Feb 14, 2025
Honestly looking back on it, I think the biggest missed opportunity with C3 is that nobody wanted to say out loud how Bell's Hells spent the first third of the campaign restructuring the way they thought so that Imogen 'I judge people based on their inside thoughts' Temult wouldn't go nuclear on anyone.
Like I said before the writing was on the wall for a really compelling villain arc but instead we got the very frustrating and heartbreaking real life tragedy of a friend group reshaping themselves around everyone's instabilities and insecurities to the detriment of everyone around them.
#cr discourse#critrole#critrole spoilers#critical role#critical role spoilers#imogen temult#bell's hells#It's one of those things where#i really did want to see a great villain arc#for them to address their own shortcomings#accept them#and lean in anyway#or fully reject the existence of those shortcomings and carry on as if nothing's wrong#but what we got#where nobody really wanted to keep playing 'what the fuck is up with that'#because the questions were too scary to answer#was frustrating as hell#like when it's TV and done on purpose that's different#this feels more like the result of hundreds of hours of indecisive character building that resulted in a 10-plot pileup#they had to wrap up the show so
