Review: Red vs Blue “A Pizza the Action”

To find more pizza.

Overview:

Grif and Doc try to make pizza of their own.

Our Take:

After realizing that the only way to get pizza back is to create it from scratch, Grif loses hope. He realizes that not only have tomatoes not been brought back from the Americas yet, but nothing he says gets through to the Italian peasants. In his frustration, he decides that the best thing he can do is take a nap.

This immensely frustrates Doc, who wants to use the time machines for a much more noble purpose. Unlike the rest of the team, who wants to use things just for kicks, Doc wants to use the time machine to better the world. He explains to a sleeping Grif that he had a little brother who died, and he feels immensely guilty about it. The reason why he wanted to be a medic in the first place was that he lacked the knowledge to save his brother’s life back then, and he doesn’t want to repeat that. In being given an object of power like a time machine, he wants to use it for good, but Grif doesn’t agree with him. Grif doesn’t trust him after his betrayal, and Doc laments that if he only stuck by the team, he would have been able to have some grounds. Instead, he has to stick along for the pizza journey. This one of the few pieces of backstory we have on Doc, and

Elsewhere, Sis and Tucker haven’t had a good adventure. Tucker continuously ruins everything, and Sis is not pleased that his interference messed up all her plans. She says that she’s not willing to ever sleep with him, but it turns out that’s not exactly true- she doesn’t have feelings for him, but she’s still very thirsty. They end up getting totally wasted and thus are completely unprepared when Arcadium Rex appears in front of them. Their portion is still the weakest thus far, but having the enemy appear directly in front of them kicks their story right back into the plot, which was desperately needed.

Not only is Arcadium Rex much larger than any character we’ve seen so far, he also has the ability to open portals through space-time at will, and fire a beam that can level an entire compound. This puts him closer to a deity, and if his bragging is to be believed, then he has much more powerful than anything the team has encountered so far, so the chances of them beating him seem astronomically slim.

Also, O’Malley is back. Not sure when that happened, but this episode definitely leaves you with a lot of questions.