I love The Search For Grog because it's a very silly side adventure, but at several points, you are horribly, viscerally reminded that Vax died 24 hours ago and that all of these characters are somewhere between starting to grieve and adrenaline-fueled shock.
@@Direwolf181 god immediately after saying goodbye to tloml and them dying. and then seeing this girl who looks and acts similarly to him and follows the religion that kinda got him taken away in the first place. godddd i would have gone crazy
@@Direwolf181 Marisha said on Talks that Keyleth was in the deny stage of grief. She focused on finding Grog in that moment so she didn't have to deal with it. And she played it so well even though it was about year after the C1 ending.
@@DeathScorpian well, in the next campaign he created a character around the need and was that was all about setting the world aflame to protect liams character
Presented incredibly well, the motions, all of it is just perfect for the end to Gilmore's arc. I love the character, and think Matt played this perfectly.
@@AnimeLover930 Exandria Unlimited checked in on him roughly 20-30ish years later (IIRC). He found another beau, married him, GGG still going strong and has flourished into a franchise.
@@Argennon *SPOILERS FOR C1E114* In the penultimate episode of the first campaign, Sam made the difficult decision to use his 9th-level spell slot to prevent the villain from escaping, when he had been planning to use the slot to try and save Vax with the Wish spell. Edit: The quoted conversation is between Matt and Sam.
What really makes me sad (and a tiny bit angry) is Vax never got to say a proper goodbye to anyone outside of Vox Machina. Would it really have hurt for the RQ to give Vax the rest of the day at least to say goodbye to everyone? Gilmore, Allura, Kima, Kiki's father (I'm sure they could summon him to Vasselheim somehow) and maybe some others? I feel like they got cheated, especially Gilmore given Matt said in the Campaign wrap-up that he was heartbroken.
True. I didn’t get to say goodbye to my mother but that was because I was out of the house when she passed. I sort of had this feeling and needed to escape from everything going on. The ones beside her when she passed were her siblings.
Revanents (sp?) don't really work that way. As soon as your mission is complete, you're done. If anything, The Ravem Queen was very nice letting him say goodbye to VM.
I haven't even started on Campaign 1 yet, and only know bits and pieces and some of the tragic things to come-- but watching this scene still made me cry hard 😭😭😭
Props to Matt Mercer who used one of my favorite musical pieces from World of Warcraft (he uses alot of their music for background ambiance). It really added to the scene.
I have watched this scene multiple times since it went live..... and I tear up EVERY time. That shows what a great story they all told and how connected we got to them.
Gobblestark every time one of these shows up and talks about Vax I start bawling my eyes out. S1 will always be the best when it comes to pulling at the heart strings. Don't get me started on the one shot of the wedding.
Vax when GGG was destroyed: "I Will Garat you with your own organs, get out." Gilmore when he finds about Vax: Keep up the facade, we have a performance.
Oh gawd, I'm still relatively new to Critical Role, but I already know what happens to Vax. (More or less, without having actually watched it unfold, yet. Working my way through the series.) This just came up in my recommended videos, and I had to watch it... I'm seriously crying ugly tears now!! 😭😭😭
I just finished Campaign 2. I came to CR through the Vox Machina Amazon show. I decided to go with Campaign 2 and enjoy Campaign 1 through Amazon. I am glad I did. The depth of emotion in Mighty Nein is incredible. I recommend you start there
The story between Gilmore and Vax is so similar to my story with my straight best friend whom I'm in love with. I showed him many clips of the story and he agrees.
With no sarcasm or shade at all: it's great to love a straight best friend, but there are few things worse than being _in_ love with a straight best friend.
I am so sad about that, I know it happened because vex/Laura fucked up her roll while haggling with him so vax stepped in and went for seduction but to have seen that.....
EXU spoilers I’m so nervous for ep3 and the return of Gilmore under Aabriya. I love her as a DM but Gilmore just lives through Matt and I think I’ll be a little sad seeing someone else play him. Gilmore and Allura were never really NPCs, they were Matt’s PCs in the story.
Better just wait till ep 3. I’m actually excited to see her take on old fabulous Gilmore. Yes it’s going to be strange seeing them not speaking through Matt but we’ll see.
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