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batosai33 t1_j2cjgw0 wrote

Reply to comment by Notlookingsohot in Legend of Vox Machina - Worth the watch? by SerGiggles

Yep. Episodes 1 and 2 were concepted when they thought that would be the whole thing. They thought they would get 50 minutes of animation to give everyone a taste of the crew, and show a story that happened before critical role (not required viewing) began.

Then everything exploded and a month later and they were pretty much guaranteed 24 episodes, so they started planning much more long term.

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Shower_caps t1_j2cs15j wrote

Good to know because the 1st episode was a bit much for me and I didn’t finish it. I will definitely give it another try.

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Gh0stMan0nThird t1_j2cy26w wrote

They definitely tried way too hard to show "this ain't your grand daddy's D&D"

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cathbadh t1_j2drq5g wrote

Yeah as someone who watched all of the first campaign, most of it twice, and half of the second, I wasn't a fan of the first couple episodes. I may have to try it again.

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batosai33 t1_j2dxmwo wrote

I find the third campaign to be a better version of the first, in a way. C2 didn't have as much of the fun chaos of the C1, but it also didn't have the growing pains, and long boring stretches that c1 had. C3 has the fun chaos, while also being more polished and streamlined.

C1 still has some of the best moments, but that is balanced out with a lot of slow, boring, and annoying moments.

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cathbadh t1_j2e2fg0 wrote

C2 was pretty terrible IMO. Too much angst and self hate. For pseudo bad guys they were really just mopey.

C1 would be hard to beat. Heck Sam's apology to Liam in the finale was a small thing that nobody noticed and it had me in tears. C1 got vastly better after Orion was kicked out.

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batosai33 t1_j2e3hxg wrote

They all felt like recovering addicts in C2, in a way. They didn't like who they had been and were redeeming themselves, which made Cad a great addition as basically the therapist. Unfortunately, that came at the price of the fun Molly was bringing to the group. I thought it was a good story, but it was a more serious story.

C1 had some great highlights, with sam's apology, and everything surrounding it being some of the best anything I have watched, but boy did it have a lot of growing pains to slog through to get there. Shopping episodes, learning to play for the audience, he-who-shall-not-be-named.

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gordito_delgado t1_j2e7psc wrote

This is exactly the impression I got.

Don't get me wrong, being crass and gross for no reason, is very funny when you are goofing around with your mates RPing and getting drunk. However it gets a little dull/annoying when overdone in a series like this.

Might give it another shot.

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nomadfoy t1_j2d15kd wrote

I'm pretty sure originally it wasn't going to include the first few episodes. The original kick starter was just trying to raise enough for the whitestone story. Then critters broke the Kickstarter record so they knew it they could do a whole season

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1Viking t1_j2dixl8 wrote

Nope. Originally it was for an episode or two (then 4–then back to what we eventually ended up getting) of pre live stream story arc. The live stream started a couple of years into their already ongoing campaign and they wanted to catch viewers up on what happened pre stream. Once they started getting the amount of donations that they did, they switched it over to being the Whitestone arc. They genuinely didn’t think they’d get enough money for more than a handful of episodes. The Critter Crush was real.

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