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VM - 1x12 - Reaction (Full)

🕑 Added 2025-01-03 13:00:10 +0000 UTC

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David Bodor

Btw, if you are ever curious about watching a campaign, may I recommend the mini-campaign, The Calamity series as a jumping off point? It's quite possibly the best thing Critical Role ever put out, it's SO good and it's much shorter than a full campaign. It's set over a thousand years before Vox Machina, so you don't really need any prior knowledge of anything either. Just 4 episodes, it's pretty long still, but not quite as much of a time-sink as a full campaign and heck, if you upload your reaction as a patreon exclusive I'd watch that. Don't even need to edit it, just toss it up as is. Probably far too long for an actual video tho. Heck, maybe you can rope in Mosco to watch it together?

ELS_Art

It’s now a cola ones perfectly in the show but by shooting himself in the hand Percy Voided the contract with the demon.

Wolfie

The demon was definitely in the gun, but Percy shooting his hand worked because he shot his dominant hand-the one he uses for the gun. This made him temporarily unable to fulfill the bargain, which broke the demon’s control over him. Season two is going to be hype!!!

Joey Quixote

We've seen dragons, and vampires, armies of the undead, elves and gnomes and discoball codpieces. And yet, the most unbelievable part of this fanciful tale is a leader abdicating power of his own accord.

Kyle Smilowski

If you are going to watch the live campaign I would highly recommend you start at episode 28.... For reasons of not a good person leaving thankfully the episode before

Christopher Malone

NEVAH!

Dragon0921

DUDE SHUT UP! 😨 lol

Christopher Malone

oh come on its not even a spoiler that vax gets zapped across the cosmos and befriends a really smart T-rex and fight against evil lord brill's carnival of chaos to get back to Exandria... or is it?

Sev the Hollow

Bring the tissues and tea bags we're gonna all either cry our eyes out or scream our lungs out, actually it might be both.

{L} Frances

It is a little amusing seeing Elijah rail against Delilah, as if it's reasonable for Delilah to operate by typical empathy at this point. She kills children & basically everyone with ease, because her love & empathy are solely tied to Sylas. And it's a genuinely loving bond between them, which is why you care & understand. But at the same time, she did pull that move with the bodies on the Suntree. I could tell the moment she saw that moment, she was going to have as little mercy for the Briarwoods as Percy.

iAmiCaniWill

The guy that Scan-man hit on after the big fight is the likeness of the character designer.

LikeCat

Case and point the Season 1 finale. And THIS is just the tip of the very big iceberg that is ,,How many times and how deeply can CR crush our hearts" The answer: I've lost count with the devistasion as of the end of Season 3.

Christopher Malone

if the CR team specializes in anything, its emotionally devastating cliffhangers

David Johnson

And wait till you see how next season, they *begin* it.

LikeCat

I still cry at that episode knowing full well that - trying not spoil stuff in the next bit - things turn out ok... eventually

Liam Gradwell

Yes Elijah, that’s how they ended it. Critical Role is sure very good at their cliffhangers. At least you didn’t have to wait a whole bloody year to see THE DRAGONS! 🤣

Aineyn

So, if you want to look into how things went in the campaign, well, there are video compilations where they take the best moment from the show and show you the campaign version! Maybe someone more familiar with those compilations can link them to you? Anyway, I know some reactors do decide to react to those compilations sometimes, so it'd be fun to see yours as well! :)

Thunder

If you're looking for an explanation on how shooting his hand got rid of the demon: It's basically a symbolic injury, but symbolism matters when it comes to spiritual things. It comes down to an important detail; Percy shot his LEFT hand. Percy is naturally left hand dominant. Most of the time that we see him shooting, that is the hand that he uses. The only time we see him using his right hand to shoot, it's when the target is on The List (the times when he puts the mask on). This is symbolic of the demon taking control of him. That injury left a pretty sizeable hole in his hand, to the point that several of his fingers would've been crippled. It would've made it very difficult, even with healing, for him to use a firearm with that hand. And again, it's his LEFT hand, the hand HE normally uses. Essentially, he is so determined to reject the demon, that he is willing to permanently impair his ability to fight, rather than allow the demon to take control of him. Thus, purging the demon from his body (and why it tried to take refuge in the gun, so that it still had a tether to the mortal world).

Phoenix Mackenzie

Reminder?

LikeCat

So I hope you see this Elijah, I have not watched the actual game at the table... yet: So moving forward (since you usually mention that you hope they rolled high on stuff), the crew didn't change much for Season 2, maybe a few minor things here and there, but for Season 3 they (from what I heard) changed a LOT, especially the second half. Basically mostly everything is only at the show. (For Season 1 it was a 1 to 1 to the original game)

LikeCat

I STILL can't handle that one. 😭 And I know how it ends (not the campaign - I know nothing about that. - the season(s)) 🤣

Dragon0921

🤫 Careful not to accidentally spoil anything for Eli, even with something a bit vague!

Christopher Malone

my head canon is that she, Vex and Percy are an emotional support throuple after the events at the end of the C1 and nothing you say will change my mind

Christopher Malone

if its the ep I am thinking of... yeah have emotional support Mosco on standby with Hammish back up up cause there is a season 2 ep that hurts A LOT

LikeCat

WARNING: Emotional destruction incoming!

Chet Bliese

Cassandra taking down Delilah just felt right.

LikeCat

That is an understatement by a LONG shot. Also without spoiling stuff I hope you have Mosco there for... an episode in particular. (it took only 30 seconds) If not just try to hang in there for it. Good luck.

Iron117Prime

I was waiting so long to see your reaction to the finale! The battle against Percy's literal inner demon... to the arrival of the dragons at the very end! And I cannot wait for you to react to Season 2! Things are going to get even more crazy, let me tell ya!

BlueEyedRaven

I wish I could watch Mosco's reaction to Elijah's reaction. :D

Dragon0921

I swear it always feels like the wait for VM reactions are the longest. XD 1 down, 2 more (possibly 3 depending on when we get season 4) to go! I'm genuinely shocked you didn't have as big a reaction to Keyleth blushing at Vex. A lot of other reacters immediately jump to the conclusion that Keyleth has a thing for Vex. Though nothing does happen between them, it is fun to point out that - a. Vex, Vax and Keyleth are all bi-sexual b. Marisha Ray confirmed that Keyleth did have a bit of a crush on Vex early on in the campaign (or at the very least found her attractive) c. Laura Bailey is 100% onboard with the Vexleth fan ship. XD lol

Christopher Malone

what they said, but I will say that I like the arc Grog goes through during season 2 better than the campaign only because Travis (Grog's actor) gets his Super Sayan moment

LikeCat

I saw a theory online a while ago about this finale (I try to keep it as vague as I possibly can) - it isn't totally bulletproof, but it has some legitimate things going for it: It is about when Vax saved Keyleth from dyeing, basically it wasn't ,,just" Vax saving her. I mean don't get me wrong he did what he had to do to save her... as in he ,,did what he had to do" to save her.

Christopher Malone

Welcome to the Chroma Conclave Arc Elijah, strap in cause this ride is gonna be bumpy and crazy

Rye-Ah

I can't wait for S2, it's definitely my favourite of the three we have so far and the brutality, angst, and humour are all top notch (and the MUSIC, the score and Scanlan's songs are amazing!)

Sol-Edge

I do highly recommend that you check out the actual groups D&D Vox Machina campaign, there is so much that is not in the show but is integral to the overall story, the emotions portrayed both happy and sad in the actual streams are more raw than in the show, but that's just my opinion, I do still believe it would be good to at least check it out.