out-there-on-the-maroon:

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age at which…”

what kills me is it’s written by colville, self proclaimed as one of the show’s biggest fans and a friend of the cast so that’s why he got the job. i saw a preview for one of the issues’ dialogue he was writing once and i was very confused that that character was written so poorly if he loves them so much

The more I see of the comics the less I believe he’s actually watched the full show. In fact it makes more sense if he hasn’t watched the full show, started watching late in the run, and/or skipped around a lot.

I feel like he just watched some of the key fights to make youtube videos analyzing them, and some highlights for story beats. Hence his baffling depiction of Vex as a bitchy aloof snob, who’s proud of her elf heritage, hates her mom, went to “assassin school,” and has never depended on anyone in her life. (Vex is the gregarious people person from the start of the show, she has a very bad relationship with her father and feels insecure about her heritage, she loved her mom, she was a ranger and MUCH LATER took levels in rogue, she and Vax have never been apart before and on the show and practically have a panic attack at being separated.) This stuff in the comic goes against everything we’ve seen of her on the show. 

I can’t understand how someone who watched the Feywild Arc could have done this. It simply doesn’t make sense to me. Who could watch the Feywild Arc and then do this to Vex? People who HATE Vex don’t mischaracterize her to this extent! I’ve seen them, people who hate Vex highlight and misinterpret her negative qualities and insecurities, but they don’t make her into an entirely different character.

Even the roughest, newest, stumbling fanfic author does research into the source material before writing something. Especially something that’ll get a lot of attention. I am so confused about these comics and what is going on with the writing. The thing that makes the most sense to me is the idea that Matt Col/ville hasn’t watched the full show and has likely skipped large portions of it.

He literally said once that is is funny that he spends so much time talking about critical role and yet has watched so little of it.

To be exact, I think he watched the Thordak fight, the Kraken fight, and the Vecna fight, because those he did videos about. I didn’t even bother with the Vecna one, but the one about Thordak was “well, that fight was easy and underwhelming, here’s HOW MUCH MEANER I WOULD HAVE BEEN” and given his reactions on twitter during Vecna, I’m pretty sure the other one wasn’t much different.

Also, more and more people are saying that Vex was blatantly lying to Keyleth to shake her off. Okay. Then that was a veeeery specific lie that was veeeeery absurdly phrased. Vex is actually good at lying. She has like the second highest Charisma after Scanlan, 17 total. She’s better at bullshitting than that. Hell, her messing with the merchant in the first issue was better bullshitting than that.

(Also, even if she was lying, which yes, please, the fact that it seems entirely believable for her to be written that way in these comics is kind of a problem in and of itself.)

People say the actors have said the twins were very stand-offish in the beginning. That’s cool, but why is Vex stand-offish and downright mean to Vax when they’re alone? And no, not in the competitive or teasing way we see on the show. Actually mean.

I’ve also seen someone say the whole bit about being noble in the first issue was about lying to yourself to make yourself feel better, which, okay, cool. But why would she lie about that to Vax, the only person capable of calling her on that bullshit? Not that she never lies to Vax, but it’s usually about how she’s fine when she’s clearly not, to spare his feelings. If anything, going on about the nobility thing makes it abundantly clear that she’s NOT FINE.

(And if Vex had a habit of making a thing about the nobility thing, rewatch the goddamn Feywild arc. Vax was completely clueless that this even MATTERED to her, which Liam also confirmed in a later talks episode.)

Yes, all of this has the seal of approval from the cast. It is a well-selling part of their brand. I’m not saying that they hate it or anything, but even if they did, what, you think they’d probably talk shit about their own brand, be unprofessional, endanger profits, AND start a gigantic shitstorm on- and offline? That’s not how business works.