Someone has probably mentioned this before, but the reason they are called Vox Machina (Voice Machine) is due to all of them being professional Voice Actors (Matt Mercer, the DM/Narrator even voices Jotaro Kujo in the English Dub of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
Fun fact: This Series was initially only supposed to be a One off episode, maybe stretched out to a 2 part, with a $450,000 Kickstarter set up to fund the Episode. The Cast of Critical Role were skeptical they’d even reach the goal within a 45 day period. Within the WEEK, the Critters (The Fan Base for Critical Role) ended up *shattering* the Goal and ended up gathering over $10,000,000 worth for the show, enabling them to create Season 1. The cast reaction is pretty hilarious, if you want to look it up. Season 2 was greenlit almost immediately. Never underestimate the Critical Role community.
To add to this, they hit their goal in *45 minutes*. They hit a million dollars by the end of the first hour. It's insane how well it went, the Critter community is strong.
@@KanePlaysGames “The tshirts are sold out.” “They’re *sold out*??” *nervous laughter* “We didn’t even finish TELLING you people!! Let us- Let us finish our SENTENCE first!”
It's actually a composite between Laura and Marisha (who plays Keyleth). Confirmed by Matt during the cast watch along. The story of them all trying to give the best one and nearly puking onto expensive mics is pretty much peak Critical Role behavior. 😂
Notice that the hand Grog chops off at the start, he keeps and puts in the bag of holding... that is the hand that the dragon later sees under the pile of rubble when it thinks it kills the party. Great continuity. oh, and as everyone knows, even without the rap... Scanlan fuuuuuuuuuuucks lol
Fun fact: the guy who got pissed on by Scanland is drawn to look like Matt Mercer, who is the DM of the campaign; every episode him or other backround characters that look like him are subjects to the "players"
1:23 Yes they are voicing their own characters which makes sense since they are all professional voice actors already. Also Matt Mercer (the DM) voice acts the narrator and a lot of the background characters in the show as well which is hilarious
I saw someone call these background characters "MPCs" Also, he voices the guy who is essentially the main villain in this season (not giving names cuz spoiler)
I love all the "oh no"'s as you recognize the house, but knowing it gets SO MUCH worse to have the boy die in their arms. They turn everything to 11 on this show! Laughs and lows. Hope you enjoy the series, especially with season 2 coming soon!
The bard character has singing chops because he's musical theater child. He played the little kid Gavroche in Le Mis on the first and third national tours.
Also, the soundtrack was done by Neal Acree, who did a lot of the World of Warcraft music. If there was someone to hire to score a high fantasy setting...
Left out that Sam Riegel ended up falling off one of the barricade props when was in Le Mis and they were performing in Los Angeles and ended up telling the ER staff "I fell off the barricade!". This was during the Rodney King riots in LA.... His poor mom!
Not quite. Season 1 and 2 were confirmed off the bat once Amazon joined in on the kickstarter. They paid for episodes 11 and 12 of season 1 and the entirety of season 2. We knew as of the ending of the Kickstarter that we'd be getting at *least* 2 seasons. Season 3, while highly speculated and definitely needed given the story they were going to tell, was only confirmed this past October when the Season 2 teaser was dropped.
Vox Machina are voiced by their original players. Grog - Travis Willingham Keilith - Marisha Ray Vax - Liam O’Brien Vex - Laura Bailey Scanlan - Sam Riegel Pike - Ashley Johnson Percy - Taliesen Jaffe And their DM, Matt Mercer, voices most of the npc characters.
Also 10:34 Fine short brown lady is tall blonde mommy mage's girlfriend. Never mentioned in-show or anything, it's not a spoiler, just extra fun detail.
It's kind of a spoiler for the game, considering they only evolve their relationship to that point late into the campaign. At the point the show is set, they are merely old adventuring buddies.
In the campaign it's implied and was the source of contention with a now non recognized former member who shall not be mentioned. Campaign two confirms their relationship but its not a plot point. It's only mentioned in passing really
@@WillKazeOh true but perhaps it's for the best all things considered. Personally like the character (not the actor) but I think the farewell they did was both for the campaign and for themselves. Their way of saying we will miss what was but things move forward. This is past and it'll remain there
Glad you enjoyed it, I'm looking forward to seeing you react to this whole Series. The Voice actor for Krieg the Scottish guy is David Tennent, the 10th DR. the first two Episodes are from before they started Streaming, but from episode 3 OH, boy are you in for a wild ride. Vex is a Ranger, not a Druid, and Trinkets her Animal companion. Season 2 starts on Jan 20th, and it's already been green-lit for season 3.
Fun fact, Grog’s loud burp from the first episode of The Legend Of Vox Machina was actually made by mixing Marisha Ray’s (Keyleth) and Laura Bailey’s (Vex) belches
3:51 Liam O'Brian has a very very distinct voice for a lot of his VA roles... if you like him here, go back and listen to his voice lines from Darksiders where he is the protagonist, War. Peak rumble-chest half-english accent :P
Yooo i started watching these like a month ago thanks to a friend, since i didn't know they made an animated series of their d&d campaign, and now suddendly you star reacting to them, that's so cool, even cooler knowing season 2 is coming in a couple of weeks from now
+5 to to Alicia and ant for hitting every story beat this episode. meanwhile feel free to start counting the obviously Natural 1 moments(moments of utter failure that are explosive, usually hilarious)
Non spoiler but the first two episodes are a prestream recaps and three through eight are the first arc. Yes the actors are playing their own characters(they are all voice actors after all lol) and Matt Mercer, their dm and fellow voice actor, plays the big badof this season and various cameos (this episode its the man hanging the notice Scanlan... waters the shoe off.) The cameos I call hidden mercers cause they're drawn to look like him too even if they don't speak. But If you've watched anime odds are you've heard most of the actors. Grog/Roy Mustang(fma) Vex/kid trunks and Abby from last of us 2(and Lust from fma I believe) Vax/Garra (naruto) Percy/ the flash (the injustice video games) Pike/Ellie (the last of us) Matt Mercer (McCree overwatch) And that's just what I know off hand
Just a side note too, a little fun fact I love, Pike's player/voice Ashley Johnson was in the first Avengers movie. She's the waitress that we keep seeing throughout the battle against the Chitauri.
I didn't realize when watching this the first time, but the reason Keyleth freezes in the dragon fight is due to one of a dragon's special abilities. It causes literal fear in a target, and you either end up frozen in fear or running away in terror.
3:20 the voice actor for Vax there is Liam O'brien, he also did Gaara in Naruto which is one of my favorite roles by him. The narrator at the start and some other character voices are done by Matt Mercer. Critical Role is all professional voice actors so of course they did their DND characters in the anime. Also the guy in glasses, Percy, is made by Taliesin, one of my all time favorite characters by one of the best at creating characters in the team. Percy, Mollymauk, Cadueces, and Ashton, all amazing characters over the span of three campaigns.
A breakdown of the party (yes, the song helps, but here's the full thing). Vax'ildan (Vax for short) is the male half-elf rogue with the hot voice. Vex'ahlia (Vex for short) is the female half-elf ranger with her animal sidekick Trinket the Bear. Vax and Vex are twins. Easy way to tell their names apart is think mAle and fEmale or Adam and Eve. A and E. Grog is the goliath barbarian (due to copyright they have to go with the generic "half-giant", but he's 100% a goliath). Keyleth is the half-elf druid. Scanlan Shorthalt is the gnome bard. Pike Trickfoot is the gnome cleric. Finally there is Percival Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III (Percy for short), the human gunslinger and inventor of firearms in this world. He's technically a fighter in D&D as the original campaign had actually began life as a Pathfinder private home game before switching to D&D 5E when they started streaming it. This was back in 2015, well before the artificer class was created, so they had to try and homebrew a Pathfinder style gunslinger into 5E for him, he'd absolutely be an artificer if they did it now. The party's name, Vox Machina, is Latin for "sound machine", a reference to how all the players are professional voice actors. A far better name than what they called themselves during the private home game, that being the SHITS (the Super High Intensity Team). They changed it to sound more respectable for their livestream audience. Unrelated note to the show but since you brought it up, Game of Thrones had some dongs in it. Not a lot, but a few showed up. Back to the show. The random guy Scanlan peed on is voiced by Matt Mercer, the game's DM. He pops up a few times in random roles because after all, he voiced all the NPCs as the DM anyways. While the belch Vox Machina announced themselves with came from Grog in the show, it was actually recorded from Laura Bailey, Vex's voice/player who is legendary for her mighty burps on the show. She's actually scared the people next to her with some surprise ones on the stream before. Brown armored girl with freckles on the council is Lady Kima, a total badass halfling paladin and one of the more beloved NPCs from the campaign. The Scottish guy is voiced by none other than David Tennant, who didn't even need to read a script to be interested in being in this show. He legitimately was just told about the story of how it came about (details in other comments below, but the gist is the gang wanted to do an animated short and asked for some money on kickstarter, it was blown out of the water by the fan response and hit their goal in 45 minutes and ultimately reached over $11 million by the end of the 45 day kickstarter, funding 10 full episodes instead of the single 20 minute special they planned.) He was just told the story of what happened and realized that if that was how the fans showed their love and support for this project, it had to be something special and he wanted to be a part of it even in a small capacity. The kids that they meet in the village are actually played by Liam O'Brian's (Vax) son and Sam Riegel's (Scanlan) daughter. The dragon they're facing is an adult blue dragon, and if memory serves the party was roughly around level 7 when they did this quest in their home game (they started streaming around level 9). Yeah, the kid dying in their arms is dark as fuck. Keep this in mind, Matt Mercer *does not play around*, if the story is going to get dark then he charges full steam into it. There is no shying away from the darker consequences in either the game or show. Glad you guys enjoyed the episode, this show is amazing and definitely worth pushing forwards with. You're actually perfectly on time too. You have 11 more episodes of season 1 and then on the 20th we are getting season 2 releasing in 3-episode batches each week, so you've got a good chunk of content to go through if you keep going with this show.
They actually originally planned to show scanlan’s junk at the beginning. There was a running gag throughout this campaign about his dick being a perfect cube. They apparently did design it and animate it but were forced to remove it because they would have gotten a higher rating from the parental guidance system. Essentially labeling themselves as porn, so they elected to remove it to avoid that.
6:33 They do in "Love, Death, and Robots". But, to add on to this; most shows also don't show womens private parts...down there, as well. So, I guess it...sort of works both ways?
I will say this for the rest of season one, the first two eps are more of a introduction to our rag tag team, after that is when the story cranks up. You're in for a ride.
YESSS I was wondering if you'd watch this after the Legend of Vox Machina! As a small Critter (name of Critical Role fans) myself and bigger TTRPG fan I'm excited for this series. Yes the original players Voice Act the characters (they are all professional VAs that you've definitely heard before! Dont forget that Amazon shows the VAs of characters on screen). There are some Behind the Scenes vids that dont spoil too much and I'd encourage watching them.
Y'know, at first I was thinking "A vtuber reaction? That sounds like a lot of nothing. You can't see their face, so what's the point?"... But within the first minute of the reaction you had changed my mind. You and your psychic son are awesome and I wish you all the best.
very pleased to see this show up...this show is sick! and season 2 is probably going to blow it out of the water, at least for me, this arc is just the beginning of the original show greatness
This was quiet unexpected. As someone who spent the 2000h hours watching critical role, the animated show is an entirely different thing from the streams. I don’t really know what the experience is like for a non-streamwatcher, because for me it felt like pure fanservice, but someone who doesn’t know….wouldn’t know. Hope you will like it anyway.
I absolutely love it. Mind you I watch d20 campaigns and not critical role but holy smokes I fell in love with this series SOOOO hard. :3 I have it all recorded and uploading daily leading into season 2
@@aliciaxlife LETSSSSSS GOOOOOOO. If you like d20 you should 100% check out EXU Calamity on your own time. Its a d20, CR, crossover with brennan as the DM. Its only 4 episodes and probably the most hard hitting dnd i ever watched.
Oh, here we go. If you're planning to watch the whole thing - you're in for a ride. I can already hear lots of laughter, tears, yelling about poor babies and obsession with Percy and a few other characters. This show is a lot of fun, but when it gets dark - it doesn't fuck around.
I'm with you Ant 100%. We need more shows like Spartacus blood and sand, it was a great story, awesome characters and it had something for everyone in the nudity department 😂
New viewer here, OG Criiter tho. Love the daily upload plan, I'm happy to come hang with ya'll leading up to S2. Considering what you got out of ep1, I can't wait to see the rest.
Ant: "That's me!" *splat*
Dude *I* died from that!
So did he
@@ShankMugen evidently, as seen by the blood splatter on the rock, you seem to be correct.
XD
The timing on that could not have been better!
Haha!
Someone has probably mentioned this before, but the reason they are called Vox Machina (Voice Machine) is due to all of them being professional Voice Actors (Matt Mercer, the DM/Narrator even voices Jotaro Kujo in the English Dub of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
Matt's also Levi from attack on titan
OMG THAT IS SO COOL! I had no idea actually
Also Matt's the voice of McCree from Overwatch, he even cosplayed as him during a Halloween special of CR
And Hit from dragon ball super
Also voiced Luke Skywalker in one of the recent star wars video games
Fun fact:
This Series was initially only supposed to be a One off episode, maybe stretched out to a 2 part, with a $450,000 Kickstarter set up to fund the Episode. The Cast of Critical Role were skeptical they’d even reach the goal within a 45 day period.
Within the WEEK, the Critters (The Fan Base for Critical Role) ended up *shattering* the Goal and ended up gathering over $10,000,000 worth for the show, enabling them to create Season 1. The cast reaction is pretty hilarious, if you want to look it up. Season 2 was greenlit almost immediately.
Never underestimate the Critical Role community.
To add to this, they hit their goal in *45 minutes*. They hit a million dollars by the end of the first hour. It's insane how well it went, the Critter community is strong.
Reminds me of the first time they did merch, was a 100 shirts that sold out before they had finished anouceing them.
And by now they also confirmed that season 3 is gonna be a thing, so there's that!
@@ninjack11 That's one of my favourite clips of CR. Their reactions killed me.
@@KanePlaysGames
“The tshirts are sold out.”
“They’re *sold out*??”
*nervous laughter*
“We didn’t even finish TELLING you people!! Let us- Let us finish our SENTENCE first!”
fun fact: Grog's burp when they met the king wasnt made by Travis Willingham that is his VA but instead by his wife Laura Bailey that voices Vex alia
OMG I looked this up and Laura confirmed it on Twitter 😄
It's actually a composite between Laura and Marisha (who plays Keyleth). Confirmed by Matt during the cast watch along. The story of them all trying to give the best one and nearly puking onto expensive mics is pretty much peak Critical Role behavior. 😂
@@ShadowyFox_86 Really? Just chug some seltzer and it'll happen. No need to force it and nearly barf!
That is great!
Notice that the hand Grog chops off at the start, he keeps and puts in the bag of holding... that is the hand that the dragon later sees under the pile of rubble when it thinks it kills the party. Great continuity.
oh, and as everyone knows, even without the rap... Scanlan fuuuuuuuuuuucks lol
OMG THAT IS SOOOO COOL!! :D
"Oh I like that guy" Liam's characters have this effect on people yes.
Liam has that effect on people
Touché
People are not prepared.
Fun fact: the guy who got pissed on by Scanland is drawn to look like Matt Mercer, who is the DM of the campaign; every episode him or other backround characters that look like him are subjects to the "players"
Matt also voices him, and a number of other characters that are not Vox Machina.
1:23
Yes they are voicing their own characters which makes sense since they are all professional voice actors already.
Also Matt Mercer (the DM) voice acts the narrator and a lot of the background characters in the show as well which is hilarious
Might as well add, in this particular episode Matt voiced the guy that was peed on XD
I saw someone call these background characters "MPCs"
Also, he voices the guy who is essentially the main villain in this season (not giving names cuz spoiler)
Also, he literally appears multiple times as cameos npc
Scanlan Peed on him in this Episode
The children who died were actually voiced by children of the voice actors too, which adds even more to that scene.
I think it was Liam's daughter and Sam's son. Sam's daughter doesn't fair much better in a later episode. 😂
i swear you are going for the world record for most shows reacted to at a time lmao. the grind is real
I love all the "oh no"'s as you recognize the house, but knowing it gets SO MUCH worse to have the boy die in their arms. They turn everything to 11 on this show! Laughs and lows. Hope you enjoy the series, especially with season 2 coming soon!
The Scottish dude, General Kreig, is voiced by David Tennant, 10th Doctor of Doctor Who and Crowley in Good Omens.
The bard character has singing chops because he's musical theater child. He played the little kid Gavroche in Le Mis on the first and third national tours.
Also, the soundtrack was done by Neal Acree, who did a lot of the World of Warcraft music. If there was someone to hire to score a high fantasy setting...
Left out that Sam Riegel ended up falling off one of the barricade props when was in Le Mis and they were performing in Los Angeles and ended up telling the ER staff "I fell off the barricade!". This was during the Rodney King riots in LA.... His poor mom!
Fun fact as soon as this episode was aired, season 2 and 3 have been confirmed.
Not quite. Season 1 and 2 were confirmed off the bat once Amazon joined in on the kickstarter. They paid for episodes 11 and 12 of season 1 and the entirety of season 2. We knew as of the ending of the Kickstarter that we'd be getting at *least* 2 seasons. Season 3, while highly speculated and definitely needed given the story they were going to tell, was only confirmed this past October when the Season 2 teaser was dropped.
:D AND BEST BELIEVE! I’m going to cover season 2 as it comes out this month
So fun fact, this starts about halfway through their campaign, before they started making the official episodes!
Season 2 is coming next week, and season 3 is confirmed, so be mindful of spoilers. Or you could just binge react, and be ready for S2 premiere :D :D
^^ we have our full season one already recorded. It’s uploading daily here on RUclips going straight into season 2!
@@aliciaxlife good plan.
@@aliciaxlife I cannot be happier about this! So glad to see your reactions to this series.
VOX MACHINA is one of my favorite shows. Thank you for reacting to it!
^u^ you’re welcome! 🎉
Fun fact, the children from the village are voiced by the daughter of Vax’s Voice actor and the son of Scanlan’s voice actor
Vox Machina are voiced by their original players.
Grog - Travis Willingham
Keilith - Marisha Ray
Vax - Liam O’Brien
Vex - Laura Bailey
Scanlan - Sam Riegel
Pike - Ashley Johnson
Percy - Taliesen Jaffe
And their DM, Matt Mercer, voices most of the npc characters.
Also 10:34 Fine short brown lady is tall blonde mommy mage's girlfriend. Never mentioned in-show or anything, it's not a spoiler, just extra fun detail.
It's kind of a spoiler for the game, considering they only evolve their relationship to that point late into the campaign. At the point the show is set, they are merely old adventuring buddies.
In the campaign it's implied and was the source of contention with a now non recognized former member who shall not be mentioned. Campaign two confirms their relationship but its not a plot point. It's only mentioned in passing really
@@tycol322 I'm quite sad over that former member, since his erasure from the timeline is due to his own actions.
@@WillKazeOh true but perhaps it's for the best all things considered. Personally like the character (not the actor) but I think the farewell they did was both for the campaign and for themselves. Their way of saying we will miss what was but things move forward. This is past and it'll remain there
It's kind of a spoiler. It shows up in season 2.
Not a super signficant one, but you don't have to tell them everything!
I mean let's be fair. The gnome has a LOT of child support to pay with that level of charm.
Hell yeah, always looking for more people to react to this show. And you’re one of my favorite reactors out there.
:3 thank you!! I’m happy to be one of your favourites! I’m uploading this daily leading into season 2
Ant when someone talks scottish: "I don't like your funny words magic man!"
Glad you enjoyed it, I'm looking forward to seeing you react to this whole Series.
The Voice actor for Krieg the Scottish guy is David Tennent, the 10th DR.
the first two Episodes are from before they started Streaming, but from episode 3 OH, boy are you in for a wild ride.
Vex is a Ranger, not a Druid, and Trinkets her Animal companion.
Season 2 starts on Jan 20th, and it's already been green-lit for season 3.
Fun fact, Grog’s loud burp from the first episode of The Legend Of Vox Machina was actually made by mixing Marisha Ray’s (Keyleth) and Laura Bailey’s (Vex) belches
If you pause at the right time, you WILL see Scanlan's "cube" when he's getting thrown out of the tavern.
Oh shit did not expect this but I'm all for it! I love vox machina and critical role!
Also really excited for season 2 coming out on January 20!!!
I didn't ever watch Critical Role, but I absolutely loved this series, specially Grog.
He is the brains of the group. He has an intelligence of 6, he knows what he's doing.
Grog Strongjaw: big of heart, dumb of ass
3:51 Liam O'Brian has a very very distinct voice for a lot of his VA roles... if you like him here, go back and listen to his voice lines from Darksiders where he is the protagonist, War. Peak rumble-chest half-english accent :P
The Scott ant can’t understand is voice by David Tennant, the 10th Doctor himself! Real Scottish accents are rare in media sadly
Wait, i though David Tennant voiced Kilgrave in Jessica Jones
Yooo i started watching these like a month ago thanks to a friend, since i didn't know they made an animated series of their d&d campaign, and now suddendly you star reacting to them, that's so cool, even cooler knowing season 2 is coming in a couple of weeks from now
HELL YES I WAS HOPING BEYOND HOPE
You're gonna LOVE this. Love love love it.
+5 to to Alicia and ant for hitting every story beat this episode. meanwhile feel free to start counting the obviously Natural 1 moments(moments of utter failure that are explosive, usually hilarious)
Non spoiler but the first two episodes are a prestream recaps and three through eight are the first arc.
Yes the actors are playing their own characters(they are all voice actors after all lol) and Matt Mercer, their dm and fellow voice actor, plays the big badof this season and various cameos (this episode its the man hanging the notice Scanlan... waters the shoe off.) The cameos I call hidden mercers cause they're drawn to look like him too even if they don't speak.
But If you've watched anime odds are you've heard most of the actors.
Grog/Roy Mustang(fma)
Vex/kid trunks and Abby from last of us 2(and Lust from fma I believe)
Vax/Garra (naruto)
Percy/ the flash (the injustice video games)
Pike/Ellie (the last of us)
Matt Mercer (McCree overwatch)
And that's just what I know off hand
Just a side note too, a little fun fact I love, Pike's player/voice Ashley Johnson was in the first Avengers movie. She's the waitress that we keep seeing throughout the battle against the Chitauri.
If Alicia played D&D online with any groups, she'd fit right in with the ladies from Vshojo.
I didn't realize when watching this the first time, but the reason Keyleth freezes in the dragon fight is due to one of a dragon's special abilities. It causes literal fear in a target, and you either end up frozen in fear or running away in terror.
This reaction was a delight, looking forward to the rest of the series :D The story only gets better from here.
3:20 the voice actor for Vax there is Liam O'brien, he also did Gaara in Naruto which is one of my favorite roles by him. The narrator at the start and some other character voices are done by Matt Mercer. Critical Role is all professional voice actors so of course they did their DND characters in the anime. Also the guy in glasses, Percy, is made by Taliesin, one of my all time favorite characters by one of the best at creating characters in the team. Percy, Mollymauk, Cadueces, and Ashton, all amazing characters over the span of three campaigns.
"Oh she OP"
Druids, man. One of those classes where raw number crunching doesnt quite do justice to what you can do with just a little creativity.
Fun fact: Matthew Mercer(DM of Critical Role) voices Jotaro in the English dub.
I can't even tell how much i've waited for you to start this serie. And for sure, you're gonna love it.
A breakdown of the party (yes, the song helps, but here's the full thing). Vax'ildan (Vax for short) is the male half-elf rogue with the hot voice. Vex'ahlia (Vex for short) is the female half-elf ranger with her animal sidekick Trinket the Bear. Vax and Vex are twins. Easy way to tell their names apart is think mAle and fEmale or Adam and Eve. A and E. Grog is the goliath barbarian (due to copyright they have to go with the generic "half-giant", but he's 100% a goliath). Keyleth is the half-elf druid. Scanlan Shorthalt is the gnome bard. Pike Trickfoot is the gnome cleric. Finally there is Percival Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III (Percy for short), the human gunslinger and inventor of firearms in this world. He's technically a fighter in D&D as the original campaign had actually began life as a Pathfinder private home game before switching to D&D 5E when they started streaming it. This was back in 2015, well before the artificer class was created, so they had to try and homebrew a Pathfinder style gunslinger into 5E for him, he'd absolutely be an artificer if they did it now.
The party's name, Vox Machina, is Latin for "sound machine", a reference to how all the players are professional voice actors. A far better name than what they called themselves during the private home game, that being the SHITS (the Super High Intensity Team). They changed it to sound more respectable for their livestream audience.
Unrelated note to the show but since you brought it up, Game of Thrones had some dongs in it. Not a lot, but a few showed up.
Back to the show. The random guy Scanlan peed on is voiced by Matt Mercer, the game's DM. He pops up a few times in random roles because after all, he voiced all the NPCs as the DM anyways.
While the belch Vox Machina announced themselves with came from Grog in the show, it was actually recorded from Laura Bailey, Vex's voice/player who is legendary for her mighty burps on the show. She's actually scared the people next to her with some surprise ones on the stream before.
Brown armored girl with freckles on the council is Lady Kima, a total badass halfling paladin and one of the more beloved NPCs from the campaign.
The Scottish guy is voiced by none other than David Tennant, who didn't even need to read a script to be interested in being in this show. He legitimately was just told about the story of how it came about (details in other comments below, but the gist is the gang wanted to do an animated short and asked for some money on kickstarter, it was blown out of the water by the fan response and hit their goal in 45 minutes and ultimately reached over $11 million by the end of the 45 day kickstarter, funding 10 full episodes instead of the single 20 minute special they planned.) He was just told the story of what happened and realized that if that was how the fans showed their love and support for this project, it had to be something special and he wanted to be a part of it even in a small capacity.
The kids that they meet in the village are actually played by Liam O'Brian's (Vax) son and Sam Riegel's (Scanlan) daughter.
The dragon they're facing is an adult blue dragon, and if memory serves the party was roughly around level 7 when they did this quest in their home game (they started streaming around level 9).
Yeah, the kid dying in their arms is dark as fuck. Keep this in mind, Matt Mercer *does not play around*, if the story is going to get dark then he charges full steam into it. There is no shying away from the darker consequences in either the game or show.
Glad you guys enjoyed the episode, this show is amazing and definitely worth pushing forwards with. You're actually perfectly on time too. You have 11 more episodes of season 1 and then on the 20th we are getting season 2 releasing in 3-episode batches each week, so you've got a good chunk of content to go through if you keep going with this show.
I thought Lady Kima was a dwarf…
@@JaelinBezel nah, shes a halfling. Keg is a dwarf. But Kima has always been a halfling.
The general is voiced by David Tennant who, among other things, played The Doctor from Doctor Who.
They actually originally planned to show scanlan’s junk at the beginning. There was a running gag throughout this campaign about his dick being a perfect cube. They apparently did design it and animate it but were forced to remove it because they would have gotten a higher rating from the parental guidance system. Essentially labeling themselves as porn, so they elected to remove it to avoid that.
(At 7:00) they DID on Boondocks.
6:33 They do in "Love, Death, and Robots". But, to add on to this; most shows also don't show womens private parts...down there, as well. So, I guess it...sort of works both ways?
I will say this for the rest of season one, the first two eps are more of a introduction to our rag tag team, after that is when the story cranks up.
You're in for a ride.
Heyo Ant, remember when you said "That's a big dragon"? yeah. Thordak says hello :)
YESSS I was wondering if you'd watch this after the Legend of Vox Machina! As a small Critter (name of Critical Role fans) myself and bigger TTRPG fan I'm excited for this series. Yes the original players Voice Act the characters (they are all professional VAs that you've definitely heard before! Dont forget that Amazon shows the VAs of characters on screen). There are some Behind the Scenes vids that dont spoil too much and I'd encourage watching them.
So glad y'all are covering this show, gets me hyped up for season 2
"We did it right"
Indeed you did!
Y'know, at first I was thinking "A vtuber reaction? That sounds like a lot of nothing. You can't see their face, so what's the point?"... But within the first minute of the reaction you had changed my mind. You and your psychic son are awesome and I wish you all the best.
:3 I’m really happy I could change your mind on that! Welcome to the channel and thanks for being open minded!
Not only is the party voice acted by the actual players, but the narrator in the beginning is the DM.
(At 2:23) David Tennant?
Yep!
That timing omg hahaha great start
very pleased to see this show up...this show is sick! and season 2 is probably going to blow it out of the water, at least for me, this arc is just the beginning of the original show greatness
This was quiet unexpected. As someone who spent the 2000h hours watching critical role, the animated show is an entirely different thing from the streams. I don’t really know what the experience is like for a non-streamwatcher, because for me it felt like pure fanservice, but someone who doesn’t know….wouldn’t know. Hope you will like it anyway.
I absolutely love it. Mind you I watch d20 campaigns and not critical role but holy smokes I fell in love with this series SOOOO hard. :3 I have it all recorded and uploading daily leading into season 2
@@aliciaxlife LETSSSSSS GOOOOOOO. If you like d20 you should 100% check out EXU Calamity on your own time. Its a d20, CR, crossover with brennan as the DM. Its only 4 episodes and probably the most hard hitting dnd i ever watched.
The players actually voiced their characters. Which is ironic because the players are voice actors anyway.
Helps when they invented their characters of course.
Oh, here we go. If you're planning to watch the whole thing - you're in for a ride. I can already hear lots of laughter, tears, yelling about poor babies and obsession with Percy and a few other characters. This show is a lot of fun, but when it gets dark - it doesn't fuck around.
Didn't know you guys were gonna be starting Vox Machina, excited to see your reactions
YES VOX MACHINA REACTION FROM ONE OF THE BEST REACTORS! I AM SO HYPED ABOUT THIS!
“That bear CARRIES!!!” ahahahah peak
Thats not just any Scottish man, thats David Tennant
He does put up a thick accent for the role.
YES! YOU'RE REACTING TO THIS SHOW! LETS GO!!!!!
Yesssss!! I was hoping you'd react to this lol. I'm so excited!
Ant not being able to understand Scottish is the most wild thing I’ve ever heard
Lmao I was SOOOOOO hoping to see you check this series out! :D
The Matt Mercer Cameo, a character who has the appearance of Matt and is voiced by Matt, Episode 1: The guy Scanlan pisses on (9:22)
Ayy, it's the first video that I saw Ant in.
the guy who voices the guy at 3:51 also voices yassuo from league
Somehow I knew that she would say Vax's voice (Liam O'Brien) is hot
I'm with you Ant 100%. We need more shows like Spartacus blood and sand, it was a great story, awesome characters and it had something for everyone in the nudity department 😂
Oh fuck yes, I'm down for this.
Oh my God this show is awesome, you're going to love it I swear.
Scottish guy, General Kreig Tristan was voiced by David Tennant, the 10th Doctor!
9:30 And thus starts the Mercer running gag.
Now this is what I'm talking about
With season 2 coming out next week, you're starting this series at the best time!
The barkeep is a changeling.
No shot you called out every plot twist through the episode
It now causes them EMOTIONAL DAMAGE.. Now you can't use it since: Emotional Damage = Psichic damage 😂
YEEEEEEES! I was hoping you'd get into this!
Alicia: WHy the door open though
Me: ... they threw Percy through the door... there is no door anymore
HELL YEAH! Love this show!
Yes 👏🏼 I’m so ready for this xD😂
And the adventure begins!
New viewer here, OG Criiter tho. Love the daily upload plan, I'm happy to come hang with ya'll leading up to S2.
Considering what you got out of ep1, I can't wait to see the rest.
PLEASE react to the baccano dub. It's set in 1920s NYC so all the dub actors have ny accents and it's really cool. Also the story is AWESOME
As an American who has Scottish immigrants as grandparents. I struggled for the first 10 years but after that I understand everything they say
So a minor Scottish accent like the one we get from David Tennant's character is easy to understand
Just in time for season 2 :)
im hurt as an american scotts with the accent, because people tell me that shit all the time... and theyre not wrong either lmao
I've never seen this show, but I'll give it a watch with you.
Also ALICIA? What's with that thumbnail, lol. I refuse to elaborate
Yup. You know what you seeing. 👀
YES, i fucking love this show. I can't wait for the 2nd season
Percy is me and my brother's favorite Vox Machina character
Vox fucking Machina?! Oh heck yea
Ayyy lets gooo!
Dungeons and Dragons Represent!
(I am choosing to ignore what WotC is allegedly doing until it is confirmed)
Real shame that, eh?
Alicia and Ant be watching only the BEST shows together; JoJo, LoVM, hit black clover and we gonna ascend
Oh HELL yeah, i like this a lot
Liam O'brien is king of voice acting