#rvbzero

[dog-suffrage-advocate]

When I say I have mixed feelings about Zero this is what I'm talking about

[texas-hates-taxes-too]

[juneausol]

yes i do believe phase effectively utilized girl power by breaking into an AOD facility, beating up freelancers, and stealing some sort of alien artifact.

i literally started this back when episode 1 aired on rtx first night in september, really happy with how it turned out in the end even if it took over two months lol

[scribbleboxfox]

It’s Phase! The second I saw her, I knew I had to draw her! She’s just so COOL!!!  Figured I’d upload both versions since I liked both of em lol. REALLY hype for this new season, in case it wasn’t obvious. I might try to draw Agent One next if I have time!

[autisticblueteam]

Okay, I’m sorry, I just cannot keep letting this information get spread around uncritically.

To say that no one on the Zero team has watched the show is a lie.

Not only are there multiple thematic and direct callbacks in the new season itself that indicate familiarity, ranging from tiny little scenes like Phase holding her gun to Wash’s head and Carolina coming up behind her (mimicking a scene in Season 12 almost directly), to the thematic connections between Carolina and One, to the Great Key plot itself, to the ever present theme of two teams fighting each other when nothing is really as it seems... hell, even the vomit in the helmet joke. That was a direct a callback as you can get.

But Torrian has also on multiple occasions talked about wanting to animate for RvB and has talked in at least his interview with SyFy about being inspired by previous seasons of RvB. Beneath the cut are several images that show this! 

[Image Descrption: A tweet from Torrian saying ‘Always wanted to work on RvB and even-though I’m the only animator, these lovey peeps helped make it happen!’ with an image beneath it of the credits for the Death Battle episode of season 14.]

[Image Description: A tweet from Torrian saying ‘I’ve always wanted to animate Carolina’, quote tweeted in response to Jen Brown, Carolina’s VA, announcing Carolina’s inclusion in the season.]

[Image Description: A quote from an interview by Torrian with Syfy. “Initially, I was inspired by some of the previous seasons that took a more action focus or included more action elements, I think around season 8, 9 and 10, when they involved a class of characters call the Freelancers [The Project Freelancer Saga], which was when they included the legendary animation director Monty Oum,” Crawford told SYFY WIRE. “I was really inspired by that sequence of events that happened within the RvB lore.” The quote continues, but this is the relevant piece of information for this post.]

If we want to get real picky, there’s even this simple little tweet:

[Image Description: A tweet from Torrian from 2013 saying ‘Ahh my robot arm! lol #RvB’]

Which he’d honestly have literally no reason to post if he hadn’t seen the damn episode that quote is from. Like, come on.

I don’t know where people got the idea that Torrian and his team have never ever seen the show before. I know that Fiona said she hasn’t and has no interest in watching previous seasons, but Fiona is not a writer. I’ve never seen a direct quote, I’ve never seen any evidence of the claim that no one else on the team is a fan of the show. I’ve only seen unsubstantiated rumours being spread around based on an interview most people haven’t seen, and that no one has ever provided quotes for so that people don’t have to dig through a long podcast episode themselves. 

It may be true that they’ve joked about old seasons, or made jokes that didn’t land. But many of the more negative claims have come from people who then do not back up their information and let their claims get spread around without any basis. Including a fairly public incident where someone lied about Fiona’s words and painted them in the worst light possible!

Torrian, at the very least, has clearly watched the show before. I can’t speak for the others as easily and I don’t feel that I need to. To say that the team has never watched the show before is false. To keep spreading that idea is disinformation that has been used to deliberately stir up negative attention towards the zero team.

People’s varying opinions on the season notwithstanding, the least we can do as a fandom is not spread deliberately misleading information that then makes it around to people not even watching the show and who won’t seek out if the information is true on their own.

[kineticallyanywhere]

Carolina in rvb0 is like

Carolina: you know, I actually did have fun adopting all those idiots. you know what I need? Grif: A vacation? Carolina: more

[venln]

“And I mean, hell, if you had to live the rest of your life in a memory, you might as well make it a good one.”

[aint-thata-bitch]

Behold! Combining two of my current interests together to make one hell meme!!