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Its always seemed obvious to me in the various actual plays i've seen that the jokes keep you around the characters long enough for you to start caring so the emotional stuff then lands, its how CR, TAZ and Dimension 20 at least all work. You start watching and stick around for the laughs and the sillyness, then over time the comedy becomes affection. So yeah of course the early episode are gonna be sillier
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eke out posted:lots of talk in some reviews about just how fast some things move, I wonder if the Briarwoods isn't going to be done by midway and they start the chroma conclave stuff sooner than i thought
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Todays the day kickstartet backers will get to watch the first two eps, i'm pretty excited
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Would one of you backers like to make a Legends of Vox Machina thread? If not, polite request for spoiler tags  I'd normally just avoid the thread to be safe until they're out on Prime, but someone scheduled a chaotic oneshot between now and then.
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Senjuro posted:Not surprising. There's a lot of story to cover, future events to set up, and characters they need to make you care about for just 12 short episodes. We definitely won't get just one season about the Chroma Conclave, but I'll be disappointed if the Taryon arc gets covered in less than a season. That arc was hysterical.
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Episodes 1-2 pretty explicitly set up the Chroma Conclave
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Dexo posted:Episodes 1-2 pretty explicitly set up the Chroma Conclave The curious thing is going to be if they make that a big part of the first season, which frankly I doubt. The Briarwoods are more than enough for a season. I would imagine the first season will end with the fall of Emon.
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DesertIslandHermit posted:I'll be disappointed if the Taryon arc gets covered in less than a season. That arc was hysterical. I'm now very curious how folks first introduced to CR by the animated series would respond to Scanlan's replacement. I feel like the actual play format (and all of their OOC reactions to "little elf girl") bought a lot of goodwill towards a character designed to troll the audience from the jump.
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Well, that was an awful lot of fun. Looking forward to seeing more once the show officially launches.
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Thank you both for using the spoiler code! Anyone want to claim making the Legends thread or should I plan on  ing Thursday instead of the actual things I ought to be doing?
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Just realized I had to RSVP to see the show early and the time's up for it, tragic
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Paracaidas posted:I'm now very curious how folks first introduced to I want to know how they feel about him before and then after he's beaten into crying.
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Jetrauben posted:The curious thing is going to be if they make that a big part of the first season, which frankly I doubt. The Briarwoods are more than enough for a season. I would imagine the first season will end with the fall of Emon. Probably not much, just like they've done, some mentions about dragons on the move in the background And yeah the Fall of Emon is like the perfect stinger to end a season on. Also Lol Tusk Love
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It's going to be interesting to see how the show handles the tone shift into the scarier parts of the Briarwoods arc and of course the Chroma Conclave. Episode 40 is still branded into my mind. Marisha really gave it her all with Keyleth breaking down.
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DesertIslandHermit posted:It's going to be interesting to see how the show handles the tone shift into the scarier parts of the Briarwoods arc and of course the Chroma Conclave. probably pretty good. judging by the first few episodes. It doesn't seem like they have any limits on what they can do.
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JT Jag posted:Just realized I had to RSVP to see the show early and the time's up for it, tragic It’s replaying at 12:30 pst!
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hollylolly posted:It’s replaying at 12:30 pst! To get the code you had to RSVP by a certain date that was sometime last week. It's replaying all day too.
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seaborgium posted:To get the code you had to RSVP by a certain date that was sometime last week. It's replaying all day too. Oh I misread their post, thought they were saying they HAD rsvp-ed and were saying they missed the showing. Yep, that’s a bummer.
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Dexo posted:probably pretty good. judging by the first few episodes. It doesn't seem like they have any limits on what they can do. It's going to be funny to see people going in expecting a vulgar comedy romp only to see some horror and tragedy (which still a vulgar comedy romp). It's the opposite of the impressions of Critical Role, though. People expect a fantasy epic and quickly get a monkey smearing the Dwarf sorcerer in poo poo and a robot named Pussy. The epic comes later. But I expect people to be absolutely confused and turned off by the first episode thinking they were going to get Record of Lodoss War.
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Dexo posted:lmao lol somebody looked her up using the CR wiki not the imdb
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JT Jag posted:Just realized I had to RSVP to see the show early and the time's up for it, tragic FWIW I didn't RSVP and got a code. Maybe check your junk folder just in case?
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yeah in Gmail it showed up in my promotions folder
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Dexo posted:yeah in Gmail it showed up in my promotions folder Same, check your promotions! Search all mail if you have gmail.
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Fauxshiz posted:Same, check your promotions! Search all mail if you have gmail. The code came from voxmachinahelp@littlecinema.net (at least for me since I RSVPed) so maybe check for emails from that address. DesertIslandHermit posted:It's going to be funny to see people going in expecting a vulgar comedy romp only to see some horror and tragedy (which still a vulgar comedy romp). Honestly, I felt they went a little too hard on trying to be "adult". It's not the end of the world, but someone really wanted to make sure that they showed all the gruesome deaths.
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Nemo2342 posted:Honestly, I felt they went a little too hard on trying to be "adult". It's not the end of the world, but someone really wanted to make sure that they showed all the gruesome deaths. yeah I saw more than one review that said the first couple seemed to be a little try-hard in that way
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Honestly, that's both true - jesus, they show a middle-aged woman basically barbecued screaming by lightning onscreen! - and sort of illustrates the sheer degree of convenient abstraction we do in D&D or other fantasy-violence games and stories where our heroes and villains somehow always look stylish and cool and largely un-disfigured during life or death combat, because treating people as actually getting maimed or broken by injury would break the fantasy. Still better than Castlevania, though.
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I think it's less that and more gotta show lots of gore and nudity and say the gently caress word a lot because that's the only way you can know it's a Mature Cartoon For Adults.
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Lotus Aura posted:I think it's less that and more gotta show lots of gore and nudity and say the gently caress word a lot because that's the only way you can know it's a Mature Cartoon For Adults. Oh I don't think it was intentional at all (not that the show is any less gruesome than the game, really), it just got me thinking.
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Jetrauben posted:Honestly, that's both true - jesus, they show a middle-aged woman basically barbecued screaming by lightning onscreen! - and sort of illustrates the sheer degree of convenient abstraction we do in D&D or other fantasy-violence games and stories where our heroes and villains somehow always look stylish and cool and largely un-disfigured during life or death combat, because treating people as actually getting maimed or broken by injury would break the fantasy. Castlevania loved to used gently caress a lot which was a bit jarring for a franchise light on the swearing. At least the vulgarity in the Vox Machina show is derived from the source material. It will be cool as hell to see Kevdak’s death to Grog in animated form, though. DesertIslandHermit fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Jan 25, 2022 |
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Lotus Aura posted:I think it's less that and more gotta show lots of gore and nudity and say the gently caress word a lot because that's the only way you can know it's a Mature Cartoon For Adults. It could also be influenced by the fact that some of the other distributors they approached wanted them to make a kid-friendly show: “There were other potential distributors that we were talking about that were more interested in making it maybe a children’s show, or wanting to go a different direction, or [make it into a] more serious political fantasy, a la Game of Thrones.” Source Hexmage-SA fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Jan 26, 2022 |
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Feel like they've done a good job so far with the first two episodes of the show. The pacing of events in episode 1 felt a little rushed as they tried to get everything needed for the next couple episodes established. But episode two was already going at a much better speed. They could easily have season 01 just be the Briars at this pace and on to the Chroma for season 2 and if they get renewed for 3 or 4 they could do either the build up to and then Vecna across both or just Vecna in 4.
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They just sent another email to all Kickstarter backers, along the lines of “no RSVP? No problem!” with an access code so you can watch the VoD tomorrow.
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DesertIslandHermit posted:Castlevania loved to used gently caress a lot which was a bit jarring for a franchise light on the swearing. At least the vulgarity in the Vox Machina show is derived from the source material. Honestly it's not the vulgarity that gets me; I've watched the game for years so I wasn't shocked or surprised by the swearing or the innuendo. And I expected some amount of the gore; I knew this wasn't going to be the kind of show where the opponents just get knocked out. It was more that several scenes felt a little gratuitous to make sure you knew this wasn't for kiddies. Just off the top of my head: Ok sure Scanlan's loving the inn keeper's daughter (complete with topless shot), but did we have to cut back to him going down on her just to drive it home? Or when the dragon is vaporizing people, we already saw one dude just get shriveled, but then we had to linger on the leader having her skin melted off while she screams. Then little things like seeing the bottom of Scanlans balls when his pants fall down, or how so many people just tended to explode/get launched onto things that conveniently impale them.
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Ultimate Mango posted:Anyone know how the upcoming watch party will work? Based on my experience with every other Twitch watch party, fuckin poorly due to region restrictions 
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Nemo2342 posted:It was more that several scenes felt a little gratuitous to make sure you knew this wasn't for kiddies. Just off the top of my head: Ok sure Scanlan's loving the inn keeper's daughter (complete with topless shot), but did we have to cut back to him going down on her just to drive it home? Or when the dragon is vaporizing people, we already saw one dude just get shriveled, but then we had to linger on the leader having her skin melted off while she screams. Then little things like seeing the bottom of Scanlans balls when his pants fall down, or how so many people just tended to explode/get launched onto things that conveniently impale them. My wife tends not to enjoy graphic depictions of gore so the stuff you flagged were all something to get through rather than enjoyed for her. So I for sure get where you are coming from. Also does anyone remember how old Grog is supposed to be here? He looks akin to a baby faced high school linebacker to me.
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Dameius posted:My wife tends not to enjoy graphic depictions of gore so the stuff you flagged were all something to get through rather than enjoyed for her. So I for sure get where you are coming from. Early twenties. Goliath years are the same as humans
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