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shallownessFallout - 1.3 The Beginning
It’s taken me ages to watch this next episode, because I don’t want to watch the show while eating (yes, I have TV suppers) or last thing at night, and I’m usually doing something else during the in-between slot. So, I was surprised that the dog was with the Ghoul.
Five strands that became four to this episode, as we saw Coop back in the day, playing a sherif and struggling with script changes that made his character less noble because of anti-Communism. We also met his wife and mother of his child. By episode’s end, we’d have learned that she’d talked him into being Vault Tech’s poster man, the originator of the icon with the thumbs up that gave Lucy hope and he’d shoot as a Ghoul centuries later.
Lucy was being awfully cavalier with the severed head of the Scientist, keeping it near fires and uncovered, so it was no surprise that she later let a mutated giant amphibious thing/abomination swallow it. Before that she’d been wandering around in more epic locations, the Ghoul following her footsteps and catching up with her just as she’d lost the head. He used her as bait, it didn’t work and she destroyed his existence-saving drugs to survive (was with her on her ‘what did he expect?’ attitude.) So, he seemed to give up on getting the head and tied her up, tortured her a little by never sharing water and indeed wasting it. Presumably he’s gone to replenish his drugs and taking her along – well, apart from her being one of the main characters, why is he doing that?
Maximillian had to fix the suit, rescue the suit from some scavengers (apparently he’s a better fighter when he’s concussed.) Then he had to hide his identity from a replacement squire who had used to bully him. Ah well, he learned that the bully had been bullied in the past and found redirecting the bullying spared him. Together, they beat the abomination (which was disgusting when we saw it in all its reverse glory) and retrieved the head. Somehow, because it wasn’t slick, but they’d managed better than the Ghoul.
And we returned to Vault 33, where the new overlords tried to deal with Lucy’s brother Norm, that is punish him by having him help feed their prisoners, the survivors who’d tried to kill them. The vault was having to decide what to do with them under inept leaders. Oh, and their water was going to run out in two months. Norm dared voice the idea of killing them, which the blonde who’d lost her husband like the idea of. (Oh, just cause you’ve lost an eye doesn’t mean you can’t do it yourself instead of encouraging a manboy to do it for you, sweetheart.)
I’m mildly intrigued by why the Scientist’s head is so important, but it’s not just the gore and ick, I don’t much care about these characters and their world.
It’s taken me ages to watch this next episode, because I don’t want to watch the show while eating (yes, I have TV suppers) or last thing at night, and I’m usually doing something else during the in-between slot. So, I was surprised that the dog was with the Ghoul.
Five strands that became four to this episode, as we saw Coop back in the day, playing a sherif and struggling with script changes that made his character less noble because of anti-Communism. We also met his wife and mother of his child. By episode’s end, we’d have learned that she’d talked him into being Vault Tech’s poster man, the originator of the icon with the thumbs up that gave Lucy hope and he’d shoot as a Ghoul centuries later.
Lucy was being awfully cavalier with the severed head of the Scientist, keeping it near fires and uncovered, so it was no surprise that she later let a mutated giant amphibious thing/abomination swallow it. Before that she’d been wandering around in more epic locations, the Ghoul following her footsteps and catching up with her just as she’d lost the head. He used her as bait, it didn’t work and she destroyed his existence-saving drugs to survive (was with her on her ‘what did he expect?’ attitude.) So, he seemed to give up on getting the head and tied her up, tortured her a little by never sharing water and indeed wasting it. Presumably he’s gone to replenish his drugs and taking her along – well, apart from her being one of the main characters, why is he doing that?
Maximillian had to fix the suit, rescue the suit from some scavengers (apparently he’s a better fighter when he’s concussed.) Then he had to hide his identity from a replacement squire who had used to bully him. Ah well, he learned that the bully had been bullied in the past and found redirecting the bullying spared him. Together, they beat the abomination (which was disgusting when we saw it in all its reverse glory) and retrieved the head. Somehow, because it wasn’t slick, but they’d managed better than the Ghoul.
And we returned to Vault 33, where the new overlords tried to deal with Lucy’s brother Norm, that is punish him by having him help feed their prisoners, the survivors who’d tried to kill them. The vault was having to decide what to do with them under inept leaders. Oh, and their water was going to run out in two months. Norm dared voice the idea of killing them, which the blonde who’d lost her husband like the idea of. (Oh, just cause you’ve lost an eye doesn’t mean you can’t do it yourself instead of encouraging a manboy to do it for you, sweetheart.)
I’m mildly intrigued by why the Scientist’s head is so important, but it’s not just the gore and ick, I don’t much care about these characters and their world.
