Review: Red vs Blue “Everwhen”

Let’s do the time warp again.

Overview:

Donut is slingshotted across time, hoping to rouse his friends back into action.

Our Take:

Donut is now officially the protagonist, being the only one of the group that is outside of time, and having Chrovos’ powers to an extent, is able to manipulate it. He is able to hop through time by thinking of specific instances to visit and is, therefore, able to take over his body at the time. While this will prevent an obvious paradox of past and future selves meeting at the same time, it creates another issue.

We already had an inkling about this from the series, but the teams don’t really trust Donut. In fact, they don’t think positively of him at all, which was one of his major incentives for leaving the team last season. Although he has since remedied that action, going back in time means that he is returning to times when they trusted him even less. As Tucker points out, a lot of what Donut says is innuendo and only innuendo, and so even beyond the trust issue, there’s less willingness to take him seriously. As a result, when Donut tries to warn everyone, it’s useless. They don’t want to listen to him, even when his words ring familiar. Since the main group has their memories essentially sealed by being lost in time, what Donut is saying is even more nonsense to them than usual.

It truly may seem hopeless, but what ends up giving Donut a real hint is in speaking to Chrovos themselves. Chrovos no doubt has the upper hand, but in this episode, we see their fatal flaw: pride. Chrovos is so absolutely certain in their victory that they like to brag and gloat, and in doing so reveal information to Donut that he uses to his own advantage. In this case, because of the initial paradox, there might be one other person stuck outside time.

In the last season, the paradox was created when the group went back to save Washington, who had been shot by Temple. In preventing a certain fate, they disrupted the normal flow of time. In other words, the reason behind the paradox, Washington, is at the very crux of the situation. Someone who is both shot and not shot at the same time, a living Schrodinger’s Cat. Washington would be able to notice the same issues as Donut, and most of all, the group likes and listens to Washington. Having him on their side would be invaluable, so recruiting him is of utmost importance.

Score
8.0/10