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 Now, putting personal stuff aside, are there any problems? Well, yeah. They ended up doing several retcons following Season 5. Basically retroactively explaining the weird stuff that happened then. Some of these are //fine// while others are bad. And some of them are just not explained at all, requiring guesswork to figure out.\\
-An example of the unexplained retcon is <wrap spoiler><span smcp>Church</span>’s time-travel shenanigans involving Gary. Originally, this was played straight as time-travel...but this was retconned. Church wasn't traveling thru time but, instead, was being tortured by Gary</wrap>. The only way I knew about that was that I checked the wiki once.
+An example of the unexplained retcon is <mark spoiler><span smcp>Church</span>’s time-travel shenanigans involving Gary. Originally, this was played straight as time-travel...but this was retconned. Church wasn't traveling thru time but, instead, was being tortured by Gary</mark>. The only way I knew about that was that I checked the wiki once.
-Besides these issues, there's also an under-utilization or just odd use of characters. <span smcp>Tex</span> <wrap spoiler>– or at least the original Tex – ends up just falling out of the story. It isn't even super clear that she died as part of the EMP as it is for Church and a few others. It could be argued that she had a proper end in Season 9, but that //wasn't// Tex, that was <span smcp>Epsilon!Tex</span></wrap>. Seasons 9 & 10 actually make this much worse, because they go out of their way to elaborate on more details...which means that, retroactively, minor characters were made more important with the implication they'd go on to do more...which they couldn't, because a lot of them were simply //dead//.\\
+Besides these issues, there's also an under-utilization or just odd use of characters. <span smcp>Tex</span> <mark spoiler>– or at least the original Tex – ends up just falling out of the story. It isn't even super clear that she died as part of the EMP as it is for Church and a few others. It could be argued that she had a proper end in Season 9, but that //wasn't// Tex, that was <span smcp>Epsilon!Tex</span></mark>. Seasons 9 & 10 actually make this much worse, because they go out of their way to elaborate on more details...which means that, retroactively, minor characters were made more important with the implication they'd go on to do more...which they couldn't, because a lot of them were simply //dead//.\\
 This was definitely noticed because <span smcp>Kakaina Grif</span> was missing from the series until Season 15 (?) and other characters like <span smcp>Sheila</span> also just disappeared.
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 I found a lot of the time-travel stuff to be a bit annoying.\\
 It isn't clear whether the time-travel is just a delusion or not, because the series (until Season 5) actually provides evidence to suggest it's real. Y'know, Sheila saying it's been a few years (and being damaged for no explicable reason); the bases in <span smcp>Blood Gulch</span> being rebuilt; their armor changing; everything Church experiences; the fight with <span smcp>Wyoming</span>.\\
-On the other hand, there's some indication that it's a delusion: <span smcp>Grif</span>’s sister being able to show up there; the fact this is a theory of the Reds & Blues; Tex & Wyoming inexplicably being in the future as well; the yellow guy; the zealots being in the future; <wrap spoiler><span smcp>Butch Flowers</span> not being dead</wrap>.
+On the other hand, there's some indication that it's a delusion: <span smcp>Grif</span>’s sister being able to show up there; the fact this is a theory of the Reds & Blues; Tex & Wyoming inexplicably being in the future as well; the yellow guy; the zealots being in the future; <mark spoiler><span smcp>Butch Flowers</span> not being dead</mark>.
 Also, I think there was a bit too much standing around and talking. I know that's the point of the show, but it may have gone on for too long.
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 This one very much feels like setup for the next Season and consequently feels like not much actually happens here.
 ==== Season 5 ====
-Pretty good if anticlimactic ending for the <cite>Blood Gulch Chronicles</cite>, though it's interesting to see that they <wrap spoiler>hinted that Tex didn't explode</wrap>.
+Pretty good if anticlimactic ending for the <cite>Blood Gulch Chronicles</cite>, though it's interesting to see that they <mark spoiler>hinted that Tex didn't explode</mark>.
 I'll probably think of more to say later.
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 I guess my brain mentally categorizes Seasons 6-8 as one continuous season, rather than as separate things. Which is fitting I guess.
-There is also a lot of great foreshadowing for the <span wrap_spoiler>final twist that Church is an AI</span>.
+There is also a lot of great foreshadowing for the <mark spoiler>final twist that Church is an AI</mark>.
 ==== Season 7 ====
-After leaving this empty for a while...I realized that I don't have a very good way of categorizing this season. It's mostly setup for future seasons as far as I remember. Though we do encounter ‘<span smcp>C.T.</span>’ for the first time <span wrap_spoiler>(and technically the last)</span>.
+After leaving this empty for a while...I realized that I don't have a very good way of categorizing this season. It's mostly setup for future seasons as far as I remember. Though we do encounter ‘<dfn>C.T.</dfn>’ for the first time <mark spoiler>(and technically the last)</mark>.
 ==== Season 8 ====
 Season 8 is the second time there appears to have been an attempt at completing the storyline and, in that regard, it's pretty good.\\
-This is also where the animation starts to come in and...yeah, it's really good. I think that this season still features two of the best fight scenes in the whole series: the fight between <span wrap_spoiler>Tex and the Reds and Blues</span> and the <span wrap_spoiler>fight between Tex, Wash and the <span smcp>Meta</span></span>.
+This is also where the animation starts to come in and...yeah, it's really good. I think that this season still features two of the best fight scenes in the whole series: the fight between <mark spoiler>Tex and the Reds and Blues</mark> and the <mark spoiler>fight between Tex, Wash and the <dfn>Meta</dfn></mark>.
 It's pretty great!
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 Lots of good stuff here.
-Also, a side-note: <span wrap_spoiler>I realized that there's a very very tiny implication that Tex is still alive here. This is relevant because Tex is my favorite character and I don't doubt she's one of the favorites of the fanbase too.</span>
+Also, a side-note: <mark spoiler>I realized that there's a very very tiny implication that Tex is still alive here. This is relevant because Tex is my favorite character and I don't doubt she's one of the favorites of the fanbase too.</mark>
+==== Season 11 ====
+This season mostly went back to the standing around and talking good old days...which I felt was maybe a bit overdone. Especially with the interactions between the Reds.
+Though set-up for the later two seasons was fine, I guess.
+I also generally dislike the aesthetic here.
+==== Season 12 ====
+The twist regarding the civil war was pretty good, though maybe a bit too obvious.\\
+This is where the Chorus trilogy actually gets very interesting.
+However! The animation is pretty lame. It's way slower than the animation of previous seasons and it is very obvious.
+I didn't really care too much about most of the characters who were introduced, though I liked the Federation's doctor. Quite a bit actually.
+==== Season 13 ====
+A good conclusion to the Chorus trilogy and, technically, Red vs Blue as a whole. Again.
+While the animation remains pretty bleh, the one thing I'll give it is that the scale of a lot of the animation is pretty great. Particularly the crash of the prison ship.
 ==== Season 14 ====
 I mostly don't have an issue with Season 14, with a few exceptions. I don't like the episodes that show the assembling of the crew in Blood Gulch...though, don't get me wrong, I have no problem with //most// of the content there. What bothers me is that a lot of the characters (prior to Blood Gulch) are depicted as having killed people. I can’t articulate exactly why this bothers me, but I don't think it meshes well with what we know about the Reds and the Blues.