Red Vs. Blue: HALO The Recollection - Seasons 6, 7
& 8 (New Video/Flatiron Film
Company DVD Set)
Picture:
B- Sound: B- Extras: A Episodes: B
As the
human race expands into the vast universe, in the future to secure humanity's
survival is troopers of the Red and Blue
teams. Training, holding their post
dutifully (most of the time) they protect their bases from the other side, but
with the Freelancers, AI, Aliens show up in the mix, things are getting a little
crowded in the neighborhood. Who or what
is their purpose on this planet? These
AIs seem to hold the secret, who/what ever has them has the tactical advantage
in battle, and memory is the key...
The Red and Blue teams have been fighting a civil war with each other, but in
truth they have been serving only as the testing/training ground for Project
Freelancer. Both Red and Blue teams are
in a run for their money and must set aside their differences when a rogue
AI/Freelancer called the 'Meta' starts
collecting other AI and their abilities. Freelancer Agent Washington
mission is to stop Meta and collect the AIs. Joined (unwillingly) Washington and the Red
and Blue teams must accomplish their respective missions...
Base off the popular video game HALO,
a first person, sci-fi shooter game, this series tells the tale of the soldiers
of the game. This is a futuristic
animation, the various characters or 'troopers' have unique personalities that
are comical as they try to survive the battlefield (not to mention each other).
However, you focus less on the tech and
CG, and more the characters and dialog. While
each faction/character has their motives, reasons, friends, ultimately they all
realize they had been manipulated. The
main story is not as amusing as the antics and banter between the various
troops, there is dumb, and there is always dumber. Extras include audio commentary with the
filmmakers, special videos and PSAs, deleted scenes, outtakes, visual effects,
and cast interviews.
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Season 6 - Reconstruction
Things are not going good for Freelancer Washington. With the Meta
collecting various AIs and combining their various powers, he just seems
unstoppable. The truth behind the AIs
creation was to produce a new weapon, Alpha the original AI, but when Alpha was
found uncontrollable, it was splintered into various AIs, and the AIs went
crazy and rogue. This all stemmed from
Project Freelancer and new truths are revealed that some of their team members
might have not even been human... Now the boys must infiltrate the freelancer
base and get a little payback with a little EMP.
Season 7 - Recreation
After erasing the Blues files from the database, Caboose sets off to try and
fix the Epsilon unit. Sarge and the Red
team quickly realize without the Blue team they have no purpose and decides to
join and help Caboose restore the Blues, not to mention they were the who
erased their files in the first place. Old friends that were dead... turns out
some of them aren't so dead, that some of them were actually AIs, and they
enter an ancient ruin and base to find them some bodies. However Agent Washington
is back and working with Meta this time, he cut a deal with higher-ups to
retrieve the Epsilon Unit in exchange for his freedom, no matter the cost...
Season 8 - Revelation
Church and Tex
are back, and Tex
is as bad and just as mad as ever. Piecing
their fragments of their memories together they strive to discover who they are
and head up to an abandoned base. After
discovering who they really are, Tex sets a
trap for Washington and the Meta
to interrogate them to find out where the director is. Lines are drawn and the time of talk is over,
only things talking are coming out of the barrel of a gun.
- Ricky Chiang
