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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.

A little while ago–I’m not sure when it was posted, but I first saw it shortly after the end of the campaign–he wrote a thing where he stated that he though of DnD as a war game and not collaborative storytelling.  Now, I’m not going to go stand outside his house holding a boombox playing “You play DnD wrong” over my head. For one thing, I don’t know where he lives.  For another, that’s a perfectly reasonable way to play the game, as long as everyone is on board with the playstyle.  But I keep coming back to it every time he pops up with regards to CR, because it seems to me that he’s sort of misunderstood why CR is so popular in the first place.  As a group we–the cast and fans alike–care about the story that’s being told.  We sat and watched six hours of the Vecna fight because we cared about Vox Machina and wanted them to succeed.  The final boss could have been literally anything in the Monster Manual and it would have been the same.  So while it’s a perfectly fine way to play DnD, it’s not the best fit for writing CR, and I’m not surprised–I’m disappointed as all hell, but not surprised–that the characterization is so flat.  

(Especially with Vex, honestly.  Her story arc was entirely emotional.  I guess we had the Soundor fight, but that was not the primary concern of that scene.)  

(Also I can’t help but feel the comic falls into one of the major sins of Game of Thrones as an adaptation, that you can so clearly tell which of VM are Col/ville’s favorites, because everyone else so clearly gets the shaft, but that’s another post.)