5:45 It's the twins, as kids, watching their home burn after a dragon came through. Baby bear next to 'em.

@mrksimka1159

Жыл бұрын

Yeah this was a fat brain fart on their part lol

@Geth-Who

Жыл бұрын

@@mrksimka1159 I mean fair's fair, an intro's a lot to take in in a short amount of time, especially for the second episode of a new show where you're not fully settled into recognising everyone. And we're only seeing the YT cut, fully possible they figured this out in post on PTR.

@Spherrum

Жыл бұрын

@@mrksimka1159 They don't pay that much attention to the show.

@rafaelcalmon2858

Жыл бұрын

@@Spherrum Frankly, if you genuinely think that you didn't pay much attention to the reaction 🤨

@Spherrum

Жыл бұрын

@@rafaelcalmon2858 That didn't make much sense, mate.

Fun fact: David Tennant actually voiced the commander of the army and the dragon

Fun little cameo here. The female soldier at the camp in the start, the one who gets absolutely *wrecked*, is voiced by Felicia Day. She's one of the ones partially responsible for Critical Role existing in the first place. Back when it was just the players having a private home game with each other on their free time, Ashley Johnson (Pike's player) was at a party with Felicia and both being huge nerds the two naturally started talking about D&D. Ashley was telling Felicia about their wacky adventures in Matt's game and Felicia had an idea. She had been looking into getting a D&D livestream going for her KZread channel Geek and Sundry and asked Ashley to pass on her invite to the rest to have them all play D&D live on stream. The group agreed and decided to continue their current campaign as part of the stream rather than start fresh as they were really getting into the events unfolding, and thus Critical Role was born with the first episode picking up mid adventure. Felicia would later appear in a couple of episodes as a guest and got a cameo here as a little nod and thanks to her being the one that gave them their shot. Yeah, Gilmore is a favorite NPC from the campaign, to both the fandom and players alike. His shop here is just *full* of fun easter eggs. Several nods to Campaign 2 characters, the infamous smut book "Tusk Love" that becomes a recurring joke throughout the campaign, and even a real world D&D artifact: the last sandal of Gary Gygax, creator of the game. He used to work as a shoe maker and when he quit, he had only made one sandal of the pair he was working on. Few things are as D&D as the party coming across a locked door and throwing everything they have at it to try and open it, when they could just have the rogue do it instead. Grog's line for the finisher, "I would like to rage!" is actually what his player Travis Willingham says during battles, using his Barbarian Rage ability for bonuses and such. It became such an iconic catchphrase for him that in the other campaigns when some of the others play barbarians, they'd use it too and Travis would get hyped as hell for them. Yeah, those two at the end...they're fun.

@elbruces

Жыл бұрын

Just adding that most people might know Felicia Day from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, MST3K (the return season), and/or the Guild.

@EggBoi_8

10 ай бұрын

So much knowledge of amazing things. Well I know I ready need to catch up on y critical role.

Sovereign Uriel is voiced by Khary Payton (Cyborg from Teen Titans). He also played a guest character in Critical Role's second campaign!

@djcowell91

Жыл бұрын

And don't forget his role on Walking Dead - another King...

@BiggySn1p3r

Жыл бұрын

Also Aqualad in Young Justice and King Ezekiel in The Walking Dead.

@mrksimka1159

Жыл бұрын

Doesn't he voice both aqua lad and Manta in YJ?

@Ake-TL

Жыл бұрын

@@mrksimka1159 Khary Payton kinda voices every third important black character in comic media

@firepuppies4086

Жыл бұрын

@@Ake-TL and the others are usually like, Phil Lamarr, occasionally Kevin Michael Richardson

Since you and Ant were confused the two holding hands in the intro is Vex and Vax the two elves, it's a flashback to when they were younger. Glad y'all are enjoying the show!

@helios566

Жыл бұрын

How dare you forget baby Trinket

@jacobcrumling3656

Жыл бұрын

Just a minor correction, they’re technically half elves, not full blood elves

@Chapel85

Жыл бұрын

The Half elf distinction is important trust us

Another fun fact: In the fight at the end between Vox Machina and Brimscythe (Voiced by David Tennant), you see Scanlan use a spell called ‘Scanlan’s hand’ and Grog saying ‘I would like to rage’. Scanlan’s Hand is a reference to one of, if not the most iconic of Scanlan’s spells in ‘Bigby’s Hand’, which conjures a large Magical hand for him to control. However because of licensing it had to have its name changed. Sam Riegel, Scanlans Voice, was also notorious for singing parodies of songs in the game for his Bardic Abilities, which naturally couldn’t carry over for that same reason. So instead they made him some all new original Lyrics. In Critical Role Campaign 1, Travis (Grog’s actor) had a catchphrase of saying to the Dm (Matt Mercer) “I would like to rage” whenever he activated his Barbarian’s Rage class feature, which became an iconic line, even going on to be what Ashley (Pike’s Actor) says in the Second Campaign when *she* uses her Rage as well! So that was a fun little reference to that longstanding line.

@Ozgarthefighter

Жыл бұрын

Slight point of order, Sam Riegel helped write all of his own songs.

@upsidedownpyramid7617

Жыл бұрын

@@Ozgarthefighter Of course he did, man is a genius

@upsidedownpyramid7617

Жыл бұрын

I love everything about what CR is doing with this series. As Matt Mercer (DM) and his Wife Marisha Ray (Keyleth) once said in an interview, this is the type of show everyone can enjoy without knowing anything about DND or Critical Role, but for longtime fans (like myself) it is jam packed with nods to the campaigns, the characters, and the people themselves.

I love that right away in this episode they introduce Vox Machina's arch enemy. Doors. Ordinary doors.

@SilverScribe85

10 ай бұрын

Which are almost as bad as Po's greatest enemy...stairs

1:34 fun fact about Reinhart: his voice actor, Darin de Paul used to play DnD with Matt Mercer's (the DM of Critical Role) mother something like 30-35 years back. And then waay later when he became a voice actor he met Matt through work and they realized the connection. And then he guested on Critical Role towards the end of their first campaign, playing the same character he did all those years ago. And now he's on The Legend Of Vox Machina. He's the announcer in episode 3 and also another character called Stonefell later in the season.

@theanyktos

Жыл бұрын

@@thefallencat2080 uhm... yeah?

@thefallencat2080

Жыл бұрын

​@@theanyktos Didn't read till the end, missunderstood the first part, forget everything I said lmao

Lady Briarwood is voiced by Grey Griffin who also does Azula in Avata Sylas Briarwood is voiced by our DM Matt Mercer

Fun fact: if you look closely as Vexs dragon sense goes off both two people are making eye contact with her every time. They really pulled a Snape on us

So there's a linguistic play on words in the advice from Gilmore. "Gorge" is the French word for "neck." So the book did tell them exactly where to attack

You might recognise the voice of "mommy" Delilah Briarwood at the end. As Azula from Avatar, the last airbender.

It's amusing to me that they can barely understand Tennant's relatively mild Scottish accent.

Ahhh Alicia, may your thirst for hot animated characters never cease

27:14 god I love that he goes out of character (kind of) and says as if he's talking to the dm "I would like to activate my berserker's rage" Fucking Gold

@jimwatson1013

Жыл бұрын

That is Grogs/Travis most fave thing during the Critical Role games, the huge 6 to 7ft burly guy at the table being asked "What would you like to do you?" and Travis eyes widen with excitement as he says what he want Grog to do in the game "I WOULD LIKE TO RAAAAAAAGGGGGEEEEEEE!!!!!" as everyone also looks with glee with the announcment.

@Narokh

Жыл бұрын

@@jimwatson1013 And in Campaign two, when the barbarian from that group adapts the catchphrase, everytime she utters it Travis looks like a proud parent.

@gilessaint-loup2426

Жыл бұрын

@@Narokh Kinda fitting since Pike and Grog were good friends that their players would take some each of their mannerisms.

It’s too bad Ant’s audio is getting muted along with the show when you mute for copyright. I wouldn’t mind hearing his half of the conversation too ya know?

The dragon is voiced by David Tennent, best known for playing the 10th Doctor Who.

22:41 first rule of D&D, all Dragons are shapeshifters

@GAdmThrawn

Жыл бұрын

Only metallic dragons are shapeshifters in DnD 5e.

The music during that final moments of the dragon battle is straight fire

I've seen a couple channels that go "daddy" when both Omni-man and Sylas are introduced, but first time we start of with "mommy" instead! xD

31:20 😂something tells me you're gonna enjoy the next episode. One scene in particular.

Fun fact: Khary Payton voices King Tal'Dorei, Dominic Monaghan voices Archibald (future character), and David Tennent voices General Krieg.

Your predictions on this show and invincible are outstanding

Mercer: Roll me a Wisdom save. Alicia: I refuse.

Dude, seeing you guys fall in love with the characters gives me major serotonin boosts. I love when people come to this series and instantly relate, that's what those characters are so good for. Also, Delilah, mommy af. You're objectively right and no other opinion matters on that subject.

The two holding hands were the siblings, Vex and Vax.

Fun Fact: The person who voices Lady Briarwood is the same person who voices Azula

Yeah, pretty sure when Lord and Lady Briarwood were first introduced in the campaign, the fans collectively went: “Oh, no… they’re hot.”

For your "research", his full name is Shaun Gilmore

A 'horde' is a bunch of undead. a dragon's HOARD is something else.

Poor Brimscythe, got murdered in his own home and the perps got rewarded for it.

the ones in the intro holding hands are Vax and Vex as kids. they are twins.

Alicia already became fodder to the Briarwoods just like the girls in Dio's den.

The dragon was Dr. Who. David Tennant.

Don't know if you guys read your youtube comments, but the voice of Delilah Briarwood is also the voice of Fire Princess Azula from Avatar. The voice of Sylas is Matthew Mercer, who was the DM of the players in Critical Role, he also voices characters drawn in his likeness in each episode. He's the one that got pissed on by Scanlan in the first episode! And General Krieg, Brimscythe, the Iron Storm, was voiced by David Tennant!

When they struggled to open the door, it's a meme that they always rolled like shit with doors.

13:34 welllll you'd be *pleasantly* surprised by the internet's opinion on those two ;)

3:00 he said camp, you can clearly hear the P sound at the end. This is a bit, right?

that I would like to rage! line is an iconic line

Grey Griffin/DeLeisle has now been shoe horned into voice villainous characters (other than Daphne in Scooby Doo) she voice Vickie on Fairly Odd Parents and everyone's favorite toxic princess Azula on Avatar: The Last AIrbender.

4:40 Ant is muted? Edit : Seems he's muted when the show is muted

@Aliciaxlife

Жыл бұрын

Yeah this was recorded back before I knew how to do split track audio properly oops! In the later episodes it splits though ^^

13:24 " I want them (Vax and Gilmore) to be together so badly!" Me: .........

Percy Del Rolo iii: "Performance issues: "16:18"."

5:45 the kids holding hands are the elf twins when they were young watching their home burn.

Grog, how do you want to do this?

Fun fact. Lady Briarwood is voiced by Azula

Suprised ant didnt immediately recognize the general coming from the scottish rant from last ep 😂

Um, is no one going to comment about Ant's mic going mute randomly many times? What happened, did he sing a copyright song? Said words too bad for youtube? 🤔

@Aliciaxlife

Жыл бұрын

His audio was on the same track back in the day when I made this recording ^^ I only later on learned how to separate the channels

Damn yall really struggled with THAT accent? Bro's as clear as morning rain, it can get 200x heavier

Ye gods I can't wait to see you react to [SPOILER] and [REDACTED]

@Ozgarthefighter

Жыл бұрын

Le Gasp! But what about [SPOILER] and [REDACTED] when [CONFIDENTIAL]?

@ninjack11

Жыл бұрын

man [REDACTED] was my fav [SPOILER] of the campaign

@mrksimka1159

Жыл бұрын

Fools your spoilers been forfeit.

Bloodlust does have that effect.

The audacity of the show to draw the Scottish accent man like Sean Connery XD

31:50 damn he left you high and dry!

The Matt Mercer Cameo, Episode 2: The guy pushing the cart of ale (14:00)

I'm pretty sure I heard Sovereign Uriel's voice actor in Invincible. Maybe Titan? No... I think he's the guy who lost his powers and then got it back, the one Rex calls "old man". The deadest giveaway for me is Vax. Whenever he speaks I can only see a floating, white book. ^^

@daviddeis6613

6 ай бұрын

Khary Payton voices a lot of characters. You may know him best as Cyborg from Teen Titans or as King Ezekiel in The Walking Dead

Pretty sure "Krieg" is german for lightning, great disguise, buddy.

@barbaros99

Жыл бұрын

"War". "Blitz" is lighting. Though "General War" isn't a great cover name either.

the briarwoods. horrible people, great couple

And from here on out it only gets Better.

Easy girl easy XD your drooling all over them hahahaha This is fsntastic cant wait to see more reviews

I love Vox Machina

Gold conducts electricity, hence why hiding in it, or touching it while he's throwing lightning around are bad ideas

I'm not sure why, but the playlist says "7 videos unavailable" for your Vox Machina playlist, did they get flagged for some reason? Hoping they can be reuploaded? Enjoying your reactions to this.

@Aliciaxlife

Жыл бұрын

OH WOW! You guys can see that? Naw it’s because I have the next 7 episodes preloaded and scheduled to upload everyday until season 1 is done

@InkyPetrel

Жыл бұрын

@@Aliciaxlife OH neat! I didn't know it did that, apologies, I thought maybe you'd had issues with copyright etc. I will look forward to the daily reaction :)

Alicia is like: Percy and Vax! I ship it! :P

Kind of bugs me that they still haven't fixed the spelling mistake in the subtitles: "horde" should be "hoard".

@havenomouth

Жыл бұрын

Keep it

Hey while back I suggestion the three Netflix shows. BASTARD!!, Arcane, and Devilman Crybaby. I have one more to suggestion and KZread channel you'll love. I need reply because I don't want to bother you with your busy watching schedule also love you enjoy Vox machina. New season coming out this month. 😆😁

i would recommend not having subtitles on because it may give stuff away that you shouldn't know yet especially in ep 3 and so on just a warning.

you won't see me say this often, but the spanish dub is awesome.

Jiggle physics. That's all I have to say.

It is ten days till season 2

nice

"EXIT STRATAGY"!? HOW ABOUT GRAB WHAT EVER THE F()

Are you still watching Attack on Titan? Or are you planning to continue it later on?

This dragon was a teenager by dragon standars and the weakest of the Chromatic council (The grup of dragons hellbent on conquering the kingdom) let that sink in

@pandemoniumeris

Жыл бұрын

Spoilers.

Grog is the bestest boy

Bruh the official subtitles writing “horde” instead of “hoard” come on

It's weird, I generally find Americans harder to understand than Scottish people. It depends on how thick either accent is though.

Someone’s down bad

damn just gott called cringe by Alicia lol was just appreciating the opening, 'damn thats a cool transition' i said outloud to myself, Alicia 'cringe' 😆

A scene for... plot

Wow

Hmmm? What triggers your blush and heart eyes? Do you need to press a button?

@VegetaLF7

Жыл бұрын

That's something I've often wondered about these VTubers. How does the system work, is it recognizing facial reactions, is it triggering a key binding that starts the effect, is it black magic?

She's discovered Gilmore people, dear God help her if she actually looks up rule 34

Just wondering if you’re gonna keep reacting to your eternity

@Aliciaxlife

Жыл бұрын

Naw I stopped it complete due to lack of interest. But I am going to be watching it on my own time with one of my friends ^^

I love that the age ratings are determined per episode. Like, 16/17-year-olds? You can watch episode 2, but you shouldn't watch episode 1.

You should Watch Goblin Slayer

Making fun of David tenets Scottish accent

Lady kima do be hot af

Omg, quit it with the accent thing already 🤣🤣🤣, I'm not even a native English speaker and I understood everything he said 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Aliciaxlife

4 ай бұрын

Nope.

@mukhtaralbahlani5273

4 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@mukhtaralbahlani5273

4 ай бұрын

​@@Aliciaxlife in that case you need to watch ducktales 2017 you'll understand his accent eventually 🤣🤣🤣. I really like the Scottish accent and honestly prefer it to the went county accent.

I've never understood this thing about lewd handholding. It just seems to be so pathetic to consider holding someone's hand as a perverted thing.

@kenle2

6 ай бұрын

It's sarcasm that's used to cover up the fact that people have become so jaded about sex that they have to compensate by making jokes about the most basic level of human intimacy. 😢

@hunterxkiller8732

6 ай бұрын

@@kenle2 Then those people are pathetic and need to get their heads examined.

Halo Legends please

500 likes. You insult the Critical Roll community.

tbh an ilusion would not have worked, dragons have true sight, but whatever, its cool.

@unicyclist97

Жыл бұрын

Young Blue Dragons don't. And their blindsight is only 30ft.

@RDehuvyne

Жыл бұрын

Just looked at their stat blocks and even ancient dragons don't get truesight in 5e. They just have dark vision and blindsight. They do however have insanely high perception checks so theoretically should easily be able to see through the illusion if they spent an action to do a perception check.

@josephcroeniangamer3727

Жыл бұрын

@@RDehuvyne wait really? thats silly, i mean, fair, but they should imo

@RDehuvyne

Жыл бұрын

@josephcroeniangamer3727 yeah, was honestly shocked but can't find any mention of truesight on their stat cards. I'm sure they had it in previous editions but not in 5e it seems. They have a passive perception of 27 however

@unicyclist97

Жыл бұрын

@@RDehuvyne piercing illusions is an active investigation check, usually.

the fact yall still acting like his accents that thick is sooo wild, its barely thick. racist ill say it..

@jonmoore873

Жыл бұрын

It’s about the least broad Scottish accent ever.

@HexxKnight

Жыл бұрын

@@jonmoore873 still maybe not make that comment it just aint it. they wouldnt like people sayin that shit to them when u can fully understand them. and they just be like "whaaa i dont understand this why i dont like scotish" anyways....

@jonmoore873

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, 100% agree and can tell you as a Scottish guy, it did spoil an otherwise enjoyable watch.

@HexxKnight

Жыл бұрын

@@jonmoore873 ya true

I rewatched this show alot of times that it is kinda boring

@zacctheracc5804

Жыл бұрын

Cool

@Ozgarthefighter

Жыл бұрын

Maybe don't do that next time?

@mrksimka1159

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a self control problem.

@jaxenplaysrealyt9150

Жыл бұрын

Yall acting like im a hatter

@mrksimka1159

Жыл бұрын

Hater? No. Fool? Yes. No offense it's a truth. And if you don't like responses shouldn't have said something stupid in the first place.

It's amusing to me that they can barely understand Tennant's relatively mild Scottish accent.