Review: Red vs Blue: Immersion-Warthog Flip

Well, you can’t win ‘em all. Honestly, after seeing the press release for the DVD, I figured this episode would be relegated to special features, giving us room for two episodes by Matt and Burnie, but…this is fine, I guess.

SPOILERS?

We enter our final gimmick episode, this time by another one of Rooster Teeth’s own shows: Immersion, as well as being directed and written by Daniel Fabelo, known for work on stuff all over RT’s filmography, including the recently released “Day 5” live action series. For those who don’t know, Immersion takes situations typical in certain video games, then tests out the likelihood of them working in real life. Stuff like: driving a car while only having third person view, side scrolling, eating raw food for health, and reenacting arcade games like Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Mario Kart. It’s actually one of RT’s older shows, going back as far as 2010. And this time, our subject is the ability to flip a tipped Halo Warthog with the push of a button.

Honestly, thinking about it, this is a weirdly fitting (by the way, take a drink every time I’ve said fitting this season) choice for the second to last episode. RT’s history starts with video games, specifically Halo, so bringing these two shows together this way is sort of a full circle. Hopefully we’ll get an even fuller full circle next week for the finale, but this is good too!

As with the rap episode, the trailer episode, and others like it this past season, there’s really not a whole lot to say, plot-wise. They start with a lead-in of live action Reds driving by to save food from spoiling when they end up crashing, but from there it’s into the Immersion stuff, which has Miles (dressed as Sarge) as the “control variable” that pushes at the car as would be what the player is implied to do in the game, while labcoat Burnie helps get it right side up with machinery when Miles inevitably fails. Also, very noticeable continuity error since the Sarge bobble head clearly falls off the Warthog during a replay, but then is still stuck to it as it comes up. I probably don’t have to reiterate that trying to talk about a near utter lack of things to talk about makes the job of someone who has to describe things going on in an episode kinda boring to write and for others to read…so I won’t! But while we’re talking about this episode, I will say that it was definitely a fun 9 minutes, and makes me wanna go back and watch all the Immersion episodes I’ve forgotten to watch.

One episode left, run by the OG writers. Next week is a good day to die.