![]() ![]() They have been together for five weeks exactly when Fjord and Jester and Yasha are kidnapped. They have known each other for three weeks when Caleb tells Beau and Nott about the worst thing he’s ever done in his life for two weeks when they watch the Zauber Spire come crashing down and the world change for a week, when they’re proclaimed the heroes of Allfield and give themselves a nonsense name and decide that maybe there’s something to this mercenary business after all. Or: the Mighty Nein arrive in Hupperdook and throw themselves into a drinking competition party together on the one-month anniversary of meeting each other, to the day. Two weeks, and the whole first week of it is just dealing with the Trickfoots and jumping off of cliffs out of sheer boredom. Pike’s family swings through Whitestone while Keyleth and Vax are having a quick weekend trip to bother family and help out at the bakery, and sixteen days later–that’s it. It’s a whole ten days after that when Vax dies in the pit of a kraken’s stomach, and it’s all so fast. (Percy signs a contract with a devil a whole four weeks after he wakes up from Orthax’s private hell.) Vex dies twice in the space of six and a half weeks, and Percy dies twice in the space of a week and a half, and Scanlan dies twice in two days. Nine days between Percy’s resurrection and the Thordak battle. They get four weeks between Grog’s death and Percy’s. Three weeks after that, they bury Tiberius it has been eight weeks since they last saw him alive, and four and a half weeks since the Conclave descended, which means he lived less than a month after leaving them on the road to Whitestone. It will take the city decades to recover, but the whole Chroma Conclave has been destroyed before it’s even time for most places to begin the spring planting.Īnd also: Vex dies in an underwater tomb, and Kraven Edge kills Grog six days later. Westruun is taken by Umbrasyl, and then a herd of goliaths, and then freed again in all of about fifteen days. It’s not even officially spring yet, when Thordak and Raishan die. Half of Tal’dorei is razed and then freed again in less time than it takes to get some things off of Amazon backorder. The entire Chroma Conclave arc kicks off six days after Winter’s Crest, and 47 days later Vox Machina staggers home with Scanlan’s body, Raishan slain and the whole world saved. ![]() One hundred and seven days, for the Briarwoods, and the dragons, and the Feywild and the City of Brass and the Plane of Fire and the Plane of Water and the Nine Hells, and all of it, every vestige, every battle, every death. There are less than four months between the night Vox Machina sits down for dinner in Emon with Lord and Lady Briarwood, and the morning Vex’ahlia returns Castle Whitestone with the severed hand of a Gray Render and the whole world fades to montage for a year. And then looking at date counts on Critrole Stats and just…thinking about it. I spend way too much time thinking about timelines in Critical Role, how fast everything happens (and even the cast doesn’t always realize). Saying the writers just suddenly realised/didn’t realise yet the POC women “stole” the show is doing them injustice. Every single part of it, every single character is relevant. Orange is the New Black is brilliant writing. Janae, Tucky, Flores, even Alex (though she deserves most of what she gets) are a few of the women who have suffered solely because of Piper’s selfishness, insensitivity and self-righteousness. She may care about others, but for the most part she’s oblivious to the injustice done to others and the privileges she herself enjoys and her being oblivious has serious consequences for others. And while she thinks of herself as educated, she lacks immensely in awareness of the world around her. But she’s also much more selfish than she thinks she is. She thinks of herself as a good person who cares about others. Piper is a mirror held to that section of the audience that enjoys the same privileges she does. But she’s also white, upper class and educated. You can never dismiss the injustice of what happens to the others by saying “well they’re criminals”, because Piper is there to show that they don’t all get treated the same way. Piper does have an important role in the show though. But their actual story was always about the other women in the show. That’s how they got the show accepted by producers and audiences alike, by telling them it’s a fish out of water story about a nice educated white lady. The writers said Piper was their trojan horse.
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