#I literally will kill on the hill of defending variety of length and format in storytelling and I AM stronger than the haters

[essektheylyss]

Spice! 💖 & 💀

💖: What is your biggest unpopular opinion about the series?

UNEDITED LONG-FORM ACTUAL PLAY IS GREAT. I don't think this is actually that unpopular of an opinion but every time I hear people going "well, Critical Role would be better if it was edited down" all I can hear is "we don't need filler episodes, toss 'em!" Sure, it would be better for some people, but it would be worse for others. There are soooo many really crisply edited actual play shows, and I really enjoy some of them! I love an economical story! But what I really want most is variety, and if you try to shove every single instance of a particular genre into one format, you completely lose the variety that different formats bring to storytelling. This is a major problem with TV right now, and frankly it's a problem across most industries given the late-capitalist hellscape of gotta-go-fast (for as low a cost as possible), and having a show that does take five hundred hours to tell a full story is, like, actually miraculous and so very dear to me and anytime someone suggests that that be eliminated I start mentally sharpening knives.

💀: If you had to choose one major character to die, who would you choose?

Okay honestly, I would be fascinated to see what happens if Imogen dies at this point in the story. I think that would be wild. I am very excited to see how they approach a PC death this late in the plot as is, but also Imogen dying at this junction feels like it would cause a massive plot vacuum and given the medium I would love to know how they would handle that.