no mercy, only frogs

wait I also didn't say this during the episode but like the Laudna appearance was SO fucking weird. Like within the episode, it's fine - you're in a creepy basement, a weird dead girl shows up, she's a sun tree corpse, sure, that all tracks. The fact that she's fairly coherent and with it is honestly a welcome change from wdb's canon and I approve of the actual scene as like, a scene. but like. so Vox Machina is just like dang the basement collapsed on the creepy girl who was living there and had been the effigy of Vex! we will never think of this ever again! like what are you doing.

I will admit the Vax blight thing went from "maybe they're doing something interesting with this" to "well they have three episodes to tell me they haven't just fully gone stupid on Vax's plot in every single aspect" but everything else has been great on the Spike & Greg show

again, refraining from hard judgement until the final three episodes of the season but just thinking through it: we have Keyleth working on a cure, possibly, so the idea of having Vax healed, and then immediately killing him when they face off against Vecna - which I assume is the closer on the season - and THEN having the revenant thing is like. this didn't achieve anything other than make Vax dying for two seasons instead of one for two separate reasons, which is like, really dumb. If she doesn't heal him, then it's still "Vax gives his life bc he's dying and then he just kind of sticks around a bit longer as a revenant" which is also pretty dumb. so do you not have Vecna kill him off and get rid of the whole revenant plot? In that case do you just like, heal him and then have him die in the final battle, since he's not really in shape to keep up? Are you just going to not kill him off at all, which, honestly, might be the move plot-wise for the animated continuity, like, if he's not permadead may as well just skip the song and dance and prioritize the beacons as the thing Ludinus needs in a potential Campaign 3 adaptation.

rb to bonk prev with an empty paper towel roll

baseball fights are better than hockey fights because everyone expects a fight in hockey. baseball fights are some real hater shit