The Mighty Nein
Jul. 19th, 2018 11:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schneefinkHow I currently watch Critical Role: The new episode ends on Friday morning and I usually last between ten and fifty minutes of "maybe I should avoid spoilers" before I give in and read the timeline of ![[twitter.com profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
CritRoleStats. Depending on what happened I either impatiently wait or almost forget about it until Monday evening, when the new episode is posted on YouTube. The episodes being about 4+ hours long, sometimes I finish watching on Tuesday, but often later, this week for example on Thursday. And then before I had some time to think about it the next episode is out and I feel like I should wait with reactions until I've seen that.
This to explain why I haven't been talking about CR much; also because it took me a while to warm up to the new characters. One of my favourite aspects of Vox Machina was that it was full of found family feelings, and of course you don't have that yet with a bunch of characters who've never met before. (Unsurprisingly, my favourite characters & relationships early on where those who'd met pre-campaign.) Additionally, the players are still getting used to their characters as well (both when it comes to roleplay and abilities.) I finally started to become more invested in the new group around episode 22, and now the latest, 26, was great (despite SPOILER) and I really look forward to seeing where it goes from here.
Some notes from whenever I felt like taking some:
Ep 7: holy shit Nott killed the baby. (Monster but still.) Cool.
Ep 8: okay yes now I love this. The bandits at night, this group is full of dorks. And Enchanter Pumat Sol is fun.
Ep 11: Fjord becoming leader of the group, yes very nice. Teaming up with Molly to interrogate Nott, yes.
At this point listening to this while doing something else turns out to have been not ideal because I'm pretty confused about the conspiracy plot.
Ep 14: Kudos to the fans who guessed Molly having amnesia. (I did not originally, but as soon as I read the theory I was convinced it was right because it just seemed like something Taliesin would enjoy.)
Ep 22: Beau asking Fjord for help apologizing to Caleb, Caleb asking Yasha about getting along with people and Yasha shaving him with her sword, and then Beau's so very awkward apology to Caleb and their incredibly awkward hug, with Fjord and Yasha encouraging them :D
Btw, it's good that Vax had Vex and Caleb has Nott because Liam seems to like playing angsty introverts.
Ep 20-24: Matt playing Kiri is a thing of beauty.
Ep 26: Molly: "You don't leave people behind, that's the deal." <3 Definitely my favorite character of the new campaign so far.
Keg is great :D
Molly :((((
I'm very sad that he died, I really enjoyed him (also yay bisexual characters), but I hope that at least Matt will have them find some traces of "Lucien" and reveal part of Molly's backstory post-mortem. (It also lends itself very well to fix-it fic, just saying.) I also trust Taliesin to come up with a new character that I'll love, and I look forward to meeting them.
This to explain why I haven't been talking about CR much; also because it took me a while to warm up to the new characters. One of my favourite aspects of Vox Machina was that it was full of found family feelings, and of course you don't have that yet with a bunch of characters who've never met before. (Unsurprisingly, my favourite characters & relationships early on where those who'd met pre-campaign.) Additionally, the players are still getting used to their characters as well (both when it comes to roleplay and abilities.) I finally started to become more invested in the new group around episode 22, and now the latest, 26, was great (despite SPOILER) and I really look forward to seeing where it goes from here.
Some notes from whenever I felt like taking some:
Ep 7: holy shit Nott killed the baby. (Monster but still.) Cool.
Ep 8: okay yes now I love this. The bandits at night, this group is full of dorks. And Enchanter Pumat Sol is fun.
Ep 11: Fjord becoming leader of the group, yes very nice. Teaming up with Molly to interrogate Nott, yes.
At this point listening to this while doing something else turns out to have been not ideal because I'm pretty confused about the conspiracy plot.
Ep 14: Kudos to the fans who guessed Molly having amnesia. (I did not originally, but as soon as I read the theory I was convinced it was right because it just seemed like something Taliesin would enjoy.)
Ep 22: Beau asking Fjord for help apologizing to Caleb, Caleb asking Yasha about getting along with people and Yasha shaving him with her sword, and then Beau's so very awkward apology to Caleb and their incredibly awkward hug, with Fjord and Yasha encouraging them :D
Btw, it's good that Vax had Vex and Caleb has Nott because Liam seems to like playing angsty introverts.
Ep 20-24: Matt playing Kiri is a thing of beauty.
Ep 26: Molly: "You don't leave people behind, that's the deal." <3 Definitely my favorite character of the new campaign so far.
Keg is great :D
Molly :((((
I'm very sad that he died, I really enjoyed him (also yay bisexual characters), but I hope that at least Matt will have them find some traces of "Lucien" and reveal part of Molly's backstory post-mortem. (It also lends itself very well to fix-it fic, just saying.) I also trust Taliesin to come up with a new character that I'll love, and I look forward to meeting them.
