#rvb season 17

[asphodeldreams]

crawled out of my spreadsheet-lined cave to participate in Donut Week! (hosted by @donutweek) Prompt for day 1 was "food" so i took us to post-season 17 where the rest of the gang baked a cake for donut (for wash too, but mostly donut!!) as an apology for cleaning up their mess

[louiseazy]

Red vs Blue Season 17 Swear Count

Their is 103* swears in total this season (*if you don't count shinso) and the first swear was said by Tucker.

Swears used:

tits, cock once; crap, bastard twice; dick 7; ass 10; damn, bitch 14; shit 15; fuck 37

Ranks:

Last place non-swearers Lopez, cosmic powers and Caboose

11th place is a tie Doc and Church(being dead 3 times over couldn't stop him) with 1

10th place is Felix with 2

9th place is Chrovos with 3

8th place is Huggins* with 4

7th place is Simmons with 5

6th place is Sarge with 6

5th place is a tie Sister and Carolina with 9

4th place is Donut* with 10

3rd place is Washington with 11

2nd place is a tie Tucker* and Genkins* with 13

1st place is Grif with 16

[sabotourist]

So I did a raven style perusal of seasons 16 and 17 which is to say it was out of order and scattershot because I was working. I have some notes. In random order

First up, Carolina???????

Second, the implication that wash *loves* his hijinx with his friends. That he considers it fun. Freelancer brainrot fr.

The reds and blues love their freelancers so much right back????

Carolina??????

I mean obviously donut is fantastic.

Him complaining that his friends don't treat him like a man. Then after he scolds and comforts wash, as they're walking back, wash going "thanks man."

Why, when asked where to get shot if he had to be shot (again) did Donut have his ears locked and loaded????

I'm sad they retconned this season

They play the meta drumbeat in the background when wash learns the extent of his injury??????? Hello?????

Sarge is the first one to call out to wash?!?!????

When Carolina is fighting her past self in the labyrinth, she spits some fucking BARS dude.

"Yeah. You're a mirror. Two-dimensional, backwards, and what? I'm meant to feel disgusted every time I look at you? Because you're right."

Carolina holy shit

Also when they're fighting in the freelancer room, every spot on the leaderboard flickers except for the sixth spot! Wash's!

Also Carolina being emotionally vulnerable is so great. Her conversation with wash as they're repairing time, and he's saying goodbye... That fucking scene is everything to me. I love that these two guys that have been through so much together can say "I love you" and it doesn't have to be something romantic.

Carolina sees wash as a brother?????

Wash is so much more jokey and easygoing by season 17!!!! When he's not actively upset obviously!

Tucker considering the moment they get split up on Chorus to be one of the worst moments of his life is actually so fucking interesting. This man has gone through so much and one of the worst days of his life was when Felix tricked him.

"O'Malley wishes" doc, I love you so much

"A leader stands behind their team for the good things. In front of them for the bad. Why... am I still here?" Tucker holy shit my boy are you okay

Wash just not wanting to be alone. No snappy comebacks (aside from caboose kinda) when everyone says they'll be there for him.

Caboose's "my head's fuzzy and... I do good."

The way donut gives wash a pep talk but sounds like he's about to cry when he says "good. Because I can't do this alone...!" My SONNNNNN

It's just. This shit isn't perfect but. It has a lot of heart. And now I'm sad that season 18 apparently dropped the ball so hard that I legitimately do not know a single thing about it. I'm sad a lot of this is getting retconned. Carolina was the sleeper hit.

Conclusion: I like this show. I hope restoration is good

[january-summers]

Hear me out: Season 17/Singularity era Washington takes a mental health break in the midst of fixing the time line. This mental health break involves popping back to post sarcophagus mission Project Freelancer, and spraying Sigma with a fire extinguisher claiming he "thought something was on fire! ... why are you on fire by the way?"

[d77-tc-pelican]

season 17

sarge: Or a neil gaiman novel

CBT: He reads?

Sarge: What? I read

[turkwriter]

Burnie Burns: "We're retconning Seasons 15-17 as Epsilon simulations."

Red Team Fans Who Actually Got Fed Real Character Arcs for Simmons, Grif, DONUT, and (Honorary Red) Locus:

[heroictoonz]

im quickly remembering why i dont rewatch season 16 like ever all my rvb rewatches stop after chorus

[blueberrythefrog]

RVB S17 was the only time I actually went; "Yknow what, why wasn't this in the S14 roster?, this is actually fun!, despite it feeling awfully uncanon." I also agree that RVB ended semi well with the final, but come on, S17/16 was fun, wasn't it? Despite it's.. flaws? I liked Genkins, I even liked coach prestwood, even if he was a brief character. same for Dylan Andrews and Jax (Not digital circus Jax, like.. Spartan Jax. look it up btw it's funny /j) Idk maybe I am weird. but I actually thought Genkins was the best part of that season. Oh and Caboose saying goodbye to Church twice, in the final and S17 wasn't in my bingo card for 2019/2024, but here we are. Genkins, I'd love to see fans rewrite him to fit the story more, hell if no one does it, I will. I truly think he's a interesting character. despite his loki similarities.

[ancient-romes]

Guys i finished season 14 is it worth it to continue ? like i love Tucker too much idk if i wanna see what they end up doing w him

[boner4murder]

i’m not mad about the retconning purely because like. when have we ever cared about what rooster teeth says is canon or not

[beanboozled44]

Okay so as of now I've downloaded as much of the red vs blue soundtrack as I can but I'm genuinely missing a heap. I don't have any of season 15 upwards and it's freaking me out

All the music has been taken off of YouTube and Spotify as well as apple music (yes the stuff people paid for.)

Trocadero is working to re-upload a lot of their songs but I have no idea about any of the others or if they even could.

I believe RWBY music is also gone as well

If ANYONE has any drives or back ups or anything that they could lead me to copy or something I'd greatly appreciate and if anyone's looking for audio files of these songs I do have some!

I don't know if this is a huge deal but it is to me.

[asphodeldreams]

scotty and i watched seasons 16 and 17 last night and i always forget how much whiplash you get going between the two (<— guy who really likes season 17)

[louiseazy]

thoughts while rewatching rvb season 17 of course none of this really matters because the retcon but whatever

-Honestly not having church back feels like a missed opportunity. -So Donut part Ai now cause Chrovos save him? Okay. -Despite everything Donut still hasn't forgotten he's almost died. -I still don't think it was a good idea for Chrovos to tell Donut how to fix things but at least they explain it. -Doctor Grey commits insurance fraud -Wash please don't explain in front of the enemy -God 17 is so cringe -stop with the speeches and get on with it -Genkins pretending to be Epsilon is so mean, I need more angst fics -Wash having to shot Donut over and over

Time travel doesn't help with Wash's character disconnect, nor with setting up the tragedy of project freelancer. They make so many chances and then turn around and do fuck all with it. I get Carolina but Maine has the bruteshot they should be "friends" by now. Nor should Wash be so low on the leader board. I cannot believe that Wash was ever 'forgot to pull the pin out of the grenade' bad in freelancer.

-Time travel and they still don't show the Dinos vs Robots fight :( -Caboose is the first one to get it again - They literally had a whole Wash bounces back bit, but sure Carolina the one who survives things that would have broke most people (shaking my head) - I seriously just have god I hate this god I hate this in the notes -yay Doc help's Donut -Donut say pink instead of lightish red around 1:13, but he couldn't keep it since it's noncanon -'Church this will make much more sense if you go to bed'

I think Tucker moment to fix time would have been more gut punching if it was the point where he toss Felix the grenade. They could still have Genkins temp him, it would be fixing his mistake in trusting Felix, making it so much harder for him. But nooo they can't take the chances that they fucking made.

-Nice job breaking it hero/ fixing it villain, Donut giving Genkins the push to betray Chrovos first. -So much shipping fuel 'if he's single there's no hope for us' 'everybody out I'm gonna fuck him!'

The fear thing was another missed opportunity. They could have done so much more and better. It Should have gotten more time instead. I mean Sarge loves violence, he betray the team for war, expending on the office bit would have been more interesting. Him having face that he is tried and still not being able to handle it. Grif's is exercise really? And Simmons's is a Joke.

-I get the pride thing but come on we shit to do Carolina, and they ended up helping anyway! Didn't something like this already happen? but it was Tex? Twice!? -They should have saved the budget for a Chrovos and/or Genkins fight - the ending was kinda mehh, being retcon twice doesn't help

-'I'll sure miss knowing what's going on' ~Caboose

[hungry-skeleton]

Doc and O'Malley are my favorite guys ever. They hate each other, they depend on each other, they want the other gone, they taught the other so much about themselves, they want to beat up each other personally, they bicker like an old married couple, they're enemies, they're partners, he's tortured for real, he's a cartoon villain, they're nothing alike, they're the same guy

[bloodgulchblog]

While I sympathize with being frustrated that your favorite character wasn't the center of a story, I must point out that he had three fucking seasons where his character arc was at the core of the show, that was probably the best of it, and maybe it's fine somebody else got one that wasn't even particularly good.

[nevada-got-screwed-over]

Restoration: fuck you every season after chorus you mean nothing to me

Restoration: except for you season 14 you’re an angel and we’re happy you’re here <3