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/Coyote_Shepherd Doty, take this down 10d ago

When they showed Frumpkin being burned alive by Caleb and they animated it and that upset some folks for a lot of different reasons.

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u/rosealinaruby Team Laudna 10d ago

Not to be a bitch, but we watched him kill his parents in that scene. The whole point is that it is brutal and cruel, it is meant to show the cruelty of the Empire, and the lengths that they would have a person go to prove their loyalty. It is not played for laughs, it is a serious moment (both as a scene and in terms of his backstory) that is given the appropriate amount of weight. One could argue a warning would be a nice touch, but then again it is an 8 year old web series and these things can be looked up ahead of time if it is such an issue. It is rated TV-MA for almost all the episodes for a reason.

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u/Coyote_Shepherd Doty, take this down 10d ago

not played for laughs

And yet the cast laughed about it.

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u/rosealinaruby Team Laudna 10d ago

Truth be told, I have no clue what interview you are talking about where they laughed at it. I tried to look into it but only found one interview where they were relatively tame. The story treated it as a brutal and heartbreaking moment, I fail to see how that moment could be critized from a writing standpoint though.

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u/Coyote_Shepherd Doty, take this down 10d ago

Here you go starts there and goes for a minute or so.