The Legend of Vox Machina Free on YouTube for Limited Time

The Critical Role animated series The Legend of Vox Machina is now free on YouTube for a limited time. To promote the launch of the next series of the show, Prime Video has put up the entirety of the first two seasons of The Legend of Vox Machina on their YouTube channel. The episodes will remain up through October 3, which conveniently is when the next season of the show premieres. You can watch the first episode of the show down below:


The Legend of Vox Machina is the result of a successful Kickstarter campaign run way back in 2021, with Critical Role raising over $11 million to fund production of the first season. Amazon Studios picked up the show and renewed it for subsequent seasons. Critical Role and animation studio Titmouse are also developing an animated series based on the show's second campaign, with The Mighty Nein show expected to air in 2025. The cast of Critical Role, all of whom are professional voice actors, voice their respective characters in the shows, with DM Matt Mercer lending his voice talents to a variety of characters and villains.

 

[Von Ether]

I'm not a CR fan (or anti-fan) but wasn't the original adventures in Pathfinder? That would have tempted players to pick half-elves, I suppose.

Everything is subjective so I find the writing serviceable, but not out and out bad.

 

[kenmarable]

That sure is a lot of half-elves... (and for classes that don't even use Cha, so it's not even for the free stats?)

Almost like some people might pick a race based on things other than stat bonuses.

 

[Clint_L]

Watched the first two episodes.
This writing really is bad, huh.
Amazon not putting up actual subtitles to Youtube is not helping my viewing experience.
That sure is a lot of half-elves... (and for classes that don't even use Cha, so it's not even for the free stats?)
Scanlan without Sam Riegel grinning is just incredibly annoying, and I say that as someone that doesn't even watch CR.
I wish there was even one funny thing in here.
The party is definitely a PC party, as no-one is interested in having any stakes in anything.

So, is it worth watching further? I know pilots can be rough, but my god.

The Legend of Vox Machina | Rotten Tomatoes

Vox Machina, a band of eight unlikely heroes, find themselves on a quest to save the realm of Exandria from dark magical forces.

www.rottentomatoes.com

It's art, so everyone's opinion is valid. Yours is a distinct minority, though, given that the series sits at 100% from critics, 95% from audiences, not to mention being immensely popular.

I guess you're in that 5%! That's art, for you. My spouse is kinda "meh" on it, too; they don't like animation much in general. I love it.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Bad writing? The script and voice acting are far better than Rings of Power IMO.

 

[SuperTD]

The Legend of Vox Machina | Rotten Tomatoes

Vox Machina, a band of eight unlikely heroes, find themselves on a quest to save the realm of Exandria from dark magical forces.

www.rottentomatoes.com

It's art, so everyone's opinion is valid. Yours is a distinct minority, though, given that the series sits at 100% from critics, 95% from audiences, not to mention being immensely popular.

I guess you're in that 5%! That's art, for you. My spouse is kinda "meh" on it, too; they don't like animation much in general. I love it.

Regarding the first two episodes though, it's not a hot take to think they're significantly worse than the rest of the show.

Bad writing? The script and voice acting are far better than Rings of Power IMO.

Really setting the bar high there

 

[SuperTD]

Oops, double post

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Bad writing? The script and voice acting are far better than Rings of Power IMO.

The space battles are also way worse than in Star Wars.

 

[fluffybunbunkittens]

It is also in other languanges, at least I have could watched in Amazon Prime España. (= Spain).

Only auto-generated and auto-translated captions for me.

 

[fluffybunbunkittens]

Didn't hear anyone say that it does get any better than these first 2 episodes, so we'll just leave it at that then.

 

[Von Ether]

Didn't hear anyone say that it does get any better than these first 2 episodes, so we'll just leave it at that then.

Perhaps I was too subtle?

For me, that vibe is with the PCs being a bit lost at first (because the players don't know what to really do yet) but things pick up as they find their purpose.