THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA 1x12 "The Darkness Within" Reaction!
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Orthax (Percy's demon) looked SO COOL. I love his design so much
The moment when Scanlan's player threw Percy's gun in the acid was so goddamn funny in-game, since there was nothing necessarily that indicated that the gun had any issues, Sam (Scanlan) risked doing that for nothing and Taliesin (Percy) was furious. Immediately afterwards the DM pretty much confirmed that it was a good move, but Tal still couldn't accept it lol
Also, the second I heard "Cloudtop" I knew exactly where the ending was headed, and prepared myself for the cliffhanger lmao
Still remember how close Taliesin was (or seemed to be at least) to actually assaulting Sam in that moment. I'm pretty sure he mentioned it at some point (Talks Machina, maybe?)
@@pabloc8808 I don't know about assaulting, but he sure seemed to want to curse Sam for life 😅
@@carlotaperes1031 For sure, and even though that was years ago, something tells me recording Legend Of Vox Machina must have brought it all back up. Considering Taliesin holds two royal titles, goth prince and drama queen, I can definitely see him bringing it up with Sam in the studio
I'm still a bit disappointed that Percy thanked Scanlan immediately after seeing the demon burn in the acid. That lasting grudge was entertaining in the d&d game.
Having him turn away in frustration while only Scanlan sees Orthax dissolve would have been fun. After the demon's death, Percy could have breathed in deeply and smiled (to himself) as if he's having the first good thought in years, unburdened by the desire for revenge.
@@pabloc8808 yeah it's on Talks Machina the Campaign wrap up that Matt reveals that yeah Sam was right
Ah the last episode of the series. At least there won't be a cliffha-
I was really enjoying this comment, but then it ended so abruptly
Season 2 has already been greenlit, but there's enough content for several seasons beyond that...for example, the Chroma Conclave Arc was about twice as long as the Briarwood Arc, and could easily fill 2 seasons for the animated series...as for the Chroma Conclave themselves, Brimscythe was a younger dragon, and dragons become more powerful as they age. The remaining members of the Conclave are all far older and far more powerful than the young Blue that Vox Machina has already faced.
It was so epic when our legendary badasses in the actual game had these 4 dragons attack, and they were so helpless to do anything to any of them. Even fighting one of them by itself they were so little of a threat that they barely registered on him *while they were hitting him*
I could see Chroma Conclave being 3 seasons since there is a lot of stuff that was introduced in the Kraghammer/Vasselheim Arc (that was before the Briarwoods) that they will need to fit in as well.
@@xboxman1710 Briarwood arc was 14 episodes (including 2 filler episodes we didn't see anything from in here). The CC arc is 44 episodes. 3 seasons would be tight. They really need 4 seasons, especially since there are elements in the CC arc that were from episodes that occurred prior to the Briarwood arc (like the Slayers Take episodes).
@@override367 Oh yeah, I still remember "...19 misses?"
Season 3 has now been green lit. Critical role stocks going up even higher! To the moon!
So Matt Mercer, the DM, is usually pretty good about ending a game session on big cliffhangers like this. The funny thing about the ending of this episode vs the live-play game, is that the game didn't end at this point. He could have, they were far enough into the game session that calling it quits for the night would have made sense, and you usually don't get into a battle near the end of a session of D&D. So the players were clearly a little surprised when he brought out a battle map.
At 11:04, This is a huge Easter egg. Because during the campaign, VAX (Liam Obrian) was WELL KNOWN, for starting intense emotional discussions, and then saying, "I walk away" thus leaving everyone with strong feelings and nothing to do with them.
Speaking of Game of Thrones, the Duke whose house was burned down by Scanlan was played by The Hound(Rory McCann), and the blonde lady on the Council was the Red Viper's consort, Ellaria Sand (Indira Varma).
These dragons are not family per se, but they are in "D&D Terms" *Ancient* dragons. Dragons get *far, far* more powerful as they age so these four are *no* joke.
They are more business acquaintances than family, for sure. Dragons don't usually work together which is what makes the chroma conclave very dangerous and interesting. And very unexpected by the people of Exandria.
Oh man, flashbacks to Campaign 1 when Keyleth and Pike couldn't let go of the idea that the spinning orb of death was related to the Chroma Conclave LOL
19:38 honestly tho Amazon deserves zero credit for this. They only picked it up cuz it was already paid for. Critical Role had a gofundme for the show and raised like 11mil or something crazy like that.
Yes. But the moment they see, wow so much money they greenlight season 2.
Yeah they have zero credit for season 1 minus the 2 episodes they funded in season 1. But will for season 2 as they are fully funding it.
Was cool going on this journey with you guys. We long-time Critters have really enjoyed watching new people dig this story as much as we have.
12:59 -- That's one of the coolest things about playing D&D. The only limit is your imagination. You can do and achieve and accomplish anything! If you get a chance to play, you should!
Don't thank Amazon for this show -- thank the Critters. No one was willing to work with these guys until the Kickstarter happened. That's when Amazon showed up with a 2-year contract and the understanding that they would stay out of it and just let Critical Role make their show their way. I'd like to believe Amazon is aware that they have a cult hit on their hands.
Great chemistry between you two. I hope Steph comes back 👍🏻
"Don't take that weapon!"
He has an intelligence of six, he knows what he's doing lol
Amazon agreed to a season two before making season one as I understand it, part of the production deal.
yeah Season 2 is greenlit I mean easy deal for Amazon, they paid for season one so they literally only have to pay for a season
I will Kickstart again if Amazon doesn’t pick up a third season. With the shows success I am pretty confident they will pick up additional seasons.
"They don't have to show us killing the dragons" they said, about the single longest story arc in the entire campaign ;)
How to like this comment 10000000 times.
The storyline has pretty much been established already (with alterations to make it fit better narratively) since it's based on a D&D campaign that was played years ago by Critical Role.
Interesting theories! of course, being a fan of Critical Role and having seen Campaign 1, the D&D gameplay this series is based upon, I happen to know exactly what is about to happen.
I TOTALLY lost my shiz, when I saw this ENTIRE season! I can't wait for when they FINALLY release S2!!! Also, I agree! VERY interesting theories! :)
14:57 this is a cool observation. There is definitely a difference between that dragon and Brimscythe (the blue dragon from the first two episodes), other than color.
I don't think any of the reactors have caught the interaction between Grog & the sword.
Welcome to the Chroma Conclave, everything from this season gets cranked up to a thousand for the next and hopefully following seasons.
I do wonder if the chroma conclave will take 1 or 2 season I mean we got 4 dragons to deal with
@Josh Kirk I hope they include some Slayer Take but think they will ditch that dragon or swap it for the other white dragon
@@jetvulcan2020 I cant think of how they trim this arc. So much sets up Chroma and the following arc, it almost has to be 2 seasons.
@@andrewwebb3248 The Briarwood arc was 12 episodes in game (what they took of it to make the series). The CC arc is 44 episodes. They need at least 3 and probably 4 seasons to do it justice.
@Josh Kirk I think they're just going to have to accept they cant re-introduce everything in the world as brand new to the characters for the sake of a new audience, theres not time. Just have them show up at the Slayers Take already being members and already knowing Kashaw and Zahra, and move on with the actual plot. "This is a monster hunting guild that VM has worked with in the past" is all the explanation needed.
The story telling is so rich, because they're putting to anime a universe/story Matt Mercer created & outlined, the weekly story they all created on-the-fly, and based on the roll of a dice. Talk about creativity.
Brimscythe was like a Dragon version of a teenager, the rest of the Conclave is like Dragon version of Darth Vader.
One hell of a season and the reactions were enjoyable as heck
I’ve loved these Vox reactions with these 2 funny ladies.
I could've sworn Matt said they had already finished S2.
In the campaign the fight with Orthax (Percy's smoke demon) went a little differently. Taliesin (who plays Percy) rolled high enough to resist it, and it physically exited his body so the others could help attack it without hurting Percy (to which Taliesin yelled "THERAPY! You're all fighting my demons!"). But I really like the changes they made to the show. It shows the struggle still going on in Percy, and his choice to ultimately choose mercy. He blew his own hand open to save his worst enemy. That's some powerful forgiveness.
And it also reminds me of what Taliesin said about making Percy: he wanted the answer to a question, "Can someone who's done the worst possible thing be forgiven? Can they be saved? Can they be loved?" Percy created guns, probably the most powerful killing machines this world has ever seen (even if they're still prototypes that break easily for now). He used them to kill dozens of people, and they will be used even when he is gone to kill millions more. Does he deserve forgiveness? Can he be saved? That's the question Taliesin was asking with Percy. And I can't wait for what y'all think of that as the show goes on!
🔥 Announced today by prime video; There will be a Vox Machina panel at New York Comic Con on October 6th, with a sneak peak at season 2!!!! 🐲
Thank you for reacting to this series! It's been fun watching your reactions and I look forward to watching season two with you!
If you want to see how the series was put together, I really recommend watching their behind the scenes series they did, and even the original Kickstarter announcement. The BTS videos go through the writing process, world design, character design, music, voice actors, etc. They are under a playlist called "The Legend of the Legend of Vox Machina". You really learn a lot about what it takes to make an animated series.
The original Kickstarter announcement: th-cam.com/video/IAi9xjcNFus/w-d-xo.html
The BTS playlist: th-cam.com/play/PL1tiwbzkOjQwJdoNetaNJE1zZVOE7xi8u.html
I think one interesting thing about a show like this is that for some things when you think about why a certain character didn't do something different that might have worked better the reason is it's based on what people chose to do in the moment in their game.
That’s the thing with improv, you don’t have a script writer to plan out your attack XD
Thanks so much for finishing this series! I love it so much. Can't wait for Season 2.
The trailer for season 2 just dropped with a release date
Hey there, You might be interested to know that Legend of Vox Machina released 2 new videos at NYCC. A season 1 recap by Scanlan and a sneak peek at Season 2. I think you'll like them.
Season 2 was confirmed before season 1 was completed 🙌
If you guys want to get a glimpse behind the curtain I recommend watching Exandria Unlimited: Calamity. It's a mini series they did that's only 4 episodes long. It's not the full original cast but the guest stars are amazing It's one of their best produced stories.
The direction they're gonna take this in is already more or less set in stone, since this is an adaptation. And I can't wait for you to see it:)
Dungeons and Dragons started before nearly all the shows you're talking about. Came about around the same time as the first Star Wars movie the late 70's.
I hope for a second season!
When Amazon picked up the series, they expanded Season 1 from 10 to 12 episodes and greenlit Season 2 as part of the deal...so we're waiting on an announcement of when Season 2 will air, not if.
Looking forward to the next Achara - Steph reaction series!
If this would have been the duo for Dark....pshhh....game over!
So season 1 was crowd funded. Amazon Prime Video was pretty much the only one that would give them a platform to run it on, BUT it came out so great that Amazon Prime actually funded a season 2 for them. Also, you should take a moment to look up the IMDB on this one. You might be surprised to see some of the names that were behind the voices. The main cast was the players, and Mathew Mercer did a lot of side characters. But there are some really pretty big names in there. Like some hobbits you might recognize or even some doctors.
There is a Scalan recap song video, and a video for season 2 that dropped.
Great reaction! It's been great following along on your journey to discover Critical Roll. There will be at least one more season. It was part of their deal with Amazon when they got to publish it as an Amazon special, that they funded the second season. This season was funded by a Kickstarter, that went very well (750K -> 11.3M), so I guess it was safe bet for Amazon to throw money at. I'm hoping that the success of this season will be the impetus for a third as well, now that they have black on white that it was a success. If you want something to pass the time while waiting I suggest looking into their Narrative Telephone series. It's fun and light hearted and you get to see the cast of CR, plus some guests in later episodes. The premise is like Telephone, but they start with a story set in the same world, and then they each in turn try to retell it after only having viewed/listen to the one before only once... so the story morphs and changes in the most chaotic and awesome ways. Each episode is a new story, starting with a new cast member crafting the initial tale, so every episode is self contained so to speak (but it's recommended to watch them in order). Even if you don't react to them on your channel you should treat yourself to that experience. Then of course they have hundreds of hours of live play on their YT-channel - most are part of their main campaigns (they are on the 3rd one now) but also mini series and one-shots.
Here's a link to the first episode: th-cam.com/video/HHCSECk3s04/w-d-xo.html
LOVE Narrative Telephone! The Between The Sheets interviews and the 6 behind the scenes videos released about the Legend of Vox Machina are also excellent and recommended!
@@johna6352 Yes, those are all wonderful suggestions. The BTS episode with Amanda Palmer made me buy tickets to her "There Will Be No Intermission" concert when she was playing in Stockholm, solely based on that interview and Bryans high praise's, and it was amazing - definitely the most emotional concert I have been to. Man, when you think about it - CR have done A LOT! The All Work No Play series also comes to mind.
This will be the Chromo Conclave arc.
I said this episode is wild!
Cassandra is both a dangerous beast with a rapier and poor girl deserving all the hugs in the world.
Sitting here waiting for season 2 with you! I know all the major spoilers, but I haven`t seen this arc in the campain, and really really want to see how this will turn here. Especially Grog`s storyline with an Absolutely Normal Definitely Not Evil sword and twins` story.
And flashbacks! All which they couldn`t show us in the campaign!
Cassandra deserved to die
Hope y'all check out Season 2 when it comes out, so much fun watching with you.
because you did a very nice discussion of each episode and clearly cared about the characters and had fun with the story. I can't wait for Season two and looking forward to watching it with you!
You should look up one of the live Episodes of Critical Role to see the voice actors playing their characters before they were animated.
Personally suggest ANY episode after episode 27. If you haven't seen it in a while, it is VERY uncomfortable with a certain person there. And every episode after his leaving is 100000% better.
2:09 "Kiss her." Or spit on her. That works too. 🤣
When are you guys going to do season2:)
Season 2 starts in January.
There are indeed werewolves in D&D. Also werebears
D&D groups can come up with some amazing stories that just develop naturally. Fun stuff. Most of the reasons they cant just do things when they want is based on D&D mechanics, but I think they make it work well without having to explain it.
The dice gods giveth, and the dice gods taketh away.
It's about to get CrAzY! I'm listening 🎧 to this current arc from Critical Role and there is SO much. 2nd season will have to either be split or doubled to cover it all. Although I can imagine that they could just have fewer dragons to shorten it and cut out the non-dragon centric adventures or combine them. Virtually everyone except maybe Percy and Pike get an adventure central to their character. But those two had a lot of focus here, so not a big deal.
Glad you gals loved this. I showed it to my DnD group and they loved it too.
I’ve just finished this episode hahaha
14:25 normally yes, Achara. But this dragon flight scene also happened in the DnD stream. The overall story is already written.
Thanks for the fun reaction and after show discussions. I love that you are covering more mature animation like Vox Machina, Harley Quinn, and Invincible. Maybe you can also give PRIMAL a try, from the creator of Samurai Jack. This animation is set in a prehistoric Dark Fantasy setting with no holds barred. A five-time Emmy winning animation series from Adult Swim. Looking forward to more.
These twelve episodes covered nearly 200 hours of gameplay.
I love stephs voice and her input and comments about being able to combine everything and how well Amazon does with this adult animation. Plus she’s also incredibly beautiful
A part of me is sad we didn't get to see her talk to the sun tree like in the campaign. The tree is a total dude bro and made everyone lose it laughing every time they interacted
This is D&D and they have 500 page books called the monster manuel and sometimes they have 2-5 monster manuels. MOst of the monsters and evil things are in those books, and some are far far worse.
This show is awesome,made me care about all of the characters :)
Nicely done ✅👍🏽
Delilah really isn't the worst, that honour goes to Reply.
I think time frame wise it was only about 2 weeks from episode 1 to episode 12
There is a great series of Behind the Scenes vids over on the Critical Role TH-cam Channel called The Legend of.... which you should definitely check out.
Every twist and turn is because of the dice roll.
You guys gotta react to the Legend of the legend series now, and eventually the streams. It's a side effect of loving CR
17:21 As one whos seen the original game my main nitpick about the magic would have to be Delilahs lack of variety, she's a super powerful wizard with a versatile arsenal of spells, stacked with enchanted items, but in the final battle she didnt do much more than vauge ~blast of shadow magic~, the obvious thing to show only viewers would be that in the first encounter she was teleporting all over the place and didn't use that at all in this final fight.
I just finished watching your Chernobyl videos. I’d love to see your reaction to the movie Deepwater Horizon, starring Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Dylan O’Brien, Gina Rodriguez and Kate Hudson.
Please arcane next.
THORDAK IS COMING!
All hail The Cinder King.
the blue one was a yougn adult dragon maybe not even a 100 years old, that are ancient thousend year old dragons xD like 10 times stronger xD also blue are the weaker ones who are more cunning, red is just pure power.
also it might be wise to rewatch episode 1 and 2 and u find alot of stuff relating to the dragons ^^
If you two loved this show then you would definitely love Arcane! Would be neat to see you go into that next, the animation is stunning and the storyline/characters are top tier.
Really glad you enjoyed this series
I recommend Avatar, and if you have seen it then continue with Korra. They're amazing
Wait Vox Machina.. Is this not Critical role??
Yes, it's Critical Role's animated show of their first campaign.
the D&D stream was called critical role. vox machina is the name of the band of adventurers
You guys should watch Arcane
Steph: "This and Invincible are top tier animation for me."
Arcane: "Hold my beer..."
Arcane had more budget per episode than LoVM and Invincible had for entire seasons... of course it is going to be ultra top tier.
@@SgtPriad This. You can't really compare them...as Arcanes budget was fucking MASSIVELY larger. And so will be higher quality animation-wise. LoVM was intended to be mid tier animation-wise because they WANTED a nostalgic feel in design and animation style. It wasn't meant to be super duper high quality and mind blowing.
Pretty sure she didn't include Arcane...because they were talking about Amazon, not everything else to include Netflix.
@@AnxietyRat Not only that but it took like 3 years of work plus the conditions for the animators were apparently horrible (crunch, huge overtime, etc)
Waddup braw
Maybe they'll JUST kill the Dragons, then move on to something else?!!
Love your reactions, actually. A little sad the algorithm didn't recommend your channel until recently.
Hope you're having a great day.
.. the red one looked like it was... brought 'back'?... hm... reminder: Uriel asked Vysoren, how to fight a dragon... so, re-watch her answer.
You must watch attack on titans
React to Attack on Titan
You should watch arcane
At 15:11, don't worry ladies. There's ONLY ONE DRACOLITCH who was accidentally written into Exandria by Mathew Mercer & the gang accidentally, and DAURGOTHOTH, Has not attacked the realms yet. THOUGH, the team from campaign one DID get dangerously close to walking right into his lair during the "Underdark" chapter. But that was skipped over because "Orion" and thus we *PROBABLY* don't need to worry about him for a while. As of campaign 3, he hasn't shown up yet. BUT, both Mathew AND Laura Bailey (Vexalia) have mentioned him in one compasity or another throughout Critical Role's history. So he's DEFINATELY THERE. Laura even all but mentioned him by NAME, in the second episode of Narrative Telephone. So I'm sure, "The Creeping Doom" show up eventually. Just not yet.
I can't remember which story it is, but Daurgothoth was introduced in the forgotten realms add ons. However, his lair is near or directly UNDERNIETH a abbandoned city in the underdark. One of the doors is guarded by a lava waterfall. Mathew SPECIFICALLY describes this lavafall detail for detail in the early campaign one under dark event. I can't remember who, but ONE, of the team wanted to go investigate it. hahhahahahaahha NOT ONLY, would it have led to a TPK, there are two women in there group. (Pike wasn't with them at the time I don't think). Big D, has always wanted to create his own progeny, so there's a horrific chance that Marisha & Laura's characters would have ended up PREGNANT AS WELL, due to magical experimentations that he would have used on them. HOLY SHIT! Talk about dodging death !!
@@tomesofawesome8041 He can't use the Creeping Doom as it's a Wizard product. He could make his "version" of it, but I don't think he will after making Exandria it's own product
There have been canonically at least two dracolichs in Exandria; one in the Age of Arcanum and one currently in Blightshore, i don't think the one you're thinking of exists in Matt's world. The dragon that rules a city from Laura's narrative telephone was obviously Jamon Sa'Ord of Ankharel.
Matt wouldn't have put something that was a certain TPK in front o the party, and no way in hell he would have done anything like that to the ladies characters.
As for lava waterfall, theres on used by the duregar fortress, but I think you mean this moment in Episode 3 at 2:04:24. Theres a cavern with a waterfall, and numerous flows of lava that pool and flow into a tunnel that Keyleth wants to investigate, no actual giant lava waterfall
Clearly you do not know exactly whom the Croma Conclave is...
They did Percy wrong and Vax too
hated this ep