In the original stream Scanlan Died in the battle against the Chroma Conclave.
But still, he had made a promise to Kaylie that he would be careful and he would come back alive. This was, to Scanlan, his one chance to show his daughter he wasn't someone who broke promises, so he told the party, he cannot die no matter what.
Scanlan died. He (in his mind) broke his promise.
The party brought Kaylie to his resurrection ritual. Which while done so she could help bring him back, to him it meant showing Kaylie his failure of keeping the one promise he did to her.
And while he was unconscious afterwards (because Sam Riegel was away for real life stuff), the gorup tried to do a prank to him while he was asleep, which the character did not find funny at all (Sam Riegel probably loved it).
the was the background for why scanlan had his outburst in the original Bard's Lament.
While it was initiated because Sam Riegel wanted to do a twist with the character, he took advantage of all of that to give a foundation to Scanlan's furious outburst, which was mixed with Scanlan's own biased views of the dynamic in the group.
In terms of DND roleplaying, it was *chef's kiss* what makes for great table moments. In-universe it was one of the rawest moments in which Scanlan said what he emotionally felt, but which hurt everyone deeply and each reacted to that in different ways.
He wasn't right. He wasn't wrong. And Sam Riegel was a goddamn troll who had read everyone's wiki entry before the session so he could pretend Scanlan remembered shit about anyone.
So while the context is different. and I understand why it was done the way it was. This version of Bard's Lament is lacking something.
It's lacking Vox Machina's anger.
Percy answering back to Scanlan by shouting "what's Kalyie's mom's name?"
Pike getting offended by Scanlan calling her divine powers "weird magic"
This might be an unpopular opinion, but the episode should have ended with Vox machina taking Myth Carver from him. an ugly break-up that might never heal.
