MASSIVE SPOILERS! Table to Screen S3 - Dr Anna Ripley

[@tomkvideo]

I love that Ashley was watching at home and texting Laura like "I can be on the show next week, stabilize him!"

[@pinkjaguar12]

I think the table version is absolutely amazing and cathartic, but for what the show had to work with, seeing the twins take Ripley down in such a clever and brutal way was also pretty satisfying. Especially because that's Percy's wife and Percy's brother doing the deed. It could have been the awesome group kill, but the fact that they still kept certain elements and had Ripley's own hubris and selfishness contribute to her own demise (killing off her crew that could have helped her in order to save the guns; isolating herself on the boat to begin with; being so cocky that she thought she could take on the twins, despite them clearly being absolutely brutally lethal) was pretty cool. It wasn't all of Vox Machina killing her, but it was still Percy's family all the same.

[@ajfatca]

watching it again I also see why they could have changed it...even for Amazon the table version is superrrrr violent lol.

[@randalladkins7452]

They also keep Vex finishing her off with the arrow in the chest and then an arrow in the mouth stoping her death scream! 😊

[@aceofalltrades8777]

I watched until 4:58, before I saw an animated version of Vax against Ripley, and I was like “why don’t I remember that?” THE LAST THREE EPISODES ARE OUT! I’ll be right back

[@VivaLaCric]

RUN! RUUUUUN!! (its been three days since your message so i hope you got to see it all!)

[@Red_Devil_2011]

"New member of Vox Machina coming next week! Bercy, the crossbow-slinging ginger!"

[@mrsmi1ey]

Seeing Marisha so heartbroken absolutely killed me. In my long-term campaign, the first time a beloved NPC died our entire group was essentially in mourning for the next week, as if an IRL friend of ours had died. It was crazy, and helped me understand how actors are able to have such real emotion in TV and films. When you fully immerse yourself in the ropeplay, the emotions can become real. Being able to share those real emotions with friends at the table is a beautiful thing.

[@Blueberry5140]

I second that!

[@saphari22]

I love the group HDYWTDT but I gotta say I found the one they did in the show is much more satisfying, especially with Vex taking Ripley down with Percy's arrowhead!

[@balkhazzargaming5373]

I wish the show had milked Vex coming out of the water a little more. Also I think Laura's insitinct of having the the second arrow silence her scream with the shot to the throat is genius. I like "You don't even get to have a dying scream, bitch" better than letting her speak again.

[@ellemars1817]

I overall liked the changes they made with Percy's death. It felt more appropriate imo to have the showdown between him and Ripley more isolated. What I would have liked to have seen was more of a mourning period with the rest of the team. Especially seeing just how much the death of one of their own affects the group as a whole.

[@DSVII]

"Percy's killing you, not us." ICE cold, even more so coming from Scanlan. Now I wish they animated that

[@safi6749]

I just rewatched that episode today. Anna's list had the name of the emperor of dwendal empire from c2

[@arwo1143]

He did banish her……

[@thajoker9813]

She met Delilah when she worked for the assembly so it makes sense

[@Frreak0zoid]

Holy shit Marisha's arms changed between this moment and currently in C3. She has trained a lot for creator clash.

[@ArturoRivera2004]

pop2x

[@awkwardaquamarine19]

At this point, I don't know which version of Percy's death is more impactful, VM attacking Ripley together to avenge Percy in the campaign or that betrayal of Ripley with a haunting song playing in the show. Either way, this was an awesome moment. My only critique in TLoVM was that Cassandra didn't even get to say a line during Percy's resurrection. If memory serves, she was pivotal in convincing Percy to come back.

[@frostreaper1607]

Did she ? I don't believe so, didn't she barge into the place when he was already breathing slapping him awake or something. I wish she could have at least given him a hug in the show tho, but I guess they ran out of runtime.

[@awkwardaquamarine19]

@@frostreaper1607 LOL! Yes, I just realized I misremembered right after I posted this when I saw the clips of Percy's actual resurrection in the campaign. I also thought that the Jester-Fjord with a baby cameo was in S1 of LoVM. Turns out, it was only a throw-away easter egg narration of Travis in Grog's one-shot. Like, I can actually see the animated sequence in my head as a blink-or-you'll-miss-it moment. What can I say? I have an overactive imagination. Cheers!

[@pardox28]

Okay, so Percy’s death & Anna’s death were in the same C1 session/ episode. The moment in this video where Travis comments about Percy heals & then is knocked back unconscious was actually the 1st thing that happened in the session; not sure why this moment was put after Percy’s death. And also omitted was Scanlan casting a spell to capture Ripley in a bubble, which allowed VM to surround her & all of them to get the killing blow.

[@nathanieldonigan3659]

I was unbelievably stoked when she finally died in the show. They gave her so many chances to change and she just got worse and worse. I cheered when Vex finally put her down without letting her get her last words out 😂

[@traviscue2099]

This is where I prefer the series version. People need to remember that the show is telling the story, it's not a replaying of the game. For Percys death to sink in, you can't just leave his dead body there and go right back after Rispley, changes the tone completely. Mollys death works really well on the Table because they have to stop and reflect after being defeated.

[@TheOffkilter]

It wouldve been funny if they had been able to incorporate Taliesins " Im like Rasputin here, this is getting ugly", such an underrated line that flew over everyone but surprisingly Marisha at the time.

[@frostreaper1607]

Eeeh no, to meta, but I'm glad we got at least 1 'I'm going to do something weird' .

[@jamesross6219]

9:54 Matt: ... and that's where we'll pick up next episode. Sam: Ohhh shiiitt Unnamed crew member off camera, painfully: Nooo! 😭

[@giorgiapolese]

Taliesins saying “I’m okay with this” while tidying up and putting his things away lives rent free in my head

[@danielcardona2714]

Bro every time they do a death in this show, even if I know that they’re gonna be ok, somehow they never fail to make it so fucking sad. Like the Vex death I knew damn well she’d be fine by next episode but it still got me in the feels so hard, and holy shit the Percy death they got me actually questioning if they would bring him back or not

[@frostreaper1607]

Props to the writers of the show, I'll always like the campaign version as it has it's own merit, but the show version was equally incredible, if not better.

[@canyouguessit]

I still can't believe we have to wait until season 4

[@arwo1143]

@@smashbrandiscootch719 Dude,…. What the fuck is your problem?

[@munkeybrayn8696]

@@smashbrandiscootch719 wait they ruined the campaign? I mean there are alot of episodes some stuff gotta be cut but idk it was that serious.

[@canyouguessit]

@@smashbrandiscootch719 I don't think they ruined it, they just had to change somethings so it made more sense in a TV storyline compared to a D&D campaign.

[@troikas3353]

@@munkeybrayn8696 Nah, some people are just butthurt over some tweaks to the story. The original was great, and the adaptation has been awesome as well.

[@Bookconsumer]

​@@canyouguessitignore them, they've been spamming the same comments about how much they hate the show and CR in general.

[@mreyn17]

I liked how they did it in the show, but, NOTHING tops the group just beating the ever loving $#!+ out of Ripley !

[@blueroninstudios]

I love this group. You make it personal by killing one character, the entire party decides that you die painfully. Ripley got hers in the worst way. Breaks my heart seeing Marisha and Laura so sad over Taelisin, though. RIP PERCIVAL

[@gryph0n55]

I think I prefer the show version of events. Just because I think it’s a really cool dramatic and tragic moment for Percy to offer her help, and it seem like she might accept it, only for her to pull a second backup gun and kill him. And frankly I totally understand the group kill on Ripley, but I always felt it was a little TOO gruesome and brutal, like I just don’t imagine Scanlan in the middle of this brutal killing carving a symbol into the bad guy’s forehead and slicing off their arm. Especially given despite all of them being connected with each other, Scanlan and Percy rank at or near the bottom of characters in VM that are most attached to each other, so that just made it doubly weird just HOW brutal Scanlan’s response was. I can appreciate when characters show their dark side, but at a certain point it’s gratuitous to the point of being out of place.

[@remnantryku7112]

Sam: Next week with a new Vox Machina member… 😂

[@TK_Brainslug]

Netflix would have cancelled the show by now

[@arwo1143]

@@smashbrandiscootch719why?

[@daniberrieful]

​@@arwo1143 ignore this guy. Hes a generarional CR hater.

[@Lugon-Hirn]

No he is talking about the fact that Netflix is canceling series even if it has big potential​ or succes @@daniberrieful

[@zedbee2736]

I still wish that Ripley was still triumphant in her final moments. That she'd sold her blueprints, or at the very least that she'd distributed enough firearms that *someone* would learn to reverse-engineer her designs. Let her have that victory, even in death, and she becomes quite the fantastic villain in my eyes

[@skalskabar2]

I mean she was if you look through campaign 2 and 3 even if by a smaller scale

[@zedbee2736]

@@skalskabar2 I meant in the show. In the campaign,, she absolutely was happy to rub it in Percy's face that his invention is now going to change the world against his wishes.

[@gojiramonster2388]

never watched this show, but from what i've seen, it's got the most self-important and self-involved people working on it i've ever seen.

[@CeliriaRose]

I was already disappointed in how they basically had Pike and Vax solo Thordak in the series, then they turned the vox machina how do you want to do this into a dragged out sidequest for Vex and Vax. Not to mention the nonsense with Raishan and aBard’s Lament. Man the final episodes for the season really torpedoed things.

[@daniberrieful]

​@@smashbrandiscootch719 you know I always wondered why you were such a hater just all over YT against CR. Now I know. You think they personally owe you something because you donated to the kickstarter. You helped pay for season 1. Thats is. 10 episodes of season 1 in fact. Lets be generous and say that initial backing helped them get the money for S2 from Amazon right away. They have fullfiled anything you think they owe you. Long long time ago. I dont even like season 3 and see many missteps but I would not have the audicity to think my kickstarter money (which has already been fullfiled) means anything. Seriously, cut your loses, you have been hating on CR all over. I see you in their comments, chats during streams, fan edits/videos and all my fav reactors. Just spreading your personal obsessive toxicity. All because you feel slighted.

[@frostreaper1607]

It's called an adaptation.

[@PlayerZer000]

​@@smashbrandiscootch719 Buddy, if you're just going to hate then don't watch it anymore. The kickstarter money was only for Season 1, so stop complaining about the changes in their creative directory for the next seasons. I'm not a full-fledged Critical Role fane so you can't say I'm biased. If you want a full adaptation of their series then go ahead and rewatch the entire Vox Machina campaign and make an animated series that's equally as long. We'll wait and see if you can do it better than the people who know their campaigns more.

[@andrewvaldez8866]

Man, it’s really a shame. The table top is better than that animation is ever going to be. They could just do it one for one, but they’re too scared to do that and do something actually cool and impactful.