As much as I will miss the Twins I love the connection Sam's rogue has with Liam's wizard, their deep real life friendship comes out in the new campaign.
He always seems so different when he's not around the rest of the cast. Like a chill or solemn energy. I wonder if that's why he clicked so well with Sam, cuz he's such a goofball.
Liam is such a sullen and wise man. Hearing him in his one-shot and this behind the scenes stuff just tightens my chest every time. I think i am platonically in love
To say one of my favorite quotes "This song is ending, but the story never ends" This might be the end of VM but I believe CR will continue on as long as Matt and the rest of the crew want to.
This guy always has his fingers around my heartstrings and he pulls at them as hard as he pleases. Every single time. That's why I love him and let him get away with it ;') What I'd give to meet in real life a guy who's just as in tuned with his feelings and as shamelessly open about it as Vax...
In all honesty I'm glad it's ending. It's ending on a high note, most things don't end with you wanting more, they end with you wishing it would have ended sooner. So as I said it's ending making me want more, and that makes me happy.
I don't care what anyone says, Vax's feels were one of the best parts of the campaign to me :D And the twins served as an emotional anchor. I wouldn't stick around in the beginning if it wasn't for them. Thank you, Liam and Laura! (And yes, I for a while did think they were siblings irl because their names start with the same letter. I know it's dumb.)
I really don't know how Liam manages to make me cry whenever he puts words on emotional things that we can't find words for. It just... oh, Liam. Thank you, Liam. Thank you, Vax. We love you.
It is no different than coming to the end of a book where you really enjoyed the characters. You don't want to say goodbye to them and you still want to know what happens next to them even if the majority of the loose ends were tied off.
I agree, to a point; because it's only ALMOST like that. This story, you watched as it was created. It wasn't hatched in a writer's mind months and years ago, picked at until perfection, run through the editorial gamut and published before it found its way to you. You watched it emerge, like you were truly a part of it - just like these guys. I think that's one of the reasons we're all so invested at this point.
Yep I have the exact same feeling, same heart-sinking feeling that I get when finishing an amazing novel. I want to know what they get up to next, how they live out their lives. I feel like the characters become a part of you so instrinsically that it's the same sort of feeling as being seperated of close friends or family
I mean it feels like that for the audience. But as an actor I've gotta tell you it's a very different feeling for them. A character in a book is a friend you were on a journey with. As an actor, a character is someone you understand better than the author who wrote them almost. You get to step into those shoes and BE them. So to say goodbye to a character you got to be and love and understand and grow alongside, its gotta be emotional
Late to the party but wow, what a touching interview. Liam, thank you from the bottom of my heart for introducing me to DND though your streams. What you expressed here, I feel very similarly. I myself just wrapped all of campaign 1 and what a ride that was.
Critical Role has been the highlight of my life these last few years, and for that I thank all of you (Matt, Liam, Marisha, Laura, Taliesin, Sam, Travis, Orion, and Ashley) for allowing us to go on this amazing journey, and letting us be witness to the world & story you all have crafted. Thank you. I'm sad to see VM end, but am just as excited to see the next band of misfits, and see how they turn out 20 years later in Exandria. :)
And as CR come to an end I've finally caught up to the live show. I'll be able to watch the last episode of this campaign of CR LIVE. Excited and sad at the same time
I'm only up to ep. 25 right now. Kinda sad I won't, but I can watch the new campaign live. I'll listen to Vox Machina podcasts while exercising or at work in-between
Watching this after episode 115 gives a bit of a different feeling. Now that the tale of Vox Machina has come to a close, it's almost painful to think how far everything has come, and the closing of the last session leaving a bittersweet taste. Raise your glass in honor of the fallen, of those who fought to keep hope alive, and of those who we look forward to seeing again.
Man you can really tell that D&D for Liam has been a huge positive in his life, I'm so glad he was able to pull such valuable insights out of the game and apply them to his own life.
Liam has been in so many shows that i watched as a kid and now watch as an adult. To see someone that impacted my life so much act and talk like this helps me realize how amazing, honest, and smart he really is. This goes for the entire cast, but ill be damned if they arent my mentors in some shape or form. I love this show, and i adore everyone involved
I agree. Personally, I want Vax to have his Keyleth and his future and his happy ending with the rest; but the way it looks now packs SUCH an emotional narrative punch. It is the perfect "we won, but we lost".
Jet Black sounds like you're not aware of the ally-slaughter the episode before was. How many of their old friends did they find dead, only because the lost last time?
when the show ended I wanted to plead for more, I didn't want to say goodbye to these characters. And it is the best thing ever. it feels difficult to have to say goodbye to these characters and start over, from scratch. It's difficult and it's challenging, bit they understand that a story needs an ending, and new and different stories need to be told. Thank you for that! thank you for making me want more, and thank you for not giving it. thank you for trusting this community , that we will stick with these nerdy ass voice actors to see what they will cook up next. thank you for everything!
It's amazing how emotionally invested these guys get in their characters. And it's amazing that I totally relate. I haven't been playing long, but I'm great friends with Belemuth, my first character, and he's still kicking along with me, for now. I get upset when their characters are in trouble, or leave, or die (Scanlan?!).
0:58 I was genuinely thinking about this during the last episode or two. I kept thinking, "How in the world are they going to adjust to playing separate characters, who are not twins or even siblings at all?" It just felt wrong somehow. I'm glad I wasn't the only one feeling that way.
Thank you and the rest of the critical role crew for sharing your story and home game with the world. You are all so amazing. I am sad to see this story end, but I know the next one will be even better!
The closing to this should have been "Thank you Liam O'Brien for bringing this group of incredible people together for your birthday and setting this whole thing in motion" because it wouldn't have happened except for that one birthday wish
So sad already considering what happened in the last episode - going to be an emotional one on Thursday. So tempted to watch it live and take it all in as it happens.
I learned a lot from Vax too. And it is cool (and I've had similar experiences with role-playing, too), how playing pretend and "putting on a character" can impact us and kind of help us to put on character traits that we might not have learnt otherwise. I think C.S. Lewis wrote somewhere about how it's good for children to play pretend at being "heroes", because some of that kind of "play" kind of rubs off on us. What we "put on" in "play", maybe we can "put on" in real life as well.
Clicked on this video not realising i had already watched ages ago. TH-cam remembered where the video last was and started playing from there... First thing I hear: "We do it with each other for 3-5 hours every week" Couldn't stop laughing. It's amazing how perfectly normal sentences can take on entirely different meanings when heard completely out of context xD
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"I just want us to have an ending as beautiful as the road it took to get there..." Mission Accomplished buddy.
i know people give himi shit for monologueing too much, but i would listen to Liam talk about anything, for literal hours
I second this, ten times over. Liam is amazing
He has an asmr voice for sure.
He does have a podcast
@@potat096 And a couple books on tape on Audible
Legit would buy an audiobook of him reading an old fashioned phone book
Liam O'Brien, making grown men cry over DnD stories since 2012...
Tim Annan x you arent supposed to tell anyone :'(
Yep... totally didn't teary-eyed. ...
...it's a terrible day for rain.
When you come back 9 months later and are still a teary mess... >_>
As much as I will miss the Twins I love the connection Sam's rogue has with Liam's wizard, their deep real life friendship comes out in the new campaign.
Sam, for 5 minutes in his interview: we're gonna be fiiiiiiiine.
Liam, for 9 minutes in his interview: I'm saaaaaaaaaad.
Sounds about right.
lol much like their characters.
Until you watch the final episode and the perspectives swap
gotta remember, Sam was planning to use his Wish spell to save Liam's character... which got thrown down the well when Vecna tried to planeshift
Liam's friendships started all of this. He's one lucky dude.
The never ending birthday present
How come every time Liam talks I want to cry and hug him? No one should have this much control over my emotions, dammit!
Anya Bolden I don't know, but my fondness for him has really ramped up over the last couple weeks. His sensitivity and eloquence are so beautiful.
He always seems so different when he's not around the rest of the cast. Like a chill or solemn energy. I wonder if that's why he clicked so well with Sam, cuz he's such a goofball.
Liam is such a sullen and wise man. Hearing him in his one-shot and this behind the scenes stuff just tightens my chest every time. I think i am platonically in love
Anyone else cry a little listening to how much Liam embodies an in tune DnD player. The line about being Laura’s twin..... omg.
To say one of my favorite quotes
"This song is ending, but the story never ends"
This might be the end of VM but I believe CR will continue on as long as Matt and the rest of the crew want to.
is that dr who??
did you jist quote ood sigma??!!
2022 confirms belief
"I want the ending to be as beautiful as the road it took to get there." Wow...powerful.
He sounds so sad which makes me sad and now I'm an emotional teen tearing up alone at my computer because some voice actor on the internet plays D&D
Amanda Sharkey Not sad, I think, as much as wistfully reflective and really aware of how bittersweet the closing of this chapter is.
This guy always has his fingers around my heartstrings and he pulls at them as hard as he pleases. Every single time. That's why I love him and let him get away with it ;') What I'd give to meet in real life a guy who's just as in tuned with his feelings and as shamelessly open about it as Vax...
me too!
Distinctly hearing Matt and Marisha's laughter in the background
Bless'em.
MsCunningLinguistic #Blessed
I know it's one of my favorite parts of these interviews! 🤓🤓
hhaha Matt's its such a cackle,
On top of that you can hear her and Travis somewhere indistinctly being very...distinctly silly.
I love Liam. He is one of my favorite players. RIP Vax
I admire and love Liam's perspective on D&D
In all honesty I'm glad it's ending. It's ending on a high note, most things don't end with you wanting more, they end with you wishing it would have ended sooner. So as I said it's ending making me want more, and that makes me happy.
Well said Liam. Closing the cover on the best book any of us have ever read.
I don't care what anyone says, Vax's feels were one of the best parts of the campaign to me :D And the twins served as an emotional anchor. I wouldn't stick around in the beginning if it wasn't for them. Thank you, Liam and Laura! (And yes, I for a while did think they were siblings irl because their names start with the same letter. I know it's dumb.)
I really don't know how Liam manages to make me cry whenever he puts words on emotional things that we can't find words for. It just... oh, Liam. Thank you, Liam. Thank you, Vax. We love you.
Dammit Liam; not even 2 minutes in and I'm tearing up. So much love.
Liam must be a Fey, he always oozes emotions haha. I'm so excited to see what everyone is going to be playing next!
Kivan He's so amazing for it, too! It's really refreshing. If that's Fey, more men should be Fey lol
It is no different than coming to the end of a book where you really enjoyed the characters. You don't want to say goodbye to them and you still want to know what happens next to them even if the majority of the loose ends were tied off.
I agree, to a point; because it's only ALMOST like that. This story, you watched as it was created. It wasn't hatched in a writer's mind months and years ago, picked at until perfection, run through the editorial gamut and published before it found its way to you. You watched it emerge, like you were truly a part of it - just like these guys. I think that's one of the reasons we're all so invested at this point.
Yep I have the exact same feeling, same heart-sinking feeling that I get when finishing an amazing novel. I want to know what they get up to next, how they live out their lives. I feel like the characters become a part of you so instrinsically that it's the same sort of feeling as being seperated of close friends or family
I mean it feels like that for the audience. But as an actor I've gotta tell you it's a very different feeling for them. A character in a book is a friend you were on a journey with. As an actor, a character is someone you understand better than the author who wrote them almost. You get to step into those shoes and BE them. So to say goodbye to a character you got to be and love and understand and grow alongside, its gotta be emotional
Late to the party but wow, what a touching interview. Liam, thank you from the bottom of my heart for introducing me to DND though your streams. What you expressed here, I feel very similarly. I myself just wrapped all of campaign 1 and what a ride that was.
Critical Role has been the highlight of my life these last few years, and for that I thank all of you (Matt, Liam, Marisha, Laura, Taliesin, Sam, Travis, Orion, and Ashley) for allowing us to go on this amazing journey, and letting us be witness to the world & story you all have crafted. Thank you. I'm sad to see VM end, but am just as excited to see the next band of misfits, and see how they turn out 20 years later in Exandria. :)
And as CR come to an end I've finally caught up to the live show. I'll be able to watch the last episode of this campaign of CR LIVE. Excited and sad at the same time
srry hit down button by accident. GREAT you can watch live : )
CR will continue, but Vox Machina go into the sunset.
I'm going to skip like 18 episodes to watch the live ending :P
I'm trying to also look forward to their level 20 battle royal and their new campaign but I will miss Vox Machina so much!
I'm only up to ep. 25 right now. Kinda sad I won't, but I can watch the new campaign live. I'll listen to Vox Machina podcasts while exercising or at work in-between
Emotional rollercoaster the wait for Thursday is killing me.
Troommate I have to wait till Monday
and now, i watch the entire thing from beginning to end. never finished episode 1, i will now, just because of the emotion i'm seeing.
If I could be 1% of the man that Liam is then I'd be a better person.
Thursday is going to be crazy emotional this week.
Watching this after episode 115 gives a bit of a different feeling. Now that the tale of Vox Machina has come to a close, it's almost painful to think how far everything has come, and the closing of the last session leaving a bittersweet taste.
Raise your glass in honor of the fallen, of those who fought to keep hope alive, and of those who we look forward to seeing again.
Hats off to Matt for giving the best birthday present ever. Well played good sir.
You can hear the rest of the CR cast in the background :)
What would normally be an annoyance in the sound filter is more like a cute easter egg for us Critters :D
Man you can really tell that D&D for Liam has been a huge positive in his life, I'm so glad he was able to pull such valuable insights out of the game and apply them to his own life.
Easily my favorite person amongst the Vox Machina cast. Hurts my heart that he has had such a rough go of it at times.
And to think I just stumbled across this show on twitch one night when I was bored...incredible, truly incredible
Man Liam is so awesome I love hearing his interviews
Liam has been in so many shows that i watched as a kid and now watch as an adult. To see someone that impacted my life so much act and talk like this helps me realize how amazing, honest, and smart he really is.
This goes for the entire cast, but ill be damned if they arent my mentors in some shape or form. I love this show, and i adore everyone involved
Liam will always play a twin.. he's Illidan Stormage!
Even out of character, Liam is so emo. I love it!
Losing the twin bond is going to be so hard. It has been a wonderful journey. Thank you, Vox Machina!
Well, I think it's safe to say you got that beautiful ending...
His voice, guys 😍
R.I.P Vax'Ildan ;(
He might not die yet. The hand is still out there, but we will see.
It's perfect for the narrative if he does. Victory comes at a cost.
It's a far better ending.
I agree. Personally, I want Vax to have his Keyleth and his future and his happy ending with the rest; but the way it looks now packs SUCH an emotional narrative punch. It is the perfect "we won, but we lost".
Come on Vox Machina ask for a day to say goodbye "Wink". Totally not stalling :D.
Jet Black sounds like you're not aware of the ally-slaughter the episode before was. How many of their old friends did they find dead, only because the lost last time?
Liam was talking some heavy stuff but those screams kept making me laugh
i want to give Liam a hug!
Love and hearts and kisses to Liam!!!
Thanks for sharing Liam.
when the show ended I wanted to plead for more, I didn't want to say goodbye to these characters. And it is the best thing ever.
it feels difficult to have to say goodbye to these characters and start over, from scratch. It's difficult and it's challenging, bit they understand that a story needs an ending, and new and different stories need to be told.
Thank you for that!
thank you for making me want more, and thank you for not giving it. thank you for trusting this community , that we will stick with these nerdy ass voice actors to see what they will cook up next.
thank you for everything!
It's amazing how emotionally invested these guys get in their characters. And it's amazing that I totally relate. I haven't been playing long, but I'm great friends with Belemuth, my first character, and he's still kicking along with me, for now. I get upset when their characters are in trouble, or leave, or die (Scanlan?!).
I'm not crying, you're crying!
"I just want us to have an ending as beautiful as the road it took to get there."
0:58 I was genuinely thinking about this during the last episode or two. I kept thinking, "How in the world are they going to adjust to playing separate characters, who are not twins or even siblings at all?" It just felt wrong somehow. I'm glad I wasn't the only one feeling that way.
I love Liam so much man
I know I'm 2 years late but I really enjoyed this video 🙂
Thank you and the rest of the critical role crew for sharing your story and home game with the world. You are all so amazing. I am sad to see this story end, but I know the next one will be even better!
So much love.
Liam you went from being a twin to a father figure, your kind heart is showing ^_^
I love this channel way more than I live watching people play. There are different types of players and I enjoy being a player that enjoys people.
The closing to this should have been "Thank you Liam O'Brien for bringing this group of incredible people together for your birthday and setting this whole thing in motion" because it wouldn't have happened except for that one birthday wish
So sad already considering what happened in the last episode - going to be an emotional one on Thursday. So tempted to watch it live and take it all in as it happens.
I would die for this man
That moment at 7 was beautiful
"Thank you." and I walk away.
Im so glad hearing DnD creating strong and life lasting friendships :) god bless
Everything ends and thats always sad, but everything begins again and thats always happy
Some background noise cancelling whenever the interviewee (?) talks would be great.
Beyond that, so looking forward to the ending of Vox Machina!
I learned a lot from Vax too. And it is cool (and I've had similar experiences with role-playing, too), how playing pretend and "putting on a character" can impact us and kind of help us to put on character traits that we might not have learnt otherwise. I think C.S. Lewis wrote somewhere about how it's good for children to play pretend at being "heroes", because some of that kind of "play" kind of rubs off on us. What we "put on" in "play", maybe we can "put on" in real life as well.
Legendary Liam o Brien, Yasuo soryegeton!
Also akihiko and orlando in Catherine
jeez, i'm already crying so bad
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Damn this made me cry 😭😭
I am crying.. Don't know why.. but im crying
Lord Liam knows the way.
Clicked on this video not realising i had already watched ages ago. TH-cam remembered where the video last was and started playing from there...
First thing I hear: "We do it with each other for 3-5 hours every week"
Couldn't stop laughing. It's amazing how perfectly normal sentences can take on entirely different meanings when heard completely out of context xD
"It's the fabric of our lives..." This moment brought to you by Big Cotton. :)
Oh jeez, Liam my HEART IS HURTING
I adore Liam.
William H Macy, I love your work
I dream of one day playing a game of d and d with these guys
Is it Thursday yet??!?!!!??? ... ??
You're damn right it is.
You and I will show them how to say goodbye...
So pure
THAT is why we love this game.
LITTLE DID HE KNOW
In case you read the comments before watching, this video has spoilers.
And it all started with his Birthday one shot.
im not crying.... YOURE CRYING!!!!
I don't wanna say goodbye!!! :(
man he made my day messed up...
I feels so sad...
This is too emotional right now
ily liam
Anyone else notice he's in the Slayer's Cake shop? Hehe
Some feedback on the Todd Kendreck introduction. The lighting is way to bright. He even looks a bit sick.
it isn't over yet. Recovery of paralyzed friends, epilogue, etc
Fuck, I'm crying
Liam is such a perfect cinnamon bun.
If Liam learns things from his characters, what did Illidan teach him? XD
That you are not prepared.
Aaaaand I'm crying at work XD