#rvb6

I mentioned before I was rewatching rvb with a friend and tonight we watched season 6! It was awesome, as much as I love the BGC this is the stuff I've been really excited to get to

Here's some Thought™ I had about it

First of all, I still love South in Recovery One, I believe she genuinely regretted betraying North

Also the difference in the interactions between South and Wash between pfl and Recovery One is jarring but I love it, in RO it really feels like they're more on equal grounds

Someone mentioned a while ago how perceptive Simmons is and that really struck me when I realised he was the first to point out that you can't copy an AI

I'm still low-key bitter about Wash manipulating Church into sacrificing himself, they absolutely could've worked out a better plan and as much as it really was Church's fight, it definitely seemed like wash wanted the AI to be destroyed more than anyone else, Church barely had time to form an opinion on it, and it certainly wasn't an informed one

I think its interesting that even though Maine clearly wasn't in control anymore, the director and counselor still refused to address the AI directly, they always addressed 'agent Maine'

Walter Henderson suggested that Omega knew the Meta was coming (when talking about trying to get the comm tower back up), it makes me wonder if Omega really wanted no part in the meta and was genuinely trying to leave Valhalla before he arrived

I wonder if Tex was helping him too? I very much doubt she'd want taken by the meta

Delta's "you're... abandoning me?" Always makes me so sad

I still love the headcanon that Delta was very specifically bitter about South letting Theta get taken, and that's why he was so insistent Wash kill her

The "you...are the alpha" scene still gets me so excited aaa

I can't wait to see Donut and Tucker again, y'all know I'm in a Tucker-loving phase rn and I always love Donut fhdj

The director and Chairman call each other "dear" a lot and it makes it sound like they're writing vaguely romantic hate mail ("It seems you will earn your place in history after all, dear director" "You must understand one basic fact for all this to make sense, my dear Chairman.")

I feel like no one talks about South’s death enough.

Her last words are, “What’re you gonna do, sh—“, with the rest of sentence presumably bring “shoot me?”. This seems arrogant, which falls in line with her personality, but think about it from her perspective.

South hardly interacted with Washington after the Epsilon implantation, and lost contact with him in the years following the crash of the Mother of Invention. In her eyes, he’s still the dorky rookie. They were like family during Freelancer. Sure, they interact some during Recovery One, but she was still spared by him. His personality shift wasn’t as apparent.

Delta in Season 6 told Wash that “Memory is the key”.

Wash in Season 16 is having gaps in his memory.

When Maine was the Meta, it was implied that he didn’t remember or recognize any of his old teammates except for perhaps Wash, given that he spared Wash’s life twice.

The first time when South shot Wash in the back, proceeding to take Delta and run.

The second time in Season 6, when the Meta activated his temporal distortion unit as Wash and Caboose were escaping the resulting explosion from “The worst throw ever...of all time”

We know that Wash has cerebral hypoxia (whereas Maine was influenced by Sigma). However, the music that was most often associated with instances concerning the Meta was used as soon as Carolina told Wash that his brain had gone several minutes without oxygen.

The music ended moments before Wash walked away from Carolina as she sought for words to justify her actions.

The first time an agent from Project Freelancer encountered the Meta, where his “identity” per say, was confirmed, was when Maine took Eta and Iota from Carolina before tossing her off the cliff. Promptly after, Sigma makes his proclamation of “We are the Meta”.

Maine walked away from Carolina after throwing her off that cliff as “The Meta”.

Wash walked away from Carolina with a feeling of betrayal, moments after the Meta music had played.

Both occurrences happened in Carolina’s presence, and it’s possible that Wash may begin to act similar to how the Meta did.

After all, it is revealed that the “cosmic gods” are nothing more than A.I. with seemingly magical powers.

Granted, Price did reveal in Season 13 that Wash has refused A.I. implantation due to his experience with Epsilon. But this isn’t the first time the Meta music has played when the main focus of the scene is on Wash.

The Meta music also played in Season 7 - right before the story arc where Wash became one of the villains.

If he does go Meta, does that mean he might react to Carolina similar to the way Maine did? And spare the BGC? How would him becoming the next Meta affect the plot?