THE TEMPLE OF TRUTH | THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA 4x9 REACTION | Critical Role | Review

[00:00:00]Welcome back to this is the Omniverse for episode 9 of season 4 of The Legend of Ox Machina. Last episode he finally reunited with Scandin though after everything that transpired in the last episode. He's still not coming with us just yet. Um he's not ready. He's going through his own thing. But he did give us Myth Carver to take along with us on our journey. Wild episode. Fantastic. Um but yeah, we got more to get into. So let's get ready to jump in. If you want to see the full length reaction, as always, you can check it out over on Patreon. Over there you can watch it without all the edits we got to do to get this stuff up on YouTube. This is a great way to support the channel and help us do things you do over here. But at the end of the day, really appreciate enjoy this reaction to please leave a like, drop a comment, subscribe if you're not already, cuz it really helps these videos out. Huge shout out to the team over at Prepper for helping me edit down these highlights for you guys here on YouTube. And that'll send out the way. Let's get ready to hop into episode 9. Here we go.

[00:00:46]>> Are you sure this tracking gem of yours isn't malfunctioning?

[00:00:49]>> Alexandria, only two things never waver.

[00:00:52]Gems and my hair.

[00:00:56]>> I love magic.

[00:00:59]We know. We know.

[00:01:04]>> God, he is just getting worse and worse.

[00:01:08]>> It's just from being crammed in that carriage. I need to stretch.

[00:01:13]>> You need to sit down.

[00:01:15]>> Yeah. You hear that heartbeat? That thumping.

[00:01:18]>> There is a cure. I can feel it. Just hold on.

[00:01:27]I really feel like we're setting up a big old loss for Vax, though.

[00:01:32]>> You okay, [ __ ] You know, Mom, I miss him, too. If you want to talk.

[00:01:37]>> Aha.

[00:01:41]>> Oh, yeah. She's already sortified it >> right now. I just want to find Delilah and make her pay.

[00:01:48]>> I wasn't talking about Scadlin.

[00:01:51]>> Yeah. Ah.

[00:01:56]Oh god, look at this.

[00:02:01]>> What do you see?

[00:02:03]>> Well, there's our BIC friend and the animal dude.

[00:02:06]>> Death cultists. Some supernatural villains. I Wait, >> another orb.

[00:02:11]>> No, there's a second orb.

[00:02:14]>> There's not just two, though, cuz we saw another one in a wholly different temple somewhere else at the end of last season. That wasn't it. At least that's not what I remember it looking like.

[00:02:27]It was another underground ziggurat. Of >> course, there's another [ __ ] orb. The dark bard that us right to it. Any sign of the death knight or necroassin?

[00:02:36]>> Is who now?

[00:02:39]>> I gave them catchy names from my book with the priestess of night and the beast master on alive. Five.

[00:02:52]Why? Oh, I love it though so much.

[00:02:57]>> It's a portal.

[00:02:58]>> Oh, [ __ ] lovely.

[00:03:01]Oh, and there she is.

[00:03:07]There's our Everite priestess as well.

[00:03:13]>> For tonight, his most faithful will be granted entry into Tharfala to help complete his ascension. Oh god.

[00:03:23]>> Cath and ruice. The world shall be unmade.

[00:03:31]>> Yeah. And I just noticed that amulet she's wearing is the same one that was in uh Tion's dad's study that uh triggered that vision from Pike.

[00:03:40]>> Kwan is probably not great. Yeah, but we got this. And if it can destroy him.

[00:03:44]>> Our priority is staying alive at any cost. Have you asked the Everite?

[00:03:50]I'm not like you, Vax. I don't need the go-ahhead from the matron to get [ __ ] done.

[00:03:57]>> Something about that's going to be leading us astray. Maybe even like her tunnel vision on this is something they're relying on. Hell, maybe the vision she's been given.

[00:04:08]>> Perhaps even the regenerative powers of Delila's >> is to get her to do something specific.

[00:04:13]>> We're not using your silly names.

[00:04:15]>> I am Death Knight Fox.

[00:04:18]>> Death Knight does [ __ ] No magic should work within the bounds of this circle.

[00:04:22]>> That's where we kill those unkillable bastards. Fighting without powers feels risky.

[00:04:27]>> EUREKA TO THE TERRY VAN.

[00:04:34]>> PERHAPS, but we'd also mean >> Okay. And what about the >> Oh, indeed.

[00:04:43]>> He's found a best friend.

[00:04:45]>> Mind filling the rest of us in? It's black powder. Pike Grog and the twins will lure Delilah's alive five.

[00:04:54]>> The disdain in saying that.

[00:04:56]>> Meanwhile, >> a little look from Grog cuz he doesn't like Pike being in this state.

[00:05:03]>> We like the fuses. Get clear. And >> boom. OUR ENEMIES ARE VANQUISHED. The climactic finale of our story.

[00:05:11]>> Science.

[00:05:13]>> Oh my god.

[00:05:16]Oh god, that's crazy. I love it. The evolution of their relationship with Tyrion is should be studied.

[00:05:30]>> If this is the end, I want you to know >> it won't be the end. Stay with Vex. I'll make sure these bastards don't lay a hand on you.

[00:05:44]>> Yeah. I think something's going to happen and then Keith is going to do something as a tradeoff and it's just going to exacerbate everything even further maybe. I don't know.

[00:05:58]>> Got Will killed Grog and we're going to avenge him.

[00:06:04]>> Grog with the sympathy and her with not.

[00:06:07]Ah, it's breaking my heart seeing what this is doing to her. Tarian Darington is always primed for an explosive climax.

[00:06:15]>> Kind of got to focus here. Unless either of you know how to shape a tunnel through 100 ft of rock.

[00:06:20]>> In theory, what could >> Oh my god.

[00:06:24]H.

[00:06:27]>> Okay.

[00:06:28]>> Oh [ __ ] Yo, >> you've got to be kidding me.

[00:06:33]>> But do keep it down.

[00:06:37]>> Terry, move.

[00:06:41]Don't have to wait a second longer than necessary.

[00:06:43]>> But they're so heavy. I'm getting these things on my fingers. Oh, is little elf boy contagious?

[00:06:48]>> Oh my god.

[00:06:49]>> The most deserving chosen to pass through and enter Tharamala to meet our lord.

[00:06:56]>> Hey, what gives you the right to seek his favor ahead of us?

[00:06:59]>> I didn't see you move. They asked you to move.

[00:07:02]>> Brother is dying, you prick. Only the whispered one can save him. See for yourselves. As long as you're suffering, we might as well take advantage of it.

[00:07:12]>> Fair.

[00:07:13]>> Terry and Darington. Nerves of steel steadied his sy hands. What are you?

[00:07:18]>> He's helping a >> one false move and they be Barry and Darington.

[00:07:29]>> Best friends.

[00:07:30]>> Just trying to relax him.

[00:07:32]>> Our friends are up there facing immortal freaks without magic. What I'm saying is there's enough powder here to level a force. So perhaps >> guys, son of a [ __ ] >> I will not fail him.

[00:07:43]>> But we aren't going to get anywhere unless we FUNCTION AS A GODDAMN TEAM.

[00:07:53]>> [ __ ] Hopefully they noticed. But >> I will deliver you to the ceremony personally. Okay, they made it in.

[00:08:08]>> What's this thing say?

[00:08:09]>> Some [ __ ] about the dead guy in there.

[00:08:11]>> Well, at least they said some [ __ ] instead of nothing.

[00:08:14]>> This isn't the time.

[00:08:15]>> Yeah, but when is the time? Will died and you won't say nothing about it.

[00:08:21]>> We'll honor him when this is all done. I promise.

[00:08:25]>> I don't like what this is doing to our gang, man. It's really putting him through the ringer emotionally.

[00:08:41]Keith's punch.

[00:08:42]>> Come on, think, Terry. Think.

[00:08:47]>> Maybe a little quieter.

[00:08:49]>> A sapphire of silence.

[00:08:57]Yo, let's go.

[00:09:01][ __ ] yeah.

[00:09:06]>> What is this [ __ ] made of, man?

[00:09:09]He tanked Grog. He's tanking her earth form.

[00:09:11]>> Your blessed followers will travel through the orb to meet the whispered one. The end of suffering.

[00:09:18]>> It won't just shred them to pieces.

[00:09:20]>> Lloyd Eternal.

[00:09:22]>> No, child. Do not.

[00:09:28]A moment of patience will spare you his fate.

[00:09:32]>> Okay.

[00:09:32]>> Pass through the orb unharmed. Carry one of these.

[00:09:38]>> Fool. Oh, >> you will approach the orb and enter Tharam Fala to witness his ascension.

[00:09:47]>> Yes. Priestess.

[00:09:48]>> Priestess.

[00:09:52]>> Step across the line. Meet your guard.

[00:09:56]They can't go in there.

[00:09:58]>> Step forward and remove your hood.

[00:10:02]>> Oh no, >> he's [ __ ] We got to move in.

[00:10:05]>> Wait. Wait.

[00:10:08]>> Are you okay?

[00:10:09]>> I'm not dead yet, sister.

[00:10:13]>> He's too weak. Please. In his name.

[00:10:19]>> That's one.

[00:10:30]It's working. She's not healing.

[00:10:34]>> Yes.

[00:10:40]>> OH, >> NO [ __ ] way any of you leave here alive.

[00:10:49]>> Oh god.

[00:10:53]God, I love the silence effect.

[00:10:58]It's like it's underwater.

[00:11:02]Oh well, gone now.

[00:11:07]>> You were fools to come here.

[00:11:24]Get them.

[00:11:27]>> Well, that's one down.

[00:11:29]>> We'll do it the oldfashioned way.

[00:11:38]>> Yo, this guy's wildly really [ __ ] cool.

[00:11:49]A evil bard is so much fun with this vibe and aesthetic.

[00:12:05]Oh god, >> he's out of the circle.

[00:12:17]This is absolutely nuts. Oh, >> EVERYONE OUT. WE MUST MAKE IT TO THE balcony before we're blown to bits.

[00:12:29]>> Brother, are you >> I'm fine.

[00:12:31]>> Oh god.

[00:12:32]>> Overexerted myself.

[00:12:35]>> Come on.

[00:12:40]>> [ __ ] Thank me later. Retreat to Thoram Fala.

[00:12:46]>> Wait, where's Pike?

[00:12:49]>> Oh no, Pike, what are you doing? And she's got an amulet, so she can go in.

[00:13:03]>> No.

[00:13:08]Oh, pull him a little further out. I want to make sure he's stays dead.

[00:13:23]She's going to Yeah. [ __ ] >> Okay. Thank God.

[00:13:31]>> Pop wouldn't want this. Popup only wants you to remember him.

[00:13:38]You're right, buddies.

[00:13:39]>> Oh, thank God.

[00:13:41]>> Let's go.

[00:13:43]>> Oh, god. Uh, >> [ __ ] >> Uh-oh. The bombs are about to go off, though.

[00:14:14]Hike the bomb.

[00:14:16]>> We have no choice. Get out of there.

[00:14:21]>> Hike.

[00:14:35]And now she is going to go in >> Pike.

[00:14:51]Who was that at the end there?

[00:14:58]>> Pike.

[00:15:00]>> It kind of sounded like Scandlin. could not tell who that was. Just for reference, I don't have subtitles, so I don't Maybe it says maybe I'll see that when I add that in later, but right now I don't. So I It sounded like It sounded like scandal, dude. I don't even know how to process that.

[00:15:27]They had us so fixated on Vax the whole time. actually the whole series so far.

[00:15:33]Ever since the matron got involved, they've had us deadlocked on Vax. Sure, we had the Percy thing, but especially in this season, it's been Vax, Vax, Vax, Vax was going to be the thing, and I thought maybe this would be the moment.

[00:15:48]Maybe he would just sacrifice himself to get them through there or whatever. It never it never crossed my mind that I should have been a little more concerned about anybody else on the team. Obviously, I knew Pike has been going down this road and Grog has been focused on it and that was taking a lot of focus as well, like Pike's descent and struggle this season and Grog being kind of on the opposite end of that trying desperately to be like her crutch, her support, her ear even throughout all of that and especially after Pop Pop's death, you know, and she's just been going down this road, this blind rage age of revenge, of regret, of pain, carrying this around from the separation from the group, from the separation from Scandlin, now the loss of him. She's just on this damned mission for vengeance.

[00:16:49]And he tried desperately to stop her from going through. And the [ __ ] up part is that she still went through. She stopped him like he stopped her from going through died as a result and then she still walked through.

[00:17:14]God, that [ __ ] I He was just that much closer to the line. and his wound was inside the circle and it just closed up and he [ __ ] just oh my god the image of Grog.

[00:17:44]I know we've cheated death multiple times up until this point and the campaign's the campaign. So, and I I don't know what they're going to do here because this also could have been something that happened. I I don't really even know. So, I don't I'm not sure. I just know in like the campaign there's like very strict stringent rules on resurrections and we've done it so many times up to this point to skirt the lines and loophole things.

[00:18:16]Are we going to do it again? We [ __ ] better.

[00:18:27]We are not in a good place as a team right now. One, we're not even a full team and our team is just so scattered.

[00:18:34]Like Keelith is like on this like vitriolic war path to save Vax's life.

[00:18:40]Vax can barely handle his own right now.

[00:18:43]Anyway, Pike is on this gung-ho revenge mission. Scandalin's not even here. And it's just like it's a [ __ ] mess. I mean, this group is is a mess. They always have been, but like this is like more than they've ever really been, I feel like, in in different ways, cuz they have been they've been definitely in the pits before, but this is like something new. This is something scarier, too. This is something that's in a a philosophical plague on the on the people, on the world, on Alexandria.

[00:19:20]Like it's it's this thing that is infecting the people, the minds, their hearts, and bringing us over to this thing, praying upon their their losses, their fears, anxieties, their love, their passions, all these things, and turning it towards this ill. And it's just [ __ ] man.

[00:19:46]God, I don't feel good. I don't feel very good right now. I don't I don't know what to do with this at the moment, man. I really don't.

[00:20:12]Tarion and Percy are best friends.

[00:20:14]That's the a little bright light in this [ __ ] episode. We can we can we can hang on to that, right? They were they were cute. They were fun together hanging out, bro, geeking out over their own little like his like ploy towards science, his ploy towards like ingenuity and magic. And this little like they even had a little secret handshake together. That's fun. That's fine. That numbs it. Not even at all.

[00:20:44][ __ ] God damn it, man.

[00:20:52]Seriously, I fell for the Vax. Hey, Vax.

[00:20:55]Look at this Vax. Hey, Vax over here.

[00:20:58]Boom.

[00:21:00]God damn it, man. [ __ ] you.

[00:21:03][ __ ] you all.

[00:21:06]I don't know what else to say about this one, man. You know, there was a lot of jokes and humor in this, too. The Undead Five or what do they call them with their [ __ ] Power Ranger po poses like they're the anti the anti- Vox Machina almost, even though they're missing a couple of members, but still.

[00:21:25]God, I don't know. I got nothing on this one, man. I'm going to need to uh going to need to walk this one off. I feel like I I don't know, man. I'm gonna leave it there. I'm going to pass it off to you guys. How did you feel? How how how are y'all holding up? How are you guys? You all good? How are you? Sound off the comments. Let me know your thoughts down below. We'll carry in the conversation after the video. Hope you enjoyed the reaction. If it did, leave a like, drop a comment, subscribe if you're not already. Remember, if you want to see the full reaction, as always, you can check it out over on Patreon. And speaking of before we go, want to shout Lily Jensen, Kiana Chanel, McGregor, Angela B, Calvin, Bley, CP, Bass, Theater Wolf, Tylen, Denise, Mauricio, and the Honk. Thank you guys so much for becoming saviors here on the channel, helping sponsor and support the rescues.

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