#rvb 13

Wash: uh, look. the attention is flattering and all, but Carolina's actually supposed to be your narrative foil

Locus: ....what--

Wash: Really! Look, she's got the whole 'human weapon' complex with being nothing but a soldier for most of her life and not really having much outside of that and trying to figure out how to be a person--

Locus: exCUSE me--

Wash: Like, honestly if I wasn't kind of a crappy Freelancer when we raided the Charon operations, I think that Shark guy might've targeted me instead. We both have revenge narratives with contrasting methods of resolving them.

Locus: ....

Wash: Listen, Locus... It's nothing personal. I mean, it's not me. It's you. You understand.

Locus: I don't know What gave you the idea that I "Care" about you, Agent Washington, but I Do Not.

did you really think you were the only one who's good with knives?

Does anyone remember where I wanna say Miles is talking about the mocap in season 13, and it gets mentioned that in the mocap scene for 13x1 where one of the mercs pushes some UNSC guy off the railing, and they mention how in the mocap he gets like kicked in the nuts, and you can kinda see him start to keel over

the season ended with the Reds and Blues about to fight Charon and Church killing himself, but we never know the actual outcome of that fight.

they won, obviously. of course they did, they’re the Reds and Blues, they’re the luckiest idiots in the world and that’s just the way a good story works. but at what cost did they win? did someone get hurt? did someone die? how did they react to Church’s death? did they have more trauma to overcome? did they stay to clean up on Chorus? did they go home to Earth? did they stay together, or go their separate ways?

season 13’s ambiguous ending left that up to the audience to decide - and that kind of stuff is awesome because each person knows the perfect ending for themselves, and that personal headcanon can’t be ruined by future seasons or new writers.

we even see this with all those new theories that were cropping up. people wondering what was gonna happen to Locus, if Tucker kept the Meta suit, if that brief flash of all the AI fragments meant each of the Reds and Blues got their own AI now.

season 15 suffered because of a new writer and limited resources, yes, but i think more than anything it suffered because 13 left such massive shoes to fill. the break of season 14 just left people build up their expectations even more, so of course we were going to be disappointed with whatever we got.