Vox machina vestiges3/1/2023 ![]() Realizing that they actually felt things on the inside about innocent people dying, that was their "come to Sarenrae" moment when their lives changed. The point isn't that they can get away with peurile stuff now the point is to see how far they climb from there by the time they save the world twice over. They were really like that in the Pathfinder games according to everything I've read. It shows the kind of jerks they were at this point in their lives, pre-stream and very early on when Scanlan and Grog would disappear every few nights to go to a brothel. In this show the Vox Machina characters are acting as they would if unburdened by player needs. you know how sometimes a new player will join a game, with a deeply suspicious or unpleasant character, and the rest of the group will shrug and pretend this new Rogue or Barbarian isn't someone they'd leave in their dust without a second thought if they'd been an NPC asking to join up? Well, there are a lot of times the players on streaming shows don't have their characters do what they think they'd do because it would take up valuable gaming time or derail the party's plans - it's not fair to the rest of the players. That's not for me, and I'm bothering you all with it because I'm disappointed these working industry professionals aren't. This puerile, performative sensibility is what the producers want this show to be. Live on-camera roleplaying streams can be forgiven bad writing, but this thing is scripted and presumably had a decent amount of script review. Hell, it could probably stand for even more profanity, if the overall sense of it was gritty, adult fantasy fiction instead of kids in their early teens posturing how edgy and 'adult' they are. I'd prefer greater realism and less posturing. IMO, it doesn't work, except to articulate to the viewer that the dialogue writing is somewhat poor and highly stylistic. It's like 'fuck', 'asshole', 'shit', and 'bitch' are the extent of the writer's familiarity with swear-words, and they're tossing them in almost nonsensically to demonstrate that this is gonna be an edgy, adult cartoon. It's not a rough-and-tumble dialect liberally sprinkled with 'fuckin'' as an adjective of emphasis. There's no 'goddammit's or 'fucking shit' or 'fucking hell' or 'motherfucker's or any of a variety of profanity commonly used by real people when they are surprised, disappointed, suddenly injured, etc. But in the first 5-10 minutes of E1, it's a literal 'fuck-fest' in a multiplicity of environments, by a variety of characters, only some of whom are Critical Role PCs. I'd hate for the gaming stereotypes the show seems to be gleefully depicting to embed into mainstream consciousness as 'how you roleplay'.īy the end of the second episode, some of the PCs are distinguishing themselves as being more crass than others and are even broadening their vocabulary somewhat into more creative expletives. I do think (or, at least, hope) that it may have difficulty finding traction outside of the Critical Role fanbase. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm not trying to say that anyone here is wrong for liking it or not having a problem with it. Click to expand.I hesitate to elaborate, because the show's clearly not for me and I saw no mention of edgelord swearing in the 46 posts before mine, so it's clearly my problem. ![]()
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