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It "only" took literally four months.
Mild semi-spoilers to follow, though I'll try to keep things as vague and nondescript as I can.
The penultimate episode was literally just Vox Machina fighting the final boss for a little over 5 hours (which, for me, was around 3 and a half hours real time, given that I was watching at 1.5x speed and scrolled past the 20 something minute break in the middle). It felt like it took almost no time to watch, though, given how intense it was. Seriously, I've watched movies and TV shows and played video games in my time that were less engaging/compelling than this was. And then the final episode was the immediate aftermath (which, among other things, involved an interesting/boneheaded decision involving a Deck of Many Things by one of the characters that resulted in a situation that, while it was glossed over in this particular episode itself, directly leads into one of the specific one-shot sessions that I haven't watched yet), followed by the end-of-story epilogues of each character. In some cases, it was pretty sad and bittersweet.
Honestly, though, I felt that the final major arc prior to that point just kind of dragged in its latter half or so, even though it was actually far shorter overall than the major arc that preceded it, mainly because the last four episodes leading up to the final boss battle was (almost) nothing but one long, tedious dungeon crawl, involving mostly just fighting and looting. While I'm sure it was fun for the players themselves, I found it to be a bit of a slog to watch. That said, however, the "questing to get the blessings of the gods needed to fight the big bad" bits before that final dungeon crawl were pretty cool, though (even if it did feel like a bit of a rehash of the "questing to get the powerful artifacts needed to fight the big bad[s]" bits of the previous major arc).
Anyway, I still have several one-shot episodes to watch before moving on into the Mighty Nein campaign, though I think I will limit that to just those that actually take place in the world of Exandria and in the timeline between the two campaigns (including the one mentioned above). I was initially going to watch all of them before moving into the second campaign, but now I think I'll save all the other one-shots that are completely unrelated to those campaigns for after I'm done with the Mighty Nein campaign and Exandria Unlimited.
Mild semi-spoilers to follow, though I'll try to keep things as vague and nondescript as I can.
The penultimate episode was literally just Vox Machina fighting the final boss for a little over 5 hours (which, for me, was around 3 and a half hours real time, given that I was watching at 1.5x speed and scrolled past the 20 something minute break in the middle). It felt like it took almost no time to watch, though, given how intense it was. Seriously, I've watched movies and TV shows and played video games in my time that were less engaging/compelling than this was. And then the final episode was the immediate aftermath (which, among other things, involved an interesting/boneheaded decision involving a Deck of Many Things by one of the characters that resulted in a situation that, while it was glossed over in this particular episode itself, directly leads into one of the specific one-shot sessions that I haven't watched yet), followed by the end-of-story epilogues of each character. In some cases, it was pretty sad and bittersweet.
Honestly, though, I felt that the final major arc prior to that point just kind of dragged in its latter half or so, even though it was actually far shorter overall than the major arc that preceded it, mainly because the last four episodes leading up to the final boss battle was (almost) nothing but one long, tedious dungeon crawl, involving mostly just fighting and looting. While I'm sure it was fun for the players themselves, I found it to be a bit of a slog to watch. That said, however, the "questing to get the blessings of the gods needed to fight the big bad" bits before that final dungeon crawl were pretty cool, though (even if it did feel like a bit of a rehash of the "questing to get the powerful artifacts needed to fight the big bad[s]" bits of the previous major arc).
Anyway, I still have several one-shot episodes to watch before moving on into the Mighty Nein campaign, though I think I will limit that to just those that actually take place in the world of Exandria and in the timeline between the two campaigns (including the one mentioned above). I was initially going to watch all of them before moving into the second campaign, but now I think I'll save all the other one-shots that are completely unrelated to those campaigns for after I'm done with the Mighty Nein campaign and Exandria Unlimited.
