Red vs Blue: MIA Reaction (Back In The Saddle) 

Sorry for the delayed video, as this was supposed to be uploaded yesterday, but we're officially back to weekly Red vs Blue content! A second Red vs Blue video will be posted in a couple hours on Patreon, as part of the one-week early access perk for the backers there! I'm sorry for the almost one-year hiatus, but I'm back, I'm refreshed and I'm ready to continue this series! LET'S GO!!!!!!!

Remember when Church was explaining recursion to Tucker in S9? Basically, he simulated blood gluch a whole bunch of times, trying to get it right and reunite with Tex. We only saw the last time, since he got taken out at the end of it. But this probably takes place in a different pass-through! That's how it's canon. Really, it's just for fun. It has no impact on the canon.

I was just about to comment "Last time I was this early, MurderofBirds still reacted to Red vs Blue"

Feel free to pause as much as you need dude! Don't want you missing stuff! People who complain about pausing can go blow.

"casting is expensive shut your mouth" that was a 4th wall gag about the fact that Doc and Sarge are voiced by the same guy, and they both had a long conversation with each other at the beginning of the episode. it was basically just Matt talking to himself for like 2 minutes. here's a live version of Matt's first time with it. absolutely hilarious. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wPsEUTHJY1M.html

Me: reads title Also me: remembering all the comments I made asking about red vs blue Btw I don’t care when you watch RVB as long as we get to see it one day. Oh and glad to see you back

I'm one of those RvB subbers. Been waiting here the whole time, still around! Had you on notification bell for a year though LMAO. It's alright, we've all been caught up in our own lives, so don't sweat it. I'm hyped for your season 10 content, you're one of the best reactors on RU-vid still. Can't wait.

Don't feel bad, this is a relationship. And what is the most important thing in a relationship? Communication. So as long as we can talk about what makes us happy, sad, and all in the emotions in between. We will be fine. And we are, welcome back.

Red vs Blue. Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. A long time

Damn man...I was just about to sleep for work to. Here's to another 35 minutes of staying up.

*_HELL YEAH, MY DUDE IS BACK!_* Glad to hear you're doing better man. The last thing we would ever want is for these to feel forced. Happy Murder makes for happy flock!

Video starts. Arnold: (Blank stare into camera) Me: What’s...what’s gonna happen? Arnold: (Looks from side to side then back to camera) Me: WHAT’S GONNA HAPPEN?! Arnold: Welcome back? Me: Oh, ok. Whew.

Me: Well I guess maybe Arnold ran a little late today, I bet he'll upload in the morning. Guess I'll go to bed *Arnold posts his reaction* Me: *sigh* SLEEP DEPRIVATION HERE I COME!

Just use the age old excuse: Tucker did it!

I'd say it's kinda filler. The only canonicity that I could really say is that this is one of many of the iterations that Church went through to find Tex prior to Season 9. But as far as comedy goes this was pretty funny lol

The map of the city (and the building interior) is Breakneck, a remake of another map from Halo 2 (which was used in the Recovery One finale, where South betrays Wash).

as a person "only subbed for RVB" (i do watch your other stuff but you know what i mean) i would just like to say that iv rewatched your RVB series too.... im on season 5...... for the 4th cycle... doesnt matter now tho.... my body is ready... plz papa bird never leave us again

I don’t feel dismissed, it’s about enjoying the content creator, not necessarily the content in of itself. You’re in for a treat for S10 though!

I never actually watched this. So this is what happened with that table read.

YES!!!! I stayed up and it was worth it! Woo! Good to have you back, man.

Oh, you are going to LOVE seasons 10 - 13, the plot's gonna get thiccer than Grif

Sees murderofbirds makes RvB cries in space marine

Mission log #79: Food has run out and my last can of water has run dry. My wait for another RvB reaction might have been fruitless... They tried to warn me but I didn't listen. I was a fool to believe that there may be hope... Wait... what is that... Is that... a new reaction?! Oh dear merciful lord, he's back!

Welcome back! Glad to see these are starting up again, and don’t hate yourself over the long break. Just glad you’re back to RvB reactions.

I forget the name of it but that city map is the Reach version of a Halo 2 map that you might remember from the Recovery One mini series. It was the map where Wash and South encountered the Meta and where South betrayed Wash. It is a city under construction and one of my favorite Halo maps of all time, criminally underused in both the games and RvB.

Life happens man, you got us all here behind you even if we have to wait for it to happen for you first. I was gonna say I just hope you remember it all but you just said you rewatched ALL of it so yeah I guess I shoulda trusted your work ethic there lol. We love you man and we love the vids, can’t wait for you to get into the greatest season of Rooster Teeth’s very first gem.

7:31 Arnold- “if I fuck up on an upload you better call me out on it” Earlier that day- “I’m releasing two RvB vids today, one on RU-vid” My clock- *its 1 in the morning* Me- .......close enough

I just wanna say thank you for being straightforward with what goes on instead of being quiet. I really appreciate that.

I’m really glad you rewatched RvB as there’s so many small things that are easy to forget. I recently watched every RvB reaction to rewatch the series and the next day you announced your continuing so it’s perfect

you should watch caboose visits the reach too.

AHHHH! I'm so excited! it's actually really cool that you are pausing and giving us your thoughts. Can't wait for your reaction to season 10.

Welcome back Arnold! Let me tell you, you're in for a wild ride.

DAT Intro thou lol haha XD

I think I rewatched all of your freelancer series like 6 times, I love watching people enjoy what I enjoy

I love that you're so genuine. I am so excited for the videos to come. I will always watch you and your passion means a lot to us. Much love ❤

Glad to be back in the saddle with you. The wait was long, but I'm hyped for the next few seasons.

Dude, it's so good to have you back and the opening moments of this video was so funny. You had such a great expression on your face, I laughed out loud. Welcome back.

Literally just finished an episode of the walking dead game and was about to go to sleep when you uploaded. Sleep can wait

I kept coming back and refreshing and for some reason it scared the shit out of me when I saw this

I wasn't really waiting for more Red vs. Blue, I try not to expect anything from RU-vidrs, so I can act really surprised and excited when something does happen.

Arnold: Doesn’t upload the day he said he would. Caboose: You lied to me

Wow it is s o good to see you back!! I've been rewatching your entire rvb reactions and I'm just starting season 9 again and man I just wanted to express how much I appreciate you. You've become my favorite RU-vidr overall by far over the last year and I really want to get into the other stuff you do besides rvb. I'm glad moving and everything went smoothly (as far as I can tell) and wow dude it is so awesome to have you back! I will continue to be praying for the rest of your adjustment to the new place! You have no idea how excited I am to have you back! Have fun and enjoy my favorite season!

caboose visits the reach takes place before season9

Four things about this reaction: 1) Awesome reaction, so excited to see you back. Don’t worry about how long it’s been, you’ve clearly had a lot going on and we understand. Just happy you’re back in the saddle when it comes to Red vs. Blue 2) You should totally watch the Season 9 Sister and Jr. Deleted Scene. It’s not canon, but it’s a fun little video to watch, you can watch it whenever 3) Make sure to add this to the playlist, it isn’t in there 4) There’s a non-canon Mini-Series that has no relation to the actually storyline, the Reds and Blues, or the Freelancers called Grifball, but in my opinion you don’t have to watch it. It’s great for Red vs. Blue fans, but it’s a complete spin-off from everything you’ve watched so far All in all, I’m super excited for the upcoming reactions, especially because I just binged the entire playlist of reactions! You’re still out here bringing up points that I haven’t even noticed in the many years I’ve watch the show, so keep it up! P.S. Very ironic that your first RvB reaction in a year is called Missing In Action lol

I totally forgot about the MIA series!! :O This was nice it was a good refresher for me as well. Good to have your RvB reactions back man!

Im so happy you're back Arnold. Its been a long wait, but its been worth every minute.

Oh my god that intro made me laugh so hard ! Welcome back indeed ! It's good to have you back Arnold !

So good to see you're back! No apologies needed. Take your time, watch the show and enjoy the ride. Glad you're back at it.

One thing you have to remember is that epsilon went through multiple iterations of blood gulch we saw the last iteration. This is simply another previous one.

Welcome back! I have missed you. You are easily the best RvB reactor out there. No joke!

I Was not going to sleep till I saw this uploaded and watched lmao

Dude, sometimes life just gets in the way it happens. I'm so glad to see it back can't wait for you reaction to season 10!

It's so great to see you watching red vs blue again. Also you don't need to explain yourself while we enjoy your videos you are also important and you need to keep yourself happy and healthy.

No pressure on you buddy. But the one thing I can say about season 10 is that this was the emotional and craziest season of Red vs Blue I’ve ever seen. Big plot twists in the middle and end of season 10

Oh how I've missed your reactions! Never fails to brighten up my day, no matter what you're watching. And take your time, man. Life takes work, and work takes time. Thanks for being an awesome person, Arnold!

This was always a fun mini story, caboose tetris is my favorite part lol. As always red vs blue doesn't make since til it does, a vicious cycle. Hyped to see the rest!

Welcome back to RvB. . . . buckle up, Arnold. Season 10 is gonna be a hell of a ride.

Woah didn't expect to find this at this time... rip my sleep

This is one of epsilons simulations in memory unit before the one in season 9 but yeah it is cannon as one of simulations he did. I noticed that after this point when writers just want to write a bonus story in the style of blood gultch they use simulations in memory unit as an excuse to do so.

i marathoned through your rvb reactions just the other day. this is one hell of a coincidence

(Off topic comment, but I'll put it here anyway) I recognize a lot of myself in you, Arnold. I have no motivation for school, but still have to go through another year. It sucks that everyone is just nice. No one is calling me out on being lazy, on not caring about my grades. Inside I do care, but my easy life is making me... lifeless. I have no passion for schoolwork, because I have no motivation, even though I want to I can't tear myself off the couch. I know I shouldn't rely on others for my 'motivation' but I can't motivate myself, just yet... I want to study animation, I want to have a fun life. Right now I'm so over high school. (I live in The Netherlands and do VWO (Translate: Premature scientific education), which takes 6 years. I'm almost done with year 5.

Nice to see you again. Totally understand what was keeping you for a while, we all get really busy sometimes.

Arnold! Hey Arnold! Hey Arnold! Arnold?! Arnold?! Arnold! Arnold? Move it football head! Hey Arnold!

Very glad to have this back, but don't feel like ya gotta stress yourself, upload whenever, we'll be happy.

29:57 Guy: "Whoever wrote this note..." MurderOBirds: O_O Guy: "...has your friend." MurderOfBirds: --__-- 30:25 "Is [Grif] going to show up in the next two minutes?" More like next two seconds.

Just to help you remember, the capture unit scenes are all the scenes from Halo reach, whenever it's any other game it's real life

"OH... EM... GOODNESS!" So excited

Glad you're returning to this series. I appreciate it & hope that you enjoy it as much as the RT community does.

Fun Fact Arnold: Sarge AND Doc are both voiced by Matt Hullum, so Technically Sarge was having a conversation with himself XD

It's 3AM here in Chicago...but who cares! THE RETURN!

I love you Arnold. That intro made me snort so ugly and loud hahaha. Hope you enjoy this season!

Don't be so hard on yourself, man. I originally came to your channel for your Red vs Blue reactions, but when you stopped, I wound up checking out the other videos on your channel and came across your RWBY content. I had never watched RWBY before, but seeing your excitement for the series persuaded me to watch all of the current Volumes with my brother, and we've become fans of the series ever since. If you hadn't have taken your break from Red vs Blue, I probably wouldn't have watched RWBY, since I never had plans to watch it. I had a great time watching through the series with my brother, getting to watch through the series together was fantastic, and it wouldn't have happened of you hadn't taken a break. Life happens, man, but its okay. Your break paved the way for me to discover RWBY.

YASSSSSS I HAVE BEEN WAITINGGG!! I am just happy you got to it. Thank you

Oh man I jumped out of bed when i seen the notification for rvb

Don't worry about it man, you're just living your life. It's a long (old) series and there was a lot of exciting new stuff that came out this last year! There's no pressure in watching something that is meant to be enjoyable.

remember in season 9 when Church said to Tucker he was going through different iterations of his memories to find Tex and if it didn't work out then he restarted. MIA and the next mini series are some of those many iterations Epsilons memories. You will see some more of these in season 14

Man I just remembered to come look for your RVB reactions , I subbed because of it but love a lot of your other content , but I won’t lie I stay for RVB 😂

I’m so happy you’re doing this again

it is like 4 am... WELCOME BACK WOOOOO

Great video as always! and this may seem random, but that dresser behind you looks exactly like the dresser my mom had for most of my life (had to give up a few years back during a move, sadly). the only difference is the one she had had a big piece that sat on top with a mirror and a couple small shelves on either side. sorry, it just stood out cause i've never seen it anywhere else before. lol

This map is the remastered version of Headlong from Halo 2 which they used in Recovery One when South shot Wash and left him for dead.

Great to see you get back at this. I can’t wait to see you react to Where There’s a Will There’s a Wall. That is one of the funniest mini-series.

Greatest... intro... ever... of all time... in history... period.

FINALLY! YES! And yes we forgive you..that apology was more than hood enough..cant wait to see you watch More of this awesome show

Dude HELL YES! I'm so happy you're back on RvB!!! Season 10 will blow your socks off! I can't wait for you to see all of it! The Chorus Trilogy is my personal favorite arc of the show, I hope you like it (when you get there!) The Anthology Season is a lot of fun and I think you'll love it! And The Shisno Paradox is so bonkers and wild, can't wait to see what you think!

You know what's funny? The call between Sarge and Doc is just Matt Hullum talking to himself.

i literally had my arms crossed and one eyebrow raised before i even clicked play

I love the on-call conversation between Sarge and Doc because it's just Matt talking to himself. You should watch the panel of it being reinacted.

I stayed up for this muthafn moment! Love you dude!

Every time you've taken a pause on rvb, I've re-watched the other reactions this time it was 4 times.

It's about time. I love you're reactions to red vs blue.

Stupid thing was they first read this script in front of a live audience! They didn’t tell Matt about the whole Sarge-Doc conversation, and since he voices both of them he basically had to have a conversation with himself in front of an audience while his “friends” tried their best not to bust out laughing!

BRUH THAT INTRO GOT ME DYING!!! LOL

My best guess for the canonicity of _MIA_ and _Where There's a Will, There's a Wall_ is that they take place during Epsilon's recursions between _Revelation_ and Season 9. During S9 Church explains that he's been going through different layers of memories to try and save E-Tex, failing, and then repeating the process with the knowledge of what went wrong the previous attempt and starting over. This handily explains why he finishes _Revelation_ happy and at peace with being trapped in the Epsilon Unit, and opens S9 just as frustrated and angry as ever. Given that S9's Epsigulch segments form a fairly cohesive (If frustrating and dull) narrative from beginning to end, there isn't a lot of room to insert the two miniseries, so it's safe to assume they happened during a previous recursion where Epsilon's attempts to reunite with E-Tex went badly out of control.

Murderofbirds I dont know what time you uploaded it but my phone closed at night and when I woke up and plug in the charger and turn it on it sent me that you uploaded this video.Even the clock had not loaded yet.My phone wanted me to see this video.It had a good reason.It was an rvb reaction.

Caboose wears that old helmet to help darl with the grief of killing church the first time

Don't know why, but I died at the first couple of seconds of that intro XD.

17:30 both doc and sarge are voiced by Matt Hullum, just let that sink in.

0:00 - 0:07 XD WHY WAS THAT SO FUNNY!!!

Notifications SQUAD!!!!!! I MISSED THIS ARNOLD. I LOVE YOU MAN, i hope your day/week/month goes awesome