The Legend of Vox Machina Episodes 7-9 Review

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The Legend of Vox Machina continues to wow with impressive animation and a high stakes plot alongside deeply emotional character work. This week, the members of Vox Machina get closer to reaching the Briarwoods and figuring out what’s really going on in Whitestone.

Alongside Dominic Monaghan as Archie and Gina Torres as Keeper Yennen, this week’s stunt casting includes Rory McCann as the villainous Duke Vedmire. Previously seen torturing Archie, Vedmire appears as the big bad of episodes 7 and 9. The deep timbre of McCann’s voice is used well here, giving a real sense to the character’s enormous size (he’s the largest humanoid we’ve seen in the series yet).

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Of course, McCann, who played Sandor “The Hound” Clegane in HBO’s Game of Thrones, is no stranger to brutes, but there’s no redemption arc here. Seeing Vedmire stabbed to death by a violent mob of Whitestonians is one of the only victories the peasant folk have seen in the series so far. Esme Creed-Miles, of Amazon’s Hanna, also joins this week as Cassandra de Rolo, long-lost little sister of Percy. Her character is incapacitated with a slit throat for most of the three episodes, so it’s a little too early to judge Creed-Miles in her first-ever voice-acting role.

As for the core group of seven, it’s good to see some characters whose personal histories aren't extremely relevant to the current conflict get their due in these three episodes. Percy’s story is intricately tied to the Briarwoods and their control over Whitestone, so it makes sense that we’ve spent the most time in prior episodes learning about his past. But with six other interesting and unique characters barely able to get a minute of screen time to talk about