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As much as I will miss the Twins I love the connection Sam's rogue has with Liam's wizard, their deep real life friendship comes out in the new campaign.
He always seems so different when he's not around the rest of the cast. Like a chill or solemn energy. I wonder if that's why he clicked so well with Sam, cuz he's such a goofball.
Liam is such a sullen and wise man. Hearing him in his one-shot and this behind the scenes stuff just tightens my chest every time. I think i am platonically in love
To say one of my favorite quotes "This song is ending, but the story never ends" This might be the end of VM but I believe CR will continue on as long as Matt and the rest of the crew want to.
I really don't know how Liam manages to make me cry whenever he puts words on emotional things that we can't find words for. It just... oh, Liam. Thank you, Liam. Thank you, Vax. We love you.
This guy always has his fingers around my heartstrings and he pulls at them as hard as he pleases. Every single time. That's why I love him and let him get away with it ;') What I'd give to meet in real life a guy who's just as in tuned with his feelings and as shamelessly open about it as Vax...
In all honesty I'm glad it's ending. It's ending on a high note, most things don't end with you wanting more, they end with you wishing it would have ended sooner. So as I said it's ending making me want more, and that makes me happy.
I don't care what anyone says, Vax's feels were one of the best parts of the campaign to me :D And the twins served as an emotional anchor. I wouldn't stick around in the beginning if it wasn't for them. Thank you, Liam and Laura! (And yes, I for a while did think they were siblings irl because their names start with the same letter. I know it's dumb.)
It is no different than coming to the end of a book where you really enjoyed the characters. You don't want to say goodbye to them and you still want to know what happens next to them even if the majority of the loose ends were tied off.
I agree, to a point; because it's only ALMOST like that. This story, you watched as it was created. It wasn't hatched in a writer's mind months and years ago, picked at until perfection, run through the editorial gamut and published before it found its way to you. You watched it emerge, like you were truly a part of it - just like these guys. I think that's one of the reasons we're all so invested at this point.
Yep I have the exact same feeling, same heart-sinking feeling that I get when finishing an amazing novel. I want to know what they get up to next, how they live out their lives. I feel like the characters become a part of you so instrinsically that it's the same sort of feeling as being seperated of close friends or family
I mean it feels like that for the audience. But as an actor I've gotta tell you it's a very different feeling for them. A character in a book is a friend you were on a journey with. As an actor, a character is someone you understand better than the author who wrote them almost. You get to step into those shoes and BE them. So to say goodbye to a character you got to be and love and understand and grow alongside, its gotta be emotional
Late to the party but wow, what a touching interview. Liam, thank you from the bottom of my heart for introducing me to DND though your streams. What you expressed here, I feel very similarly. I myself just wrapped all of campaign 1 and what a ride that was.
Critical Role has been the highlight of my life these last few years, and for that I thank all of you (Matt, Liam, Marisha, Laura, Taliesin, Sam, Travis, Orion, and Ashley) for allowing us to go on this amazing journey, and letting us be witness to the world & story you all have crafted. Thank you. I'm sad to see VM end, but am just as excited to see the next band of misfits, and see how they turn out 20 years later in Exandria. :)
And as CR come to an end I've finally caught up to the live show. I'll be able to watch the last episode of this campaign of CR LIVE. Excited and sad at the same time
I'm only up to ep. 25 right now. Kinda sad I won't, but I can watch the new campaign live. I'll listen to Vox Machina podcasts while exercising or at work in-between
Watching this after episode 115 gives a bit of a different feeling. Now that the tale of Vox Machina has come to a close, it's almost painful to think how far everything has come, and the closing of the last session leaving a bittersweet taste. Raise your glass in honor of the fallen, of those who fought to keep hope alive, and of those who we look forward to seeing again.
Man you can really tell that D&D for Liam has been a huge positive in his life, I'm so glad he was able to pull such valuable insights out of the game and apply them to his own life.
Liam has been in so many shows that i watched as a kid and now watch as an adult. To see someone that impacted my life so much act and talk like this helps me realize how amazing, honest, and smart he really is. This goes for the entire cast, but ill be damned if they arent my mentors in some shape or form. I love this show, and i adore everyone involved
It's amazing how emotionally invested these guys get in their characters. And it's amazing that I totally relate. I haven't been playing long, but I'm great friends with Belemuth, my first character, and he's still kicking along with me, for now. I get upset when their characters are in trouble, or leave, or die (Scanlan?!).
I agree. Personally, I want Vax to have his Keyleth and his future and his happy ending with the rest; but the way it looks now packs SUCH an emotional narrative punch. It is the perfect "we won, but we lost".
Jet Black sounds like you're not aware of the ally-slaughter the episode before was. How many of their old friends did they find dead, only because the lost last time?
So sad already considering what happened in the last episode - going to be an emotional one on Thursday. So tempted to watch it live and take it all in as it happens.
Thank you and the rest of the critical role crew for sharing your story and home game with the world. You are all so amazing. I am sad to see this story end, but I know the next one will be even better!
0:58 I was genuinely thinking about this during the last episode or two. I kept thinking, "How in the world are they going to adjust to playing separate characters, who are not twins or even siblings at all?" It just felt wrong somehow. I'm glad I wasn't the only one feeling that way.
when the show ended I wanted to plead for more, I didn't want to say goodbye to these characters. And it is the best thing ever. it feels difficult to have to say goodbye to these characters and start over, from scratch. It's difficult and it's challenging, bit they understand that a story needs an ending, and new and different stories need to be told. Thank you for that! thank you for making me want more, and thank you for not giving it. thank you for trusting this community , that we will stick with these nerdy ass voice actors to see what they will cook up next. thank you for everything!
I learned a lot from Vax too. And it is cool (and I've had similar experiences with role-playing, too), how playing pretend and "putting on a character" can impact us and kind of help us to put on character traits that we might not have learnt otherwise. I think C.S. Lewis wrote somewhere about how it's good for children to play pretend at being "heroes", because some of that kind of "play" kind of rubs off on us. What we "put on" in "play", maybe we can "put on" in real life as well.
The closing to this should have been "Thank you Liam O'Brien for bringing this group of incredible people together for your birthday and setting this whole thing in motion" because it wouldn't have happened except for that one birthday wish
Clicked on this video not realising i had already watched ages ago. RU-vid remembered where the video last was and started playing from there... First thing I hear: "We do it with each other for 3-5 hours every week" Couldn't stop laughing. It's amazing how perfectly normal sentences can take on entirely different meanings when heard completely out of context xD
