@jackdog06
Cerrit using his detective skills to discover what his children were like was genuinely one of the saddest moments in the series and probably in Critical Role.
@alatarmaia7
Aabria talking about Brennan not doing any affectation for Asmodeus is so on point. I showed some clips to my brother, a Dimension 20 fan, and he immediately went "oh, when brennan doesn't do any accent for the villain, those are the scariest ones"
@Blue_Lunacy
When Luis said that Zerxus red flag was his instant attachment issue, it gave me a pause. Most media romanticize the idea of love at first sight. Luis straight up spitting fact that this can be problematic.
@tristanescure7384
The little nugget of genius that I want to point out is what Brennan did with Vespin Chloras. To completely flip the scrip on the concept of an evil wizard in a way that made perfect sense as a symbol of hubris was brillant ! We only got glimpses but the story was perfect : 1. The Matron of Ravens ascends, making a precedent that mortals can become gods by replacing existing ones. 2. The best wizards of the age try to replicate the Matron's ritual but keep failing, presumably because they can't find the right names. 3. Vespin Chloras tries to be smarter than anyone else by aiming to replace a betrayer god because he reasonned that he could become omnipotent AND destroy an evil entity in on fell swoop. 4. Vespin comes face to face with the Lord of Hells but the ritual would take away his own name and he just can't let that go, so he makes a bargain with the devil to never be forgotten. 5. Asmodeus fucks up everything and honestly he didn't even have to do any of the legwork. 6. Vespin Chloras has one last moment of realization where he just breaks down because of how much he messed up. This little story in the story is so good and fucked up and I love it !
@jamesmaceaveli6679
Please for the love of Asmodeous can we have more Brennan, Lou and Luis. They are a welcome addition to the CR family
@alexfelton5299
What really stood out at a moment for me, and has stuck with me since finishing watching, wasn't like the the overarching theme or the poignant ending or any of that; it was a throwaway moment in a long series of throwaway moments coughed forth from the endless Atheneum of Brennan's mind. When all the people were fleeing and teleporting and whatnot, Brennan talked about a wizard that was working the teleportation circles and warning people not to crowd them for safety reasons, even though the sky was breaking and the world was ending. Then another fleeing wizard, who I guess outranked him, hit him with a Control Person spell and yelled "Get us out of here!" and shoved his way onto the circle before the flash went off, vivisecting several people due to overcrowding. It's such a Blink And You'll Miss It moment that easily gets lost in a literal 6 hour feature film, but just the hard baked context and genuine desperation of the moment and Brennan's penchant for understanding people and the ways in which they act made for, imo, the rawest moment of the whole series, and one of the hardest in CR altogether. I still think about it.
@vante2
Zerxus wasn't just a "I can fix him" guy. He was a "I MUST fix him" guy. That was his flaw and his biggest failing as a Redemption Oath Paladin to the extreme. By his own creed and commitment to his oath, he tries and fails to do the right thing and turn evil into good, and it backfires so horrendously that it only makes sense that it just becomes his undoing and twisted unmaking. Asmodeus didn't just settle for breaking him, he insisted that he would use his own desire against him and force him into an eternal servitude, deluding him with the hope that he may still some day succeed.
@BordrKing
I was DESTROYED when Brennan flashed back to Nidus and his brother looking up at the city like "Do you think we'll ever get there?" That shit lives in my head rent free
@DeinosDinos
I love that here Brennan is talking about how he's spamming Matt's phone and asking him about every little thing like that annoys him and in the GM roundtable Matt gushed about how nice it was to have a collaborator when it comes to worldbuilding. It's so nice :)
@RJ_Ehlert
I got so lost in the story, I thought that Zerxius was legitimately talking to a surviving good Celestial part of Asmodeus, that was trapped in this devil's body. I thought (I wanted) it could be possible to redeem some part of that Betrayer God. I bought the idea that Asmodeus sided with the first people (the Primordials) of Exandria and only wanted to take the magic away from mortals, to return the world to the way it was before mortals had magic. The father of lies got me.
@mapleviking8980
One of my favorite parts of Calamity was when Brennan nonchalantly brutally murdered Zerxus multiple times
@jackdog06
The fan theory that the Orb going to Cerrit’s daughter kickstarted the Cobalt Reserve is perfect as far as I’m concerned. I love it. Edit 2025: huh.
@OptionZero
Sam Riegel being told he could pick essentially unlimited magical items for a mini campaign called CALAMITY and choosing a WAND OF SMILES is….very on brand. Also, shouts to Lou for saying he couldn’t roll up to Critical Role as a fuckin’ bard, when he’s sitting at a couch with the bardiest bard to ever bard, a bard that fought Vecna, a bard that wore a pink leotard to a live show, a bard that sang about anal beads in an animated show on Amazon….
@AmbientSpectrum
Brennan was absolutely right about “And Remember The Market Of Wonders” being a PERFECT joke, because it relieves us in the moment of genuine heartache without eroding what that heartache stood for.
@rosscalhoun3389
An important part of the Cobalt Soul fan-theory that wasn't mentioned in the stream is that the symbol of the Cobalt Soul is entirely contained within a circle. You know, what happens when you take a (magic memory) sphere and represent it in 2D.
@taycent
I don't know if I'll ever stop being giddy at seeing Brennan and Lou on the CR set.
@Majyenta
The first scene with Orwyn, he asks Cerrit how the wife is doing and they should come over for dinner. The last scene with Orwyn is him having the Rune of Recall potions for Cerrit’s kids, with the Rune set to bring them to their mother. The first interaction seemed as if Cerrit had kept his partner in the dark, sharing nothing of what went on at home (furthering the pattern of these all being extremely lonely people). But the fact that Orwyn knew sending the kids to their Mother meant getting them out of the city means that he did know that she and Cerrit had split. The first scene of them was Orwyn gently prodding. A casual ask. An open ended dinner invitation that could be construed as mostly small talk, but he was gently trying to bring them together. Orwyn now favorite NPC. Even above Bolo
@SuperEdvinsson
I was really surprised to find out that Brennan and Luis didn't know each other prior to the Calamity campaign. The way Luis kicked it off in the first episode I thought for sure they had been playing together many times before.
@sharpshooter9407
As a Filipino who actually does practice Kali, hearing Travis explain his process for creating Cerrit brought a smile to my face.
@tromar5758