Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-38978689-20190330233608/@comment-30445230-20190402231248

Hodgepig wrote: No, I don't think so and I certainly hope not. Rooster Teeth has stressed the fact that Church is gone and that his characters has been retired. I mean, every time we see him In Season 17 it's with Genkins voice. Not a single scene has Church with his voice.

And Church is my favourite character but everything he's done and gone through and with his sacrafice at the end of Season 13. It would ruin it all to bring him back. It would make everything pointless.

Let me preface this by saying: I believe Church is gone for good and will most likely only make the occasional flashback cameo like he did in Season 15. Pretty clear Burnie's been trying to retire this character since the Blood Gulch Chronicles. We'll always have Lopez.

That all being said, it would be great if Epsilon-Church returns even briefly; at least to give Carolina closure and say her goodbyes like Caboose did for S1 Church. Caboose was easy: he just needed Church in any form so he could do it. Carolina bonded with Epsilon and lost the closest thing to family, with the Reds and Blues coming in second. This is unlikely to impossible, as Hodgepig pointed out, because Burnie made the announcement that Epsilon was permenantly retired.

But that's for Epsilon. The truth is nothing was stated about Alpha. He may have died in the Emp explosion, but we don't actually see that happen with him or the other AI fragments, we just see the EMP taking effect as the field expanded. It's a plausible plot point that he can be rescued before the actual Emp occurs. Not only would it bring back the return of Alpha, but the others like Delta and Theta.This is just me speaking but I want to see Sigma as a proper main antagonist present-day. His machinations from the past events felt like we didn't get to really see him at full enemy. It'd mean the return of the Meta, possibly, but not as Agent Maine, but as someone else; like Sigma takes over Wash or Carolina and it becomes a head-struggle for control as the Reds and Blues try to save them. It was easy since Maine was a meathead, but against tacticians like Wash or Carolina, that would be an interesting psychological battle in every sense of the word. I mean, why not? We did conspiracies, to civil war, to "dopplegangers", to even time travel. Why NOT mind battles at this point? That's outside of all their comfort zones: Wash because of his trust issues, Carolina because she's a warrior, and the Reds and Blues because... well c'mon.

But again, I need to stress: despite what I wrote, I fully believe we've seen the last of Church back in Season 13. He's not coming back. I'd love for him to return to the team, but the series made it clear they're sick and tired of his "resurrections" (even though technically he never resurrected once). Caboose's goodbye was also the final nail on that coffin too.