Plus much as they joke about Grog, Grog had some real good moments too – especially with Vex, standing up for the twins to syldor and stuff. Aaaaagh it’s so frustrating that they just lost that (though a fun narrative development)

scanlan is literally THE best friend any of them could have wished for and VM need to start realising that. 

(he just turned himself into a triceratops so that grog could beat the crap out of him as he tried to train with his gauntlets)