#tlovm scanlan

[gayz0mb]

ough. OUGH.

OUGHHHHH

[felp0n]

I just got out of surgery a few hours ago but THE CRITICAL ROLE GRIND NEVER STOPS !!1!!

[dinosaurts]

Some of my favourite couples from CR

[peridotthegreatandlovable]

Scanlan: What are you doing there?

Grog, digging through a bag of M&Ms: Vax really likes the yellow ones, so I’m separating them out

Scanlan: That’s actually kind of sweet

Grog: Huh? No, I’m mad at Vax. I’m collecting them so that I can eat them in front of him and not give him any

Scanlan:

Grog:

Scanlan: You’re a genius. Can I help?

[authormars]

Pike and Scanlan with Grog. I am not wrong and you all know it

[morally-supportive]

i really hope they find a way to animate the “you were trying to save a wish for me?” moment in season 5

[achickenslifeiscool]

In Ep8, I noticed that after the Epic Bard Battle™️, no one bothered to heal Scanlan, like, at all?

Pike deadass went up to him, confessed her feelings but didn’t actually bother to heal the burn wounds and the literal burst eardrum. Go heal him if he matters that much to you 😭

Idk, maybe I’m being too harsh but they just kinda rocked up, Pike confessed her feelings, and then buggered off with Mythcarver. It felt so nasty that they straight up didn’t bother to check up on the guy who just saved their asses from the Evil Australian Bard. Especially Pike, go heal your supposed love interest, actually show that you care 🫩

[jimbodyson]

I think my frustration with a big critique of TLOVM and how Scanlan is absent for a few significant things (Glintshore, lots of S4) often compare those moments to the campaign and his reaction there, which I think (in this particular instance) at this point in the show when there is 1 season left, it can't be done because there's clear purpose to isolating Scanlan from the others.

he's clearly pulling back from them. yes, to be with his daughter but also because of the feelings he'd been pushing down that came out during the Bard's Lament. for a Scanlan Superfan like myself, i missed him this season, sure, but it wasn't completely detrimental to the season's quality for a few reasons.

firstly, because i trust them to finish his arc in a satisfying way. the way season 4 ends kind of, in my mind, has him set up to be someone to pick up the pieces and maybe deal with the consequences of his absence from the group.

secondly because his absence gives me more space to interpret and do things with him in my writing that interest me, which is a core part of experiencing any form of art: how you interpret it.

A lot of the complaints about him being absent and therefore taking out some important moments from the campaign don't really land for me because they aren't meeting the show on its own level and what it's doing with the characters.

Because, let's be real, Scanlan didn't start off in the campaign as a deep of a character as he is in the show at least. From everything I know, Sam didn't intend for him to come out like that from the start. Which is fine! But the thing with adapting it with the benefit of hindsight is that there's a chance to change up his arc with his character as a whole in mind, and sometimes that means losing a few character moments in favour of emphasising some elements of his arc.

Ultimately, I trust the cast— y'know the people who created and acted as these characters for literal years, putting parts of themselves in them and experiences the emotions that they experienced, again, for years— to do their arcs justice.