Will spare you the details
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shallownessFallout 1.2 The Target
Eh. We were introduced to a character played by Michael Emerson, who was the guy that Maximus and the Ghoul were meant to be looking for. He seemed to be a scientist who’d made a pet of a dog he was meant to be experimenting on. I had a wry smile about Emerson playing another character with a dog, except this dog turned out to be a killer dog who attacked anyone who threatened/harmed his human. (In a world where cockroaches and bears have mutated.) Hence why the man and his dog were on the run and hunted? Well, maybe not.
I didn’t expect our three leads to meet so soon. Lucy and Maximus seem to share starry-eyed ideals but different missions, while the Ghoul is a crack shot with better ammo than most. Everyone kept telling the vault dweller to go back home, she wouldn’t. The scientist (IMDb says his name was Wilzig) gnomically warned her that she’d be bound to change if she stayed, and seemed to know quite a lot about her.
It was really pushing at the boundaries of my tolerance levels, more the gore than the skeletons everywhere. There’s a reason I don’t love apocalypse/zombie fic overmuch. As the scientist’s foot was shot off, he was gushing so much blood that I thought he’d have died sooner, but there was a brief technological fix. And it does seem to be post nuclear fallout wild west fun – I am so uninterested in Furiosa – only with a naïve heroine who’s got more grit than she knows (because of her mysterious mother.) I was underwhelmed by the Ghoul versus Maximus in his newly acquired giant robo suit.
Two episodes in, I am over the clunkily ironic use of mid-century songs.
Eh. We were introduced to a character played by Michael Emerson, who was the guy that Maximus and the Ghoul were meant to be looking for. He seemed to be a scientist who’d made a pet of a dog he was meant to be experimenting on. I had a wry smile about Emerson playing another character with a dog, except this dog turned out to be a killer dog who attacked anyone who threatened/harmed his human. (In a world where cockroaches and bears have mutated.) Hence why the man and his dog were on the run and hunted? Well, maybe not.
I didn’t expect our three leads to meet so soon. Lucy and Maximus seem to share starry-eyed ideals but different missions, while the Ghoul is a crack shot with better ammo than most. Everyone kept telling the vault dweller to go back home, she wouldn’t. The scientist (IMDb says his name was Wilzig) gnomically warned her that she’d be bound to change if she stayed, and seemed to know quite a lot about her.
It was really pushing at the boundaries of my tolerance levels, more the gore than the skeletons everywhere. There’s a reason I don’t love apocalypse/zombie fic overmuch. As the scientist’s foot was shot off, he was gushing so much blood that I thought he’d have died sooner, but there was a brief technological fix. And it does seem to be post nuclear fallout wild west fun – I am so uninterested in Furiosa – only with a naïve heroine who’s got more grit than she knows (because of her mysterious mother.) I was underwhelmed by the Ghoul versus Maximus in his newly acquired giant robo suit.
Two episodes in, I am over the clunkily ironic use of mid-century songs.
