Review: Red vs Blue “Blue vs Red Part Two”

A plan goes awry.

Spoilers Below:

Continuing Temple’s flashback, Carolina is sent on a training mission to prove her strength. She’s unhappy that it’s a simple exercise but goes with only minor complaints. The venue is Temple’s gulch, and the game is capture the flag.

Carolina is assigned to the Blue Team, and she soon becomes exasperated by their incompetence. She ends up leading the charge herself and confronts the Freelancer on the other side- Tex. The two engage in battle, and both teams gather to watch, knowing they have no chance of getting in between that. They mess with the soundtrack, trying to provide good fight music.

Tex ends up temporarily gaining the upper hand, and goes to capture the Blue Team flag. Carolina follows her, and they engage in battle again. In the meantime, Biff sees it as the perfect opportunity to fake his injury and asks Temple to shoot off his pinky finger. Temple prepares to but realizes that he can’t. Biff insists that he has to, since his girlfriend is expecting, and he has to get home. Still, Temple can’t bring himself to do it.

Biff accidentally gets caught up in the fight between the two Freelancers and ends up being accidentally impaled by the flag. As Temple calls for help, Tex coldly removes the flag and leaves Biff to bleed to death. Command nearly notes that the team remained in stalemate for so long, and their data and personalities should be taken note of, so they can recreate a similar scenario.

Overview:

Now we know why there’s no Griff counterpart. Biff is dead, and it’s because of the fight between the two Freelancers that he ended up dead. Temple’s hatred towards the UNSC is from selling their unit out to Project Freelancer, who brought Tex and Carolina there, to begin with. He despises being used as a pawn and wants revenge as a result of this tragedy. However, one thing that isn’t brought up at all is whether Temple feels any internal guilt– if he had taken the shot, then Biff wouldn’t have gotten accidentally caught up in the fight. Temple’s thoughts on his role in the situation haven’t been brought up just yet, so it’ll be interesting to see if that gets touched upon at all.

As Jax, the ever meta character, mentions, Biff’s motives are cliche, and he was setting up a lot of death flags for himself. However, in war, those motivations are real, and people do want to leave the service to get home to their loved ones, so it does make sense.

Score
8.0/10