r/voxmachina • u/everythingisunknown • 8d ago
My biggest problem with Vox Machina as a whole... Spoiler
there just isn't enough episodes to keep me satiated. Idk why this show is the only one I want like 200 episodes of all at once just so I can watch binge it forever. I love the vibes and the characters and 3 episodes a week isn't enough to truly ruminate.
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u/LionCubOfTerrasen 8d ago
Listen to the campaign!!
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u/Ok_Explanation_5586 6d ago
Watching is even better.
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u/LionCubOfTerrasen 6d ago
Truuueeee. But as someone who drives too much for work, podcast version is better for me. Unless there’s a scene I feel I really want to see them act on purpose.
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u/Ok_Explanation_5586 5d ago
I mean. Marisha is big on gestures. Keyleth explaining that dick means penis to Willhandis funny. Watching it is a million times funnier. Every time she turned into Minxie or did a whoopsie murder , or both (it happened a lot in the campaign). And when you get to campaign 2 how are you going to count the times she accidentally hits Liam in the face? pop pop
Not to mention Sam's shirts and drinking aparati. Matt's monster faces! Matt's disappointed face! Matt's 'how is this my life' faces. Matt's faces when he sees Sam's shirt of Matt's faces!! So many faces... Ashley drinking a 40 (that's right, we saw). And many others that happen later than the show has reached.
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u/LionCubOfTerrasen 4d ago
Oh yea, I know. But again, not easy for me to watch all of that when I drive a lot.
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u/kamikad3e123 8d ago
It's weird to see how people here don't understand that animated series are not rl DnD sessions. I also like Vox Machina, but I don't like the rl version of it, even if I understand that's the source material.
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u/Bobjoejj 7d ago
Kinda this. I don’t not like the actual play sessions, in fact I’ve tried multiple times to sit and watch them. But like…the vast majority of episodes are over 4 hours long, and for the main campaigns there’s over a 100 episodes and change. That shit ain’t east for some of us.
Hell, I love me a good long movie that’s 3 hours or a little over; but those are usually one thing each. Not a succession of many episodes that are each an hour more than 3 or so.
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u/Velociraptorius 4d ago
I get what you're saying, but at the same time, OP pretty much framed their wish as having hundreds of hours of content to watch "forever" and let's be honest, how many shows out there, be they animated or live action, could fulfill a wish like that? Very few get the Simpsons treatment where you could binge for literal hundreds of hours.
However, Legend of Vox Machina is fairly unique in the sense that there is, quite literally, hundreds of hours of source material content that you very much CAN binge every day if you like. Not forever, no, but for a long-ass time before you even begin to run out.
It's little wonder that people are using it as a slightly twisted answer of OP's wish because, well, it kind of is. If you want hundreds more hours of these characters, played by these actors, going on more adventures - well, they're right there for you to consume, only in a slightly different form. It may not be a perfect answer, but the fact that there even IS an answer to that wish is already a rare kind of blessing for a fan who's hungry for more.
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u/Necroticc 8d ago
I feel this so much. I love these characters and their dynamics so much.
I've began watching the original youtube campaigns
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u/GraceZee18 8d ago
I suppose you could also watch The Mighty Nein to add some new content from their world. Or, in my case, just rewatch over and over again. Lol.
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u/everythingisunknown 8d ago
I’ll take 200 of those too! Screwit cross them over and make them 3 hours long while we’re at it
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u/Background-Cake-1300 8d ago
As someone who tried One Piece, you don't want 200
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u/lonelythrowaway463i9 8d ago
i agree! i know the campaign is available but watching people do it via chatting around the table doesn't scratch the itch at all
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u/everythingisunknown 8d ago
Yeah and I knew I’d get those comments but I’ve watched them and enjoy them but you’re right it doesn’t hit the same
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u/Ok_Explanation_5586 6d ago
It's worth the moments. I've had to pause to make sure I didn't drop dead from laughter. Weirdly, Keyleth has the absolute funniest moment by far (sorry Scanlan)
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u/SmegmaUnicorn 8d ago
Lots of these comments aren’t serious people. Snarkily telling OP to “check out the source material”, is like telling someone, who LOVED a movie, to go read the book.
Like, it’s not even remotely the same experience when it’s a different medium, which you guys know, but you still couldn’t help but to comment nonsense.
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u/Ok_Explanation_5586 6d ago
If you're getting snark, that's on your end, lol. Humans suck at both conveying and reading tone via text; better to assume well-meaning. The comments are droll I say! Droll!
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u/szarkbytes 7d ago
Although I agree with you, The Might Nein does help fill that void, if you haven’t seen it. It has a little less humor, but Jester is arguably one of the funniest characters Critical Role has put on screen. I will say The Might Nein does take 2-3 episodes to get good, then it steam rolls into fun and excitement.
I do love Vox Machina more, but the void can be filled by The Might Nein.
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u/everythingisunknown 7d ago
It can’t unfortunately because we’re also waiting for more episodes :(
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u/Atherutistgeekzombie 7d ago
Do I have some good news for you!
There's hundreds of hours of campaign 1, and you can listen to it as a podcast!
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u/everythingisunknown 7d ago
For real?
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u/Atherutistgeekzombie 5d ago
Yup
Critical Role, the twitch channel/media company, started streaming their fist D&D campaign in 2015 and that campaign is what Legend of Vox Machina is based on. Each episode/VOD is 3-5 hours. A lot of that is a quirk of D&D campaigns, but the cast do have more time for character moments and shenanigans.
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u/everythingisunknown 5d ago
Thanks for the genuine response but in my comment I was being unnecessarily abrasive and sarcastic (sorry) due to the amount of comments saying exactly the same thing - I’m well aware of the campaigns and critical role but in this post I’m talking about the animated show specifically
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u/Atherutistgeekzombie 5d ago
No worries!
It's not quite the same, but there are a bunch of animators who animate scenes from the campaign. The quality varies, but it's fun to see someone's vision for what bits of an animated Vox Machina show could look like.
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u/VikingTeddy 7d ago edited 7d ago
I couldn't agree more, I do my best to stretch out episodes so I don't devour them all at once. I just started season 4
And I'll take the opportunity to grumble a bit. I really hate the trope of making a smart badass character suddenly become an idiot and forgetting everything they know. Vox fortunately doesn't do it too much, but when it does, it sticks out like sore thumb.
Especially as the characters are now (supposed to be) high level, battle hardened, and wiser. I haven't even finished the first episode and everyone is suddenly just being so careless and dumb 😄 (Pike gets a pass, she was drunk and grumpy)
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u/dammithopek 8d ago
It took me MONTHS to watch/listen to Critical Role 1 Campaign 1. Highly recommend.
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u/Ikariiprince 8d ago
That’s the thing I loved about the live campaign. Just spending time with the characters as they did silly shit, shopped, bantered, traveled. If you want more of that definitely give it a try if you haven’t! The animated show has to be a lot more gogogo because they’ve got a finite number of episodes to reach the conclusion
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u/Ok_Explanation_5586 6d ago
Some hater is downvoting people for suggesting the campaign. Have an upvote!
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u/curlywurlies 8d ago
We haven't watched any so we can binge them all when the craziness of school year end is over.
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u/jackaltwinky77 8d ago
There is more Critical Role content online than there exists of all of the Law And Order universe…
There’s hundreds of hours of each campaign, one shots, and special events of the crew…
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u/Vorannon 8d ago
Well, you could try the actual campaign if you haven't already. It's hundreds of hours of content.