RvB Revelation, Episode 20

[shichahn]

Did you click it? Have you not seen it? Jesus fuck what is wrong with you, go catch up already.






Okay? Are we good?














Last warning.












SPOILERS BELOW GODDAMNIT.
















Now I'm all paranoid and don't want to type anything because some of you losers will click on every single fucking thing that says SPOILERS DON'T READ THIS! because you're idiots. Oh well. I guess I can't do anything about that but give in, now.

Was that not the sweetest, most beautiful little monologue at the end there? Epsilon, you're adorable. He will never be Alpha (who is still around, I swear, there is a way that that can happen, now!) but he's still adorable and I do love him.

I'm of mixed feelings about how the season ended. I think there were a lot of questions raised by the Recollections trilogy that didn't get answered well at all. Or just weren't even touched. I kept waiting for Ep to go insane from the burden of his horrific long-term memories, if he even accessed them at all. I think he must have, and was able to get past them, but if that's the case, how depressing is it that his favorite memories are 1) one he had to fill in himself based on Caboose's stories, hence Reachified Blood Gulch, and 2) one who has gone missing, who he now hopes he'll find someday because he just can't help but love her that much. I mean, my god, we all know RvB can be awfully dark for a supposed comedy, but that's just so sad. And sweet, at the same time. Really, really sweet.

Meta's death (if he's indeed dead, which, I hope so) was epic. I have a newfound appreciation for Sarge, haha. Wash becoming a Blue finally was beautiful irony and I love it. I love that Burnie found a way to let him survive the series in a way that made sense, too, because I couldn't really see any end that didn't involve him dying after the Recreation finale. And now what? Will we ever see Halo 3 and the "real" world (I now have doubts about its reality, argh) ever again? Or will the next season be Reach-only? Or the opposite - are Church and Tex gone for good? I know a couple of small facts about season 9 that I won't state here that are somewhat related to those questions, but they don't really answer them entirely. For the most part.

I don't really feel like writing up a big thing about the nature of reality and the cycle and what it all means for Church and Tex, Alpha and Epsilon and their individual Tex incarnations, because that would take a lot of effort and it doesn't entirely make sense to me. But boy oh boy did this season end in a place and in a way I definitely didn't anticipate. Feel free to comment on that, and maybe we can hash something out in the comments that makes sense. I think we're missing a large piece of the picture still, though. They may not address it for a while (read: after a couple more years' worth of seasons in new-BG), but when they do, I think some big assumptions about this show are going to be dissolved immediately. We'll see. But I think that the trailer for Recreation is a major, major hint. Or at least, I hope so.

Comments

[hyper-amychao.livejournal.com]

I agree with you soooo much!

The ending was beautifully done, but it definitely left me with a couple questions.

I, for one, am glad Meta's finally dead. I hope. XD

And Wash joining the Blue team? ffff yeeees!

[shichahn.livejournal.com]

A couple? Just a couple? I really don't think this season answered anything we'd thought to ask about before. We now have a better handle on what Tex is, but we still don't exactly have anything conclusive. We have an indication of what the cycle might be, but we don't know for sure, and we still don't know why memory is the key or what it's the key to. We don't know what happened to all of those horrific things in Epsilon's long-term memory and why they don't seem to be bothering him to the point of suicide, or if what Wash told us is even completely valid (he certainly was having problems of his own during that time). And... I could go on and on.