RvB

The continued attempt to crank out as many blogs as possible is now bringing you a short talk about the YouTube show, “Red vs Blue”. This show is the longest running show on YouTube. It has been releasing season for over 10 years. This show is an amazing example to watch and see how technology and filming techniques have drastically changed over the years.

               The show started as a group 20-40-year-old potty-mouthed men adding snarky and sarcastic commentary to clips that they had recorded using the game Halo. Over the past years, the show has grown massive by catapulting them into the company “Rooster Teeth”, that creates its own high quality animation for what is now a very deep and enveloping story of the Red and Blue soldiers.

               The first 13 seasons of “Red vs Blue” tells the convoluted story of a group of soldiers stationed in Blood Gulch outposts 1 and 2.  This story changes wildly and takes so many twists and turns that it is always a wildly different story than the one that came before it. In the 13^th season of the show all the major events lead into a final battle that leaves us in a strange sense of completion without the story being over.

               One major setback for the show has been the loss of its lead animator Monty Oum, but the show has been successful in not losing its fun good humored touch that it had before Monty joined the crew. This is an investment of time to watch 10 years’ worth of content, but I have found much enjoyment in re-watching it several times.