Critical Role live shows

Yeah... no... I am not a fan of the "filmed before a live studio audience" episodes of Critical Role. Definitely not a fan, at all. I'm only about 30 minutes or so into that second one there at the moment (watching at 1.5x speed), and so far it is way more annoying than even the first one was (at least annoying enough that I felt the need to stop and make this post about how annoying it is), which was annoying enough itself. And there are apparently several more such live episodes in the future (for me, anyway), too. *weary sigh*

(EDIT) "Fortunately," the entirety of this episode was three hours of them crossing a river and fighting some kind of plant/crocodile monster, and then almost losing a flying broom, so nothing really major happened at all. (/EDIT)