And lest you think a normal fire-breathing dragon seems generic after his fellow dragons’ unique, gruesome abilities, the series does something new and awe inspiring when the Thordak’s fire turns into a brilliant white beam that instantly levels the city. Acid rain falling from the wings of the black dragon, Umbrasyl, melts innocents in the street poison gas from the green dragon, Raishan, kills scores, including Sovereign Uriel and the white dragon, Vorugal, flash-freezes victims with an explosion of ice. Vox Machina might have defeated a pair of powerful vampires last season and felled a blue dragon, but as they note, Brimscythe was much smaller compared with these four. If there were times in the first season when the level of violence seemed a little showoff-y (“Haha, yeah! Look at this rad shit we’re doing in a cartoon!”), here the gore is entirely, horrifically earned. For four of them to have allied is supremely dangerous. Dragons - especially those of different types - don’t typically get along, let alone work together. We learn they are the Chroma Conclave, representing an unprecedented threat to the realm (and one of the most beloved story lines from Critical Role’s first campaign). That lasts about 30 seconds before four gigantic kaiju-size dragons descend on the city and lay it to ruin in minutes. Season two opens with them back in Emon as Sovereign Uriel announces his intention to abdicate the throne to usher in a better, safer Tal’Dorei. Although the show started with a messy tavern brawl, the group soon took on much more important tasks, such as killing a blue dragon that had infiltrated the city of Emon’s leadership and defeating the Briarwoods, a pair of vampires who had held Percy’s home, Whitestone, hostage. Last season, Vox Machina - the adventuring party consisting of Vax’ildan, Vex’ahlia, Scanlan, Pike, Percy, Keyleth, and Grog - made heroes of themselves. Or maybe that’s because there wasn’t much room for jokes in the season premiere, which wastes no time before things get apocalyptic. And in the process, it has gotten better at tailoring its story and tone for the animated format, smoothing out some of the whiplash that makes D&D so fun to play but was sometimes distracting to watch.
Everyone has a better sense of who these characters are and what sort of fantasy world they live in, so it’s easier to set them off on an adventure without feeling as if the show’s trying to prove something.
It’s not quite a level-up, but the story - originally told over the course of hundreds of hours of livestreamed, improvised D&D play on Critical Role - seems more comfortable in this scripted, animated format than last season did. So The Legend of Vox Machina has the advantage there.īased on this first batch of three episodes, the sophomore season also has an advantage over the first.
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I don’t know what getting a whole season of a TV show made and scheduled entails exactly, but I know it cannot be more challenging than scheduling a D&D session with your friends and their busy calendars. Welcome to the second season of The Legend of Vox Machina, Prime Video’s animated adaptation of the Critical Role web series in which a bunch of nerdy-ass voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons.
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