloodshed accidentally led to the perpetual stalemate that The Director was looking for. This is why we got those setup episodes in Season 14; this was their precursor. 4. Temple's flashback also confirms that they did not have a Doc counterpart; instead, they just had Doc. Before he worked in Blood Gulch, he was the medical officer for ALL the simulations involving red and blue soldiers across ALL of Project Freelancer. 5. Speaking of Doc, his betrayal in season 16 makes a lot of sense when you realize that the whole "remaking O'Malley in his own mind" thing was never resolved. That, paired with the Reds and Blues' reaction to him siding with Temple, actually gives a decent timeline of his mind degrading over time. 6. Caboose's whole "not being mad" thing has another factor to it: he genuinely doesn't know how to get angry. In the season 10 fight against the Tex bots, he explicitly says he can't remember how to do it. Epsilon has to use his knowledge of Omega to get him properly angry, which is why we get the "I hate taxes" line. 7. The reason why Tex is able to make Church properly in the memory unit is because she likely took the Epsilon recordings from Caboose before tossing him at Meta Tucker. Those, paired with the memories the guys gave her and the fragments she locked up, allowed her to create a default Church to be with. 8. It's a theory on my end, but it's possible that Tex and Church don't actually die when Caboose crushes the unit. Given what we've seen of the AIs in the past, it's possible that they could have been ejected from the unit and turned into "ghosts" like in the earlier seasons. I prefer them dying for real, but the idea of them peacefully giving in to the unit's destruction, only to wake up on a ridge overlooking the canyon while muttering "son of a bitch" to each other, incredibly amusing.

tldr

umm she doesn’t die

@@Wormy47she might as well have

God I wish they gave season 18 to Jason Weight, he did such a good job tying up a trilogy he had nothing to do with, I couldn’t imagine what he could’ve done with a season all for himself

The timeline would work out for him to be a Spartan III but not a II. We could narrow it down by assuming Caboose would be between 18 & 22 at the start of the series which would mean he was most likely part of Beta Company like Kat and Noble Six.

@@MrPikaGammer I don't think even that makes sense, why wasn't he sent on a suicide mission with the rest of his company?

@@InitialPC I said the timeline would line up not that the theory makes perfect logical sense. I'm pretty sure Caboose is from The Moon/Luna which isn't a colony that was glassed by the Covenant and as for the reason he wasn't sent on Operation Torpedo? A mix of his intelligence and pension for shooting friendlies.

Well if Caboose happened to be one of the people who didn’t survive the process, like you said, he wouldn’t be alive

@@TheCopyNinja733 The spartan program barely had any successful candidates, those like Master Chief are the extremely lucky ones. There are two more categories one are the somewhat lucky ones they survive the surgery but ended getting brain damage which made them not qualified to be in active service which explains about Caboose strength and the other ones are the unlucky ones who didn’t survive 😰

Dude I just watched it. Your reanimation was AMAZING! Keep going dude. It rocked!!

Please keep making your reanimated videos!

"Memory is the key"

“Sum up the world in one sentence” 😂💀

I used to think it was like a 7, but it’s honestly like a 5.5. It has way too many glaring issues for me to think it is a good season. Genuinely might be the third worst season, only better than 15, which is around the same rating, and 16 which is like a 4.

I thought it was good. It ties up pretty much all the loose ends. the doc reveal, tex and church finally getting their happy ending, everyone going their separate ways. A lot could have been better but overall Shit was pretty much perfect imo

@@russian_knight yeah, especially given the budget and shutdown time limit

I was just about to type this too

I swear I think about "time and a half over 40 hours, time and a half and a half over 60" at least once a month.

You are literally the exact audience I try and cater for. I'm happy you enjoyed it!

@@Gazpachooo1 Well I’ll be following what you do in the future! Keep it up, you’ll just keep growing with this kinda work I know it!

I literally never knew that lol

The thing with marathon is that its story is all about AI and cybernetics altering minds and in Marathon infinity reality itself, so in retrospecting it almost feels like foreshadowing. Also Marathon today is basically the template for Halo's story as well as Myth (with all of them including destiny having some kind of multiversal conection and 343 weirdly enought kept the way marathon and halo relate by having story elements that keep them tie, as the cycle of development of species and incomprehensible beings as the W'rkncacnter and the Precursors.) PD: Also MYTH also references higher beings (most probably the same as the W'rkncacnter and the Precursors are) and is the most front and center with the idea of the cycle.

OMGSH THANK YOU SM😭

well said

Miles did an amazing job on the chorus trilogy sometimes writers can have a few hiccups

​@@xavierpeterson7139miles didnt write after chorus it was some guy called joe i think

@@WhitenameI can say you are correct about the chorus trilogy stuff however I can’t help you in the writer who did whatever came after

@@Whitename Miles helped writing season 17 because Joe Nicolosi left after season 16 (probably because of the backlash) but he had written an outline. But i think most of the scripting was really done by Jason Weight (who also wrote season 16 and who many people believe wrote the best parts of that season) but Miles helped out a lot.

@@NobleCaboose117 to make a long story short, miles was in charge of The Chorus Trilogy after that there were a bunch of different writers because Season 14 was an anthology (and unnofficially a way to get a new showrunner) because they didn't know what to do post chorus, after that Joe Nichololosi at least did the first season of The Shisno Paradox, beyond that I have no clue beyond Burnie coming back for Restoration to end the series.

Damn that sounds really cool. shame I'll never get to hear it because I refuse to watch season 16 ever again

@@Gazpachooo1 I do not blame you When I was rewatching the series in like 2022 I skipped season 16 because I enjoy season 17 far more just in general But honestly Agent Washington is the highlight of Season 16

I caught that when I first watched 16 and it made me SO hyped (the only time I got elated while watching 16 😑) because I thought that was signaling a descent of Wash’s psyche, possibly mirroring him to the Meta’s loss of identity and mind But …then it just went no where. That made me so pissed by the end of the season, because why have the Meta theme for when Wash is blowing up at his friends if it wasn’t going to lead to anything

I kinda want to petition that now

THANK YOU😭

Yell that during a political rally

Ah good Ole Jon graham

3 times actually wash call her kai whenever he was in the memory fear thing and is loading the hydra for a final stand in season 17

@@wordlesslfiddling good to know, forgot about that one.

Crash reminds me of a lot of funny series based machinimas like spriggs and Phil.