I needed to make this video for my heart so I hope you enjoy it too. (Ashley Reads it faster then Sam does so I had to inter cut other bits.) Critical Role and Geek & Sundry own everything critrole.com / geekandsundry
Have you watched Quyen's and Sam's Behind the Sheets interviews? Pretty much this is exactly how he treats his wife. Seriously their love story sounds like a freaking Hollywood movie.
Holy shit, this makes so much sense. I just got done watching the Between the Sheets episode with Sam's wife, and their stories are almost the exact same. Sam was a popular womanizer in an a capella group in college and befriended a very traditionally-raised Catholic girl who was afraid of losing him as a friend. He knew he wanted to be with her forever, but had to make sacrifices and change his attitude. That makes it even sweeter, as I can totally see Sam writing this exact letter to his wife.
@Malachi Drenthe @Cujoson It was talked about in both Sam and Quyen’s episodes of BTS. You’d have to listen to both of the segments of their eps where Brian asks them how they first met each other to get the full story
@Jonathan Jameson Untrue. Ask any band geek. The music dorks get laid more than any other kids in school. (So many long trips and dark practice rooms.)
I love Sam breaking in the middle of his own letter to say "Jesus, this is good!" 🤣 But seriously, it is. So much work went into this RP and I'm glad it gets to be appreciated.
After the letter you can really see Pike change. She actually did fall for him after reading. And then, he shows her a cold shoulder. She finds herself in the friendzone of her own creation. Cant remember the episode but at one time she really tries to get closer to him and fails and you can see her being totally confused by it. Its so cute
Ya, I'm around that area now. He thought she would never have to feelings because she said she loved someone else. So he gave the ring to his daughter and just continued to try to make pike his 'daughters mother' rather than his lover. He didn't want to push her too hard...... that's what I have so far in my mind
Thank you so much...as soon as I saw him read it I just wanted to see her read it again..this is the first CR video I made..and it was just because i wanted to see it :) glad you enjoyed it :)
@@FrostyTheSnowPickle dunno, I've caught up on campaign 2, only started watching campaign one and so far I get the feeling that Fjord is so much incredibly boring compared to Grog.
@@Steelrat1994 Fjord isn’t as exciting sure... but that’s because he doesn’t constantly do stupid stuff. Fjord is a fucking amazing character. Just because he doesn’t have such obvious struggles as Grog did (rage suppression, fighting stupid urges) doesn’t mean he isn’t a well developed, well roleplay ed character. Fjord’s struggles are a lot more low key and specific than most of the Campaign 1 and Campaign 2 character struggles, so not everyone gets it-and some assume he’s sort of boring and shallow. Fjord’s struggles are with his identity as a man and what that means. You’ll notice that Fjord was for a long time in the campaign looking for male role models, even though he was an adult by then. He still longed for a father figure to build his manhood around. What he found instead (and this is the truly amazing part) were feminine role models: Jester, Beau, the Wild Mother. The conversation with the minotaur smith in the drow city is more important than a lot of people give it credit for. Fjord was at first intimidated by this giant minotaur who seemed to embody the idea of masculinity (yeah it’s just an idea), and so he tried playing up his own masculinity in a toxic way, being an asshole. He then went to talk to the minotaur and apologize, learning an important lesson. He didn’t have to shape his identity around trying to be someone like that minotaur (i’m sorry i’ve forgotten his name). He could be whoever he wanted. In doing this, he embraced the parts of his nature that are generally perceived as more feminine (again, there’s not really such a thing as a truly feminine trait-it’s a social construct and any traits viewed as feminine are the result of the assumption of a gendered identity within societal structures). So yeah, it’s a more eclectic character than a lot of people will understand and sympathize with. It starts by excluding half the population via its core question or struggle, and continues to exclude members of the remaining half of the population by being shockingly introspective.
@@gusg6197 ye, I'm not saying Fjord is a bad character. He would make a fine character for a serious book. Grog would be an utter disaster as a main character of a serious book. I just mean that as a dnd character he doesn't show much. He mostly hangs back observing the stuff others do. For me, being a problem solver and an instigator kind of player, he just doesn't do much in game.
@@Steelrat1994 Yeah, agreed. I come from C2 where Fjord is one of my least favorite characters and it was striking how much more fun and likable Grog is as a character. Meanwhile with Sam Riegel, every time I watch him it's like "OMG I LOVE YOU, *YOU* ARE MY FAVORITE CHARACTER EVER" and then I see him with a different character and feel the exact same way lmao
I love that little moment where we all remember that this originally was a Pathfinder campaign. For those who don’t know, Sarenrae is a goddess in Pathfinder and this was apparently a pathfinder campaign pre-stream.
Yeah, Matt talked about it being Pathfinder in one of the first couple of episodes. I think it was the very first. He was basically saying they had to kind of figure some stuff out on account of the change.
@@SPACEHARICE I dunno man. We had a bard through most of the way in rise of the runelords who was amazing at buffing. Sadly we lost him to a plane shift prismatic spray. Same thing happened to my own character not but 2 sessions later.
@@theredeft5319 PF bards are alright at buffing but 5e bards, for the price of being *somewhat* worse on buffing, gain potential combat/crowd control abilities that rival clerics.
I’m sure that explains the gunslinger, I wonder if there is some knife thrower rogue subclass to explain why vax has such a penchant for throwing his daggers
If you do decide to watch, may i suggest watching on 1.5x speed, then when combat breaks out bumping to 2x speed. You will miss nothing and cut dozens of hours off of the time you need to watch/listen.
This is Scanlan. To the outside he is flamboyant and flashy. But when it counts he doesn't joke around (much). He is there for his family, both in Kaeli and Vox Machina. What a gnome.
@@Phiro00 yeah that was... an episode. I mean I can understand both sides, and lets be clear both sides have their fair share of faults and failures. But Scanlan never said that he never return. (also I liked the way the argument was acted out and that immediately afterwards, there were hugs)
Kudos for lining up the narration with Ashley's reading of (and reaction to) the letter. That look between Sam and Ashley at 2:52 means so much more knowing the context behind it
Scanlan truly is the class clown, the guy who fills his life with fun, adventure, laughter, debauchery, and attention because these ephemeral pleasures are the only things that, even if for a few brief moments, distract him from how empty he really feels. Seeing how meeting Kaylie made him realize all this, and force him to confront himself and see himself honestly and desire to change, Matthew Mercer is a fucking genius!
I honestly haven't seen all that much of campaign 1. I was here when it began but I just suck at watching things, but honestly when I think about it- so much of the best things that ever came form campaign 1 was through Scanlan. I actually kinda hated him as a character but the more real moments I've seen where he isn't just the token horny bard are just incredible. Sam has such a way of making you despise his character while also loving every bit of them. That's talent
I was having a moment watching these two, until my eardrums were assaulted by food takeout ads, forgetting I had turned the volume up to hear the letter. XD
Originally Pike had black hair, but in the first official artworks she was (accidently) drawn as blonde. Because of that they retroactively made it a side effect of her first resurrection pre stream
@@wuftchan8299 Clerics get those from their subclasses. And surely both Clerics and Paladins have vows so what does it matter. And she did fall for him, she tried to get close but he pushed her away
Basically. She's dead in the ground. And Scanlan's words are less saying "Kaylie needs to have a mother she never had one" and more "I confused what I was feeling for Pike as "I want to make babies with you" instead of "I want you to take care of Kaylie in my place"" It's meant with no ill will to sybil.
Thought she was dead...Idk if she said that during that first night but I at least figured considering Scanlan never met her during the whole meat man thing and the epilogue about going to school and such.
even if she was still alive i think it's meant more in a "be the good role model for my daughter that i never could" sort of way. kaylie's an adult after all
@EsquilaxM she's alive, in the epilogue he sent money to Sybil her mother. I think for Scanlan he wanted Pike to take her because of the path she was heading, Kaeli left her home village and mother and its never mentioned that she went back to see her. He doesn't know her mother outside of their encounter and I think he wanted Pike to be the influence on her that he knew he couldn't be and knowing Pike would watch over her would mean he could die with less regret because the two people he loves would be there for each other
