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setsuledLast night's new Fallout was pretty good, I'm relieved to say. It would've been a lot better if they hadn't introduced Deathclaws rampaging throughout the town a few episodes earlier because now it doesn't make sense that they're totally absent from the streets of New Vegas. The episode also featured some of the pointless flashbacks I don't like. But the stuff that was good was really good.
We find Cooper (Walton Goggins) still impaled on a pole in the street that Lucy (Ella Purnell) had shoved him onto with a powerfist. I liked how people just walk by him indifferently. Who would want to get involved with the noseless ghoul struggling for his life and sanity?
Meanwhile, Lucy has a moral quandary when she wakes up in her father's (Kyle MacLachlan) home base. He gives her a pretty vivid demonstration of why lobotomising everyone is a viable path to peace.
And, of course, I was really pleased to see Ron Perlman finally show up. Perlman was a glaring absence from season one. He had been in every major Fallout game since the first one came out in 1997, typically providing the narration for the introduction and epilogue. Here's the one from the first game:
It's kind of a shame the show has changed the nuclear war from being one between different countries over resources to some kind of convoluted internal U.S. conspiracy. Trump unabashedly going after Venezuela and Greenland for their resources is both apocalyptic and cartoonish, the kind of juxtaposition of enthusiastic stupidity and horror the distinguished the tone of much of the Fallout games. However, the plot in the Vault in last night's episode kind of went back to that concept as the denizens foolishly squander their remaining water supply on an inbred support stack club. It hit just the right point between absurd and undeniably plausible.
Fallout is available on Amazon Prime.
We find Cooper (Walton Goggins) still impaled on a pole in the street that Lucy (Ella Purnell) had shoved him onto with a powerfist. I liked how people just walk by him indifferently. Who would want to get involved with the noseless ghoul struggling for his life and sanity?
Meanwhile, Lucy has a moral quandary when she wakes up in her father's (Kyle MacLachlan) home base. He gives her a pretty vivid demonstration of why lobotomising everyone is a viable path to peace.
And, of course, I was really pleased to see Ron Perlman finally show up. Perlman was a glaring absence from season one. He had been in every major Fallout game since the first one came out in 1997, typically providing the narration for the introduction and epilogue. Here's the one from the first game:
It's kind of a shame the show has changed the nuclear war from being one between different countries over resources to some kind of convoluted internal U.S. conspiracy. Trump unabashedly going after Venezuela and Greenland for their resources is both apocalyptic and cartoonish, the kind of juxtaposition of enthusiastic stupidity and horror the distinguished the tone of much of the Fallout games. However, the plot in the Vault in last night's episode kind of went back to that concept as the denizens foolishly squander their remaining water supply on an inbred support stack club. It hit just the right point between absurd and undeniably plausible.
Fallout is available on Amazon Prime.
