Amazon Prime Video’s original series The Legend of Vox Machina ,season two episode ten entitled “The Killbox,” starts with Travis Willingham’s Grog Strongjaw as he fights his uncle. In his mind, he knows that he must fight in order to restore honor to his former gang. Not to mention he sees it as a way to right the wrong he committed during his earlier years. Unfortunately, as a result of him not being fully restored to his full strength he loses the fight. The interesting part about this is how as his friends are about to get killed due to them wanting to help him, he has a visit in his mind by the master of combat. In his mind, the master of combat sees that Grog needs help in an important moment in his life. Deep down he sees the true warrior in Grog that is ready to be let out.
Additionally, the viewer sees how Grog finally realizes where his strength comes from and regains his full strength once again. However, his uncle still manages to beat him even with his full strength returned. In his uncle’s mind, he sees that Grog is still the same weakling he once banished. Deep down he is afraid that he is losing the respect and control of his gang as he now is serving the dragons. This is demonstrated by how he beats Grog as a show to his gang instead of just killing him immediately. As a result of this, Grog is able to defeat him with help from the rest of the team. The fascinating part about this is how Grog gives control over the gang to his cousin due to him seeing that his cousin has more honor than his father did. In his cousin’s mind, he knows how cruel his father could be to everyone. Also, deep down he hates him for fighting without honor as there is no satisfaction when killing a weak and defenseless opponent.
At the end of the episode, the viewer gets a shocking discovery on how Sam Riegel’s Scanlan Shorthalt has a daughter. This is due to him having a fling in the past with a random woman he met. This will mostly cause some sort of problem with Ashley Johnson’s Pike Trickfoot as she is developing feelings for Scanlan. This is demonstrated by how she seemed jealous as a result of her seeing Scanlan with the woman who turned out to be his daughter.
Rating: 8.5/10