The Legend of Vox Machina 2x1 REACTION!! "Rise of the Chroma Conclave"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2024
- Eric Jake Calvin and Aaron react to and discuss Season 2 Episode 1 of The Legend of Vox Machina - Rise of the Chroma Conclave - #LegendOfVoxMachina
EVERYONE can watch the Full Length Reaction HERE: blindwavellc.com/the-legend-o...
0:00 - Intro
7:37 - Reaction
18:06 - It Wasn't Clicking
18:44 - Game Reset
19:33 - Hell Of A Start
20:49 - Dragon Combos
21:57 - Greyskull Keep
22:50 - Gilmore
23:36 - Comparisons With The Campaign
24:57 - The Dragons
30:48 - Godzilla
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They cant actually legally stop you from making reactions. They can just abuse the youtube systems to bully you. But if actually brought to court. it would be an absolute slam dunk for you guys, or any other youtuber who finally stands up to this crap. Proving content is transformative is, basically as simple as can be. 'Do more people watch our reaction, then other peoples reactions? Well then guess were being transformative enough to make that much of a difference.'
Doesn't really matter from a legal standpoint, they're just not releasing them out of solidarity and support of the strike. @@tudeslildude
@@hakubak201 Ah my bad I misunderstood ^.^;
Thank you for supporting the strike!
RIP to the king Lance Reddick, absolutely killed it as Thordak
Still hurts, man. Especially as a Destiny fan. I would always joke that all they need is Nathan Fillion in the show, and we'd have the og Vanguard back
Seriously. I doubt it’s the case, but I hope they got his lines recorded for S3 before he passed, the character wouldn’t be so badass without him.
@@mr.stuffdoer8483 That can be said about all of Lance's characters. Worry about the future of Destiny and Horizon without his voice talent's for those series as well. Lance was not only an amazing actor, but had such a powerful commanding voice that became so iconic it cant be replaced. It's a sad loss for sure
Lance was an anomaly man, both an incredible actor AND voice actor. There aren't a lot of people who can actually do both at such a high level!
@@MellyMelon1331 News just came out about Destiny. Keith David will be taking over for Zavala( Lance's character)
“How did they survive this in the campaign?!”
Simple: They ran.
Though they are shown running here in the animation too; theres a difference between running through half a city that is activley being torn to pieces and running to the nearest tree to jump directly home. They were nearly taken out just by the poison gas at the castle, no way they'd have made it through acid rain and that fire bomb like is shown here.
One of the craziest parts of this is during the session, the dragons weren't really making rolls, it just happened. The whole thing was Matt gleefully destroying the rich complicated setting he'd been building up for years, like a kid stomping down an exquisite sandcastle they made. You're horrified, you want to yell "stop!" but it's their sandcastle, so you can't really do anything about it.
Pretty cool.
Yep, and to add to why; you don't roll for things that would almost certainly succeed. Meaning, there was literally nothing they could do to prevent this. Watching this unfold on Twitch was fuckin wild, one of my favourite memories of the stream (and there are tons of those)
once the conclave is defeated im sure itd be repaired in no time
it is amazing and inspired me to take a similar route
The tree scene in Whitestone & this attack are just the ultimate God level Mercer.
Me: WHO THE HECK IS JAKE
Jake: I've watched all of campaign 1
Me: JAKE CAN STAY
😂❤️😂
I really like having someone who's watched the campaign react and people who haven't watched the campaign
One of us, one of us...
WE LOVE JAKE
So bizzare. On TH-cam it shows 4 replies, and blind wave being one of them. Yet the 4 replies here none of them are blindwave
At the start of this arc, Matt really did just go "Maaaaan. FUCK my city."
Grog rolls a 19 to hit the dragon and Matt goes "a 19? That misses" cue shocked looks on the party 😂 one of my favorite player reactions
Anyone would be... Especially if you are used to ACs not going above 20 on average...
It really looks like it was the first time they heard a 19 missed... XD
And then the next attack is a 22 and Matt says it "just barely hits"
The music literally stopped
Having one person who knows about the thing they're reacting is actually really cool, he can add interesting pieces of info and explain if anyone is confused.
Yeah it's always great when this happens with a reaction series. Having someone who can explain any in-jokes that go over others heads or clear up confusion so they don't spend ages talking about something unimportant/inconsequential really helps. Hell just being able to give them all the names of important characters is massive.
Wish this happened more often honestly.
Just finished the episode and already thinking " is it Thursday yet? " I can't believe you guys are uploading these on Thursdays that's bloody perfect
I can’t believe I didn’t catch that when they posted their schedule!
The Chroma Conclave are the most destructive and ruthless dragons I’ve seen in almost a decade. Thordak alone is like a nightmare fusion of Smaug and King Ghidorah!
Rest In Peace Lance Reddick!
It’s more than just designing the characters and playing them in the traditional sense as an actor, they wrote those characters themselves. Their improvisation made all of the moment to moment choices which shaped this story. It’s theirs and only theirs.
For those wondering, as of this post here are the campaign lengths for Critical Role. Campaign 1 (of which Legend of Vox Machina is the adaptation of) is sitting at just over 459 hours long, counting the 115 episodes of the main campaign as well as the 3 epilogue bonus episodes that came out afterwards. Campaign 2 (which the recently announced Mighty Nein animated series will adapt) is at a hefty 566 hours spread across the 141 episodes and 2 bonus reunion episodes that came out afterwards. A third reunion is planned in the coming months. Campaign 3, the current campaign, is sitting at 275 hours so far as of the 70 episodes we've gotten to date, but this will grow each week with new episodes dropping each Thursday. For comparison, watching the entirety of the anime One Piece, including movies, would sit you around 450 hours. Watching all of the Simpsons is a mere 275 hours. Watching all of Dragonball, Z, and Super will set you at about 230 hours. Remember, these other shows tend to be 20-25 minutes long. Critical Role episodes average between 3-5 hours *each.*
The Chroma Conclave, these dragons, are easily the best examples of the terrifying power of dragons I have ever seen. I fear them more than I do Smaug or any of the Game of Thrones dragons. There are 5 members in total. Brimscythe the Iron Storm, a blue dragon with lightning breath was defeated last season. The remaining 4 are Vorugal the Frigid Doom (white dragon with ice breath), Umbrasyl the Hope Devourer (black dragon with acid breath), Raishan the Diseased Deceiver (green dragon with poison breath, also the only female in the group) and Thorak the Cinder King (red dragon with fire breath). Dragons in D&D grow more powerful as they age. Brimscythe was a young adult, at around 100 years old or so. These other 4 are *ancient* at each of them around 800-1000 years old. They are vastly more powerful than Brimscythe was. Each of the four ancients could be the main villain of an entire campaign in and of itself, but this show threw four of them in.
I love your accurate recount of LOVM/Critical Role. The sheer amount of content is mind blowing. I remember the days of getting bullied for being the "XXX nerd" who actually played the red and blue, and green and black boxes. The power level of ancient dragons (in that game...) is often focused on high level player moments- the implications of what they can do is beautifully explored here.
Out of curiosity, are those hours the total lengths of each episode as presented on youtube, or is it counting just playtime? I feel like at least half an hour of each episode is dedicated to pre-game messages and the mid-game break. EIther way, it's still a massive amount of content, and campaign 2 alone would still be longer than each of the other pieces of media you talked about.
@@Holidaemon2516 Total run time according to CritRoleStats
Is it weird of me, that I hope that Vox Machina and Mighty Nein will then fill the void that One Piece will leave behind in a couple of years, hoping their adaptions will reach quite the length as well?
I think it was the watch party where Matt estimated 800,000 dead in that first attack alone. The cast said he looked almost shell shocked after that game, he said he'd just destroyed something he build.
Yup, it had been *years* of world building at the time. Nearly a year of the stream plus an additional few years of the private home game. Matt had built up Emon as well as the other cities the dragons are affecting this entire time, so Matt destroying it in such a catastrophic event was huge for everyone but especially Matt himself. He spent so much time designing and building this world and in one session destroyed it all.
I thought it was 75-80K. Either way, that's a LOT of deaths!
@@brianewing5778 You're probably correct. Have a terrible memory for numbers.
800,000 makes more sense than 80,000. This is the capital of the entire continent, also Raishan probably killed entire blocks with her poison breath, with Umbrasyl dojng the same but less so. And then Thordak wipes out the core of the Emon garrison in that Godzilla blast. Also it'd have to be so many people dying for Vax to actually see the Matron of Ravens.
EDIT: And when I say the Matrons of Ravens appearing, I interpret that less as her grooming him to be her champion, more that all of these people dying so suddenly weakened the barrier between worlds.
Finally!!! I've been waiting so long for this!! Super excited and super happy that you're reacting to this for us to see!!
I think Matt mentioned in one of their talk shows that the kill count in the initial attack on Emon was around 80,000 people.
Almost 80,000 and 1. He revealed in the wrap up that Gilmore was basically one less than stellar role from death. And i think he was actually planned for death though i might be wrong there
@@tycol322 Basically, afaik, they had the choice to loot his shop or look for him first. If they chose to loot first, he dies. If they choose to find him and don't roll a good DC, he dies anyway. They rolled successfully.
With out a doubt this is the Greatest Birthday Present Ever.
The Irony is Scanlan was right, there is someone in Marquet who could help.
The meat man
@@martophreniado you spice?
We actually started recording our own DnD podcast, with a season arc entitled Hoard of the Cinder King, a mere two weeks after the passing of Lance Reddick, and so we dedicated the season to him, and hopefully we can honour his memory and legacy as a performer. Rest in power, Lance.
Very glad you have Jake there as someone who's part of the Critter community. Season 2 is gonna be very intense. If Season 1 was like the first Star Wars movie, this season is gonna be like the Empire Strikes Back.
I recommend checking out Campaign 2 at the very least because that particular campaign has really good pacing with very clear arcs and I love all the characters.
Thanks for the support.
While you aren't wrong, it probably won't happen on the channel (though if they did it on their own, that would be good too). It's a lot of content and their schedule is already pretty packed as it is, not to mention the Mighty Nein show has already gotten greenlit by Amazon.
That said, I would love to see them tackle EXU Calamity. Its short enough to be its own weekly slot for a single month, and it requires minimal prior knowledge save for the context given by season 2 of Vox Machina. Only other additional information that could be helpful would be the Exandria Intimate History video, which is only 10 minutes long
As a fellow critical role connoisseur I love Jake's input
Thanks, I'm glad to be able to bring a different perspective to the table
So happy to see you continue this! ❤️ And really cool with the addition of having someone who know the show, glad he mentioned the "19 doesn't hit" Travis' reaction to that really showed the realization of how bad their odds were
Glad I was able to add something
I have the utmost respect for any GM who puts so much time and effort into building a living, breathing world with a unique culture and characters, and then absolutely crater it in a couple of hours
I love how they treat dragons like kaiju; essentially unstoppable beasts of wholesale destruction.
Jake is an excellent addition to this crew, especially for this series. Keep up the great work, guys! Honestly can't get enough.
Absolutely love the addition of Jake here and his background knowledge on critical role and the campaign!
Appreciate the kind words.
I knew this series was coming since Aaron said "Bidet" in John Wick 4 reaction
Wooo Season 2 was so good, I have been waiting for you guys to post reactions to this for so long.
I'm a simple girl. I see a reaction video to the legend of Vox Machina. I click the reaction video to the legend of Vox Machina.
On the topic of not being able to keep up with the full campaigns. I 100% feel that. I'd suggest watching highlight videos of the episodes instead. You'll still experience the major moments of the campaigns, and its far less time-consuming.
I'm watching "marisharaygun"'s campaign 3 highlights at the moment. They did the latter parts of campaign 2 as well. Its a totally valid way of enjoying the show if you don't have the time to watch the hundreds of hours of content :)
Yes, I second that! I've fallen behind on campaign 3 myself and I watch marisharaygun's videos to try and keep up
There are also the animated recaps for campaign 2!
I feel this so hard. Before season 1 came out I decided I needed to catch up with the series, but I was only at about episode 80 of campaign one. I spent a month, *a month* watching an episode a day to to finish the series, then immediately went on to campaign 2... which I then burnt out on after another month and ended at about episode 40.
I REALLY need to get back into campaign 2, but it's such a chunk of time, and once I get there campaign 3 is gona be looming over me as well!
Agreed. I've only managed to get completely through campaign 2 myself, not including some of the shorter specials. As much as I enjoy CR, I do have a hard time recommending it to people because it's such a time commitment. The notable exception is EXU Calamity. Not only is it short, but it's some of the best D&D I've ever seen played.
I would do this but I'm already too far in to start watching highlights. I watched the ENTIRE campaign 1 including extra episodes, and am in episode 110 of campaign 2. It has been a really long process. I think I've been watching nearly 2 years if not more lol.
I know it would be amazing to be able to catch up and have the hype of waiting every thursday for new episodes, but at this point I'm so committed I need to watch this the old fashioned way. If that means campaign 3 finishes before I do then so be it.
31:00 That shot of the fire breath focusing down into a laser is straight out of Shin Godzilla, like almost exactly from what I remember. It works exceedingly well as a way to show how bad things are, and then stepping that up to an even higher level of "OH FUCK".
Side note, please watch Shin Godzilla, it was great.
It's here!! This season goes above and beyond and I really like the addition of someone who has watched the entirety of Campaign 1.
I hope he keeps what he knows to himself.
I usually don't like watching reactions with critical role fans who tell their friends all the spoilers.
@@sandpiperrI do my best not to spoil but help give context and fun behind the scenes details
Finally! This season was so much fun, so I'm so exited for this reaction!!!!
DEFINITELY watch the videos out here that show the moments in the actual campaign that inspired the scenes in the show. Very cool and interesting to see both the differences along with the style choices they went with to make it more visually interesting for the show
I just finished the intro, watching the reaction now and I'M SO FREAKING EXCITED! MONTHS WAITING!!! LOVE YOU! THANKS!
I shouldn't be surprised at this point but the range of voices Matt and Liam always amazes me. I mean Liams cutesy high pitched "cuddlefish!" To the calmer more average Vax to the deep gutteral meanace of Vorugal. And Matt pulling off the brooding devotion of Sylas, the phlegmy vileness of Umbrasyl and the eccentricity of Victor (who was made up on the spot).
And that's just a small sample of what we've heard and will hear
Smart getting a critter to help provide additional insight. Glad you're here Jake.
Thank you for being so welcoming.
No worries mate. Always glad to have critter representation, you're doing us proud.
Man, this was such a strong start to season 2, and it just keeps going strong from here
Matt had great set pieces in all the campaigns but there was nothing like the Chroma Conclave showing up out of absolutely NOWHERE. People who watched the stream didn't even really get the backstory of killing the first dragon since it happened pre-stream. It went from the obligatory "quest giver announces the hook for the next plot" to "the king is dead and the apocalypse has started, run"
With Jake here, I really hope he has y’all watch and react to THAT moment of the campaign after episode 3. Laura’s real reaction to that organic moment is unbelievable
I actually have an answer for your run times discussion! I was really bored one day and entered all the episode times into Excel. Campaign 1 is a total of 450:33:57. Campaign 2 is 565:34:52. And Campaign 3, as of episode 68, is at 279:53. The total for all three campaigns (not including Exandria Unlimited or other one-shots) is 1295:28:42. There you go 🤓
Been looking forward to seeing this series return for a reaction. You guys are going to love this season. Jake is a great addition too.
Glad to be here.
I feel bad that you guys have such a busy schedule now, but thank you so much for watching season 2.
These episodes are as exciting as a *_FALLING GOLDFISH._*
If you know, you know
I mean when you a God whats the point.
If I don't see that moment animated, I will be devastated 😂
Jake is a Critter?! HELL YEAH
FINALLY. I'm so happy that you finally got to reacting to this, it's gonna be an absolute trip!
So excited that you're finally reacting to this! Not sure how far you guys are into the series at this point but it would've been nice to get y'alls reaction to Scanlan's season 1 recap
Having Jake here is AWESOME! He just is saying exactly the things that cross my mind that I wish you guys knew about. The moment where Grog rolled like a 21 and it missed was so instrumental in how things progress that I was SO happy that he brought it up afterwards. So excited to have him going forward in this series!
Heck yes! I've been looking forward this reaction from y'all :D This season is a whole different vibe, you're going to have a great time!
I swear you guys reacted to this back when it came out. I'm so confused could I have falsely remembered watching your reactions to an entire season...😂
Yes! So glad you guys are doing season 2 now. It picks it up in every way. I agree with others, its cool having Jake there to give them some critter insight. And we're getting The Mighty Nein soon (hopefully) as well!
I'm so glad you got a critter to help on references for this season!! That's gonna be so cool. IS IT THURSDAY YET
"19 to hit."
"19 *misses.*"
I was the Jake to my own friend group watching LOVM together! As the only one who had watched all of campaign 1, they all excitedly turned to me afterwards and asked questions. I was happy to add context, clarity, and fun facts. happy that the crew has Jake on their side for this season!
God, the lighting and colors are so good in this season.
finally season 2 lets gooooo!
YYYEEEEEEESSSSSSS! Season 2 goes off!
Edit: 22:07 Castle Gayskrull lol
As devastating and sad as it was seeing Emon fall, I was still shaking from the hype of Thordak’s huge blast. That was just unbelievably badass!
Love this season! So glad to see you guys reacting to it
It's Thursday night!
There is magic and mystery, who knows what will happen?
Ooooooh! This might be what gets me to join the Patreon for a month once all the reactions have been released for the Raw Rider tier. This season is so much better than season 1 in my opinion, and season 1 was already really good!
The reaction I've been waiting for!🎉
Good to have a resident critter for this!
YES, Finally! I have been waiting forever for your reactions to this season! This is going to be fun.
Yay Finally! Glad to have a fellow critter alongside the crew. S1 was good, but S2 is so much better. RIP Lance Reddick. Excited for more!
This season is so good. I would rank it in my top 5 shows I've seen this year.
Very happy to see this, even happier to see this on Thursday
Im happy we're here. Cant wait for the rest of the series😊
Absolutely cannot wait for them to see the rest of this season. This show is so good, I loved it both as a fan of CR and as a show itself
Been waiting for you guys to watch this since it came out. Also really glad you have someone who knows a lot about the world to help guide you through this amazing show.
I'm gonna do my best.
This was an unexpected but delightful surprise! can't wait to see the rest of s2
Oooo we have a Critter at the table! This should be an interesting watch!
Law and Order, with its 456 episodes at roughly 45 minutes each, lasts about 319 hours.
The second campaign of Critical Role, with its 141 episodes at roughly 4 hours each, lasts over 556 hours total, with almost 484 hours of pure game time.
The Mighty Nein is indeed longer than Law and Order, and it was worth every second.
Perfect timing, i just got home from my d&d game to watch blind wave continue with vox 😀
the red dragon is so badass
Yes, I was waiting for this!
I'm so happy y'all are reacting to this!
Omg I just finished s2 like a week ago and now watching Campaign 1 and here you're uploading this! (btw never thought I'd enjoy watching people play DnD but it's actually so fun)
Larkin Watch!
i’ve been waiting for this for months!!!!!
Finally!! Glad your back on this guys!!!❤
Ah yes Blindwave, now it’s your turn to roll!!!! Enjoy 😊
Campaign 2 is the best and I’m looking forward to the M9 animation!
I'm especially hyped for the shenanigans with molly
@@TTHBLOX_ shenanigans indeed! Taliesin really handed Matt a golden ticket on that one
Woo! Bring on S2. Welcome Jake!
so glad you guys are watching season 2
Sam Riegel's actual kids played the two who spy at the group around a door
FINALLY, IVE WAITED SO LONG
Oh fuck yeah
Been absolutely dying for y’all to start this season. Absolutely peak television, an upgrade over the (also spectacular) first season in every way
FINALLY!! This season is so good and I definatley reccommens watching some videos comparing animated series to campaign moments becuase they are so good and they really give people perspective and its really cool to see how they adapted those moments.
Also, to note to you all, these came out in three episode batches and these first three premiered on my birthday...for those who know...know...
It's about time!
I've been waiting for what seems like forever
At last the reaction we all been waiting for woot woot all aboard the hype train
IT'S FINALLY HERE!!!!!
FINALLY! I WAITED FOR THIS REACTION FOREVVEEEEER!
YES. VOX MACHINA!!!
Months, months! As some sports reddits call it when free agency is hot and everyone ia refreshing the news for hours, it was "f5" season all night!
So excited for the path ahead of you guys. Lots of shows say the first season was the weakest, and like Black Sails this one is only technically part of that trope! I think the every episode so far of season 2, and hopefully every other one to come; the snowball will get bigger and better just like the best D&D campaigns. A big win for western animation.
Hope this show makes it to "live reaction" status one day, and I'm betting you'll emd up loving this season :) Here's to binhing the first 5 episodes now!
YEEEESSSSS ITS HERE!
"Whose voice is that? It's amazing."
Me: "Oh no."
Rest in peace, Lance.
super excited for this, I did enjoy season 1 but season 2 took it from "oh hey that was a solid fun show, I'll definitely watch the next season" to "wow this is so good, this is now one of my favorite things, I can't wait till next season!"
Nice i just got done with your season 1 reactions!
Interesting that they thought it was Keith David when it was Lance. Bungie just announced that Keith was taking over for Lance doing the voice of Zavala. RIP Commander