Shorts Review: Red vs Blue Season 11 Episode 12
Spoilers Below
If any of you are regular readers of my reviews I’d be shocked you’d know that a few Red vs. Blue articles ago, I spoke at length about Downfall, the drama film about the last days of Adolf Hitler and his comrades in the bunkers underneath Berlin just prior to Germany’s defeat. (If you didn’t read the review, the idea that this came into an article about a comedic animated series probably sounds completely insane. Trust me, it is.)
The film of course contains a bountiful amount of suicides by German soldiers and their families, and obviously some war deaths as well. Even for Hitler’s bunker buddies that didn’t die during film, there were a couple sentences for them before the end credits, explaining what happened to them after 1945, and when they eventually kicked the bucket. Only one didn’t state the person’s date of death. Even though the film was released in 2004, that person, Staff Sgt. Rochus Misch, was still alive at 96 years old. The one bright spot after a two-and-a-half hour death-stravaganza: a survivor! A dirty Nazi scumbag survivor. Guess that spot ain’t so bright after all.
Well, friends, he died last week. And the world is a bit cleaner now.
Anyway, I just felt the need to share that.
In the Red vs. Blue world, it is now Episode 12, and the story is picking up quickly. Or stories, I should say. There are so many different plot lines that it’s hard to keep track of them all. Let’s see…
Simmons found out that the Blues have a working gravity lift that runs on an abundant fuel supply from the ship. He then borrowed some fuel for a mysterious “side project.”
Caboose asked Washington what he thinks Freckles would look like in a small sombrero, and Wash suspiciously made up an excuse to leave and go search the ship. And if that wasn’t enough, as a third mystery, an unknown soldier (other than Locus!) was watching the Reds and Blues, and said, “Holy shit, it’s actually them,” to himself.
The Reds were searching the ship (or the half of it that landed near them) and discovered it carried a lot of experimental weaponry. Soon after, they found a prototype Mantis that was even larger than the large Freckles. As they debated how to get it out of the ship, they spotted Wash lurking off in the distance.
Washington, then back at the armory, was building something and said to himself: “Never though it’d come down to this. Sorry, Caboose.”
Dammit, he better not touch my Caboose! (That sounded a lot less weird before I typed it.) Clearly things are heating up with this show, and just past the season’s halfway point (I assume, based on previous seasons) this should make for an interesting last ten episodes or so. And, as should be no surprise by now, it’s still funny as hell. This episode has numerous quotable lines throughout, and they still blend extremely well with the different storylines and numerous mysterious events. That should be enough to make any and every different type of Red vs. Blue fan happy.
And remember, don’t let me write about you. Because if I do, a few weeks later you might be dead. It’s like The Ring, but way lamer. This warning is especially true if you happen to be a 96-year-old, Nazi, douche-tard toolbag.
