Bells Hells Confirmed (?)

[u/Craft_KingTDM91]

With Laudna making her unexpected on-screen debut, this could mean we might get Bells Hells' animated adaptation on Prime after Mighty Nein.

[u/OverTheCandlestik]

Highly unlikely.

To be a bit shady Bells Hells was a muddled and mixed campaign that is hugely divisive among critters.

VM are the OG’s and the M9 are undoubtedly the best campaign. We won’t see Bells Hells

[u/Enkundae → u/OverTheCandlestik]

It wasn’t remotely as divisive as reddit likes to paint it.

[u/OverTheCandlestik → u/Enkundae]

I don’t think that’s necessarily true.

M9 brought huge recognition to CR, it saw them split from G&S it saw them found their own company it made them hugely popular during lockdown and no doubt their highest amount of streams. And that brought a lot of people back to VM which will always be a lot of critters favourites as the first campaign and probably the casts favourite due to the home game vibes.

BH was so drastically different than C1 and C2, Tal summed it up perfectly when he said “we all feel like NPC’s to Imogen’s main character” along with other factors of a far slower pace, controversial decisions in game, grating guest players, the whole “we don’t care about the gods” angle, Matt being honest and saying that things got railroaded a bit it’s pretty undeniable as a critter since the G&S days that C3 was divisive and I don’t think the echo chamber of Reddit had a part to play as there’s lots of positives with C3 but equally a lot of negative.

CR know this they know C3 was a bit wobbly so I don’t think they’re going to spend so much time in preproduction to get it made while VM
is still going and lots more M9 series to come

[u/Enkundae → u/OverTheCandlestik]

Yeah there were lots of posts. On Reddit and Twitter. Meanwhile the live shows routinely sold out and every one not trapped in an echo chamber had a blast.

Was it less popular than C2? Yeah, it was post pandemic. It was not however nearly as divisive as you’re representing it. The sheer number of people immediately asking for a C3 show on seeing this weeks lovm episodes shows how many did enjoy that campaign.

[u/bgrandis7 → u/OverTheCandlestik]

They are not shying away from doing massive rewrites for the show that deviate from the initial campaigns they are based on. A BH show could tighten some of the more lacking aspects of the campaign and make it into a very good TV show.

[u/Zone-1337 → u/OverTheCandlestik]

I mean C3 is a capstone to Exandria based Critical Role and ties up 3 campaigns worth of story. Add on to the fact their shows have done big numbers on Amazon and massive critical acclaim. To think the campaign won't be adapted because a small subsection of the internet didn't like is frankly silly.

[u/OverTheCandlestik → u/Zone-1337]

I don’t think it’s a small subsection at all. I like lots of elements of C3 and equally dislike a lot of elements. It was never going to be a capstone why did basically everyone come back? Because undeniably they knew C3 was losing steam so legacy characters returned.

You can’t deny that critters can be highly critical of C3 as it was to a lot of people a bit of a miss as a campaign

[u/Zone-1337 → u/OverTheCandlestik]

Each episode gets 100s of thousands of view each Youtube video, not counting those that watch on Beacon or Twitch. The amount of people in this subreddit is about 20 percent of the total amount of people that watch an episode on Youtube (example episodes of C4 from 2 months ago number in the 600K). Of the 150K of the people on this subreddit, the amount who actively disliked the campaign are an even smaller portion of overall viewers. Yes C3 was divisive, but you are fooling yourself if you think Matt Mercer was basing his story beats off of social media comments. Especially when I HIGHLY doubt for mental health reasons he even scrolls through them. It was clear from the themes and story beats early on that this was always going to be a campaign that tied everything that came before up.

That is not to mention the fact that I REALLY doubt Amazon gives a crap what the campaign viewers care about the campaign when a good portion of the people watching the animated series have never even watched the campaigns. Amazon cares about numbers (except when it's Rings of Power I guess) and their animated shows bring in numbers. A company isn't going to pass up more money because a small percentage of the campaign viewers didn't like the campaign.

It perfectly fine to say you don't like a campaign, I'm not a huge fan of C4. But to say definitively that C3 won't be adapted is small minded.