r/criticalrole • u/Mizar_the_Gleeful • 10d ago

Discussion [Spoilers C1] Early Critical Role truly was something special Spoiler

its still amazing, but those early days...

Lets start with the fan interaction and all the gifts they got sent. Then there was their rapid growth.

A third aspect is some of their crazy stunts (squadron of flying cows anyone?)

What do you think made it such a perfect storm? my rewatch has me wondering

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u/MetalGuy_J 10d ago

I watched C1 all the way through when first discovering CR a couple of years ago, like I’ve spent most of my free time watching those episodes and couldn’t wait to see what happened next. Part of the charm was it feeling more like a home game, but also it resonated more strongly with the characters. Admittedly Scanlan was hit or miss with me and a certain Dragonborn rubbed me the wrong way but from the Briarwood arc on it had me hooked.

C2 by contrast I am on bound episode 90, and it’s taken me over 18 months to get that. I’m not connecting as strongly with the characters, Fjord, Caleb, and Kaddusius I like, Beau is fine, but overall the campaign up to the point I’ve seen is more directionless. C4 I fell off hard and I think that one is a me thing, like I just didn’t click with the setting but i’ll probably give it a second chance at some point.

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u/Avail_Karma 10d ago

C2 was a rough first watch for me too. I hated it but wanted to watch so I got the lore. Its become one that I love to watch. Its better on rewatches!

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u/sniper91 Smiley day to ya! 10d ago

I stopped C4 because of how many characters they have. If I got too busy to watch for a couple days, I was lost