THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA 3x11 REACTION | Deadly Echoes | Critical Role

[@jasonmarbach]

A round of applause for Kelly Hu. What an incredible villain she gave us

[@shaskusmas]

Hell yeah, she was amazing!

[@seansilence2697]

For real. I almost didn't want Ripley to die just because of Kelly Hu....almost

[@dragoninthewest1]

​@seansilence2697 they'll find a way to bring her back. Probably through a flashback

[@laurahart1337]

She knocked it out of the park!

[@Thurrak]

Hell yea! She is so amazing! What a masterful performance.

[@AAAndrew]

For Keyleth’s father to talk about “the moments together are worth the time apart” when he hasn’t seen his wife in years.

[@LydiaTereK]

😭

[@ZebraMantisShrimp]

Vax’s reaction to Keyleth appearing in the sand was hilarious 😂

[@rogue7723]

That’d be my response. 😱

[@piercewise1]

14:28 the combat blocking for Ripley's "teleport spam" vs Vax's super speed was INSANE to watch. Kudos to whomever storyboarded that amazing sequence.

[@Sophie-mv7bd]

Ripley's death was a thing of pure beauty

[@FluffyJackie]

Agree, while I don't sorrow her death, I felt kinda sorry or pity for her when she died.

[@ivansleepy4722]

I literally called out "Oh my God, FINALLY" when she died. The character isn't badly written. She's not annoying. She's not an unnecessary character to add in any way. She's written well, and that's exactly why we hate her. She's written to be hated.

[@Sophie-mv7bd]

@@ivansleepy4722 exactly

[@AmazingChi]

In a way, I'm kind of glad she died differently than she did in the campaign. That version was almost too iconic to be repeated.

[@drewziesmer1178]

@@AmazingChiyeah it wouldn’t of made sense in show. They had each person from the team do something to her in the campaign

[@Absintheskiss]

Vex using Percy's arrow to kill Ripley is pure poetry.

[@nutelasaur9453]

i literally screamed "POETIC JUSTICE" when it happened.

[@maxjpind]

I loved the Titanic Reference 😂 “At least there’s room for both of us on here”😂😂😂

[@selenarodgers5667]

Right ☝️🤣

[@rygornspectre7142]

3:52 no ... he can freely take it off now since he's embraced his role as the matron's champion. Remember him sleeping with Keyleth?

[@likecat7886]

And the bathtub scene with Percy.😂

[@Omn1Media]

Oh duh right?! BRAIN FART!

[@GameknightJ14]

@@Omn1MediaIn fairness, it might have to be something he or the Matron wills, so it can’t be taken by force.

[@likecat7886]

@@GameknightJ14 Possibly because when he tried to take it off it just wouldn't came off, might be that back then he saw it as a ,,burden" and after he learned/accepted his role as her Champion, it wasn't a necessity anymore.

[@cartoonishidealism582]

THE WARD STAYS ON DURING SEX GOTTA MAKE ROOM FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT

[@KBRoller]

To paraphrase Jay Schmidt of Preview'd: if you're wondering whether shit rocks, dracolich rocks. Also, Keyleth is literally rocks 😂

[@elinahamalainen5867]

Was that "at least there's room for both of us on this thing" at 16:14 a Titanic reference? 🤣

[@gameassassin4654]

yes it was

[@transyuri4534]

Lol.

[@ghurcbghurcb]

Ripley's dеаth was SO GREAT in the campaign. The show does it justice, but the two versions are so different. You have to check it out at some point. The episode is 68 "Cloak and Dagger". 4:19:08 for the build-up, 4:22:51 for her final moments. For context, in the campaign this happens moments after Percy is kiIIed.

[@DeathKitta]

I really wished to see it in animation😭

[@NightSterling]

19:37 the Raishan flavored meteor swarm was beautiful

[@DelightfullyMADD]

I mean... I wouldn't really call it a "swarm" per se... but yeah still pretty damn cool

[@megaairsoft15]

@@DelightfullyMADD4 meteors in the shot so it fits with the DND 9th lvl spell Meteor Swarm.

[@darkguardian50]

@@DelightfullyMADD it was a canonical meteor swarm in all but name, it even follows the description from the PHB.

[@andrewbernal9957]

It’s unfortunate that we didn’t get to see Percy blocking the meteor swarm with Cabal’s Ruin like in the campaign but I’m glad we got the metro swarm at all.

[@KaraOni13]

season 3 soundtrack is OUT, we can now put Mercer’s Ruby song, Kaylie’s Song, AND Chateau Shorthalt on our playlists 🥰🥰

[@mathybrain8]

There's an old Japanese proverb: The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.

[@aro_ger_]

*Fun Fact about Anna Ripley:* Matthew Mercer stated during the Fireside Chat that the main inspiration for Ripley was N*zi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, as both served militaristic and totalitarian governments.[citation needed] Goebbels was also one of the chief architects of N*zi Germany's Final Solution and the Hol*caust.

[@ArturoRivera2004]

damn talk about dark inspiration

[@kjj26k]

​@@ArturoRivera2004 If you want to do villainy proper, real life has inumerous immaculate examples.

[@christopherjunkins]

LOL I love the reference to titanic lol.

[@willha11]

I like how Vex used Percy's arrowhead he created for her.

[@ElsePerson]

Is no one gonna talk about how the cloak vestige just sank to the bottom of the ocean and no one bothered to take it off of Ripley??

[@fahrenheitmusic5688]

It came off Ripley, attached to deck by Vax's dagger. But he can summon those back, so guess it might find its way out of the ocean somehow. Poor Cabal's Ruin.

[@AmazingChi]

It's a cloak, it'd probably float. Easily could have been picked up and put aside for the time being.

[@andrewbernal9957]

I really hope we get to see Cabal’s Ruin come back, especially since Percy didn’t get to take it from Ridley himself.

[@sombrashadow0013]

In the campaign, Ripley's death is way, way, more brutal. When she died, the entirety of Vox Machina was there, and they quite literally ripped her apart. The only thing that was kept in the series was Vex shooting the arrow her mouth.

[@mgormley7530]

Vox Machina, how do you want to do this? "this isn't us, this is Percy killing you" absolutely brutal

[@ZukoHalliwell]

I wish we could've seen that here. I imagine it was like when the Guardians of the Galaxy attacked the High Evolutionary.

[@kjj26k]

I was so looking forward to that for nearly 2 years now, but the twins taking on an entire pirate ship helmed by Ripley was one of the best fight scenes of the entire series.

[@sombrashadow0013]

@kjj26k Oh, absolutely! I was still very satisfied with what happened in the episode

[@theunfamousone2818]

ripleys death was so much more brutal in the streams, everyone in VM got a pound of flesh

[@ca7642]

Anyone else realise that the arrow that Vex fires after rising from the water is the Special One Percy made for her.

[@shaskusmas]

Man, that dude getting shot to hell was hilarious!

[@SilverScribe85]

Some people faulted this season for how much it deviated away from the original campaign. As for me, there are TWO reasons while the crew's decision to supposedly do this actually works. 1. With hundreds upon hundreds of hours worth of story, there was only so much that the CR crew could adapt into animated format. Therefore, cutting a few things out or shortening some events doesn't really surprise me. 2. With animation, they could bring to life certain character moments that I imagine even the team couldn't quite put into proper words while at the table. All the stuff happening with Keyleth in this episode is an example of what I mean

[@juicejooos]

Okay, but with all that little time, they could have just killed Ripley back at Glintshore since her surviving did nothing but give us...going around Stilben and stealthing into a dock for 10 minutes. There was absolutely no reason to keep her alive. If anything, her dying from everyone's hands with the song from Percy's death scene playing would have been way cooler than the death they gave her here. Also, we don't need to see Keyleth trying to cast Scrying for half an episode, sorry to be a hater.

[@AnonymousCat11]

Well said It really surprises me how people don't know the behind the scenes of an adaptation and how well they navigated that and delivered a good product. I loved all the changes they made and think it actually improved on the souce material quite a bit

[@easterslice]

@@juicejooos It's okay. This was one of the campaign moments I was looking forward to, as well. It took me awhile to let that moment go, and let this moment be what is in the show. I'm liking it now for what it is -- and I appreciate that they did keep Vex's final blow.

[@TheFlyingBookworm]

@@juicejooosI'm not a critter, but I had higher hopes for how they would tie up the ending. Felt a bit rushed and jumbled. Good but no where near as good as previous season finales for me.

[@endycore4920]

​@@TheFlyingBookworm I think they didn't know if there would be season 4, so they wanted to close storylines.

[@TheIronarm]

Did they grab Ripley’s vestige? I don’t think they did, so someone’s gotta go to the bottom of the sea and grab it. I volunteer, I want that awesome cloak…

[@Director_Oompaloompa]

It should have been Percy's vestige. Keyleth don't need one though, she too op.

[@bandi138138]

19:27 9th level spell Meteor Swarm. It was Raishan's opening move in the campaign too

[@SeanBoyce-gp]

Vax had a special belt that meant his daggers would return to him. In the campaign, he actually had two Vestiges, one of which was a dagger called Whisper, which gave him the ability to teleport to/through the dagger. I don't think we're going to see that in LoVM because they seem to want to only deal with one Vestige per character, combining several of their magic items and powers into a single item (Vax's super speed came from boots of haste). Though Season 4 could go in a different direction.

[@edwinvanooijen7749]

SPOILERS for campaign 1 I mean Percy's Vestige is now on the bottom of the ocean so I have no idea what they are going to do with that. As for Whisper, that one is (I think) also tied to the Matron so maybe Vax, will still get it.

[@matthewletexier]

I think we might see whisper in season 4 but who's to say.

[@brilobox2]

Percy gets Cabal’s Ruin at the start or S4 for an awesome unexpected moment, Spire of Conflux is part of Keyleth’s Ashari Trials. Thats my theory.

[@Dorokill]

Did Vex or Vax grab Caballs Ruin? I never noticed them doing it during my first watch of the episode

[@AmazingChi]

Ripley was notably blasted from it (you can see it fall) and as an Artifact level item, I presume it can't be destroyed (I know any magical item can't be in D&D, but I think the show plays by different rules in that regard) and could be picked up once the ship sank.

[@GameknightJ14]

Dammit, the boss got their second form!

[@dididi3430]

I cant WAIT for you to see Bards Lament after this

[@NightSterling]

They changed it quite a bit from the live game but its apparently because they werent sure if they were getting another season after this 😂

[@dididi3430]

@@NightSterling i know its f horrible. I meant the actual game

[@the_enderslayer]

@@NightSterling truly wish they just had faith like they did the previous two seasons

[@brilobox2]

Bard’s Lament was lame, drama for drama’s sake so Sam could try a new character for a bit.

[@NightSterling]

@@dididi3430 Yeah it'd be weird for scalan to go "Fuck you guys" for a series finale 😂but they did say they have plans to honor that moment if it turns out they do get more seasons which they did so you know we'll just have to wait and see

[@randyzochoa6358]

19:34 It's the spell "Meteor Swarm"

[@MrGeorgeRohman]

I am just disappointed they didn't do famous Grog "No fix him scene" or the infamous of Scanlan "Sam Riegel" blow up for bringing Kaylee to see his "coma" body. Those were some of my favorite most powerful acting scenes from the Chroma Conclave Arc.

[@kjj26k]

It was a bold choice to not do "FIX HIM!" and especially Bard's Lament. People have been clamoring for that since this show began.

[@edwinvanooijen7749]

@@kjj26k Yeah I am actually disappointed there is no Bard's Lament in the show.

[@KingsBard]

​@@edwinvanooijen7749Same, like Bard's Lament deserved an animated adaptation more than the Bath Scene did.

[@seansilence2697]

​@@KingsBardit's because they didn't know if they were getting a season 4. So they couldn't end the series with Scanlan being pissed at the group.

[@darkguardian50]

Fix Him worked just as well here as it did at the table, It was s different read but it was a different situation.. And as for The Bard's Lament, I wanted that too, but it just would never have worked, not with the story as it was shown, but more importantly not with their episode format. It hey had a guaranteed 5 or 6 seasons, sure. But you can't leave the show on a note with Scanlon pissed at everyone.

[@kojiberri]

Your reactions are the best 😊

[@shanebrady8578]

12:58 It's Treeleth!

[@TwitAMyers]

Jaws, The Predator, and Rambo all in one scene

[@sybariticcupboardrat3763]

26:40 Yeah, the ziggurats aren't necessarily connected to the Whispered One. The one under Whitestone Castle had iconography of the Knowing Mistress (Ioun) on it, the Briarwoods just repurposed it. In fact, there's a history of mages/governments fighting over ley line nexus territories in Exandria, just like any other natural resource.

[@LtSarai]

Most definitely an Aang and Ozai moment. A little bit on the nose, but done beautifully.

[@duncesnake9344]

19:37 thats the meteor swarm spell i think

[@radicaladz]

21:34 - Dracolich, baby.

[@ticozayas6430]

The earth elemental form was my favorite form to take on my druid, it has crazy hp, earthglide, and tremorsense... imagine this u've just gone earth elemental there is a crowd of enemies 20 feet away u start running towards them and right b4 u get there you dive into the ground like a swimmer disappearing from view all the while you can feel all of them scrambling around then u pick a target and uppercut them as u emerge from the ground only to sink back in to the ground to repeat the process over and over till it's just you and fertilizer (thier corpses) left over...

[@reverseprime141]

Justice 4 Percy.

[@AdamEspersona]

As the twins’ mother once said, “There is nothing stronger than love.” It’s what got Scanlan to wake up and reconcile with Kaylie, it’s what brought Vox Machina back together, and it’s what gave Keyleth the tether she needed to hold onto herself and find her target. Also, you gotta admit that that kiss was quite smooth. And Vax’s post-kiss catatonia was cute. Easily their best one this season. And with that, we’ve finally arrived. The showdown with the Diseased Deceiver.

[@zedbee2736]

Except for Chronomancy, always live by the Aguefort rule

[@manosbaroulakis9446]

BTW, this final battle with Raishan didn't happen in the original critical role campaign

[@AdamEspersona]

@@manosbaroulakis9446 I know that.

[@zedbee2736]

@@manosbaroulakis9446Technically it did, though. She was never dracolich'ified, but she did escape with Thordak's corpse and the party did have to struggle through a temple to find her and end her. That fight killed Scanlan and I believe Percy, and ended with Raishan reduced to a savage animal. It was a truly poetic end for a mastermind like her.

[@manosbaroulakis9446]

@@zedbee2736 I forgot about that last part

[@TomboTheTornado]

16:13 is that a Titanic reference?

[@selenarodgers5667]

Yup 🤣😂

[@packofweaviles1027]

No more vestiges, it seems they let Cabal's Ruin sink to the ocean floor with the ship, and they left out Keyleth's Spire of Conflux entirely. Unless they decide to bring them back for season 4

[@brilobox2]

Probably. A teleporting Percy would be sick. And the Spire will probably be part of Keyleth’s Aramente.

[@Shiroja]

If you like speedster stuff you probably would be interested in watching a new anime called Dan Da Dan. It's really good so far.

[@shadowwilson7282]

9:42 Keep it together, man😭

[@rogue7723]

So to recap, Ripley admonishes Percy for supposedly “letting the masses die” yet she’s providing these masses with _weaponry_ to make that a _stronger possibility._ As I said with Anders for a scientist, Ripley’s kind of a dumbass.

[@vincentabramo7175]

it is a stronger possibility.. but think about this. Commoners have no way to combat mages or fierce creatures on their own. having firearms with training helps to give them hope for survival. Ripley's intentions are there but the path to those goals are rife with sin.

[@brilobox2]

@@vincentabramo7175 Mages with firearms, so much for that.

[@seansilence2697]

I'm one of those people that watched Campaign 1 when it was still coming out. Honestly, I don't have an issue with any of the changes. Yes, there are things I'd have liked to see, but at the end of the day, this is an adaptation. Just like turning a book into a movie, things have to change. Especially in a 30-minute medium. I loved this season.

[@viktorstagnetti7491]

You just know they let Ripley's vestiges sink so they didn't have to animate more shit moving forward lmao

[@likecat7886]

Its enough to animate Vax's moves. (That stand-off between him and Ripley was epic tho)

[@calvinjohnson6242]

Sacrifice for the algorithm gods.

[@NothingKingKN]

Raishan just tossed a "Meteor Swarm" at the party. Literally the strongest spell in the game damage-wise. Raishan is a phenomenal Spellcaster.

[@yokelabductee]

surprised you missed the titanic door reference

[@Omn1Media]

didn't miss it, just didn't comment on it since I was more concerned on all the crazy shit that just happened lol

[@Jaxom35x]

Dracolich, dragon lich.

[@lilacangelblue2404]

Nooooo they lost could have gotten her vestige for percyyyy😢

[@oldladywinchester]

Raishan cast Meteor Swarm

[@qadrsikiru4683]

Just wait till u see the keyteor

[@kjj26k]

I wanted an adaptation of the campaign but I do like what they have done instead. I accept this transition from "An animation *of* Critical Role Campaign 1" to "An animation *based on* Critical Role Campaign 1"

[@brilobox2]

Bard’s Lament is the main missing thing and hot take, its lame. Drama for drama’s sake so Sam could being up a new char for a bit.

[@manosbaroulakis9446]

How about"Thoraishan"? That sounds good to me.

[@brilobox2]

Thordead.

[@lagggoat7170]

7:45 I found how they presented this genius, a fake out coupled with establishing how the stone form works (well, meld into stone but not suprising they closely couple it with a shape)

[@yaarrp535]

I love how they subtley pinned the cloak to the ground and vex's arrow shot her off the ground and the cloak stayed pinned to the dagger as she flew back. So if they save percy, vex can give him the cloak and those who have seen the campaign ... (kinda spoilers) ...know hes got something in mind to make for her which was hinted at in an earlier episode. That'll be a fun exchange of gifts

[@the_enderslayer]

ok actually ive been confused about cabal's ruin just being left behind but if this is true thats awesome, really loving that theory

[@andresfelipemanjarres7061]

a few thing probably you miss about the episode: 1.the "you know im in love with you, right?" that Keyleth was the same way Vax confess to her in the first season 2. the arrow tip that Vex shoot through Ripley´s heart was the same one Percy desing for her in season 2 3. this is more of an explanation and a comparison to the game: i think the ritual is a way for Keyleth to essentially use the "Scry" spell which she use a lot in the campaing, and the earth speak i imagine is her version of the spell "Sending". in the game those have restrictions, like scry that it can be use of people and things that you have familiarity with, but we have to wait to se if in the show she can just use it when ever she want. SEASON 4 CONFIIIIIRM!!!

[@deathbykonami5487]

If you're waiting for closure about Kiki's mother, we're not going to see that until way into the Mighty Nein Animated Series (Matthew Mercer, you long game playing bastard).

[@misti-step]

spoiler

[@isakoqv]

I don't understand why you felt the need to spoil that.

[@Luzarioth]

Keyleth body falling appart was a giant hype moment for me... sadly she survived.

[@viktorstagnetti7491]

Ahh the haters still exist after all these years. Pathetic.

[@davegilliam72]

Should have took Riley's cloak.