Fall In, Fall Out

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Even though I knew this week's Fallout wouldn't be as good as last week's, I was still looking forward to it. That goes to show how good last week's was. Sadly, the writer on this week's, Owen Ellickson, is no Jane Espenson. But the episode had some things I liked.

Last week ended with a cliffhanger, Lucy and Cooper staring down a Deathclaw on the Las Vegas strip. Although the Deathclaw had just been shown tearing through the side of a building, Lucy and Cooper somehow escape by dodging behind a wall of scrap. After a flashback, we see them hanging out in a market area and Cooper gets a drink at the bar where the bartender opines about the Deathclaws being just another gang running things. So . . . are they not wild beasts? Do they have human intelligence? Why did that one tear through the side of a building then?

The episode also annoyingly brings back some random characters from season one, an old woman and a young hipster guy. What are the odds of the hipster guy turning up in Vegas around the same time as our main characters? This is the kind of writing that makes a world seem too small. Also, I just didn't like this character. He doesn't fit in the Fallout universe, he belongs at a craft brewery in a gentrified neighbourhood.

I did like the scene in which Lucy has a mishap with her gun in the shop. Her line in which she wonders who she is had a kind of an Alice in Wonderland quality. Ellickson previously wrote for The Office so his dialogue for the Vault people seemed fitting enough.

Fallout is available on Amazon Prime.