Satire vs. Naivety: The Fallout Show
38sStrong opinion on satire's power vs. embarrassment, with a direct challenge to the show's writing, sparking debate.
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This video is a scathing critique of the Fallout TV show, arguing that it fails as both an adaptation and a standalone story. The creator systematically dismantles the show's plot, character development, world-building, and thematic execution, labeling it a poorly written product that relies on coincidence and references rather than coherent storytelling.
The creator argues that satire requires internal consistency and substantive allegory, not just random craziness. The show fails to balance its serious and comedic tones, resulting in a tonally inconsistent mess.
The interconnected vaults experiment is riddled with logical gaps: why Vault 32 residents killed themselves upon discovering the truth, why they didn't seek help from Vault 33, and how the Raiders' infiltration plan could possibly work.
Moldaver's character is inconsistent: she claims to honor Rose but nearly kills Rose's daughter Lucy, she orchestrates a convoluted plan to retrieve Wilzig instead of handling it herself, and her actions contradict her stated goals.
Hank is introduced as a caring father but is later revealed to be a mustache-twirling villain who nuked Shady Sands. His motivations are cartoonish and his actions (like simulating a plague) are implausible.
Wilzig, a rogue Enclave scientist, jeopardizes his mission by not locking his door, taking care of a dog, and failing to explain his mission before dying. He is reduced to a plot device rather than a character.
Maximus fails upward repeatedly: he injures a fellow soldier and gets promoted to squire, lets his knight die and steals his identity, lies to the Brotherhood, and is promoted again. His character is a collection of random actions.
Lucy is portrayed as naive yet resilient, but her reactions to trauma are inconsistent. She shows little emotion during horrific events but is overly trusting at inopportune moments. Her development feels unearned.
The Ghoul is carried by Walton Goggins's performance, but his actions are inconsistent: he wastes 30 shots on Maximus's power armor but later easily kills Brotherhood soldiers. His motivations are unclear.
The dog that was loyal to Wilzig inexplicably bonds with the Ghoul after he stabs it, ignoring its master's fate. This is a clear example of the show prioritizing references over coherent storytelling.
The show's critique of capitalism is ham-fisted: Vault-Tec executives decide to nuke the world to make money, ignoring basic economics. The satire lacks nuance and feels like a teenager's thesis on economic systems.
Cooper Howard (the Ghoul pre-war) is portrayed as a gullible idiot who accepts a listening device from a corporate rival without question, undermining his character as a savvy actor.
The show nukes Shady Sands off-screen, destroying the New California Republic and decades of game lore. This is seen as a lazy way to reset the status quo and favor the Brotherhood of Steel.
The show is criticized for its reliance on coincidence, lack of consequences, inconsistent tone, and poor dialogue. It is described as a 'foul sewage Katamari slathered in Fallout iconography.'
The Fallout TV show is a poorly written adaptation that fails to capture the spirit of the games, relying on references and spectacle instead of coherent storytelling and meaningful character development.
What is the core flaw of the Fallout show according to the video?
It lacks internal consistency and relies on coincidence rather than coherent storytelling.
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What is the purpose of Vaults 31, 32, and 33 in the show?
They are part of an experiment to create a society of 'super managers' by releasing junior executives from Vault 31 to oversee Vaults 32 and 33.
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Why does the creator criticize Moldaver's plan?
She orchestrates a convoluted chain of payments to move Wilzig instead of handling it herself, and her actions contradict her stated goal of honoring Rose.
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How does Hank's character change throughout the show?
He is introduced as a caring father but is later revealed to be a villain who nuked Shady Sands and believes in the super manager ideology.
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What is the main criticism of Maximus's character arc?
He fails upward repeatedly, receiving promotions for betrayals and incompetence, making his progression feel unearned.
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How does the show handle Lucy's trauma?
She shows little emotional reaction to horrific events, making her character development feel inconsistent and unearned.
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What is the video's critique of the show's satire of capitalism?
It is ham-fisted and cartoonish, with Vault-Tec executives deciding to nuke the world to make money, ignoring basic economics.
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Why does the creator criticize the show's treatment of the NCR?
The show nukes Shady Sands off-screen, destroying the NCR and decades of game lore, which is seen as a lazy reset.
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What is the show's approach to consequences?
The show often lacks consequences, with characters escaping dire situations through luck or coincidence rather than earned outcomes.
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How does the Ghoul's behavior contradict his established skills?
He wastes 30 shots on Maximus's power armor but later easily kills Brotherhood soldiers, showing inconsistent competence.
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Satire Requires Consistency
Establishes the video's core argument that the show fails to balance satire with coherent storytelling.
0:07Vault Experiment Plot Holes
Highlights major logical gaps in the central plot, undermining the show's credibility.
0:54Maximus Fails Upward
Illustrates the show's lack of consequences and poor character development.
25:02Cartoonish Capitalism Critique
Demonstrates the show's shallow and ineffective satire of economic systems.
88:00Destruction of NCR Lore
Shows how the show disrespects established game lore for a lazy narrative reset.
118:00[00:07] creating satirical storytelling based on
[00:09] a video game does not mean you can write
[00:11] anything and be praised for it we are
[00:14] not doing the space Wizards thing on
[00:15] this channel okay even he ended up
[00:17] regretting saying that the point being
[00:19] the deaft hand in which you can weave
[00:21] substantive allegory caricature and
[00:23] poignant explorations of insane patterns
[00:26] or mundane cruelty in life is something
[00:28] we should ask nothing but the best for
[00:30] satire can be one of the most powerful
[00:32] instruments to affect change in one's
[00:34] mind or one of the most embarrassing
[00:36] ways to reveal your own naive
[00:38] perspective now I'm not a man who
[00:40] demands realism for all these stories
[00:42] nor cartoonish craziness for all of them
[00:44] either I demand internal consistency all
[00:47] that matters is what the story tells me
[00:50] matters regardless of all that let's
[00:52] have a chat about the new Fallout Show
[00:54] Bud has an idea for three interconnected
[00:58] vaults buds buds because the basic
[01:00] obstacle to achievement has been the
[01:02] brevity of the human lifespan it's
[01:04] prevented us from working on projects
[01:06] that take us entire millenniums into the
[01:08] future buds buds will solve that so we
[01:12] have Vault 31 releases Junior Executives
[01:15] periodically when they've been unfrozen
[01:17] to become overseers in vaults 32 and 33
[01:21] through many generations the plan is to
[01:24] end up having a society of super
[01:26] managers because the junior Executives
[01:28] have been taught how to be managers and
[01:30] they're going to teach everyone else how
[01:31] to be managers everyone's going to be
[01:32] managers it's going to be amazing people
[01:34] who are good at management will create
[01:36] the best Society that's what buds buds
[01:39] is all about once everyone on the
[01:41] surface is dead the super managers will
[01:43] emerge and create a great society until
[01:46] then vaults 32 and 33 will exchange
[01:48] people periodically to ensure population
[01:51] growth which means what Vault 32 and 33
[01:54] are just people to be controlled to be
[01:57] bred to create super managers well 33 is
[02:01] okay but 32 was filled with people
[02:02] strangling each other oh gosh they
[02:04] they're all dying there's blood on the
[02:05] walls Jesus but 32 was not overpopulated
[02:09] not like the rat Utopia experiments
[02:11] playing on the video inside the Vault
[02:14] instead they discovered the truth and
[02:16] went mad they killed themselves and each
[02:19] other and they tried to get into Vault
[02:21] 31 but how did Vault 32 discover the
[02:24] truth and why would discovering the
[02:26] truth that instead of a vault in which
[02:28] you're meant to be kept safe and secure
[02:30] you are being trained to become a super
[02:33] manager that will take over civilization
[02:34] at some point why why is that like why
[02:36] why why would that be the thing that
[02:38] makes you want to kill yourself like yes
[02:39] you've been lied to but ultimately
[02:41] you're still in the exact same situation
[02:44] only now you know that you're menant to
[02:46] take over like this is a vault tech
[02:48] personal project they they're guinea
[02:50] pigs sure but they're very well-kept
[02:53] guinea pigs however if we pop our
[02:55] thinking caps on perhaps bud decided
[02:58] that the crop of super managers in 3 2
[03:00] was so much less effective than those in
[03:02] 33 that he culled them he forced all
[03:04] their food sources to die out hoping to
[03:06] then as we see in the show split 33 the
[03:09] good crop into halves and repopulate 32
[03:12] but that doesn't really explain why they
[03:14] killed each other or themselves nor why
[03:16] they wouldn't have asked for help from
[03:18] 33 during all of this hardship we see
[03:20] how easy it is to get into an overseers
[03:22] account how come they didn't try to open
[03:23] the vault 33 door out of desperation
[03:25] when they were willing to try it with 31
[03:28] if they know then they should know
[03:29] there's only cryo tubes in there 33 has
[03:32] food and water and people who are
[03:34] willing to help but ultimately why
[03:35] wouldn't they open their front vault
[03:37] door to the Wast land when we know they
[03:38] are perfectly capable of doing so since
[03:40] Mula does it 2 years later from the
[03:42] outside and Lucy does it in her own
[03:44] Vault hell we find out Rose did it
[03:45] without bud or Hank's permission with
[03:47] Hank to follow her bud is apparently
[03:49] incapable of stopping any of that and so
[03:51] you want me to buy that not a single
[03:53] person in Vault 32 was willing to Brave
[03:55] the outside instead of starving to death
[03:58] they must have had very specific and
[03:59] strange knowledge to make all of this
[04:01] fit but I still really don't know how
[04:04] what did you know [ __ ] did you
[04:06] find out that voltech blew up the world
[04:08] cuz I mean I don't see how they could
[04:10] possibly have found that out but I also
[04:11] don't know why that would make them kill
[04:13] themselves you know however they found
[04:14] out they don't even have proof they
[04:16] never got Vault 31 open how do they know
[04:18] what happened and you know what if they
[04:19] have an equal exchange rate of people
[04:21] from vaults 31 32 and 33 then why
[04:23] wouldn't they have questioned when they
[04:25] have referenced the fact that they know
[04:26] people come from Vault 31 that no one
[04:28] goes to Vault 31 this all becomes super
[04:31] [ __ ] when you take into
[04:32] consideration that they start up a
[04:33] saying for voting in Vault 31s for the
[04:36] best results doesn't that highlights
[04:38] this very strange coincidence as if they
[04:41] want to make it further suspicious they
[04:42] apparently tell all of the super
[04:44] Managers from 31 to talk about how good
[04:46] the [ __ ] potatoes are how you going
[04:47] to tell me anyone believes this [ __ ] how
[04:49] you going to tell me that there are any
[04:50] stakes in the investigation the bag of
[04:52] tricks from comedy can be useful you
[04:56] know where instead of having people be
[04:58] awesome why not have them be dumb if the
[05:00] answer to this is everyone's [ __ ]
[05:01] then why isn't Lucy's brother [ __ ]
[05:03] and if they are sending people to Vault
[05:05] 31 and they just get dealt with who's
[05:08] dealing with them the [ __ ] brainbot
[05:10] he's not doing [ __ ] so even if people
[05:12] were periodically sent to Vault 31 Bud
[05:14] brain ain't killing them so I I I don't
[05:17] understand how did people not figure out
[05:19] something weird was going on why did it
[05:21] take grimy he's grimy don't fight this
[05:23] so moldava wants to take her Raiders
[05:25] into Vault 33 via Vault 32 with the Pip
[05:28] Boy from Rose considering their wacky
[05:30] approach why didn't they just go
[05:32] straight into 33 they were willing to
[05:34] raid Vault 32 so why not just raid Vault
[05:37] 33 and then how insanely lucky is it
[05:39] that everyone's already killed each
[05:40] other ages ago in Vault 32 meaning they
[05:43] have every opportunity to Simply take
[05:44] over and pretend to be Vault 32 but then
[05:47] why was everything untouched and unlived
[05:49] in in Vault 32 since the deaths of the
[05:51] Vault dwellers remember the Raiders
[05:53] arrived and had to live there until the
[05:55] date for the wedding that was organized
[05:56] by moldava over the overseers terminal
[05:58] with Hank I have no no idea how she was
[06:00] able to pass any kind of basic check
[06:02] from him by the way we see them fully
[06:04] kitted out with Vault suits Pit Boys
[06:06] exchange of information and fundamental
[06:08] knowledge of the situation regarding the
[06:10] vaults they even understand etiquette
[06:13] somewhat meaning the Raiders lived in
[06:15] Vault 32 and changed nothing they just
[06:18] hung out with the corpses right next to
[06:19] them as they conducted everyday life no
[06:21] attempt to maybe move the bodies were
[06:24] they lucky enough to arrive just a day
[06:26] before the trienal schedule and Hank
[06:28] agreed despite having no contact for 2
[06:30] years once you reach the end of the
[06:32] season the notion that Hank would be
[06:33] overprotective of Lucy is an
[06:35] understatement you'd think someone like
[06:37] him would discover as much as he could
[06:39] about the man marrying his daughter you
[06:40] know hopefully as a baseline you confirm
[06:42] he's not a [ __ ] psychopath I guess a
[06:44] man who chooses to Nuke an entire city
[06:46] out of spite for his wife taking his
[06:48] daughter away doesn't care too much
[06:50] about who she marries I also think it's
[06:51] strange that a pit boy for Vault 33 can
[06:54] open the front vault door for Vault 32
[06:56] when there are very deliberately
[06:58] separated vaults designed occlusion as
[07:00] part of the experiment in fact I'm
[07:02] surprised that everyone has the
[07:03] potential to access each other's vaults
[07:05] we've seen the denial of access in some
[07:07] cases but why would someone outside of
[07:09] Vault 32 with a 33 Pip Boy be granted
[07:12] access why wouldn't bud have controls to
[07:14] prevent the opening of all three vaults
[07:16] surely the release of any super managers
[07:18] is the final plan and so surely it must
[07:21] be approved by him but okay so her plan
[07:24] has now evolved into pretending to be
[07:26] Vault 32 people to then perform a faux
[07:29] wedding with the Vault 33 people to then
[07:31] capture Hank mlan and take him back to
[07:33] the observatory because he has the codes
[07:35] to activate the cold fusion what a
[07:37] wonderful plan except everyone's a
[07:40] [ __ ] why didn't Vault 33 do any
[07:42] systemic or rad checks with Vault 32 nor
[07:45] did they recognize any of these people
[07:47] despite making trades once per 3 years
[07:50] what did everyone die and get replaced
[07:52] with people who had a three-year growth
[07:53] Spirit how the [ __ ] does any of this
[07:55] happen wouldn't Hank have known about a
[07:57] replacement overseer while in
[07:58] communication with bud and the
[08:00] Mysterious Silence from Vault 32 for 2
[08:03] years do you guys remember when they
[08:04] split Vault 33 into two halves so that
[08:07] they can do this same system forever do
[08:09] you really think it would make a lick of
[08:11] sense to them to not recognize anyone
[08:13] after just 3 years is everyone stupid
[08:17] none of you were capable of lifting your
[08:19] arm up one time to check for radiation
[08:21] and then on the Raiders side of the
[08:23] retardation they just let anyone
[08:25] casually walk into Vault 32 to see all
[08:28] of the dead people why the [ __ ] would
[08:30] you let anyone in to see the dead people
[08:33] that literally ruins the whole [ __ ]
[08:35] point all the Raiders had to do was say
[08:38] ah [ __ ] you know what no one's allowed
[08:40] in because we had a cold spread around
[08:42] and there's a bunch of people in there
[08:44] with a cold and you can't come in but
[08:46] that never should have [ __ ] worked
[08:47] cuz everybody would recognize these
[08:48] aren't Vault 32s anyway the goal of the
[08:51] Raiders was to infiltrate Vault 33 and
[08:53] get access to the overseer because he
[08:56] has the codes they need but if you
[08:58] rewatch that episode they don't secure
[09:00] him whatsoever they could have walked
[09:02] him away to a one-on-one conversation
[09:04] and knocked him out but instead they
[09:06] send people into randomly kill they are
[09:09] just blim blamming they're eating
[09:11] they're shouting setting things on fire
[09:14] blowing things up oh look a pregnant
[09:16] lady with a fork in her eyes is shooting
[09:18] everyone the overseer wasn't even
[09:19] captured they don't make him a priority
[09:21] they instead wait for him at the
[09:23] entrance and hope what if he had been
[09:25] killed that would have [ __ ] up the
[09:27] whole plan when he arrives with his
[09:29] daughter they don't kidnap them both and
[09:30] then use her as leverage for him to
[09:32] activate the cold fusion or anything
[09:34] like that instead they say choose your
[09:36] daughter or these people and he chooses
[09:38] his daughter and so the people run away
[09:41] wait they run away they're supposed to
[09:42] die then the bad guys leave with him and
[09:45] not her apparently they don't want to
[09:46] liberate anyone from The Vault the
[09:48] people who have been lied to their whole
[09:50] lives some of these people are the same
[09:52] people the Beloved Rose tried to save
[09:55] the worst of it is that mava allows her
[09:58] kettin to have the r of the place and
[10:00] they almost kill Lucy several times is
[10:03] this not one of rose's two children you
[10:05] [ __ ] idiot what the [ __ ] were you
[10:08] thinking are you honoring Rose and her
[10:10] goals by casually killing the children
[10:12] she tried to save when they had no idea
[10:15] what was happening why didn't you go in
[10:17] there capture and restrain one by one
[10:19] until you can save them all from this
[10:21] experiment why were you happy for all of
[10:24] these people to suffer and die why
[10:26] Little Miss power to the people were you
[10:28] happy to Unleash Your Raiders into a
[10:31] world filled with ignorant slaves to an
[10:33] experiment watching everyone get sliced
[10:36] diced and decked including some really
[10:38] barbaric [ __ ] why why was this your
[10:41] plan why it doesn't make any [ __ ]
[10:43] sense at all why did you leave so many
[10:44] of your own people in the vault how is
[10:46] it even possible that your armed armored
[10:49] and ambushing Raiders even lost it makes
[10:51] no [ __ ] sense you could have taken
[10:54] over the Vault you could have gotten
[10:55] everyone out you could have taken
[10:56] advantage of all the resources what is
[10:58] wrong with you I this is going to be a
[11:00] very unstructured rant where I just talk
[11:03] about how much this show is terrible
[11:05] since we're near the subject why don't
[11:07] we talk about moldava the woman who
[11:09] leads the NCR who wants to get Justice
[11:11] for Rose and wants to provide free clean
[11:13] energy to the people of the Wasteland
[11:15] her plan was to go from The Observatory
[11:18] to Vault 32 to Vault 33 back to the
[11:21] observatory this Mission would involve
[11:23] collecting Hank mlan she needs Hank mlan
[11:26] because he has the code that will
[11:27] activate cold fusion however she also
[11:30] needs what Wilzig puts into his neck so
[11:33] Mula organizes a very long system of
[11:35] retrieval for Mr Wilzig she provides
[11:38] Rufus with caps who then provides Tommy
[11:41] with caps who then provides ma Jun with
[11:44] caps who then agrees to provide
[11:46] protection and escort to Wilzig to the
[11:48] observatory now you may have one
[11:50] question there why the [ __ ] didn't
[11:53] moldava just pick up Wilzig herself she
[11:55] and her team of Raiders went to Vault 32
[11:58] on foot that's where Lucy starts she by
[12:02] chance bumps into him in Philly and then
[12:04] takes his head to the observatory the
[12:06] only reason an extended set of idiots
[12:09] would have been paid caps by her to move
[12:11] him from Philly is because she knew he
[12:13] would be in Philly had she just waited
[12:16] with her Raiders in or near Philly for a
[12:19] day she could have taken him with her
[12:21] but no instead of handling it herself
[12:23] like she did with Hank she's going to
[12:25] pay Rufus to pay Tommy to pay M June to
[12:28] get him there is stupid we're supposed
[12:30] to believe Mula loves Rose she says oh
[12:33] you know Lucy your mother was so kind so
[12:35] loving so curious so clever she says
[12:38] these attributes were quite reflected in
[12:40] Lucy if that's true then why the [ __ ]
[12:42] didn't you care what happened to Lucy in
[12:44] Vault 33 your Raiders almost killed her
[12:46] several times and did you want your best
[12:49] friend's daughter to be tricked into
[12:50] sleeping with some random Raider as well
[12:53] the [ __ ] second why didn't you liberate
[12:55] her from Vault 33 as well as her brother
[12:58] third why didn't you say the people
[12:59] there in general fourth why didn't you
[13:02] prevent Rose from going feral did you
[13:04] not provide her the vials to stop her
[13:06] skin from melting and then of course if
[13:08] you care about her so much why the [ __ ]
[13:09] you letting her live like this she's
[13:11] half skeleton why the [ __ ] are you
[13:13] letting this happen oh she was so kind
[13:15] and loving and curious and clever and I
[13:17] hold her hand at the end because oh we
[13:19] achieved our goal [ __ ] hell you could
[13:21] have put her out of in misery fifth why
[13:23] did you want to blow up a bunch of
[13:25] innocent people with that bomb you
[13:27] psycho [ __ ] she literally provides a
[13:29] personal threat to a pregnant woman how
[13:32] is this in character six why did she
[13:35] introduce herself as Le molda you'd have
[13:37] to very shakily assume Hank never saw of
[13:40] or heard of malula despite his company
[13:42] having bought out hers pre-war and then
[13:44] she would need to hope that he never saw
[13:47] her or learned about her in the
[13:48] Wasteland when he went to get his kids
[13:50] and destroyed Shady sands on that note
[13:52] how does malava even know Hank blew up
[13:54] Shady Sands it could have been all kinds
[13:57] of people outside of a single vault well
[13:59] did he say he did it cuz like why the
[14:02] [ __ ] would he do that and of course if
[14:04] he did tell her he did it then he would
[14:06] know her in fact this gets even weirder
[14:08] because she almost expects him to know
[14:10] her I think I know who you are everyone
[14:13] knows who I am on one hand this could
[14:16] literally be anyone looking for Revenge
[14:17] For What Hank Did to Shady Sands rather
[14:19] than Mula but on the other if it's an
[14:22] obvious choice to think she is the Lee
[14:24] moldava why did you give your [ __ ]
[14:27] name when introducing yourself in an
[14:29] attempt to trick
[14:30] him and then there's the stupidity she
[14:33] was willing to raid 33 and 32 but didn't
[14:36] want to start with 33 for some reason
[14:38] making her entire goal much harder and
[14:40] don't forget she ditched her own people
[14:42] after sending them to attack and kill
[14:44] more innocent people why did she feel
[14:46] the need to blow up the connecting vault
[14:48] door for 32 and 33 but not the entrance
[14:51] to 33 if she's trying to prevent them
[14:53] from chasing her she would need to block
[14:55] both doors also super lucky there wasn't
[14:57] way more extreme security on the Armory
[14:59] eh and to put a pit in that on one hand
[15:01] she was apparently unable to recreate
[15:03] the technology that she herself
[15:05] spearheaded 200 years ago in order to
[15:07] have versions that don't rely on voltech
[15:09] control I guess she didn't hold back any
[15:11] technology blueprints or intelligence
[15:13] from vault tech when they bought her out
[15:15] despite her hating them but on the other
[15:17] hand she was able to create the
[15:18] equipment required to facilitate cold
[15:21] fusion as a source of power for an
[15:22] entire electricity grid you understand
[15:25] California got nuked several times right
[15:28] did you reinstall and repair the power
[15:30] stations Transformers substations and
[15:33] pylons you then Network it all back to
[15:35] the Griffith [ __ ] Observatory how why
[15:39] the show would have you convinced that
[15:41] Lee moldava is a Survivor carved out and
[15:44] forced into harsh conditions by the
[15:46] cruelty of voltech when in actuality she
[15:49] is a completely [ __ ] collection of
[15:52] random actions dependent on what imagery
[15:54] they want to create at the time of
[15:55] filming also how the [ __ ] has she been
[15:57] alive for 200 years in any case Mula
[16:00] dies the hero of the show apparently
[16:03] despite all of the horrors she's
[16:04] committed we're supposed to think she's
[16:06] a good guy but let's be honest mulva is
[16:09] dumb as [ __ ] and an evil son of a [ __ ]
[16:11] which just so happens to be absolutely
[16:13] against every last piece of spoken and
[16:15] described characterization the show
[16:17] wants to provide her and she's not the
[16:19] only character to be assassinated it's
[16:21] so obviously monstrous that you kept
[16:23] Rose as a [ __ ] pet ghoul you witch
[16:26] anyway let's talk about Hank mlan the
[16:28] noble lead leader who will do anything
[16:30] to save his daughter she is his world
[16:33] nope he wants to ensure her safety
[16:35] because she's the future of the super
[16:37] manager Jean Pool we discover he will
[16:39] destroy all nons super managers meaning
[16:43] literally everyone else apparently he
[16:44] fully agrees with bud and he must ensure
[16:47] the future of super managers because I
[16:49] guess that's the only society that will
[16:51] work is super managers I guess he didn't
[16:53] foresee the idea of some people having
[16:56] different thoughts his wife left the
[16:58] vault with his children and so he
[17:00] decided to kill her when he knew she was
[17:02] in Shady Sands he somehow managed to get
[17:05] in there kidnap his children back and
[17:07] then nuke the place and kill everyone
[17:09] how did any of that happen I don't know
[17:12] they say is he burned the city to the
[17:14] ground he burn that City to the ground
[17:17] because that's how vault tech deal with
[17:19] competition that's how vault tech deals
[17:21] with competition you know he's just a
[17:23] mustache twirling villain he doesn't
[17:25] want people to have energy and to live
[17:27] outside of the people in the vault he
[17:29] doesn't want anyone alive outside of the
[17:30] Vault that's his character he's a
[17:32] radioactive [ __ ] did he and the team
[17:35] really not anticipate meeting anyone
[17:37] outside of their own vaults only if they
[17:38] did they would immediately nuke him this
[17:40] is especially brain dead when he knew
[17:42] better than anyone there are over 100
[17:44] vaults experimenting with the perfect
[17:46] Human Society you are bound to encounter
[17:49] some nons super manager factions with
[17:51] every layer you peel back you can see
[17:54] more of the [ __ ] molten core why did
[17:56] Hank suggest it would be Lucy's kids
[17:58] generation that would be able to go to
[17:59] the surface and rebuild Society there
[18:01] are people up there who know what he did
[18:03] and hate him he should be more than
[18:05] aware of the animosity toward him and
[18:07] vault tech there's also plenty of
[18:09] factions Hank would be aware of but to
[18:11] be fair the Assumption right now is Hank
[18:13] will nuke everything to get rid of all
[18:15] of them but way his grandkids can't go
[18:17] up then the radiation levels would be
[18:18] reset and uh it just doesn't make any
[18:21] sense and then there's the notion that
[18:22] he spent a week looking for Lucy and
[18:24] grimy after having left Vault 33 through
[18:26] the main door The Story Goes Hank
[18:28] simulat a plague by quarantining
[18:30] everyone to their apartments for what I
[18:31] assume was a long bloody time if he
[18:34] managed to convince people he dropped to
[18:36] 128 which raises the question of how the
[18:39] [ __ ] did he pull that off how did they
[18:41] simulate a plague right at the moment
[18:43] they needed it such that it was
[18:44] convincing to all of the people in the
[18:46] vault Bud's experiment is super managers
[18:48] not plagues how do you effectively lie
[18:51] to about 50 people about all of these
[18:53] variables when there's just about two
[18:55] people who can actually facilitate it
[18:57] and then of course why does Hank a
[18:59] junior executive assistant have not only
[19:02] the codes to activate cold fusion but
[19:04] the codes to launch a nuke on Shady
[19:06] Sands do they all have that kind of
[19:08] power seems pretty [ __ ] to me
[19:10] fourthly and a half malava isn't even
[19:13] phased by the fact that Lucy is the one
[19:15] delivering wiig's head to her what she
[19:17] wanted from him and her relationship
[19:19] with him had absolutely nothing to do
[19:21] with Lucy but she's like okay that makes
[19:24] enough sense she doesn't ask a single
[19:26] question as to how any of this [ __ ]
[19:28] insan ity happened I had to make a
[19:30] choice between their violent world and
[19:33] our peaceful one you see Lucy we needed
[19:35] a peaceful world so I nked everything I
[19:37] know I made the right choice oh [ __ ]
[19:41] this is his faction speech right he says
[19:43] the when the world is factions the only
[19:45] solution is to get rid of the factions
[19:47] if the problem with the world is
[19:49] factions then what is the solution but
[19:51] to get rid of the factions if you do
[19:53] that then there's only one faction left
[19:55] and that's us and we can shape the world
[19:57] how does this line up when by Design
[19:59] they are creating factions in vaults all
[20:01] over the world factions would be created
[20:04] by the mere separation of vaults 31 32
[20:07] and 33 Hank you would develop smaller
[20:09] factions in your own [ __ ] Vault but
[20:12] more importantly what is your
[20:13] understanding of humanity you stupid
[20:15] [ __ ] Humanity will always split into
[20:18] factions the more and more of them that
[20:19] there are how do you not know this being
[20:21] an expert manager oh and let's not even
[20:23] talk about how [ __ ] lucky it is that
[20:25] a headless suit just falls into the room
[20:27] you understand that if this didn't
[20:29] happen and if Lucy didn't become a
[20:30] [ __ ] and not point out the fact that
[20:32] he was putting it on he would never have
[20:34] been able to escape ultimately Hank mlan
[20:36] was introduced as a reasonable
[20:37] intelligent attentive forthright and
[20:40] caring man who wanted the best for his
[20:42] people and his family while maintaining
[20:44] Focus Under Pressure that Silo is
[20:47] reminding me of a much better show if
[20:49] they wanted to go the direction of Hank
[20:50] being super evil in a DI hard super
[20:53] manager then why would Lucy giving him
[20:55] sad eyes be enough to convince him to
[20:56] betray voltech like why would he do
[20:59] something so antithetical to his belief
[21:01] system just because his daughter told
[21:02] him to when he believes she doesn't
[21:04] understand the situation especially when
[21:06] that code was probably all that was
[21:08] keeping him alive it's his word against
[21:10] mavas he can absolutely and easily argue
[21:13] she is lying he can deny even having a
[21:16] code I suppose it's lucky there wasn't a
[21:18] contingency code set up by vault tech
[21:20] that locks the entire system my dad
[21:22] found out that I destroyed an entire
[21:24] Community to save him that break his
[21:28] heart it's sad that Hank in episode 8 is
[21:30] a complete clown and this man was stolen
[21:32] from us God it's such a shame Kyle mclin
[21:34] deserves much better than playing a
[21:36] [ __ ]
[21:40] cartoon all right let's talk about the
[21:42] wizig guy maybe I should have talked
[21:44] about him first but this is unscripted
[21:46] okay we're doing crazy things here okay
[21:49] so Rogue Enclave man willig The Enclave
[21:52] don't get a single explanation of
[21:54] suggest what the [ __ ] they even are by
[21:55] the way he is aligned with moldaver and
[21:57] he hopes to steal Enclave tech for the
[21:59] good of the Wasteland he does seemingly
[22:01] jeopardize this Mission by trying to
[22:03] take care of a dog that would have been
[22:04] too small for standard intake he doesn't
[22:06] create a solid place for the dog to be
[22:08] hidden or leashed when he absolutely
[22:10] could have like like look at this this
[22:12] is what he has and he [ __ ] this up he
[22:14] also didn't lock his door so some guy
[22:17] blunders in and sees his naughty plans
[22:19] and ruins everything like seriously if
[22:21] he had locked his [ __ ] door none of
[22:23] this would have happened in any case he
[22:24] then awkwardly survives a gun turret
[22:27] unloading what looks to be about a
[22:28] thousand rounds at him while he shuffles
[22:31] away how the [ __ ] did this man Escape
[22:33] The Enclave how are you going to tell me
[22:36] that this old [ __ ] waddled away from
[22:38] this facility when one person with a
[22:40] pistol could have stopped him if all six
[22:43] agencies have the description of Rogue
[22:45] Enclave man why the [ __ ] did he not lose
[22:48] the glasses or change them if necessary
[22:50] shave his head wear anything different
[22:53] compared to his [ __ ] bounty image the
[22:56] [ __ ] like he's spotted immediately
[22:58] medely by the first man familiar with
[23:00] the Bounty so he ends up with Lucy and
[23:02] he does eventually give up he got his
[23:04] leg shot off and he's likely going to
[23:05] bleed out so he decides to take Cyanide
[23:08] and he tells Lucy to cut off his head
[23:10] there's a couple issues with this one of
[23:12] them being that he is very familiar with
[23:15] Vault dwellers and specifically her
[23:17] Vault not only that he's directly
[23:19] aligned with moldava this means that the
[23:22] last person he would want what's in his
[23:24] neck to end up with would be someone
[23:26] like Hank mlan the father of the person
[23:29] he is handing this to you need to start
[23:31] acting like a surface dweller miss m how
[23:34] do you know my name you'd think Ma June
[23:36] when offering a thousand caps to kill
[23:37] the ghoul would be able to spare some
[23:39] change for contact to escort Wilzig at
[23:41] least someone more reliable for him than
[23:43] the daughter of the man who nuked Shady
[23:45] Sands and by extension I assume the
[23:47] woman he works for what even was the
[23:50] escort plan was she just going to do it
[23:51] herself also is he seriously dying in
[23:54] this scene because they forgot to give
[23:55] him a stim pack they clearly had one the
[23:58] [ __ ] ghoul finds it on a desk where
[24:00] they were working on him where shown it
[24:02] stops bleeding it's like a cure all
[24:05] their pay is contingent on taking care
[24:07] of him I see we only sometimes play by
[24:10] The Game's rules huh even stupider than
[24:12] that however is that he takes cide
[24:14] before explaining the situation he does
[24:17] not ensure that she understands what is
[24:19] happening and what she has to do and as
[24:21] a result he dies during the explanation
[24:23] because of course because that's writing
[24:26] thanks to that Lucy doesn't know what
[24:28] the f [ __ ] is going on but oh well it's
[24:30] not like he was deathly invested in this
[24:32] Mission being completed it's not like it
[24:34] means freedom and power to the world I'm
[24:37] sure he didn't really care that much the
[24:39] Grim reality of a character like will
[24:40] zig is that he isn't a character at all
[24:42] he got pulled apart by the plot and the
[24:44] need for other characters to have
[24:46] Journeys by the end he barely had any
[24:48] personal goals or motivations Beyond
[24:49] being a quest Giver to the main
[24:51] character pretty sad since Michael
[24:53] Emerson is a very solid actor and he
[24:55] only got the one episode being a mangled
[24:57] doormat NPC anyway that's him who else
[24:59] we got why don't we talk about Maximus
[25:02] the best character I'm sure all of you
[25:04] will agree everyone's favorite little
[25:07] [ __ ] whether the [ __ ] razor blade in
[25:09] a boot thing was him or the friend I
[25:11] don't I don't actually care at all it
[25:12] was so [ __ ] stupid I I wanted it to
[25:15] happen is that wrong there's good and
[25:17] all people there's good and all people
[25:19] none of it makes any sense no one should
[25:20] believe anyone could get wounded to that
[25:22] extent by stupidly shoving their leg
[25:25] into a razor bladed boot over and over
[25:27] again second there's no way to think
[25:28] that it was actually him that did it
[25:30] like there's no real evidence but a
[25:32] bunch of people do assume that it was
[25:33] him and so he gets promoted he denies
[25:36] doing it of course but expresses that he
[25:38] wants it to have happened that is
[25:39] expressly antithetical to the Creed of
[25:41] the Brotherhood of Steel in this show I
[25:44] I I I wanted it to happen is that wrong
[25:47] yes it's also a blatant admission that
[25:49] he's awful for this job on top of the
[25:51] fact that we find out the old [ __ ]
[25:52] think he probably did it anyway and not
[25:54] that it matters but why did danne think
[25:56] this wouldn't affect anyone like did you
[25:57] actually think you could butcher your
[25:58] own leg deny responsibility and no one
[26:01] would be blamed and then when that's
[26:02] actually brought up the conflict of
[26:04] Maximus having taken the fall for D self
[26:06] harm we get nothing it's erased
[26:09] immediately but who cares time for a
[26:11] promotion now he gets to be a squire
[26:14] like why well you see it takes a lot to
[26:17] sabotage your fellow Soldier and that's
[26:19] that's taken power or or something yeah
[26:22] sure whatever instead of having people
[26:23] be awesome why not have them be dumb so
[26:25] off he goes on his adventure and his kn
[26:28] gets bored and so lands for no other
[26:30] reason than [ __ ] it and then they almost
[26:33] immediately bump into the exact Trail of
[26:36] the guy they're following now bear in
[26:38] mind when sent on this Mission the
[26:40] Brotherhood are scouring the Wasteland
[26:42] for Wilzig it just so happens that these
[26:45] guys drop out on their way to one
[26:47] location and they fall right on top of
[26:49] wiig's Trail incredible so then Maximus
[26:52] just lucks out because a yau decides to
[26:54] ninja attack the Knight instead of him
[26:57] when he's not wearing any [ __ ] Armor
[26:59] at all and so the Knight is scared and
[27:01] he runs away in such a way that he
[27:02] [ __ ] kills himself I don't know he
[27:05] like breaks his neck or he's bleeding it
[27:07] doesn't matter it's just the ninja yau
[27:09] is so stupid anyway the Knight needs a
[27:11] stem to be alive and because this show
[27:13] is written by shitty cartoon children it
[27:15] it doesn't actually like make anything
[27:16] make sense he is desperate for a stim
[27:18] and so he decides while his Squire is
[27:21] collecting it to tell him how much he
[27:22] has failed and will be killed for it
[27:24] it's written like [ __ ] he's like oh why
[27:26] you taking so long to get a sim you're
[27:27] just so bad at your job I can't wait for
[27:29] you to get me my stem so that you can
[27:31] then be killed for being bad at your job
[27:33] you best get me that stem oh I'm going
[27:35] to be mad if you don't get me that St
[27:36] I'm going to die and then you'll you'll
[27:37] be in less trouble if you don't get me
[27:38] that stem so Maximus lets the night
[27:40] bleed out and that's that why did he
[27:43] leave The Squire back behind that thing
[27:45] is filled with all kinds of he gets
[27:48] contacted and supplied a replacement
[27:50] Squire and tries to put on a voice to
[27:52] trick the Brotherhood as to who they're
[27:53] speaking to this is night
[27:56] Titus over that voice doesn't sound like
[27:59] anything let alone Michael rapor I'm
[28:02] okay all good here what the [ __ ] are you
[28:05] trying to do anyway the Brotherhood send
[28:07] him a replacement and his reaction is to
[28:09] destroy his direct communication with
[28:11] them this is despite explicitly claiming
[28:14] his path to Redemption will be through
[28:16] getting the head to them meaning he will
[28:18] need to maintain contact [ __ ] the new
[28:22] Squire doesn't have any confirmation
[28:24] checks nor does he question why the
[28:25] comms are down for Titus literally one
[28:27] of those Raiders could be in the suit
[28:29] right now and he'd have no idea because
[28:30] the Brotherhood are inept all right now
[28:32] let's talk about this steel [ __ ] and
[28:34] his battle with a ghoul in which he gets
[28:36] his [ __ ] foot stuck in the floor how
[28:38] did a total [ __ ] such as yourself get
[28:41] past my defenses sorry no idiots of
[28:44] aloud we like good conversation here you
[28:46] can fly [ __ ] you kicked a rock
[28:49] so hard it destroyed a building you can
[28:51] absolutely step out from some wood how
[28:53] does a man in power armor lose a fist
[28:55] fight to a [ __ ] ghoul this fight was
[28:58] was horrible it was embarrassing why not
[29:00] have him be
[29:04] dumb all he had to do was crush the
[29:06] ghoul's head at any opportunity but no
[29:08] he kept throwing him around so then he
[29:10] bumps into a bunch of [ __ ] idiots
[29:12] trying to get into his armor and he
[29:14] fights them like he just decides I'm
[29:15] going to take you on One V whole group
[29:17] for some reason obviously he loses but
[29:19] they don't kill him how lucky so he
[29:22] comes back and the way they're going to
[29:24] beat him this time is that they're going
[29:26] to push him into his own Army so he can
[29:28] kill them what the [ __ ] are you doing
[29:30] Jasmine show our drooling friend the
[29:32] door please so he takes the identity of
[29:34] his Knight and he is sent a new Squire
[29:37] because of course his Knight is dead and
[29:39] he was The Squire you get what it do so
[29:41] he decides they need to get on the trail
[29:42] of the ghoul because these the one that
[29:44] will lead them likely to the Head they
[29:46] very cleverly point out they can follow
[29:48] the radiated Trail of the ghoul allers
[29:51] leave radiation Trails L the G to live
[29:54] you've made it possible to trace the
[29:55] whereabouts of the of the target you are
[29:57] in the radiated Wasteland you are
[30:00] surrounded by radiation what do you mean
[30:02] you're going to chase him through his
[30:04] radiated [ __ ] Trail oh lovely they've
[30:08] sent me a [ __ ] they eventually get the
[30:11] head because this show is [ __ ]
[30:13] Maximus then feels he might just tell
[30:16] his Squire that he's not actually a
[30:18] knight The Squire points out that the
[30:20] Brotherhood will probably kill him for
[30:22] this and since Maximus has not yet
[30:24] learned how to lie he fails miserably to
[30:26] explain himself [ __ ] up so much that
[30:28] he decides it's probably best to Simply
[30:31] kill his Squire yes this is real this
[30:34] show is [ __ ] real he manages to crush
[30:37] his foot underneath the foot of a power
[30:39] armor
[30:42] suit this however does not subdue his
[30:45] Squire who in turn manages to unscrew
[30:47] and remove his Fusion core it is so
[30:50] [ __ ] embarrassing and if you weren't
[30:52] already convinced of that Thaddius for
[30:54] some [ __ ] reason decided to not open
[30:58] the mask execute Maximus with his pistol
[31:00] pull out the body and use the power
[31:02] armor for himself this would certainly
[31:05] help the fact that he has trouble
[31:06] walking it would help with his carry
[31:08] load and it seems like he would be more
[31:10] than justified in doing so when Max
[31:12] killed his Knight and tried to kill him
[31:14] and he was going to leave him for dead
[31:16] anyway which I mean you might want to
[31:18] finish the job in case he escapes we
[31:20] also know that thus is absolutely
[31:22] motivated and willing to Kill Max as
[31:24] well as anyone who is standing next to
[31:26] him it's all so [ __ ] up you are either
[31:30] stupid or making fun of me either way I
[31:33] will not waste my time in any case
[31:35] Maximus is about to be eaten by Rad
[31:38] roaches everyone is happy about this
[31:40] finally the plot line can end only
[31:42] luckily for him Lucy happens to stumble
[31:44] into the scene and save his life it is
[31:46] absolutely and entirely a coincidence
[31:49] because she just happened to be in the
[31:50] area so Maximus and Lucy bump into
[31:53] fiends the two fiends shoot at Maximus
[31:55] point blank one of them misses one of
[31:57] them SHO shots him in the shoulder while
[31:59] he shooting after they have drawn
[32:01] manages to kill them both how lucky he
[32:03] then clearly shows they have clothing he
[32:06] could need knives he could need but nope
[32:08] he only takes the gun how the [ __ ]
[32:09] this accurate to fall out in any case
[32:11] because he's too cool to heal he's just
[32:13] going to let his bullet wound bleed like
[32:15] a [ __ ] upon coming close to bleeding
[32:17] out he happens to stumble across Vault 4
[32:20] with Lucy they heal them Supply them
[32:22] with antibiotics and every single
[32:24] Resource One could imagine needing what
[32:26] crazy and insane luck to have stumbled
[32:29] across something like this when you're
[32:30] bleeding out so old maxipad decides to
[32:33] have a shower eat some food relax watch
[32:36] some TV everything is fine which is
[32:39] weird when he's been trained by the
[32:40] Brotherhood of Steel for the majority of
[32:42] his life and he's surrounded by mutants
[32:44] you'd think he'd take issue but he seems
[32:47] very happy only later he spots Lucy's
[32:50] captured instead of discovering any
[32:52] context Maximus decides to go on a Todd
[32:54] rage and save Lucy when she is clearly
[32:56] [ __ ] fine try to imply he has to make
[32:59] the decision between his own comfort and
[33:01] Lucy's well-being as though this is
[33:03] development for him when he knows so
[33:04] little about what's happening that he
[33:06] has no reason to assume he's not next
[33:08] he's making the decision in this scene
[33:09] as though he's read the script and
[33:11] understands what the writers want him to
[33:12] think he's going through rather than
[33:14] what a person would actually think in
[33:16] this scenario it's so [ __ ] bad so
[33:18] upon exiting Vault 4 they decide to once
[33:21] again get back on the trail of The
[33:23] Squire The Squire with the head The
[33:25] Squire that was well ahead of them
[33:27] anyway The Squire that was calling in
[33:29] the Brotherhood they somehow catch back
[33:32] up to him imagine they were just 5
[33:35] minutes late the whole show would be
[33:37] over this is also where the Squire
[33:38] realizes he's a ghoul because the wacky
[33:40] Doctor Who fixed his foot turned him
[33:42] into a ghoul I guess in any case
[33:44] realizing he's a ghoul means that he can
[33:47] now not go back to the Brotherhood which
[33:48] means he's more than happy to submit the
[33:50] head to these two do you understand just
[33:53] how astronomical all of these [ __ ]
[33:55] coincidences are anyway Max decides the
[33:57] head will go to Lucy so she can get her
[33:59] dad back and the thus can get away he's
[34:02] just he's not going to talk about what
[34:04] happened to him so he ends up back at
[34:05] the Brotherhood for punishment keep in
[34:08] mind he's betrayed the Brotherhood
[34:10] several times including but not limited
[34:12] to the assumed violent [ __ ] up of the
[34:14] leg of a squire to prevent them from
[34:16] getting the position he then allowed his
[34:17] Knight to die and stole his identity and
[34:20] then lied about having the head to the
[34:22] whole brotherhood despite that being the
[34:24] one thing they really want and despite
[34:26] knowing where the actual one really is
[34:28] these betrayals would of course get him
[34:30] killed yeah well the leader guy says
[34:33] power is taken not given and you know
[34:36] what Maximus has clearly learned that
[34:40] and so if Maximus can complete the next
[34:42] mission he can rule with the old dude as
[34:44] his right hand man this has become so
[34:47] [ __ ] funny he injures a fellow
[34:49] Soldier and gets upgraded to Squire he
[34:51] watches his night bleed out and just
[34:53] takes his place he [ __ ] around in the
[34:55] whole Wasteland and then he lies to the
[34:57] whole Brotherhood and somehow achieves a
[34:59] promotion for the sake of the
[35:00] Brotherhood please listen him for the
[35:02] sake of the brother this [ __ ] lied and
[35:04] betrayed the brotherhood like three
[35:06] different times oh he just so happens to
[35:08] know exactly where what we need is the
[35:10] very moment he's about to be executed H
[35:13] oh I surely believe him now throw him in
[35:15] the [ __ ] Brig give us the location of
[35:17] the head and if you are telling the
[35:18] truth we might not kill you but that's
[35:21] for a world where things start to make
[35:23] sense in any case and for reasons I do
[35:26] not know how Maximus knows where moldava
[35:29] is and so he directs the Brotherhood of
[35:31] Steel over there there's a big war
[35:34] everyone dies and then he somehow ends
[35:37] up in a position where he's promoted
[35:39] again like I'm not even kidding Maximus
[35:42] fails miserably however he's seen as the
[35:46] one who killed the enemy leader this
[35:48] means that he gets to be a knight now he
[35:51] got [ __ ] promoted again what the [ __ ]
[35:55] what he just fails upward I guess guess
[35:57] it's good the writers wrote what they
[35:59] knew can't wait to see him in season 2
[36:02] what an interesting plotline filled with
[36:04] twists and turns and absolutely insane
[36:07] nonsense I assume I don't need to spend
[36:09] much time on this Maximus is a shite
[36:12] character a collection of random values
[36:14] and actions perir the scene he's
[36:16] currently occupying a pathetic
[36:18] exploration of an admittedly difficult
[36:19] toite character one whose self-centered
[36:22] and power hungry thanks to a history of
[36:24] understanding that the Brotherhood
[36:25] represents that very power he never had
[36:28] he likes the idea of being seen as the
[36:30] stalwart hero of the people but can't
[36:32] escape his selfish nature they awkwardly
[36:35] and wonky walk him through coffee
[36:37] stained photocopies of better scenes
[36:39] where in theory his ethics would be
[36:41] tested yet in actuality he continuously
[36:44] stumbles around with a scornful face
[36:46] until the story can come to a temporary
[36:48] end what an unlikable piece of [ __ ] his
[36:52] final significant Act was that of trying
[36:54] to help Lucy by sending the Brotherhood
[36:56] of Steel to the Observatory a place the
[36:59] Brotherhood then bombard with all kinds
[37:01] of artillery she could literally have
[37:03] died within the first 5 minutes of the
[37:05] assault and he doesn't seem to recognize
[37:07] that at all when making the decision in
[37:09] fact a good summary of Maximus as a
[37:11] character would be to describe events in
[37:12] episode one that his friend covers for
[37:15] him and treats him well while everyone
[37:16] else in the Brotherhood kicks the [ __ ]
[37:18] out of him and when that same friend
[37:20] gets promoted Maximus is so angry about
[37:23] it he screams at a toilet the sad part
[37:25] being Max's Elation and approval Ral of
[37:27] danne's injury meaning we can't even
[37:29] imagine he was angry that he'd be left
[37:31] alone he's literally just a pathetic
[37:33] jealous vacuum of potential he's
[37:36] actually just like Finn only where he
[37:38] was robbed of a trilogy's worth of
[37:39] development in favor of sing for raid
[37:42] Palpatine Max here was tanking his own
[37:44] Potential from the first second he had
[37:46] on screen [ __ ] Maximus he's a boring
[37:48] loser but hey with him out the way it'
[37:51] be nice to check out you know some some
[37:53] of the good characters right why not
[37:55] Lucy Everyone likes L Lucy great let's
[37:58] talk about Lucy once she leaves the
[37:59] Vault after that initial rid she ends up
[38:02] setting up at night with a fire lucky
[38:04] for her she happens to cross paths with
[38:06] the main man of the show The One
[38:09] everyone is after Mr Wiig he warns her
[38:12] how stupid it is to sleep with a fire
[38:14] out in the open at night when I would
[38:16] argue it's monumentally stupider for him
[38:18] to be sitting down next to her when he's
[38:20] the most Wanted Man in the Wasteland at
[38:22] that point he's very much not able to
[38:24] defend himself and he's carrying
[38:26] material that means open free and clean
[38:28] energy to the people of California he
[38:30] considers his mission to be of utmost
[38:32] importance and he's gambling it all on
[38:34] some lady he sees which kind of looks
[38:36] like it would be a trap but I mean
[38:38] writing is hard these days so shut the
[38:41] [ __ ] up I just want to point it out this
[38:42] man is directly connected to mava and
[38:45] that is the exact person that Lucy wants
[38:47] to see what a coincidence it doesn't
[38:49] matter we're moving on Lucy decides to
[38:51] check one place in one town and it just
[38:53] so happens to be the place that has been
[38:55] paid to protect Wilzig wow what a
[38:58] coincidence and she just so happened to
[39:00] meet him the prior night wow
[39:02] unfortunately for them the ghoul is
[39:04] sitting right outside and he wants
[39:06] Wilzig too for the Bounty oh no how
[39:11] inconvenient if only it had been
[39:13] literally any other store in any other
[39:16] town at any other time hell if only will
[39:19] zig had walked in through the back a
[39:21] gosh Dawn this just so happens to also
[39:24] be the time that Maximus arrives all of
[39:26] these events happening at exactly the
[39:29] same time are the whole reason anything
[39:30] happens in this show in any case she
[39:32] ends up having to take the head because
[39:35] Mr Wilzig kicks the bucket she settles
[39:37] down for the night with a fire after
[39:40] being advised not to because [ __ ] it oh
[39:42] and she passes an assaultron look it's
[39:44] an assaultron reference it has no
[39:47] relevance to anything it's references
[39:50] remember this and no story she is then
[39:52] sidetracked and attacked by a gulper you
[39:54] guys should seriously understand that
[39:56] Lucy was lucky as [ __ ] to have been
[39:57] attacked by this thing and not eaten
[39:59] whole when it has the same ninja Powers
[40:01] as the yau also had she simply walked by
[40:03] this area the ghoul would have caught up
[40:05] with her killed her taken the head and
[40:07] the show would have been over that gulp
[40:09] is Saving Lives the ghoul eventually
[40:11] catches up to her and they have a tussle
[40:13] she bites off his finger and so he cuts
[40:16] off hers I got that
[40:20] H bit me lucky for her just minutes
[40:24] later she gets a new finger from a Rob
[40:27] robot that wants to carve her up for
[40:28] organs anyway that makes sense you see
[40:31] the ghoul wants to trade her in for
[40:32] vials so that he doesn't go feral
[40:34] regardless she's strapped down at the
[40:36] arms but not the legs allowing her to
[40:39] escape with ease by somehow kicking the
[40:41] saw into her restraints to then [ __ ] up
[40:44] the robot with a defibrillator not sure
[40:46] that any of that works but whatever she
[40:49] then forces the release of ghouls who
[40:51] are kept in cages and are feral as a
[40:54] result of this everyone dies and she
[40:56] doesn't seem to realize it's her fault
[40:58] my name is Martha your name is Martha
[40:59] why did you say that she even kills one
[41:03] herself and doesn't deal well with that
[41:05] fact for about a minute and then it
[41:06] never comes up again the irony being
[41:08] that she provides vials to Mr ghoul
[41:11] outside without realizing that she could
[41:13] have given them to Martha who is like a
[41:15] ghoul inside instead of just shooting
[41:17] her it's amazing that Lucy just keeps
[41:20] winning Despite All Odds that she should
[41:22] lose at least she earns it right it's
[41:24] not like it's insane luck every single
[41:27] SLE [ __ ] time I didn't even mention
[41:29] the time that Maximus outran a [ __ ]
[41:31] bullet to save her not to mention the
[41:32] ghoul deciding not to kill her a million
[41:35] times in a row whereas he would have
[41:36] killed anyone else but I mean whatever
[41:38] she's quirky she's fun she's aloof she
[41:41] makes she's a funny decision I mean
[41:42] credit to the actor but the writing is
[41:44] horrendous oh for [ __ ] sake Lucy
[41:46] didn't even loot the super duper M man
[41:48] how do you forget to do that in a
[41:49] Fallout show she didn't grab up
[41:51] additional clothing water food ammo guns
[41:54] or even a [ __ ] bag for anything she
[41:56] might find but she sure did grab a
[41:58] reference something she drops in just
[42:00] over an episode without using remember
[42:03] this remember this remember this and no
[42:04] story oh she walks out of there like she
[42:06] owns the place and leaves every valuable
[42:09] resource to the next scavenger that'll
[42:11] simply waddle by anyway she's about to
[42:14] die from radiation but she stumbles
[42:16] across maximus in his suit pleased to
[42:18] make your acquaintance actually let's
[42:20] get the other bit of politeness taken
[42:21] care of shall we what the bloody bloody
[42:24] bloody hell are you doing here and she
[42:26] does this when he's about to die by
[42:29] being eaten by Rad roaches wait hang the
[42:31] [ __ ] on hold the [ __ ] phone this
[42:33] ain't even some big coincidence it's a
[42:35] good old gosh darn plot hole fadus left
[42:38] in the night with the head and Lucy is
[42:40] following the tracker she placed in the
[42:42] head she would then trace it to its
[42:44] realtime location meaning she should be
[42:47] far away and moving in a completely
[42:50] different direction how do you [ __ ] up
[42:52] so much in your stupid goddamn show I
[42:55] really want to believe you but
[42:57] practically every person I've met up
[42:58] here has tried to kill me woman this is
[43:01] the one man who took 25 bullets for you
[43:04] in
[43:11] Philly they have a conversation while he
[43:14] is tanking bullet after bullet for her
[43:17] how the [ __ ] does she not remember this
[43:19] she cited this and so they happily save
[43:23] each other by her releasing him from the
[43:25] suit and him providing her here right
[43:27] away so she bumps into the fiends with
[43:29] Maximus and then they end up in Vault 4
[43:31] because they're looking for a solution
[43:33] only Lucy's end of the story is that she
[43:35] spots that the people of Vault 4 drink
[43:38] blood and decorate themselves in the
[43:40] ashes of the Dead while saying blood
[43:42] must spill to bring Shady Sands back
[43:45] what did they mean by this now seriously
[43:47] what did you mean by the people who like
[43:48] the NCR and Shady Sands being obsessive
[43:51] naked blood drinking Ash bathing weirdos
[43:53] anyway she tells Maximus none of this
[43:55] while saying they should leave this is
[43:57] what we call [ __ ] she wasn't allowed
[43:59] on floor 12 and yet she went to floor 12
[44:03] where there was like horrible
[44:04] experiments and stuff it turns out the
[44:05] experiments aren't actually experiments
[44:07] they just they're trying to save people
[44:09] or something it just it looks really bad
[44:11] but it isn't actually that bad it
[44:13] doesn't really make any sense cuz of
[44:14] course why would you just tell people
[44:15] that's what's going on instead she
[44:16] assumes the whis and tries to stop them
[44:18] throws some acid in someone's face it's
[44:20] this whole thing anyway after all of
[44:21] this they decide they can just let them
[44:23] go like Lucy [ __ ] all of that up and
[44:25] then Maximus does the Todd rage thing
[44:27] where he breaks a bunch of [ __ ] he also
[44:29] happens to steal I'm not kidding about
[44:31] this steal their entire source of energy
[44:34] he just pops in in his power armor and
[44:36] he's like yeah it's mine now you'd think
[44:37] there'd be consequences for something
[44:39] like this but Vault for just let him go
[44:41] with their energy source I feel like I
[44:43] should explain the cosmic fuckdy that is
[44:46] Vault 4 at this point the gist of it is
[44:48] this Vault was run by scientists who
[44:50] believe they were the best fit for the
[44:52] head of society they ran unregulated
[44:54] experiments on their vault dwellers and
[44:56] eventually those same Vault dwellers
[44:58] killed the scientists ever since the
[45:00] future generations of those very
[45:02] experiments have now taken in any way
[45:04] with Souls passing by and falling into
[45:07] their traps they take care of them and
[45:09] they Supply them with anything they need
[45:11] the vault is actually filled with people
[45:13] who are extremely welcoming however they
[45:15] have a mysterious level 12 in which no
[45:18] one is allowed to go but anyone can
[45:20] enter in level 12 they have people
[45:22] recovering from the experiments
[45:24] conducted all those years ago and you
[45:25] know they have a little cult me to pray
[45:27] to mulva to recover Shady Sands because
[45:30] many refugees from that event came to
[45:31] live here and desperately want their
[45:34] home back they drink and bathe in blood
[45:36] while smothering themselves in ashes of
[45:38] the Dead while chanting bring back Sands
[45:42] blood
[45:45] must and somehow the denisons of Vault 4
[45:49] don't see what all of that and level 12
[45:51] would mean to someone with no context
[45:54] they punish Lucy for being terrified and
[45:57] trying to help people she thinks they're
[45:58] trying to hurt obviously the common
[46:00] counter for this is but they're [ __ ]
[46:02] which is actually a common defense for
[46:04] most of the characters in this show why
[46:06] not have them be dumb but it's uniquely
[46:08] frustrating in the case of Vault 4 with
[46:10] their understanding of the situation
[46:12] their great grandparents had to escape
[46:14] Horrors and as a result we are shown the
[46:17] people who remain understand the value
[46:19] of Social and humanitarian programs they
[46:21] save surface dwellers and they try to
[46:23] bring people destroyed by
[46:25] experimentation back to a quality of
[46:27] life for causing harm to a fellow
[46:29] Survivor you are hereby sentenced to
[46:32] death not a huge surprise when she's
[46:34] [ __ ] up a society without discovering
[46:36] more context I suppose unfortunate but
[46:39] there we are
[46:41] death by banishment to the surface I get
[46:46] this is fun for shows where the stakes
[46:47] go as far as being late for school or
[46:50] missing your first date or you get
[46:51] scenes where people misunderstand
[46:53] everything leading to a payoff like this
[46:55] but these people have been through back
[46:57] they know how social cues work they
[46:59] aren't trying to scare anyone which
[47:00] means the only real defense of Vault 4
[47:03] is that they are complete [ __ ] idiots
[47:05] kind of spits in the face of them
[47:07] overthrowing scientists it also makes
[47:09] you wonder how they've gotten this far
[47:10] when they're so easy to take advantage
[47:12] of mulva and her group of Raiders could
[47:15] easily have taken Vault 4 if they
[47:16] stumbled into it and the world is filled
[47:19] with plenty of groups like that it's a
[47:21] bit odd to portray them somewhat Savvy
[47:23] in human interaction health and security
[47:25] to then do the opposite of that straight
[47:27] away I mean it's funny how the peaceful
[47:29] loving understanding people of Vault 4
[47:31] grab a [ __ ] Harpoon the second a
[47:34] person who's been experimented on might
[47:35] have gotten out of their cage it
[47:37] definitely matches their approach and
[47:39] their characters and it's not at all a
[47:40] thing that happened to bait and switch
[47:42] the audience why do they not have
[47:43] Security on their entire Energy System
[47:46] why would you reward people with freedom
[47:47] and two we supplies when they actively
[47:49] try to sabotage your Society why tie her
[47:52] up why have a rig a rooll of a ceremony
[47:54] and word everything in such a way that a
[47:55] person being punished would believe they
[47:57] are about to die when that is entirely
[47:59] the opposite of your intentions why
[48:00] wouldn't they show newcomers what they
[48:02] do on level 12 instead of letting people
[48:04] stumble across it I already know yeah
[48:06] they're [ __ ] that's how this whole
[48:08] show Works everyone we've just met is
[48:10] now a complete joke despite the
[48:12] histories they share nothing that took
[48:14] place meant anything for both weight and
[48:16] consequence outside of a small hiccup
[48:18] our characters made decisions that they
[48:20] should reckon with but don't and it's
[48:22] all because this was like a side mission
[48:25] in a video game and S attire apparently
[48:27] means tossing [ __ ] at a wall this
[48:29] defensive and reflexive shutdown of
[48:31] Standards means the show no longer
[48:33] requires dramatic weight consideration
[48:35] or consequence once the plot line is
[48:38] over and the writers want to do
[48:39] something else we can pull the its
[48:41] satire card and be done with it and I
[48:43] think we all know that if this show
[48:45] actually behaved just like a video game
[48:47] with characters walking around like NPCs
[48:50] or experiencing loading screens or
[48:52] choosing to enter prior saves it would
[48:54] not be considered a boon to the
[48:56] experience
[48:57] that would destroy the already very
[48:59] crippled TV show Stakes turns out they
[49:02] are different mediums it also turns out
[49:05] it's much more complicated as to what
[49:06] the correct decisions are when balancing
[49:08] tone and maintaining stakes in an
[49:10] adaptation but you throwing enough
[49:12] references and it doesn't matter anymore
[49:14] that's why they're willing to let the
[49:15] whole society die with the two newcomers
[49:17] leaving Lucy convinces Maximus to give
[49:20] back the power source though so I guess
[49:22] there's that do you know Maximus only
[49:23] has the power armor here because the
[49:25] people of Vault 4 picked it up and we
[49:27] found his armor our surface foragers are
[49:29] bringing it back now how the [ __ ] did
[49:30] you find that armor how did you know it
[49:33] belonged to Maximus which is funny cuz
[49:35] it Doesn't how the [ __ ] did you move it
[49:37] back and move it back so fast the thing
[49:39] weighs tons why are you so invested in
[49:42] getting it back to him why did any of
[49:44] this insane [ __ ] happen because we
[49:46] don't do consequence
[49:49] here so Lucy's all about doing good
[49:51] deeds right and she finds out that
[49:53] Maximus L A man bleed to death and he
[49:55] took his armor when he was sworn to
[49:57] protect him he was threatening me so
[49:59] instead of helping him I watched him die
[50:00] he mentions he was threatening him but
[50:02] he also rejects the idea that he's a
[50:03] good man which is correct I mean part of
[50:06] why this is so frustrating is that he
[50:07] just lies to her probably should have
[50:09] put this in the Maximus portion but [ __ ]
[50:11] it he aims the gun and doesn't shoot he
[50:13] aims again and doesn't shoot he then
[50:14] thinks about aiming and doesn't shoot he
[50:16] then aims and doesn't shoot yet again he
[50:19] then watches as his Knight is being torn
[50:21] apart by the stupid [ __ ] yaay clearly
[50:23] thinking about how happy he would be if
[50:25] he could just get into that suit he
[50:27] absolutely chose to abandon his Knight
[50:29] to the yau leading to his death well
[50:31] before he threatened him and besides in
[50:34] actuality the threat Titus gives him is
[50:36] just a description of the repercussions
[50:38] the Brotherhood will have for Maximus
[50:39] thanks to his inaction during that
[50:41] sequence the same Brotherhood that Lucy
[50:44] says Maximus should follow the values of
[50:46] the show thinks Maximus was not only
[50:48] telling the truth here but that he's
[50:50] developing as a person and getting some
[50:51] repercussions for his actions you know
[50:54] taking accountability which he's
[50:55] absolutely not doing he lies and then
[50:58] the show has Lucy equate her experiences
[51:00] with his just threw acid in an innocent
[51:02] man's face the Wasteland sucks yeah
[51:05] absolute [ __ ] to get back to Lucy though
[51:08] it is a problem that she doesn't care
[51:10] it's like one of the most obvious ways
[51:11] to have had an interesting conflict but
[51:13] they just have her not care about it at
[51:15] all she doesn't want to know any more
[51:16] context she just wants to move on they
[51:18] made it clear that she appreciates
[51:20] context when judging conflict but I
[51:22] guess she doesn't anymore especially
[51:24] since she gives up on it entirely when
[51:26] it comes to malava but we'll get to that
[51:29] instead of her pursuing more information
[51:31] she says oh I threw some acid in an
[51:34] innocent man's face the Wasteland sucks
[51:36] as if what she did is even remotely
[51:38] close when she was under the impression
[51:40] for good reason that these people were
[51:42] being experimented on against their will
[51:44] meanwhile Maximus just wanted more power
[51:46] it's pretty boring lame and totally not
[51:48] in her character but whatever let's go
[51:50] so Lucy and Maximus end up with thus
[51:53] like I said I cannot understate just how
[51:55] incredibly [ __ ] lucky these idiot monges
[51:57] saw throughout the whole show but
[51:59] whatever it's fun fun fun fun so after
[52:00] they split up she enters the observatory
[52:03] safe house and sees It's a Wonderful
[52:05] Refuge where everyone is safe and happy
[52:07] a lot is revealed that we can go over in
[52:09] a moment and she realizes her dad is a
[52:12] bad man though she manages to watch her
[52:14] dad open up power armor and toss out a
[52:16] dead man while jumping in even though
[52:18] it's the one thing she absolutely would
[52:20] not want him to be able to do like this
[52:21] whole thing happened right in front of a
[52:23] field of view what are you doing anyway
[52:25] Lucy by the end of the season has no
[52:26] clue what the [ __ ] she's doing and has
[52:28] to rethink basically all of everything
[52:30] but she did say okey doie which made it
[52:32] all worth it outside of the obvious
[52:34] being Ella Pell is an awesome actress
[52:36] let's talk about this character I may
[52:38] end up looking like
[52:42] you I'll never be like you when looking
[52:45] back you can see exactly what the plan
[52:47] was for Lucy she's meant to be the aloof
[52:49] naive fish out of water moving through
[52:51] the world with fun reactions to all
[52:53] kinds of silly and serious events
[52:55] eventually she'll learn the world is
[52:57] Harsh and cruel and she'll need to
[53:00] become a killer there you are you little
[53:07] killer we see a lot of this throughout
[53:10] exemplified by her compliance in almost
[53:12] everything Vault related but the
[53:14] progression is entirely wonky and often
[53:17] times a straightforward assassination
[53:19] you can't have the fish out of water
[53:21] girl who is naive on every single event
[53:24] in the show while also having her
[53:26] starting scenes be that of a deep and
[53:29] horrifying event in the totality of her
[53:32] first interaction with people from
[53:33] Beyond The Vault she witnesses her
[53:35] lifelong friends and family getting
[53:38] horrifically attacked and murdered on
[53:40] top of her father getting kidnapped and
[53:42] all of that after sleeping with a man
[53:44] claiming to be someone he wasn't right
[53:46] before he tries to kill her this has
[53:48] almost no effect on her approach to
[53:50] anything she talks to everyone as though
[53:52] they'll be very cordial and friendly
[53:55] including but not limited to a man who's
[53:56] actually killing people right in front
[53:58] of her just before she speaks to him not
[54:00] entirely dissimilar in style to what she
[54:02] previously experienced you have that you
[54:04] have the impact of a chopped off finger
[54:06] being entirely forgotten in just an
[54:08] episode you have a missing out on
[54:09] several opportunities when it comes to
[54:11] standard interactions and her attitude
[54:13] in general you have this girl this
[54:15] bubbly fun girl from a world where
[54:17] violence is as rare as a birth she's
[54:20] happily holding a severed human head and
[54:22] chatting with it not long after simply
[54:24] deciding that yes she will SE it off
[54:26] it's a fun performance but it's nowhere
[54:29] near the behavior you develop when
[54:31] having lived this person's life nor is
[54:33] it representative of that person having
[54:34] experienced the trauma that she did
[54:36] Lucy's awkward demeanor is highlighted
[54:38] by even her fellow Vault dwellers and
[54:40] stands in direct opposition to the much
[54:42] more normal disposition and attitude of
[54:44] her father the man who would have had
[54:46] the biggest influence in her development
[54:48] people try to explain her by saying
[54:50] she's a vault dweller when she can come
[54:51] across as strange even to them her
[54:54] reactions to every one of the people she
[54:55] loves and has lived with for years
[54:57] getting murdered is very restrained in
[55:00] the opening I understand they did this
[55:02] deliberately I think it's a mistake they
[55:04] won't let her portray a more powerful
[55:06] set of emotions as her life is being
[55:08] destroyed in front of her eyes it's
[55:10] downright awkward when her father is
[55:12] drowning a man in front of her she's
[55:14] like oh well she watches a friend get
[55:17] his neck torn out and she doesn't seem
[55:19] to care all that much about him the time
[55:21] they allow Ella a chance to show what
[55:23] she can do emotionally is when her
[55:25] father gets kidnapped probably one of
[55:26] the best few isolated seconds of the
[55:29] entire show you are my
[55:35] world but this stands in opposition to
[55:38] her prior emotional engagement and it
[55:40] continues in her incredibly subdued
[55:42] reaction to the world for the first time
[55:44] she sees it as far as she knows anyway
[55:47] witnessing a landscape outside of the
[55:49] Vault a horizon the sky the insane
[55:52] nature of this Wasteland I feel like we
[55:54] had better reactions from Rebecca
[55:55] Ferguson in Silo and she was only
[55:57] looking at pictures of the outside world
[55:59] and this issue permeates through to the
[56:01] smallest of stuff like how Lucy will
[56:03] walk by a Brahman and just sort of smile
[56:05] it should already be special to her as a
[56:08] cow but it has two heads she'll show
[56:10] less emotion when seeing people murdered
[56:12] than when she decides to help out
[56:16] Wilzig gosh damn it okay her curiosity
[56:20] and shock are incredibly selective and
[56:22] I'm inclined to believe it was entirely
[56:24] a direction problem because I know what
[56:26] she's capable of and some of the
[56:28] reactions are just strange and it makes
[56:30] it so much harder to take any of the
[56:32] heartache she experiences seriously we
[56:34] don't see any kind of emotionally
[56:36] charged decisions representative of the
[56:38] trauma she sustained instead she
[56:40] continues to behave as the Lucy
[56:41] archetype they built in episode 1 until
[56:44] the finale realization it's not about
[56:46] her continuous reference to do unto
[56:48] others as you would have them do unto
[56:50] you it's about how she continuously gets
[56:52] taken advantage of and surprised when
[56:54] she simply doesn't have the back story
[56:56] to support it the show wants you to
[56:58] think she has it but you need to Simply
[57:00] remember what's happened to her I
[57:01] assumed she had at least learned
[57:03] something by the time of reaching
[57:04] Maximus but those assumptions were
[57:06] dashed when her willingness to trust the
[57:08] fiends rather than keeping a gun trained
[57:10] on them almost costs Maximus his life
[57:12] especially when he warned her
[57:14] excessively Lucy will actively baffle me
[57:16] in that she will explain just how much
[57:18] she absolutely cannot bring herself to
[57:20] kill the ghoul or leave him to die you
[57:23] see those actions would be outside of
[57:24] her ethical system all right gotcha but
[57:27] then not seen later she has to be
[57:29] convinced to save a man who is not only
[57:31] offering to save her life but has taken
[57:33] as many as 25 bullets for her previously
[57:36] Maximus is a [ __ ] but she has no reason
[57:39] to think he's anything other than a
[57:41] saint and so Lucy's ethical system will
[57:43] dictate that she will save the mass
[57:45] murdering ghoul in a heartbeat but when
[57:47] it comes to a man who saved her life and
[57:50] is currently suffering while offering to
[57:52] save her life again well apparently
[57:54] she's going to need some convincing for
[57:56] that one Lucy often gets reset because
[57:58] they don't want to lose the bubbly
[58:00] nature until we're closer to the end she
[58:02] went through something more horrific
[58:03] than many wastelanders have they utterly
[58:06] squander the characterization and it's
[58:07] propped up as something special we
[58:09] missed out on one of the only
[58:10] interesting conflicts of morality she
[58:12] could have had with Maximus cuz the
[58:14] writers didn't know how to handle it and
[58:15] then she swallows hookline and sinker
[58:17] the entire story Mula feeds to her which
[58:20] is probably my biggest problem with how
[58:22] they wrote this character Lucy is now
[58:24] looking at the woman who is respons ible
[58:26] for the death of many of her lifelong
[58:28] friends and family what she hears from
[58:30] Mula about her interests don't come
[58:32] [ __ ] close to being representative of
[58:34] her actions in the vault she could have
[58:36] dropped a necklace on a random ghoul she
[58:38] can easily lie about Lucy's father in
[58:40] any way shape and form ultimately Lucy
[58:43] has no clue nor reason to believe any of
[58:45] this yet she buys in fully a huge
[58:48] betrayal of the way they built her
[58:49] throughout they imply her connection to
[58:51] her mother is stronger than with her
[58:53] father this is despite the fact that she
[58:55] spent the vast majority of her life with
[58:57] her father and not her mother it's
[58:59] actually extremely annoying that Lucy is
[59:01] convinced by such a shitty story you see
[59:04] her mother realized there was a
[59:05] civilization outside because their water
[59:08] was being siphoned off when that can be
[59:10] explained easily by a loss of water
[59:12] through damage through someone siphoning
[59:14] it from within the Vault or through some
[59:16] animals getting at it in fact there are
[59:18] countless explanations before thinking
[59:20] Humanity has reemerged besides the show
[59:23] supports that she was correct but Vault
[59:25] 33 is in the middle of a wasteland
[59:27] desert there's no town for Miles who is
[59:30] actually siphoning the water what was
[59:32] happening and even if it were happening
[59:34] Hank was absolutely right do not wander
[59:36] the [ __ ] radiated Wasteland to Simply
[59:39] check if there are people outside and if
[59:42] you decide you have to you need to
[59:44] confirm it's safe do not randomly
[59:47] endanger the children are you insane in
[59:51] any case if Rose truly believed there
[59:53] were people outside that she just had to
[59:55] get to then why does nobody else in the
[59:57] vault know this story why is it that
[59:59] Rose would have left with the two kids
[1:00:01] and not told anyone about this
[1:00:02] incredible news would she not convince
[1:00:05] them as part of the goal of the Vault
[1:00:07] that they need to get out there and
[1:00:08] restart civilization wouldn't she at
[1:00:10] least leave them a note nobody should be
[1:00:13] buying this story and it's a Pity Lucy
[1:00:15] does though not the only instance
[1:00:18] considering she also bought the story
[1:00:19] from Vault 4 after a few seconds of
[1:00:21] explanation and a contextless clip it's
[1:00:24] as though despite her stating other wise
[1:00:26] that she has no idea people can lie
[1:00:28] she's also supposed to be so Adept at
[1:00:31] conflict deescalation along with
[1:00:33] experiencing some of the worst pieces of
[1:00:35] [ __ ] in the Wasteland I guess she didn't
[1:00:37] listen to the ghouls advice as what
[1:00:39] people say they
[1:00:41] did and what they really did somehow
[1:00:44] we're now at a point where people who
[1:00:45] spend the entire show dead are being
[1:00:47] assassinated as well look if you want to
[1:00:49] have it so that she realizes she can't
[1:00:51] even trust her father as some kind of
[1:00:53] Arc you can't have it so that mava the
[1:00:55] Hy murderer convinces her he's a piece
[1:00:57] of [ __ ] that doesn't make any [ __ ]
[1:01:00] sense and it's indicative of the
[1:01:02] absolute laziness of this script and no
[1:01:04] I'm not even in the adjacent dimension
[1:01:06] of accepting Lucy unlocked all of her
[1:01:09] memories and realized the truth when she
[1:01:11] saw mother ghoul as an explanation when
[1:01:13] it comes to something this important you
[1:01:15] cannot rely on your garbled perspective
[1:01:18] of your own early childhood memories
[1:01:20] especially when someone you absolutely
[1:01:22] cannot trust who has a vested interest
[1:01:24] in you joining her side is manipulating
[1:01:26] you and what a convenience that the
[1:01:28] six-year-old simply didn't remember any
[1:01:30] of it before now consequently it would
[1:01:33] have gotten in the way of the story
[1:01:34] otherwise but of course they then later
[1:01:36] have Cal mclin confirm it all through
[1:01:38] just the shittiest dialogue they rushed
[1:01:41] the end and as a result Lucy is just a
[1:01:42] tool of the writers to encourage a sense
[1:01:45] of haha Fish Out of Water but oh wow
[1:01:47] deep character realizes father bad wow
[1:01:50] oh boy this Wasteland is tough but hey
[1:01:52] that's okay we haven't gotten to the
[1:01:54] best character yet have we the
[1:01:56] if we fast forward to when he's in the
[1:01:57] town it's so strange that he's willing
[1:01:59] to attack basically everybody when if
[1:02:01] they get one shot in his head he's just
[1:02:03] dead which by the way is very easy for
[1:02:05] anyone to pull off but they don't it's
[1:02:07] kind of crazy because he just shoots
[1:02:09] everybody but when it comes to Lucy no
[1:02:11] no no no he'll consider He he'll think
[1:02:13] about it which is odd considering his
[1:02:15] history you'd think Vault dwellers are
[1:02:17] not exactly people he cares about that
[1:02:19] much I mean we see him try to kill her
[1:02:21] several times it's just that whenever he
[1:02:23] has a chance to actually do it he
[1:02:24] doesn't in any case after Mr Maximus
[1:02:26] tanks the shot for Lucy Mr ghoul over
[1:02:29] here decides he's not going to stop I
[1:02:31] was trying to count it in the scene I
[1:02:32] think he fires nearly 30 rounds at the
[1:02:35] power armor it's absolutely [ __ ] nuts
[1:02:37] mainly because they don't do anything
[1:02:39] the only reason he has a chance at
[1:02:41] surviving this fight is because Maximus
[1:02:43] is [ __ ] and he gets his foot stuck
[1:02:45] though it is curious that the ghoul
[1:02:46] wants to defeat maximus in a one-on-one
[1:02:48] and spends 30 shots on him not killing
[1:02:51] him it's almost as though he's unaware
[1:02:53] of a very obvious weak spot that he
[1:02:54] could take advantage of seriously he
[1:02:56] keeps chucking him instead of crushing
[1:02:57] his head so anyway when catching up to
[1:03:00] Lucy she's accidentally had the head get
[1:03:02] eaten by some giant fish thing this
[1:03:04] means the ghoul tries to use hair as
[1:03:06] bait to get the fish up so he can try
[1:03:08] and get access to the Head oi you
[1:03:10] [ __ ] goober are you aware that bait
[1:03:12] is supposed to be on the hook for this
[1:03:14] to work oh wait we can't do it that way
[1:03:16] cuz Lucy would have died unless you luck
[1:03:18] out and it just eats the hook how the
[1:03:20] [ __ ] you strong enough to pull that out
[1:03:22] of the water what unfortunately because
[1:03:24] he's a hyper [ __ ] he leaves his vials
[1:03:27] in his bag next to the girl next to the
[1:03:30] monster like look at this shot here he's
[1:03:31] left his bag which has all the material
[1:03:33] that prevents him from going feral right
[1:03:35] in the middle of the fight between the
[1:03:37] girl and the giant fish so unfortunately
[1:03:39] the vials get destroyed my goodness what
[1:03:43] sudden and dilapidating retardation
[1:03:45] maybe he would have had better luck if
[1:03:47] he just shot the [ __ ] thing with his
[1:03:49] gun instead of trying to poke it there
[1:03:51] wouldn't be any concern of damaging the
[1:03:53] head when he's a sharpshooter and
[1:03:55] there's a a difference between this
[1:03:56] thing's head and its stomach however
[1:03:58] lucky for him when he trades the girl
[1:04:00] for vials she does that whole insane
[1:04:02] escape and then she provides vials to
[1:04:05] him he gets enough so that he can
[1:04:07] actually get into the Super mod and take
[1:04:09] advantage of a full chest of vials he
[1:04:11] starts putting them in his [ __ ] hat
[1:04:13] just take the chest anyway he sleeps for
[1:04:15] just too long and gets knocked out and
[1:04:17] kidnapped by people who want him dead
[1:04:19] though he doesn't die
[1:04:21] because they're [ __ ] yay you did yes
[1:04:26] why not have him be dumbb the lucky [ __ ]
[1:04:28] is then allowed to sew his finger back
[1:04:30] on and then they try to kill him and he
[1:04:32] somehow escapes
[1:04:34] because what can I even say the funny
[1:04:36] thing is they want to kill him for what
[1:04:38] he did at the super duper Mt but he he
[1:04:40] didn't do it he could have said he
[1:04:42] didn't do it there was nothing to lose
[1:04:43] it almost comes across as him covering
[1:04:45] for Lucy but he could just make up a
[1:04:47] person that attacked the place he could
[1:04:49] you know lie and say he stumbled in
[1:04:51] after which is actually partially true
[1:04:54] it felt like there was nothing that was
[1:04:55] going to drag him into the main story
[1:04:57] again so they had to just spawn these
[1:04:59] guys and spawn them they did and kill
[1:05:01] them he did only to then spot a wanted
[1:05:04] poster of mulva someone he recognizes
[1:05:07] from his past but then why the [ __ ] is
[1:05:09] this the first time he's seeing this
[1:05:11] he's a bounty hunter she's famous you're
[1:05:13] telling me he gets woken up and
[1:05:15] discovers as much information as he can
[1:05:17] on a bounty that was spread across six
[1:05:19] agencies but he's never come across Mula
[1:05:22] AR we told several times that she's like
[1:05:25] world famous this is the first he's come
[1:05:27] AC okay whatever fine he then somehow
[1:05:30] found and killed Rufus a man who was
[1:05:32] sent by molda to pay Tommy who he then
[1:05:35] also found to find out where Mula is the
[1:05:38] ghoul then kills Tommy because Tommy
[1:05:41] wanted retribution for his brother
[1:05:42] something the ghoul predicted but then
[1:05:45] he turns his back and slowly walks away
[1:05:47] from the father whose Sons he just
[1:05:49] killed I guess there's no worry of
[1:05:51] Retribution there the next significant
[1:05:53] time we see him he kills a whole
[1:05:55] Battalion of Brotherhood including three
[1:05:58] power armor suits by hitting them in
[1:05:59] their weak spots the way they edit it
[1:06:01] you'd be forgiven for thinking he killed
[1:06:03] like seven of them absolutely sad and
[1:06:06] pathetic if you're so good at killing
[1:06:08] them why'd you waste 30 shots on Maximus
[1:06:11] and don't give me that [ __ ] about
[1:06:12] armor piercing rounds [ __ ]
[1:06:14] clearly has those same rounds in Philly
[1:06:16] and even if he didn't why did he then
[1:06:18] retardedly spend 30 shots on Armor he
[1:06:20] knows he can't penetrate it's not like
[1:06:22] ammo is precious in the Wasteland anyway
[1:06:25] the ghoul has Hank on the ropes and
[1:06:27] chooses not to shoot him in the weak
[1:06:28] spot instead grazing him in the face
[1:06:31] when this is lampshaded as antithetical
[1:06:32] he says he's going to follow him like a
[1:06:34] stuck pig which first of all is not how
[1:06:37] he's done anything in this season but
[1:06:39] second why not get your answers now how
[1:06:42] the [ __ ] you going to follow him you
[1:06:43] didn't shoot him with a Tracker you
[1:06:45] grazed his face which takes us to the
[1:06:47] end of this season for the ghoul he's
[1:06:49] going to chase Hank and he's going to
[1:06:50] take Lucy with him now for some reason
[1:06:52] he's also got dog meat like if I was to
[1:06:54] trace this story he stabs the dog to
[1:06:57] death he then stimpacks it back to life
[1:06:59] he then ditches it at the spooky monster
[1:07:02] head sequence which doesn't make any
[1:07:04] sense they want me convinced the dog
[1:07:06] will follow him this far but then she
[1:07:08] just decides to stop as he slowly walks
[1:07:10] away after the giant fish pot regardless
[1:07:12] the ghoul then picks the dog back up
[1:07:14] because he coincidentally stumbles
[1:07:16] across here in a nacac cola coola thingy
[1:07:18] I assume from there the dog will be His
[1:07:20] companion in season 2 but like did the
[1:07:22] writers watch the show the dog was
[1:07:24] brought up in entirely by Wilzig she
[1:07:27] would have loved him more than anything
[1:07:28] entirely as loyal and as passionate as
[1:07:30] one would expect a dog to be the ghoul
[1:07:32] injured the hell out of Wilzig and the
[1:07:34] dog attacked him for it he get the stab
[1:07:37] he then provides the instant heal which
[1:07:38] she's not going to understand and she
[1:07:40] doesn't continue attacking the guy
[1:07:42] [ __ ] stabbed her shot her master the
[1:07:45] dog would not show trust or loyalty to
[1:07:48] the [ __ ] ghoul the worst part is how
[1:07:50] the dog doesn't seem to give a single
[1:07:52] [ __ ] about wiig's well-being she just
[1:07:54] moves along to team up with the ghoul
[1:07:56] none of this is emotionally satisfying
[1:07:58] and none of it makes any sense I think
[1:08:00] there was an idea of the dog following
[1:08:02] wiig's sent to his body hence the
[1:08:04] ghoul's reaction here to now having a
[1:08:06] lead only that falls apart because if it
[1:08:08] were true he obviously would have caught
[1:08:10] up to Luc and Wilzig considering how
[1:08:12] ridiculously slow they were moving
[1:08:14] instead they show them leaving at
[1:08:16] nighttime why that means they waited so
[1:08:19] long they didn't leave until Wilzig had
[1:08:21] died if the dog wanted to find her
[1:08:23] master then why is she not only not
[1:08:25] attacking the ghoul but waiting around
[1:08:28] for him they even want you to think the
[1:08:29] ghoul is using the dog to find the head
[1:08:31] through her interest in following Wiig
[1:08:33] scent in episode 7 the scent of this
[1:08:36] [ __ ] head I feel like they knew they
[1:08:38] just had to have a dog and didn't give a
[1:08:40] [ __ ] to write anything for here because
[1:08:41] people like dogs and it's a reference to
[1:08:43] dog meat and that's enough just more
[1:08:45] wasted potential anyway the ghoul is
[1:08:47] just carried by Walton Goggins everyone
[1:08:49] knows that it's got nothing to do with
[1:08:51] his journey or how it's written he's a
[1:08:53] guy who can make a scene work no matter
[1:08:55] how much stupid [ __ ] is happening in it
[1:08:56] I am genuinely thankful he made the show
[1:08:58] more bearable and let's be honest it's
[1:09:00] hard to assassinate someone like the
[1:09:01] ghoul because he just does anything
[1:09:03] anyway there's not many actions he can
[1:09:05] take that someone can say is
[1:09:06] definitively out of character but
[1:09:08] believe me before the series is over
[1:09:10] they will find a way personally I
[1:09:11] couldn't give less of a [ __ ] if he finds
[1:09:13] his family but then I struggle to care
[1:09:15] about anyone in this show maybe I'll
[1:09:17] find substance in Cooper we'll get to
[1:09:19] him soon enough the ghoul however is
[1:09:21] hollow entertainment something I welcome
[1:09:24] in this bog I'm just happy to see Walton
[1:09:26] goggin shooting people in great makeup
[1:09:28] while acting you probably get two
[1:09:29] worthwhile scenes the first being his
[1:09:32] reflection on his past and future though
[1:09:33] this did feel like a scene that could
[1:09:35] have come up in any episode at any time
[1:09:36] it's essentially a meaning freebie to
[1:09:38] bank whenever you want to have the ghoul
[1:09:40] watch his past self play a character
[1:09:42] that would have killed his current self
[1:09:43] in a heartbeat to reflect on his
[1:09:46] corruption as a moment it is solid then
[1:09:48] there's the scene of him shooting his
[1:09:49] friend and eating his flesh the text
[1:09:51] being he just shot him to eat him the
[1:09:53] subtext being he just saved his friend
[1:09:55] from a horrible fate and is ultimately
[1:09:57] being pragmatic about eating him even
[1:09:59] giving him something good to think about
[1:10:01] before killing him obviously reflecting
[1:10:03] on his own potential fate still he could
[1:10:05] have been so much more but in a show
[1:10:07] with characters either entirely lacking
[1:10:09] potential or ending up inconsistent When
[1:10:11] comparing almost every connecting scene
[1:10:13] I find it refreshing that they managed
[1:10:15] to make one that is universally liked
[1:10:16] through essentially the Bass Performance
[1:10:18] they didn't even have to write much of a
[1:10:20] story and to be honest the ghoul doesn't
[1:10:23] really have one but maybe he will in in
[1:10:25] season 2 so yeah those are the three
[1:10:27] main characters the stories are mostly
[1:10:29] them bouncing around random [ __ ]
[1:10:31] happening Until the End suddenly arrives
[1:10:34] their choices what few there are seem to
[1:10:36] be a bit of a lottery and you can see
[1:10:38] it's not so much they want to tell a
[1:10:40] story with three characters going on
[1:10:42] Journeys it's more so that you just want
[1:10:43] to have stuff happen to these people
[1:10:46] random stuff just keep having random
[1:10:48] [ __ ] happen because at some point
[1:10:51] someone might realize nothing's
[1:10:52] happening we could talk about Lucy's
[1:10:54] brother he's another character I suppose
[1:10:57] his name was grimy he stayed in the
[1:10:59] vault and he was demoted for being
[1:11:01] Reckless with the door he seemed
[1:11:03] suspicious of stuff he went over to
[1:11:05] Vault 32 which has not been secured by
[1:11:08] Betty despite her knowing the truth but
[1:11:10] then again maybe she didn't in fact
[1:11:13] what's incredibly odd about the entire
[1:11:15] scenario is the utter disinterest shown
[1:11:17] by Vault 33 as to the situation in Vault
[1:11:19] 32 you'd think that after the raid
[1:11:21] they'd be interested in getting to Vault
[1:11:23] 32 as fast as possible to confirm the
[1:11:25] front vault door is closed and secured
[1:11:28] that was something that in the council
[1:11:29] scene they seemed passionately
[1:11:31] interested in you'd think they'd be
[1:11:32] interested in collecting The Pit Boys
[1:11:34] considering they all act as keys to the
[1:11:36] Vault doors for some reason and maybe
[1:11:37] they'd want to secure the Armory you'd
[1:11:39] think they'd want to just be a tiny bit
[1:11:41] invested in checking to see if anyone is
[1:11:43] alive in there perhaps hiding perhaps
[1:11:45] they need to deal with the dead it's
[1:11:47] honestly bizarre that none of them want
[1:11:49] to check to see what happened I mean the
[1:11:51] water chip gets broken and for some
[1:11:53] reason nobody including smart boy grimy
[1:11:56] suggests using the water chip from Vault
[1:11:58] 32 but like you know they're [ __ ]
[1:12:00] right that's why all of this definitely
[1:12:02] makes sense though considering the
[1:12:05] nature of both Betty and Harper did they
[1:12:07] know was there any interest from Betty
[1:12:10] or Bud as to what the [ __ ] happened in
[1:12:11] there with no contact for so long I
[1:12:14] suppose I'll have to continue on with
[1:12:15] both the idea of Betty knowing and not
[1:12:17] knowing at the same time in any case all
[1:12:20] of what happened in Vault 32 could have
[1:12:21] been revealed but it just isn't if
[1:12:24] anybody ask what we we're all have a
[1:12:25] heart attack like it's really strange
[1:12:27] that he goes over there and discovers
[1:12:29] that everyone's been dead for way longer
[1:12:31] than they could have been if the Raiders
[1:12:32] had killed them all you've got to do at
[1:12:34] that point is you know tell everyone and
[1:12:36] that easily could have happened even
[1:12:38] with Betty knowing that was a potential
[1:12:40] but whatever they weren't lucky enough
[1:12:41] to discover the truth because the people
[1:12:43] who died in 32 only scrolled we know the
[1:12:47] truth and we know what's in there in
[1:12:50] Blood on the walls like what kind of
[1:12:52] [ __ ] discovers the truth and then with
[1:12:55] the goal of informing we know the truth
[1:12:58] on the walls what the [ __ ] is wrong with
[1:13:00] you of course you killed yourself so
[1:13:02] anyway grimy knows something weird is
[1:13:04] going on and it was prompted by the way
[1:13:06] because a Raider said hey you know what
[1:13:08] the Vault 32 people weren't so innocent
[1:13:11] he heard that and then just like didn't
[1:13:13] ask him a bunch of further questions you
[1:13:15] I would personally ask him a bunch of
[1:13:17] questions so anyway then Vault 32 is
[1:13:19] like cleaned up in a day What A
[1:13:22] Difference A Day Made even grimy doesn't
[1:13:25] know how the [ __ ] they pulled that off
[1:13:27] Betty and Hopper couldn't have done it
[1:13:28] on their own we see no Mr handies in any
[1:13:30] of the vaults and if it was Bud that
[1:13:32] sorted it all out I think we're all
[1:13:33] wondering how the [ __ ] that would be
[1:13:34] possible obviously now he's very sus he
[1:13:37] even asks about his mother's pit boy
[1:13:39] because that was used to ENT to Vault 32
[1:13:41] this by the way is not worrying enough
[1:13:43] to Betty like she doesn't think grimy is
[1:13:45] compromised even though asking about
[1:13:47] that is like it's very obvious that he's
[1:13:49] discovered something in fact I'd argue
[1:13:51] it's downright out of character for him
[1:13:52] to have asked such an incriminating
[1:13:54] question to the the person he's quite
[1:13:56] suspicious of when there's no real
[1:13:57] reason he would expect to get any
[1:13:58] information that would be useful to him
[1:14:00] at all also the Raiders get poisoned so
[1:14:02] there's no more getting information from
[1:14:04] them or using them as proof so then
[1:14:06] Betty splits Vault 33 into two she sends
[1:14:09] the other half to Vault 32 when knowing
[1:14:12] Bud's plan this is bizarre there are
[1:14:15] just 35 people left after all the death
[1:14:18] and destruction with as many as five
[1:14:20] Beyond a viable age that means bud has
[1:14:23] 15 people per vol to restart their
[1:14:26] populations there is no option here
[1:14:29] other than Reawakening many managers I
[1:14:31] suppose that's a problem for season 2
[1:14:34] something season 1 didn't deal with
[1:14:36] however is Betty and Bud's decision not
[1:14:39] to pursue Hank when his knowledge not
[1:14:41] only allows their key competition to
[1:14:42] unlock Infinite Energy but that she's at
[1:14:44] least somewhat aware of their operations
[1:14:47] and intent but they seem to think that's
[1:14:49] all fine and they can continue as normal
[1:14:52] that's a bit weird why don't they just
[1:14:54] nuke the the NCR again considering the
[1:14:56] characters as written that would solve
[1:14:58] all of their problems have them be dumb
[1:15:00] anyway grimy decides to Simply hack into
[1:15:03] the overseer's account and discuss
[1:15:04] things with the overseer of Vault 31
[1:15:06] this is an insane breach of secure
[1:15:09] information as well as sensitive data
[1:15:11] that he simply does because he does a
[1:15:12] little video game thing look it's a
[1:15:14] reference it's like the mini game look
[1:15:16] at that that's an excuse to have [ __ ]
[1:15:18] writing I guess nobody thought to ever
[1:15:20] do this in the entire history of Vault
[1:15:22] 33 I also guess there's no no way of
[1:15:25] stopping it brilliant bud has no checks
[1:15:28] no clarifications no secret code or
[1:15:31] message for confirmation nothing secure
[1:15:33] because he's come on he what is he come
[1:15:37] on he's [ __ ] yes you know if it is
[1:15:41] this easy to just hack past [ __ ] then
[1:15:43] why not hack past the code vault tech
[1:15:45] dropped on the cold fusion let's get
[1:15:47] Grim be on that save the whole world
[1:15:49] buddy so grimy gets an invitation to
[1:15:51] Vault 31 and he enters the defenses are
[1:15:54] pathetic IC and the secrets are not
[1:15:56] guarded at all Bud the brain is aware of
[1:15:59] how sensitive this information is and so
[1:16:01] traps grimy in the room the room with
[1:16:04] the information and the controls I guess
[1:16:06] the stupid brain [ __ ] wasn't smart
[1:16:09] enough to just lock the door in the
[1:16:10] first place grimy wouldn't have found
[1:16:12] anything if he just closed that
[1:16:15] door you know something that bothers me
[1:16:17] to no actual end with this [ __ ] is
[1:16:20] that bud just locked grimy in the only
[1:16:22] room he can have leverage in had he
[1:16:24] locked him between the vault door and
[1:16:26] this room grimy is [ __ ] instead in
[1:16:29] here he can threaten to kill managers
[1:16:31] and that would ruin Bud's entire plan
[1:16:34] that he idiotically explained not
[1:16:36] moments ago because the future of
[1:16:38] humanity comes down to one word
[1:16:40] management grimy can also threaten to
[1:16:42] Simply wake them all up to cause chaos
[1:16:45] maybe they would demand to be released
[1:16:47] after what grimy would tell them but you
[1:16:48] know what grimy can just threaten to
[1:16:52] [ __ ] kill bud just pick him up and
[1:16:55] threaten to drop him upside down and
[1:16:57] he'd be dead it's all so [ __ ]
[1:17:00] [ __ ] bud has essentially provided
[1:17:03] him the console I'm sure season 2 will
[1:17:05] handle whatever happens next in a very
[1:17:07] intelligent Way the show is only kept on
[1:17:11] life support by coincidence it is filled
[1:17:14] with them left right and Center
[1:17:17] constantly shoving anything and
[1:17:18] everything on screen whenever the
[1:17:20] writers have run out of gas remember
[1:17:22] this remember this remember this and no
[1:17:24] story not that it had much gas to begin
[1:17:26] with considering Lucy Max and the ghoul
[1:17:29] all happened to meet up at exactly the
[1:17:31] same time and place not to mention
[1:17:33] essentially everything about all the
[1:17:35] characters plot lines take the ghoul for
[1:17:37] example like how he's heading to the
[1:17:39] observatory from this guy's house only
[1:17:41] to end up passing through the exact same
[1:17:43] gas station as thadius allowing him to
[1:17:45] get the dog back or like how Lucy and
[1:17:48] Maximus head back to the entrance of
[1:17:50] Vault 4 to drop off the fusion core in
[1:17:52] mere frames before easily catching up to
[1:17:55] thadius they traveled from here to here
[1:17:58] to here instantly moments like this are
[1:18:02] throughout and they make the Wasteland
[1:18:04] feel [ __ ] tiny I think something that
[1:18:07] bothers me and bothers a lot of people
[1:18:08] to be honest is the fact that there are
[1:18:10] no consequences in this show only it's
[1:18:12] more so that there are no consequences
[1:18:14] most of the time there will be
[1:18:16] consequences when the story is allowed
[1:18:18] to progress for example the water chip
[1:18:21] is broken leaving the Vault dwellers
[1:18:23] with a ticking clock and this doesn't
[1:18:24] doesn't account for the water needed for
[1:18:26] the prisoners don't worry it doesn't
[1:18:28] come up again the funny thing is the
[1:18:29] solution is the water chip in 32 but
[1:18:31] haha it's a game reference they told us
[1:18:34] basically nothing about The Enclave but
[1:18:36] like if that's where Wilzig is smuggling
[1:18:38] the cold fusion from and they're aligned
[1:18:39] with vault tech then how haven't they
[1:18:42] cracked Infinite Energy shouldn't they
[1:18:43] now be the dominant faction in the world
[1:18:45] oh no that will be the Brotherhood of
[1:18:47] Steel because who else would it [ __ ]
[1:18:49] be ghouls now requiring a specific drug
[1:18:51] to prevent going feral is a bit [ __ ]
[1:18:54] because consequently there should be
[1:18:56] barely any nonf feral ghouls at this
[1:18:58] point how are they all going to get
[1:19:00] access to something so specific how did
[1:19:02] they all even find out who is
[1:19:04] maintaining the supply and how the [ __ ]
[1:19:06] did Koopa manage it when he was one of
[1:19:07] the original ghouls the whole show has
[1:19:09] Shing his radiation it'll be allowed
[1:19:11] into the plot when there's a solution
[1:19:13] prepared but other than that [ __ ] it
[1:19:15] pretend it's not there in the world of
[1:19:17] Fallout I think it's weird that Lucy a
[1:19:20] clearly naive idiot Vault dweller is not
[1:19:22] accosted by many people regularly in her
[1:19:24] travels who would simply want to kidnap
[1:19:26] her and find out where her vault is
[1:19:28] since those are essentially resource
[1:19:29] gold mines I also think it's weird that
[1:19:32] someone is careful as Barbara realizes
[1:19:34] that her pit boy is sending out
[1:19:35] information somewhere when the work she
[1:19:37] does is incredibly sensitive and she
[1:19:39] doesn't really care all that much it's
[1:19:41] suggested the boys can figure it out for
[1:19:43] her and she's not interested because
[1:19:44] she's going to find the transmission
[1:19:46] location herself which like what why are
[1:19:48] we not reacting to this for what it is
[1:19:51] that could be Espionage it could be
[1:19:53] [ __ ] company SP Highway it could even
[1:19:55] be Bud doing some weird [ __ ] why the
[1:19:57] [ __ ] would you establish that and then
[1:19:59] have her take it into one of the most
[1:20:00] secret meetings ever conducted
[1:20:03] consequences to switch gears but to stay
[1:20:06] on theme the Brotherhood believe that
[1:20:08] Maximus wanted his friend sabotaged
[1:20:10] which goes against what they believe in
[1:20:12] entirely and instead of returning to
[1:20:14] training he receives a promotion Maximus
[1:20:17] fails his job as a squire several times
[1:20:20] and he ends up with the suit Lucy
[1:20:21] threatens the ghoul and he shoots to
[1:20:23] kill literally any one raising a gun on
[1:20:25] him but when it's here he doesn't except
[1:20:28] of course when Maximus is ready to take
[1:20:29] the bullet do it kill her Maximus [ __ ]
[1:20:32] up his fight with the ghoul [ __ ] up his
[1:20:34] suit [ __ ] up the fight with the people
[1:20:35] trying to steal the suit and everything
[1:20:37] goes all back to normal thank goodness
[1:20:39] the attackers put him in his suit so he
[1:20:41] could kill them otherwise there would
[1:20:43] have been consequences both the ghoul
[1:20:45] and Lucy get their fingers taken off and
[1:20:48] reattached very soon after perfect shape
[1:20:50] size length and that thing looks [ __ ]
[1:20:54] CTIC I guess nobody gives a [ __ ] Maximus
[1:20:57] is shot at in Point Blank Range by two
[1:20:59] people who fire first and he only takes
[1:21:01] one shot to the arm that's healed the
[1:21:03] second he and Lucy look for anything
[1:21:05] that can heal it the second they need it
[1:21:07] they stumble across what is the Fallout
[1:21:09] equivalent of Heaven the ghoul is
[1:21:10] knocked out and kidnapped by people who
[1:21:12] want him dead and through insane
[1:21:14] circumstances he escapes Lucy is
[1:21:16] kidnapped by the robot who's going to
[1:21:17] chop her into pieces and yet through
[1:21:19] insane circumstances she just escapes
[1:21:21] just [ __ ] properly sedate your victim
[1:21:24] like any normal self-respecting serial
[1:21:26] killer robot she ain't going to stay
[1:21:29] still when you're sowing her organs out
[1:21:31] it's a miracle you've harvested anyone
[1:21:33] up to this point I mean from the
[1:21:34] perspective of the robot and you know
[1:21:36] had Lucy entertained for even an
[1:21:38] additional second that she could
[1:21:40] negotiate or run away from the ghoul she
[1:21:42] actually would have easily escaped since
[1:21:44] he would have collapsed right there
[1:21:46] fadus his foot is crushed by power armor
[1:21:48] and for several episodes he just walks
[1:21:50] the Wasteland not bleeding out not
[1:21:52] fainting from the pain how lucky same
[1:21:55] thing with the branding he got over that
[1:21:56] [ __ ] in about 5
[1:22:00] seconds so pretty hot Lucy attacks and
[1:22:03] disrupts an entire society's operations
[1:22:05] and receives their ultimate punishment
[1:22:07] two we supply of food and water and
[1:22:09] freedom Maximus then steals the source
[1:22:11] of their power and he gets to go free as
[1:22:13] well when thus suggests that he could
[1:22:15] kill the doctor and steal his medicine
[1:22:18] but the doctor says Ah but I know which
[1:22:20] ones will save you and which ones will
[1:22:21] kill you you know what fair enough but
[1:22:23] then he uses the the medicine takes the
[1:22:25] payment and slowly leaves why establish
[1:22:28] you were thinking of taking the medicine
[1:22:29] and the payment and then not address the
[1:22:31] obvious you kill him once he heals you
[1:22:34] hello this scene is so [ __ ] odd is
[1:22:37] Thaddius even the kind of character that
[1:22:38] would kill a doctor a doctor offering to
[1:22:41] save him is that something the
[1:22:43] Brotherhood teach bear in mind thus does
[1:22:45] not know this man [ __ ] chickens and by
[1:22:47] threatening to kill this doctor and
[1:22:49] steal his supplies youve put yourself in
[1:22:51] a position where I would expect him to
[1:22:53] poison you and yet you just swallow up
[1:22:55] that magical [ __ ] also why the [ __ ]
[1:22:58] did you offer the fusion core's payment
[1:22:59] first could you not barter for like 5
[1:23:02] Seconds despite saying otherwise he
[1:23:04] should be able to offer caps we were
[1:23:06] shown a squire has supplied them you
[1:23:08] could offer elements of your clothing
[1:23:10] you could offer bullets the fusion core
[1:23:11] is so valuable and you're in the
[1:23:13] Wasteland can't you pretend to have a
[1:23:15] brain for like Fu you're [ __ ] right
[1:23:17] right he's [ __ ] I get it I get it
[1:23:18] Fus fires 15 shots at mid-range on Luci
[1:23:21] and Maximus and misses every single shot
[1:23:24] they clearly show Maximus shooting
[1:23:26] directly at the ghoul but they won't
[1:23:27] show any damage when one well-placed
[1:23:29] shot would put him down for good I guess
[1:23:31] he missed all those shots too sometimes
[1:23:34] in the game you shoot it just misses
[1:23:36] sometimes you shoot 15 times and it just
[1:23:37] misses only when characters need to be
[1:23:39] they are suddenly an a shot like when
[1:23:41] Maximus bullseyes the ninja yay or when
[1:23:44] Lucy saves Maximus by killing all the
[1:23:46] radroaches I guess the whole accurate to
[1:23:48] the games thing is a bit flimsy now we
[1:23:50] have plenty of examples of people
[1:23:52] actually succumbing to their wounds even
[1:23:54] Wilzig got a sort of fix for his leg but
[1:23:57] he died soon after but thus was fine for
[1:24:00] ages Lucy gets a stim pack and some
[1:24:02] Staples and she's in tiptop shape
[1:24:04] Maximus on the other hand needs days to
[1:24:06] heal and for antibiotics to take effect
[1:24:08] it turns out it's not at all about being
[1:24:10] accurate to the games it is instead
[1:24:12] accurate to whatever the plot needs you
[1:24:14] have the ghoul acing head shots here and
[1:24:17] there but suddenly sometimes he's just
[1:24:19] unable to kill the main character how
[1:24:21] about that well it's not just here is it
[1:24:23] it's also Max Imus the other main
[1:24:26] character the ghoul himself escapes
[1:24:28] death Against All Odds several times and
[1:24:30] no no amount of telling me that the Dead
[1:24:33] characters versus the alive characters
[1:24:35] are just a matter of who puts stats into
[1:24:37] luck but Muer it's referencing fridge
[1:24:40] boy did get a Jorge oh that's why it
[1:24:42] makes sense Maximus tank a nuke with a
[1:24:45] [ __ ] fridge raise your storytelling
[1:24:47] standards Maximus faces the Wrath of the
[1:24:50] Brotherhood for presumably attacking one
[1:24:52] of his own allowing a knight to die Ste
[1:24:54] stealing his identity sabotaging the
[1:24:56] mission to retrieve the head while not
[1:24:58] accounting for his own Squire that they
[1:24:59] clearly would have seen running away and
[1:25:01] they obviously saw Lucy running away
[1:25:03] with a head they could have chased her
[1:25:05] picked her up and ended the whole story
[1:25:07] right there especially when they know
[1:25:09] the truth about Maximus which Thaddius
[1:25:11] obviously told them about when he called
[1:25:13] them in thus even thanks him for taking
[1:25:15] the head despite knowing it's absolutely
[1:25:17] the one thing Maximus wants it's almost
[1:25:19] as though he doesn't get to be a
[1:25:20] consistent character at all and the plot
[1:25:22] decides every last thought he's allowed
[1:25:24] to have have crazy that so considering
[1:25:26] all of that insane nonsense on top of
[1:25:28] Maximus pleading for his life with the
[1:25:30] knowledge of the head's current location
[1:25:32] he's promoted again Maximus is a part of
[1:25:35] a mission now that's going to lead to
[1:25:37] his highest elevation in terms of rank
[1:25:39] and then DNE is punished by being put on
[1:25:42] this Mission how do you keep punishing
[1:25:43] people with promotions it's so [ __ ]
[1:25:45] they put a [ __ ] ghoul with a pistol
[1:25:47] against three power armored Brotherhood
[1:25:49] of Steel boys and he wins struggled with
[1:25:52] Maximus though huh and then if not the
[1:25:53] best example of an insane amount of lack
[1:25:56] of consequences the ghoul wipes out
[1:25:58] everyone in that room except Maximus
[1:26:01] Maximus is rammed face first into a wall
[1:26:04] thanks to a punch from power armor and
[1:26:06] not only is he not dead he's getting
[1:26:08] promoted again he has managed to stumble
[1:26:12] into the [ __ ] highest ranks of the
[1:26:14] Brotherhood throughout the season no it
[1:26:16] is not satisfying to watch it makes the
[1:26:18] Brotherhood look like [ __ ] idiots
[1:26:20] which is rather well supported in that
[1:26:21] Max can't even hold on to his [ __ ]
[1:26:23] gun on top of that at any moment of
[1:26:25] their choosing a squire can completely
[1:26:28] disable a knight to the point of killing
[1:26:30] them the armor is strong enough to toss
[1:26:31] debris like the Incredible Hulk but
[1:26:33] can't punch a yau to death that just so
[1:26:35] happens to actually die with one shot to
[1:26:37] the head so much for that game accuracy
[1:26:40] we get to a point where Lucy has more
[1:26:42] control than Maximus over his [ __ ]
[1:26:44] power armor and as much as she read
[1:26:46] about power armor in Pre 277 history
[1:26:49] books that doesn't explain why she's
[1:26:50] calling him a knight in episode 2 I
[1:26:52] don't mean to interrupt but was that a
[1:26:55] knight how does she know to say that the
[1:26:57] Brotherhood of Steel is not a pre-war
[1:27:00] organization and then there's the
[1:27:01] smaller stuff that's still just weird
[1:27:04] like how this guy gets shot in the heart
[1:27:06] but the ghoul comments on how he's
[1:27:07] obviously been shot in the neck they
[1:27:09] really want to show us he has four
[1:27:10] chambers in his gun only to have him
[1:27:12] fire seven without
[1:27:16] reloading ghouls can straight up die
[1:27:19] when shot in the shoulder but not if
[1:27:21] you're the main character look at this
[1:27:23] hook throw where the [ __ ] is it going
[1:27:25] what the hell did he wrap it around to
[1:27:26] make it this [ __ ] angle also how can
[1:27:29] you be this fat in the rationing world
[1:27:31] of a vault Lucy mentioned they had a
[1:27:34] famine was that you even that opening
[1:27:36] scene is weird there's the flash from a
[1:27:38] bomb not being picked up by anyone
[1:27:40] because of a flash of a camera that is
[1:27:42] not how that works when the flash hit
[1:27:44] you you could see the x-rays of your
[1:27:47] hands through your closed eyes in the
[1:27:49] process of hands over your eyes you saw
[1:27:52] every bone in your hand that's smoke
[1:27:54] Janie it's just a fire yes Cooper the
[1:27:56] entire city just happened to catch fire
[1:27:58] what what the [ __ ] are you talking about
[1:28:00] then the shock wave finally arrives and
[1:28:02] blasts shots of glass at ridiculous
[1:28:05] speeds into a room full of children and
[1:28:07] nobody's even grazed to then show Koopa
[1:28:09] trying to outrun four nukes on a horse
[1:28:12] instead of getting into The Fallout
[1:28:14] Shelter because he's [ __ ] I grant it
[1:28:16] may be difficult to get into the shelter
[1:28:18] but one would try rather than braving
[1:28:20] the nukes speaking of which I have a new
[1:28:23] topic you see and I quote it's the
[1:28:26] result of this fruit bearing
[1:28:28] collaboration that we're able to make
[1:28:30] America great that is the opening line
[1:28:32] of a discussion between fat cat
[1:28:35] capitalists talking about the end of the
[1:28:37] world you see vault tech sell vaults
[1:28:40] vaults are much better when the world is
[1:28:42] being destroyed if not for the simple
[1:28:45] reason that that's when they're going to
[1:28:46] protect you and so as they say rumors of
[1:28:49] Peace have set us back for sure it would
[1:28:52] seem that the potential financiers of
[1:28:55] vault tech are a bit worried why invest
[1:28:57] in a company that's only valuable during
[1:29:00] wartime besides the Fat Cat don't
[1:29:02] understand vaults won't people just eat
[1:29:04] you when you come back out all of the
[1:29:05] feral Stone Age level people just
[1:29:08] running around eating flesh you know
[1:29:09] well the solution there is that you stay
[1:29:11] in your Vault for so long that
[1:29:12] everything outside dies yes isn't that a
[1:29:15] tempting Prospect they're going to win
[1:29:17] the game of capitalism as they actually
[1:29:20] say by outliving people that is how we
[1:29:23] will win the great game capitalism not
[1:29:24] by out fighting anyone but by outling
[1:29:26] them because capitalism is all about
[1:29:29] killing everyone only there's a problem
[1:29:31] Mr House says oh you can find rats and
[1:29:33] they'll end up eating each other who
[1:29:35] says they'll even survive the vaults and
[1:29:37] so vault tech solution is that all of
[1:29:39] them can play out several ideas across
[1:29:41] more than a 100 vaults to create the
[1:29:43] perfect conditions for Humanity no one
[1:29:45] needs to know how unethical it is May
[1:29:48] the best idea win to which Mr House says
[1:29:51] there's a lot of earning potential with
[1:29:53] the end of the world what the [ __ ] are
[1:29:54] you talking about you stupid Goblin man
[1:29:57] how the [ __ ] is there a lot of money to
[1:29:59] be made at the end of the world that
[1:30:02] would mean the world has ended are you
[1:30:05] [ __ ] we could over crowd of vaults
[1:30:07] so people have to compete to survive
[1:30:10] inside it what the [ __ ] does that idea
[1:30:12] have to do with making money how are you
[1:30:14] this bad of a capitalist you've been
[1:30:16] developing a robot that delivers milk to
[1:30:18] the front door I would like to see a
[1:30:19] vault governed by it delivering so not
[1:30:22] only are they hyper unethical capitalist
[1:30:24] they're also hyper clowns what about
[1:30:26] using a vault to develop a super mutant
[1:30:29] Soldier using illegal immigrants why
[1:30:31] would anyone be excited by that idea
[1:30:34] when trying to increase the capital of
[1:30:36] their company why do they all want a
[1:30:38] post-apocalypse once they're told they
[1:30:40] could experiment with people but
[1:30:42] mutually it's referencing Vault
[1:30:43] experiments from the game I don't give a
[1:30:46] [ __ ] if they are superficially
[1:30:47] referencing something from the game I am
[1:30:49] talking about the writing in this scene
[1:30:52] the characters I am trying to figure out
[1:30:55] how the [ __ ] the acid drenched piss
[1:30:57] Factory masquerading as a brain came up
[1:30:59] with this oh boy they're all just super
[1:31:01] evil which is actually a pretty [ __ ]
[1:31:04] statement considering that if he's on
[1:31:05] board with this whole plan that means
[1:31:07] he's on board with nuking the whole
[1:31:08] world for capitalism believe me my good
[1:31:11] man the more people are alive the more
[1:31:13] markets function the more opportunity
[1:31:15] you have to take advantage of every last
[1:31:17] buck in circulation the better off you
[1:31:19] will be as a fat cat capitalist you are
[1:31:22] not going to benefit from from the
[1:31:24] entire world being nuked and I can't
[1:31:26] believe anyone would have to explain
[1:31:27] this to any of these people but you know
[1:31:29] what at least he had a sliver of
[1:31:31] creative thinking what if they invest in
[1:31:33] the vaults and there is no War what was
[1:31:35] the point of their money then how can
[1:31:37] they guarantee
[1:31:39] results by dropping the bomb
[1:31:42] [Music]
[1:31:45] ourselves it's so stupid why make
[1:31:48] trillions when we could
[1:31:51] make billions people have comp paired
[1:31:54] Fallout as a satire to Austin Powers
[1:31:57] saying that it is no less effective at
[1:32:00] making fun of villainous caricatures
[1:32:02] clearly proving they haven't watched
[1:32:03] Austin Powers in 20 years nor are they
[1:32:06] aware of the concept of tone listen to
[1:32:09] Just the soundtrack
[1:32:12] here I mean look at it Cooper is having
[1:32:14] an existential crisis while realizing
[1:32:17] his wife is Satan this is not Dr Evil
[1:32:20] announcing his desire for sharks with
[1:32:22] freaking laser beams attached to their
[1:32:24] heads why the [ __ ] would you even say
[1:32:26] that you plan to drop the bomb in front
[1:32:28] of an entire Board of people whose
[1:32:30] companies rely on things not being nuked
[1:32:33] do you trust them to not simply say
[1:32:35] you're a [ __ ] monster and I will
[1:32:37] never let you destroy the world or are
[1:32:39] we relying on knowing they are
[1:32:41] capitalists meaning of course if there's
[1:32:43] a buck to be made there's a nuke to be
[1:32:46] dropped for the record I am actually
[1:32:48] okay with the idea that there is a
[1:32:50] friendly bomb being dropped on friendly
[1:32:52] soil if you can just justified in the
[1:32:54] writing what we're being told here is
[1:32:56] our team of capitalist retards think
[1:32:58] they can make the most money ever when
[1:33:00] the whole world is nuked and of course
[1:33:02] if natural tensions and War doesn't
[1:33:04] provide this situation for them they
[1:33:06] will simply nuke themselves to make
[1:33:08] money they are sacrificing Top Dog
[1:33:10] positions in a capitalist Society filled
[1:33:12] with countless people ready to make
[1:33:14] money from so they can run an insane
[1:33:16] nonsense experiment that destroys
[1:33:18] everything because money because in
[1:33:20] countless Generations Earth will somehow
[1:33:22] be better off because as you and I know
[1:33:25] every hyper capitalist on Earth wants to
[1:33:26] end up in a hole with limited resources
[1:33:29] and activities in order to increase
[1:33:30] their bottom line they couldn't think of
[1:33:33] a way to write this this is the most
[1:33:35] cartoonish and [ __ ] possible way to
[1:33:37] justify this Revelation this isn't space
[1:33:40] balls [ __ ] a nuclear event would
[1:33:42] be a
[1:33:43] tragedy but also an opportunity you know
[1:33:46] what would be a pretty good capitalistic
[1:33:48] opportunity a functioning economy when
[1:33:51] we are the only ones left there will we
[1:33:53] no one to fight a true Monopoly [ __ ]
[1:33:56] kill me the ultimate capitalist where
[1:33:58] everyone except me is dead this is our
[1:34:02] chance to make war obsolete yes let us
[1:34:06] make war obsolete because everybody will
[1:34:08] be dead what are you talking about war
[1:34:11] never
[1:34:13] changes [ __ ] if you think War needs to
[1:34:15] be made obsolete because it never
[1:34:17] changes then how do you account for the
[1:34:19] [ __ ] modus operandi of the super
[1:34:22] manager vaults nuking anyone who isn't
[1:34:24] them you have over 100 volts working to
[1:34:27] compete as is your intention you think
[1:34:29] that can't lead to war you think there
[1:34:31] will be no war when even one Vault
[1:34:34] reemerges and repopulates and controls
[1:34:37] the entire world no conflict do you know
[1:34:40] literally anything about humans and I
[1:34:42] know I know I know the writers would
[1:34:44] probably say haaha but that's the point
[1:34:47] the character is wrong that nuking the
[1:34:49] world is a good idea a conclusion
[1:34:52] reached as a result of the corrupt of
[1:34:54] capitalism if I had a character who
[1:34:56] passionately believed we could solve gun
[1:34:58] violence by chopping off everyone's
[1:34:59] fingers and that this is the result of
[1:35:01] the corrupting influence that is the
[1:35:03] peaceful mindset as opposed to the
[1:35:05] individual's values and potential mental
[1:35:07] issues I can then make my show say he's
[1:35:10] wrong too but that character would still
[1:35:12] be a complete and utter [ __ ] [ __ ] I
[1:35:15] hope you guys understand that if I had a
[1:35:17] top hat wearing mustache twirling
[1:35:19] capitalist fat man announced that he's
[1:35:21] going to drink the blood of babies in
[1:35:23] order to a profit in America and make it
[1:35:25] great again and that it turns out he's
[1:35:27] actually just doing it cuz it's fun I
[1:35:29] don't get to say oh but it's good
[1:35:30] because satire satire does not mean
[1:35:33] [ __ ] you don't get points for saying
[1:35:35] capitalism bad socialism bad fascism bad
[1:35:38] or communism bad you get points when you
[1:35:40] do something poignant or intelligent
[1:35:42] with the commentary grow the [ __ ] up and
[1:35:44] write something worthwhile instead of
[1:35:46] telling me that the ultimate capitalist
[1:35:48] goal is everyone being dead except me
[1:35:51] and my team in the vault what a sad B
[1:35:53] [ __ ] pit The Fallout franchise's Dove
[1:35:56] head first into it isn't hard to Lampoon
[1:35:59] capitalism but you make it look bloody
[1:36:01] impossible do the writers even know who
[1:36:03] they work for we are adapting it uh for
[1:36:06] Amazon which is you know not lost on us
[1:36:08] the absurdity of it all it would have
[1:36:10] been so much better had they stuck to
[1:36:12] lampooning corporatism but even then it
[1:36:14] fails as meaningful commentary and how
[1:36:15] absurd they take it without bringing the
[1:36:17] tone with them if this were Austin
[1:36:19] Powers and they had a fat guy wearing a
[1:36:21] top hat and a monocle on Dr Evil team
[1:36:23] who suggested nuking the entire world to
[1:36:26] increase profit margins it' probably be
[1:36:28] really [ __ ] funny but here they
[1:36:30] reveal the plan and the show plays this
[1:36:32] as the biggest most serious dramatic
[1:36:35] realization for the whole story they
[1:36:37] want to be critical of capitalism by
[1:36:39] expressing fundamental values through
[1:36:40] these insane characters as so invested
[1:36:42] in increasing their bottom line that
[1:36:44] they will happily go as far as killing
[1:36:46] everyone the people who wrote this treat
[1:36:48] as a revelation in the show there's a
[1:36:50] series of quotes that relate to the
[1:36:52] ideas of raising cap cap private
[1:36:54] ownership utilizing markets creating a
[1:36:56] market for products that are financially
[1:36:58] unsupported making products out of
[1:37:00] anything everything buying selling and
[1:37:03] well winning all of this churned up with
[1:37:05] the notion of nuking the planet attitude
[1:37:08] towards capitalism which I feel like is
[1:37:09] coming back in a cool way no offense but
[1:37:11] it sounds like some [ __ ] commi
[1:37:14] gobbley go and as if that's not bad
[1:37:16] enough they decided to rope in Mr House
[1:37:18] the fundamental idea is simply too
[1:37:20] broken to function why would anyone on
[1:37:23] this entire board let alone vault tech
[1:37:26] think that erasing 99% of the world
[1:37:28] including the vast majority of all
[1:37:29] infrastructure in all Industries every
[1:37:31] last trade route and system that was
[1:37:32] previously available and all of the
[1:37:34] people who can spend their [ __ ] money
[1:37:35] would lead to a world where they make
[1:37:37] the most money and aside from that the
[1:37:39] many basic pleasures of life are gone
[1:37:41] friends family and social Gatherings are
[1:37:44] significantly cut down and of those that
[1:37:46] would remain they are secluded limited
[1:37:49] and thoroughly [ __ ] miserable by
[1:37:51] comparison then there's the almost
[1:37:52] complete destruction of luxury items the
[1:37:55] loss of lavish vacation spots the
[1:37:57] enjoyment of sports and activities that
[1:37:59] simply won't be available anymore they
[1:38:01] won't have their Awards ceremonies to
[1:38:03] celebrate themselves and freedom would
[1:38:06] be fundamentally annihilated why why
[1:38:09] would any of them seriously consider
[1:38:11] this well because they get to watch a
[1:38:13] 100 people kill each other as an
[1:38:14] experiment in some Vault lucky they all
[1:38:16] want to see [ __ ] like that so much
[1:38:18] they're willing to set the world on fire
[1:38:21] they don't entertain the vaults can be
[1:38:23] an investment that they are an
[1:38:24] incredibly valuable item on the brink of
[1:38:26] War sure but they are valuable as
[1:38:28] insurance regardless people like
[1:38:30] creating owning or buying literal
[1:38:33] Fallout shelters it's not an entire dead
[1:38:35] end hell are we pretending now that
[1:38:37] there was no interest in using Vault
[1:38:39] technology for space colonization but
[1:38:41] the dead end doesn't even make any sense
[1:38:43] because they established vault tech has
[1:38:44] so much power it can direct the
[1:38:46] government so the US government has
[1:38:48] outsourced the survival of the human
[1:38:49] race to voltech voltech is a trillion
[1:38:51] dollar company that owns half of
[1:38:53] everything and after 10 years of war the
[1:38:54] US government is Broker Than a joke if
[1:38:56] we are to believe vault tech acts as a
[1:38:59] contractor for the government we know
[1:39:01] there are many contractors in the world
[1:39:03] that work directly for the US that
[1:39:05] create tools systems and weaponry that
[1:39:07] may never get used this doesn't work the
[1:39:09] same way as a supermarket selling
[1:39:12] [ __ ] chicken this is a major project
[1:39:14] contracted for a feared eventuality and
[1:39:17] vault tech did their job and would have
[1:39:19] been paid thoroughly this is not just a
[1:39:21] project for impending War but a project
[1:39:23] for the entire future of humanity the
[1:39:26] military-industrial complex is no less
[1:39:28] primed for criticism as any large
[1:39:30] governmental system but this show can't
[1:39:32] even grasp the very basic form of what
[1:39:34] it's criticizing capitalism which is a
[1:39:36] shame because Fallout as an IP as we
[1:39:39] know from history is primed and ready to
[1:39:41] tackle this what they think they
[1:39:43] achieved with this part of the show was
[1:39:44] the very simple logic of Peace leads to
[1:39:47] vaults making less money so let's nuke
[1:39:49] the world to create demand for them
[1:39:52] killing almost everyone destroying
[1:39:54] civilization and ending the very concept
[1:39:57] of any functioning Market in order to
[1:39:59] Lampoon capitalism you didn't write good
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