#oh i'm no longer a stan once i got on mood stabilizers

[utilitycaster]

At the risk of sounding like some kind of "in my day" person, it does strike me as odd how, in a fairly packed three weeks of Critical Role shows (two full one-shots, Candela Obscura, various Candela Obscura supporting content, probably a 4SD episode), people are referring to it as a "hiatus"; and also how some people seem to treat Candela as some kind of inconvenience or consolation prize.

Maybe this was just the nature of my corner of the fandom at the time but during the pretty intense programming of 2018-2019 I felt like I was kind of weird for never bothering with Pub Draw and Mame Drop; it felt like most people were watching all or at least most of the completely tangential hangout shows of that era, plus the weekly episodes, Talks Machina, and whatever one-shots popped up. And I obviously don't think you should be obligated to watch anything you don't want to; but now it feels like it's flipped not just to people only watching the main campaign and maybe 4 Sided Dive; but genuinely seeing anything else as an interruption, even when it's something the cast is clearly pretty passionate about or when it's one of the best things they're putting out right now (see also: Calamity) or, to be honest, when it was Campaign 3 during the solstice split and you weren't seeing some of the characters week to week.

Your taste is your taste, but genuinely, one day Campaign 3 will come to a natural end. I think if you treat everything put out by Critical Role that isn't Campaign 3 as detracting from it, that will not be something you'll be able to handle well. And if you cannot handle seeing The Character for three weeks...you need to perhaps look at your life and find something else to fill it.