The mercy kill is so well written at the start of this episode. The ghoul has had 200 years to see people die. He knows most of them die terrified and in pain. He really does care about that other ghoul, and knows that if he leaves him alive he will lose his mind and essentially become a zombie. He perfectly steers the guy into a beautiful moment of thinking about things that make him happy, and then ends him painlessly before that joy can fade.
What's crazy he said Lucy will be he, just give it time. Might not entirely, but already she had to do similar kill, Martha. She is on a similar jounrney Cooper had, for 200 years, changing him.
@@MolnarG007 Yes. Though I doubt she will be Cooper exactly, I think in the end she's going to be much harder than she was. Certainly, she'll no longer be naive.
I've been watching interviews with Ella Purnell and apparently 'okie dokie' has become part of her every day vocabulary. Which makes her just that much more adorable. =)
I love it when the Ghoul tells Lucy that their little finger swap was most honest exchange they've had so far. He's spent nearly two episodes teaching her about the world as it is vs. the world as she thinks it should be. At the end of the episode, you can tell she's taken some of the lessons to heart, doing what she has to do to survive, but still holding on to the part of her soul that values the lives and dignity of other people. Fantastic character development & world building!
Actually, he simply followed the golden rule just how she explained it. "Do unto others..." She took his finger, so the golden rule, as she explained, meant she wanted him to take hers.
What's crazy he said Lucy will be he, just give it time. Might not entirely, but already she had to do similar kill, Martha. She is on a similar jounrney Cooper had, for 200 years, changing him. She shared her water, the stranger drank it. Now knowing what thirst feels like, will not be so casual giving it away....
Unless it's actual ammo. The game (at least in FO4) will display a stack of two or more rounds as a box of ammo and picking them up will remove the entire box. Which makes just as much sense, but there you have it. :)
"Oh, im you, sweetie. Just give it a little time!" It's probably the most badass yet terrifyingly horrific line in the show. Truthful, but not something you want to dwell on!
@@robpreston5692 Yes and no. Yes she will remain Lucy...hopefully. But already had to do similar kill, Martha. Also after feeling such thirst she wouldn't casually offer her water to strangers to drink... She in the same journey as Cooper was, a nice man, for 200 years.
One of the lore things about the way robots behave is that in the years since the bombs fell, people have had to mostly tweak existing robots to diversify them. There are a lot of crossed wires in most functioning robots in the wasteland as a result where they sort of "remember" their original job or other previous jobs on top of whatever is their current priority.
Nice touch that the first time lucy has to pull the trigger and kill someone, she doesn't do it with her oen finger, but with the new one she got in the wasteland
@@movienightwithjacqui Also with the pistol she picked up this is the first time she's had a real gun in the series. She starts with the knife, upgrades to the tranq gun, then the pistol. It's a similar setup to how it works in the games. Also it's probably useful to know that in the games you're generally playing a random vault dweller (or courier in New Vegas). The Wasteland doesn't know or care who you are and you aren't really special in any way (except your Stats, which are Literally called S.P.E.C.I.A.L, Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility, Luck). You'll notice as you watch the series different characters are intentionally "built" with high amounts of certain of these stats. For instance Norm is obviously extremely high Intelligence, Lucy is well rounded with higher Perception and Charisma, the Ghoul is a late game build with max Perception and Endurance. Not essential to understand that, but it's another layer of the worldbuilding that fans of the games can appreciate.
@@RomulessI You aren't special when you start out but by the end everyone knows and fears your name. Not actuallly your name but the name they gave you.
@@jasperzanovich2504 Everyone in that specific area, yeah that's true. You're probably "The Ghoul" level of of notoriety or a little higher in most of them by the end.... Of course that does depend on your choices in some of them.
And while she hopefully remain Lucy, still Cooper/ghoul was right, "i'm you just give it time". She already killed Martha. I'm sure Lucy won't ever give her drinking water to anyone casually. Cooper was a nice guy, doing the same journey she does for 200 years. Yet, hopefully they learn from each other.
15:15 I somehow love that the robot is whistling. It beautifully underlines the absurdity. Cooper finding the tape and seeing the old him right after Lucy kind of proved him wrong, really seem to make him realise how much he has changed. The old him had objections to killing a fictional character Fallout as a franchise is really good for juxtaposing the prewar Americana with the apocalypse for some seriously dark humour.
Ehhh... Lucy did not go through this for 200+ years and did not experience the savagery that went on right after the bombs went down. I love her character but we can't say how she would've fared in his position.
The greatest thing about this adaptation is that all little details that tie this to the game are shown not told, so many video game to movie adaptations are in your face about what they’re referencing. It’s like “we said/did the thing, did you see us do/say the thing!? We are going to do/say the thing again now, we did/said it, notice me senpai!” Like in the very first episode you see a man unalived by a baby doll leg. It’s jarring to newcomers, but the gamers know that it came from an improvised device that basically makes use of all the useless junk you find in the wasteland. Nearly every other adaptation would put the weapon on a pedestal, with all this pomp and circumstance around it, maybe gave a character give some random forced monologue about it and some other tedious exposition. All this show did was play the sound and show the after effects and we got it, it’s blink and you miss it reference, but it ls so effective and so much better. They also use so much sound from the game, the slow look fights using some of the in game effects and music effects for a mode called VATs that lets you target various parts of enemy NPCs, again, they don’t tell you that’s what they’re doing, they just show it with auditory context clues and it’s wonderful.
The show got the green light for season 2 not too long after it was released. The actor/stunt performer that played Martha in this episode, also played the raider in "The End" that Lucy shot in the eye with a tranq.
Such a good episode...definitely one of my favorites of Season 1. Once again, the showrunners got the tone of the game world down perfectly, just nailing that juxtaposition between the horror and the resulting dark humor of this post-apocalyptic hellscape. So, in the initial lore of the games, ghouls were humans who were exposed to extremely high levels of radiation during and immediately after the Great War, and somehow didn't die (they are described as having been mutated rather than killed by the extreme exposure). The result is functional immortality - they don't age and can regenerate wounds (though trauma to the brain can kill them) but they tend to look like burned and/or decaying corpses as a result. So they are looked upon essentially like zombies, especially if they go feral, like the ones at the end of the episode (which is caused by slow degradation of their brains until they lose all higher functions). Later games and this show have expanded on the lore, introducing other ways that normal humans can be turned into ghouls as well as the vials that prevent intelligent ghouls from going feral. (Some of these new lore retcons are controversial amongst the old-school purists who believe that the Bethesda-made games are inferior to the original two made by Black Isle). They are typically subjected to alot of prejudice and racism by 'normal' people ('smoothskins') and often live in their own communities, isolated from non-ghouls.
You may remember snip-snip's voice actor, Matt Berry, from [redacted]. He's also Laszlo from "What we do in the shadows", and Douglas Reynholm in "The IT Crowd", and various other british shows.
Believe it or not, many of the songs used in the soundtrack for this series was used as background music for the games - though it feels like mostly Fallout 3 and 4. It will be interesting to see if the music for next season comes closer to what they used in Fallout: New Vegas.
As always, fantastic reaction. As others have said, the creative people behind this show absolutely understood the assignment -- this represents the very best of what Fallout is. BTW, don't know if you play video games at all, but there's 150+ hours of amazing stories like this in Fallout New Vegas, the best of the series, and since it came out in 2010, it'll run on even modest laptops these days. Do yourself a favor and check it out, please. One amazing aspect of this show that's only apparent to those familiar with the games is that nearly every aspect of every scene conforms to the ways the games work. Once you've played a few hours, you can rewatch these episodes and be like "Oh, that was a dialogue skill check success. Oh, he's (essentially if not literally) using V.A.T.S. here. Oh, that was a dialogue skill check *failure*." And on and on and on. So good. So excited to see what you think of where it goes from here.
The three main characters are set up as players would be in the falout games. Lucy is the high intelligence high karma player. Maximus is low intelligence, high endurance, force solves all player. The ghoul is a vats build with a renegade play style.
@@rmhartman - The Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System, or V.A.T.S., is a queuing system for Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, and Fallout 4, inspired partly by the ability to shoot specific body parts in the turn-based combat system of Fallout and Fallout 2. V.A.T.S. is also used for a cinematic combat experience.
Love your reactions - insightful and paying attention to details. Just a little note: Jonathan Nolan has always been a massive Fallout games fan and he gets the incongruity, the wicked sense of humour, the whimsical soundtrack, the lovely mix of despair and hope and humanity that are essential to Fallout vibe. He brought some of this storytelling and visual language into Westworld so I'd say, if anything, Westworld can be quite Fallout-like, not the other way round. Probably one of the reasons he and Bethesda got along so well and did such a good job with this adaptation. Anyway, can't wait for you next video on Ep 5!
Fallout is one of the best shows made and I can't wait to see your reaction to the rest of the season! To think it gets better in the rest of the season.
This episode was when I fully fell in love with the Ghoul and Lucy as characters, their interactions, the glimpses of backstories and growth for both characters. Phenomenal episode.
If you're looking for what to watch next after Fallout, might I suggest *_Arcane_* ? It's a series on Netflix, 18 episodes total (across two seasons). and is highly rated. It's animated and I feel the show really highlights what the medium is capable of - which I feel is something you will appreciate. Plus, the cast includes Ella Purnell (Lucy from Fallout), but in a very different role. Won't say more so as not to spoil. 😉😉
So thrilled to see your continued enjoyment of the show and grasping bits of the lore. I pray that this is a sign of the future of adaptions in general, being done by people who actually love the source material!!
One thing from "WestWorld" was the idea of the black hat cowboys and the white hat cowboys. William "The Man In Black" you see transition from wearing the white hat when he was young and idealistic, but eventually as he keeps visiting the park he becomes more cruel starts the wear the black hat and become the "Man in Black". Showing his descent from a hero to a villian. Here you can see Cooper Howard "The Ghoul" wearing a white hat at the kids birthday party when the bombs fall, and then a black hat when he becomes "The Ghoul"; however, there is a subtle difference. If you look closely you can see, he didn't switch hats, in fact he is wearing the same clothes from 2077 in 2296. It is the same hat, it's just gotten dirty showing that underneath this exterior of villainy he puts on Cooper Howard is still there. He is an actor, and the Ghoul is just another role he must play. He is still at heart a white hat, its just that age, time, and wear has made it darker, like him. A couple of his actions can be viewed from both lenses: Healing the dog: Black hat - use the dog as a tracker: White hat - save an innocent animal Deny Lucy water from his canteen: Black hat - be a jerk and cruel: White hat - he drinks irradiated water that heals him, but will kill her Kill Roger: Black hat steal his supplies and survive off what left of the vials in Rogers system: White hat - mercy kill a friend
Oooooooh! A Westworld reference I didn't catch! I love the white hat/black hat reference. I remember that from WW, hadn't noticed that connection here, so thank you for pointing it out! 😍
But wasn't the result of that not that they desperately tried to survive and eat each other but that they got cabin fever, became lethargic and stopped interacting?
I always wondered why that video runs. Maybe they managed to hack into some systems, looking for answers. They found this video among things.... wrote "Death to Management"... The rest i'm not getting into, from later episodes, would be spoiler.
One of the great things about this show is that Ella Purnell herself said she didn't want to be treated with kid gloves, she wanted Lucy to go through hardship for greater character development.
They have not only been renewed, they are right now filming season 2. Walton Goggins posted himself in half done Ghoul makeup on Instagram 17 days ago; saying "...it feels good to slip on this skin..."
I love the evolution of Lucy in this show. She starts off very naive and sweet, and over the course of the season becomes more of a realist. She still tries so desperately to hold on to that sweet girl that left the vault, in a world that is not for that type of person anymore.
Oh you are me sweety... just give it time.... (Cooper was also a nice guy... but did the same journey Lucy is on, for 200 years.) Still she might change him too, reminding him to his former self. Technically this is the mission of (some) vaults. Lucy believes this. Show a better way when they enter the Wasteland.
@movienightwithjacqui You're welcome! I watch the series a couple times a year and the What we do in the shadows series finale was a couple days ago so his voice is still fresh in my head.
02:23: It's at this point I'm realizing how clever the show is. Even casual fans like me have probably heard Ghouls talk about regular humans as "smoothskins," so we just knew "smoothie" was a contraction of that. But for someone with no knowledge, like you, Roger drops the term in, then casually and naturally relates it to Lucy, letting you make the connection that its a slang term for non-Ghoul people. I love the subtle touches like that, respecting the audience to make the connections without having The Ghoul have to turn to Lucy and say "Smoothie, Smoothskin, Ghoul slang for someone like you." Trust the intelligence of your audience. 06:25: In the games, water is plentiful in the Wasteland. . . _clean_ water, substantially less so. You can drink a lot of stuff you find, and it'll heal you, but also add to your Rads. It's a tradeoff. Now, last time, The Ghoul wouldn't give Lucy any of his water, probably because it was irradiated too and not safe for her to drink. Yet here, he almost seems to enjoy seeing her get so desperate she'll drink water she *knows* is irradiated. I have a hypothesis as to why. This really didn't crystalize for me until I was watching The Media Knights' reaction, and they mentioned that, while being kind of an ass, The Ghoul was trying to coach Lucy in how to survive. And I thought, "Kinda, but not really. I think his motivation is more Joker-like. He feels the need to prove to Lucy that she'll need to become what he is to survive. Not a Ghoul per se, but someone who only cares about their own immediate needs, and to hell with anyone and everyone else. Because if not, then it means The Ghoul became who he is for nothing." And then that's carried out at the end, Lucy choosing to do the right thing when she has every reason to leave The Ghoul to his deserved fate, or kill him herself. She chooses to be kind to him because, roles reversed, she'd want someone to show her some kindness. And then it's punctuated by The Ghoul watching his old movie, and remember when we saw the behind the scenes on that? That Cooper Howard was uncomfortable with the idea of even *pretending* to kill a man in cold blood? The Ghoul literally has to face the man he used to be. For probably the first time in a very, _very_ long time, Cooper Howard looks at The Ghoul, and is disgusted by what he sees. That's why I think The Ghoul watching Lucy drink irradiated water was so important. The Golden Rule has nothing at all to do with that, yet he brings it up. Why? Because despite stating "sidetracked" as the Wasteland's Golden Rule, what The Ghoul *really* believes is the Wasteland's Golden Rule is "do whatever the fuck you have to do." And Lucy rejects that idea at the end, choosing to believe that you can still be a decent person and survive. Whether or not she's *right,* well. . .
7:58 Cooper saying that it's the closest thing to an honest exchange they've had is in reference to her touting The Golden Rule around. So as he sees it, her biting off his finger meant that he was fully justified to remove one of hers. Do unto others...!
While he (and the Wasteland) changes Lucy (she killed Martha, know thirst, etc.), Lucy reminds him to his old self, who did the same journey 200 years ago.
"Just take the box." Interesting fact.... you can't pick up a box in the Fallout games, you can only take the contents. So while taking the box would make sense, this actually keeps continuity with the games. 😆
I loved this show and re-watching it with Jacqui is a treat. Can we all agree that Lucy is how you should write a strong willed and capable female character without making her a Mary Sue? Kudos to Ella Purnell, she is a gem.
I've heard people say Lucy and Maximus are Rey and Finn from the Star Wars sequels done right, Lucy doesn't come off as a Mary Sue and Max isn't a completely wasted joke.
She is a Mary Sue in the vault though. It’s all in her introduction at the beginning of the show, it is all about how great she is at everything she’s put her mind to, phys-ed, shooting, teaching, being a dutiful daughter and expectant wife to continue the goal of keeping civilisation alive. What the show does after that is that all that inside knowledge with a heavy dose of naïveté means sweet feck all in the outside “real world.” However she’s quickly adapting to that world too, so I disagree she’s not a Mary sue, she is but the show is telling her she needs to quickly adopt a different set of skills to survive. The conflict arises in that she doesn’t want it to change who she is as a person.
In the 2D games, ghouls are slow and not much to worry about, there are some you can talk to. The most notable one is named Harold. In the 3D games (and show) feral ghouls are basically zombies. There are still a lot of normal ghouls you can talk to. In the games the ghouls refer to normal humans as 'smooth-skins' I don't remember 'smoothie' used at all. Related to your last comment I've seen the characters described like this (and I agree): Lucy is a beginner Fallout player, Maximus is an intermediate player, and The Ghoul is a done everything veteran player.
Great reaction. Your movie making focused comments are the best. Lucy's question "Why keep going?" One of many questions, but at least, one that is answered eventually. Lucy levels up and gets an armored vault suit. "you were ugly, strong and had dignity" The ghoul is strong and ugly, for sure, but watching himself makes him doubt his dignity.
10:48 And in the intro in episode 1, actually. 20:30 Gotta love Lucy. :) Hopefully she does not lose herself too much, but she's up there just a very short time, while the Ghoul has been through this for a couple hundred years. And I'd argue the time shortly after the nukes was probably the most brutal and savage. 21:50 Especially when your past self kinda talks to your present self. The Ghoul got strong, and is ugly, but lost his dignity along the way. Just like the villain in his movie.
Fallout made me appreciate the older music, one thing I liked about Westworld season 1 was that the player piano would play current songs in an older style. I found a great group called Postmodern Jukebox that does lots of current songs in the style of popular 1930s-50s, such as Thriller with Wayne Brady, Dream on was amazing as well th-cam.com/video/td-_pUPVjdo/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
You should check out Sweetpea. Another Ella Purnell show where she starts off kinda sweet, innocent, a little doormatish, but then.....turns........serial.
11:48 Colloquially called Mr. Handy. Probably on account of all the "hands" and it being really helpful. Commercially sold as a household robot and a military murder machine. 13:30 Norm is even too smart for most people, he causes trouble because he doesn't just accept things. He is smart enough to convincingly lie, scheme and manipulate. Like how he exactly knew that Chet would help him. Chet hasa weak mind and a strong body, the later something Norm lacks and needs. 21:37 To my eyee Cooper is in a confused state and not thinking clearly. He was just in a very vulnerable state and the one he has mistreated and sold to be murdered just saved his life. It goes against everything he believes in. By his own reckoning she should have shot him. It's an "Am I the bad guy?"-moment.
The idea of "show the world through the eyes of a newcomer" is very true to the games, too: most of the Fallout games have the player character with little or no knowledge of the world (like Lucy), so the character and the player are exploring everything anew.
My guess is that Snip Snip was a medical assistant robot before the bombs. And was re-programmed to harvest organs after. He does mention he had a temporal malfunction 'about a week ago'.
Yep, hence the reason he reattached her finger - actions his primary programming of tending to the sick & wounded, then the overlaid organ-harvest protocols kick in once Lucys back up and running.
This show got me playing the games for the first time. Played though F3 twice right after the show, and starting New Vegas again today immediately after a 99 hour play through. Edit: The show introduced me, and in retrospect it nailed the experience.
Another Great Reaction, I think the reason Norm lacked enthusiasm is that he was is smart that nothing felt like a challenge for him. Could I recommend the Amazon Anthology Series Secret Level, it's by the same people who did Love Death & Robots.
the interesting thing about the parallels to Westworld is, Fallout could be *really* treated as some kind of Westworld season 6 (where S5 had been skipped) with a new simulation, lots of characters are not only similar versions, they are literally the same. Of course, it's also the same masterminds behind the show. Lucy is definitely like Doloroes at the beginning of her journey, the Ghoul is the Man in Black after being stuck in that world for such a long time. The Ghoul saying "I am you..." after Lucy asked what the Ghoul is could be foreshadowing for future seasons: There is a good chance that Lucy is *not* the hero of the show.... Btw. interesting that Lucy used the word "mother*****er" - I really doubt she ever learned it in the Vault, it's more likely a word she learned in Philly..
Every week I search "Reaction Predestination", and for 2 years there have remained only three channels(Biggest being Nerdy Nightly) to do so. Would love to see your take, specifically from a film student perspective on how it was handled. Even more so after you watch it a second time during editing.
To catch up on Fallout lore you should check out a few vaults to get an idea how Vault Tec operated in some of the vaults... Vault 77 or Vault 11 for instance.
FUBAR sums up the world of Fallout very very much (Well... "Post-FUBAR, now rebuilding after the damage is done). Yes, season 2 has gotten the green light and it can NOT get here soon enough.
Jacqui... I'm convinced you need a "DUH duh dunnn!" sound effect for when the "suspicious revelations" happen. LOL! Plus.. I'd love to see you, at least, try to play the games and explore the game worlds.
And all of this is just setting the table for what's to come. As fun and entertaining as it's been so far, the conclusion of the season is even better.
I will say theory about the show, I think vault 33 is all pep and sunshine, yknow follow the golden rule and all that, meanwhile 32 is the complete opposite. It’s a fight to survive kind of place. And they trade people every once and a while to see how the other adapts to the situation, not to “keep the bloodlines safe” because all of the other vault that’s never deemed an issue in fallout
Well, they live in a different timeline to us. Maybe, because they're so reliant on atomic energy for everything, it's not a magnetic tape. It's probably some form of radiation tape that has a half life of a couple of thousand years. :)
Seeing you enjoy this makes me think you'd appreciate The Magicians. That show spans two settings tied to eachother, a Narnia-analog that seems like it's from the same writers as this, and ... the closest I can come up with is "Dan Harmon's Hogwarts Toronto" (I'm open to a better descriptor). If any Patrons agree, I'd love to see you give it a bump in polls for future shows.
😂😂😂 I'm pretty sure it's just a metaphor, but my brain didn't seem to want to come up with that in the moment. I think "hindshadowing" sounds way cooler anyway!
The first time in a long time that the media industry has done something that is actually good! I have to say that there is very much a Lara Croft energy to Lucy but that's likely only because of the combination of physical 'robustness' and intelligence with eloquence.
It's hard to beat the music in a Fallout game. It really sets the tone. One of the best things they've done in this series. Also, I don't know if you have an interest in animated stuff. But might I suggest The Legend of Vox Machina?
The show writers understood the assignment on this one. Nothing good ever happens in a Super Duper Mart in the games!
A few scattered supplies and a sh*t ton of trouble every damn time.
@@HoundMonkey But Nuka Cola!
Grocery stores as an adult. Amirite?
The mercy kill is so well written at the start of this episode. The ghoul has had 200 years to see people die. He knows most of them die terrified and in pain. He really does care about that other ghoul, and knows that if he leaves him alive he will lose his mind and essentially become a zombie. He perfectly steers the guy into a beautiful moment of thinking about things that make him happy, and then ends him painlessly before that joy can fade.
He's ruthless but he kept some his principles from when he was a movie hero
It was a beautiful kill, he even waited for Roger to not see it coming
@@axlm.808 not just a movie hero, he was actual war hero from the resource war (battle of Anchorage)
What's crazy he said Lucy will be he, just give it time. Might not entirely, but already she had to do similar kill, Martha.
She is on a similar jounrney Cooper had, for 200 years, changing him.
@@MolnarG007 Yes. Though I doubt she will be Cooper exactly, I think in the end she's going to be much harder than she was. Certainly, she'll no longer be naive.
I've been watching interviews with Ella Purnell and apparently 'okie dokie' has become part of her every day vocabulary. Which makes her just that much more adorable. =)
Just like when Jacqui says "Fork" we know it comes from "The Good Place"
I love it when the Ghoul tells Lucy that their little finger swap was most honest exchange they've had so far. He's spent nearly two episodes teaching her about the world as it is vs. the world as she thinks it should be. At the end of the episode, you can tell she's taken some of the lessons to heart, doing what she has to do to survive, but still holding on to the part of her soul that values the lives and dignity of other people.
Fantastic character development & world building!
And a nice callback to Ma June in Filly - "...all ten fingers..."!
Actually, he simply followed the golden rule just how she explained it.
"Do unto others..."
She took his finger, so the golden rule, as she explained, meant she wanted him to take hers.
What's crazy he said Lucy will be he, just give it time. Might not entirely, but already she had to do similar kill, Martha.
She is on a similar jounrney Cooper had, for 200 years, changing him.
She shared her water, the stranger drank it. Now knowing what thirst feels like, will not be so casual giving it away....
When looting, you take the items IN the box, never the actual box.... no matter how much sense it makes. A great lil nod to the game!
Ah gotcha! It annoyed me in the moment, but now I appreciate the reference. Thank you!!
The loot is in, a lot of the times, in old ammo boxes just like that one, too.
"You are carrying too much and cannot run."
Unless it's actual ammo. The game (at least in FO4) will display a stack of two or more rounds as a box of ammo and picking them up will remove the entire box. Which makes just as much sense, but there you have it. :)
besides looting or carry weight limit, running through ruins carry a box under your arm seems not useful
"Oh, im you, sweetie. Just give it a little time!"
It's probably the most badass yet terrifyingly horrific line in the show. Truthful, but not something you want to dwell on!
And then she proves how wrong he was, in regards to that statement.
@@robpreston5692 Yes and no.
Yes she will remain Lucy...hopefully.
But already had to do similar kill, Martha.
Also after feeling such thirst she wouldn't casually offer her water to strangers to drink...
She in the same journey as Cooper was, a nice man, for 200 years.
One of the lore things about the way robots behave is that in the years since the bombs fell, people have had to mostly tweak existing robots to diversify them. There are a lot of crossed wires in most functioning robots in the wasteland as a result where they sort of "remember" their original job or other previous jobs on top of whatever is their current priority.
Nice touch that the first time lucy has to pull the trigger and kill someone, she doesn't do it with her oen finger, but with the new one she got in the wasteland
Great catch! I love that!
@@movienightwithjacqui Also with the pistol she picked up this is the first time she's had a real gun in the series. She starts with the knife, upgrades to the tranq gun, then the pistol. It's a similar setup to how it works in the games. Also it's probably useful to know that in the games you're generally playing a random vault dweller (or courier in New Vegas). The Wasteland doesn't know or care who you are and you aren't really special in any way (except your Stats, which are Literally called S.P.E.C.I.A.L, Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility, Luck). You'll notice as you watch the series different characters are intentionally "built" with high amounts of certain of these stats. For instance Norm is obviously extremely high Intelligence, Lucy is well rounded with higher Perception and Charisma, the Ghoul is a late game build with max Perception and Endurance.
Not essential to understand that, but it's another layer of the worldbuilding that fans of the games can appreciate.
@@RomulessI You aren't special when you start out but by the end everyone knows and fears your name. Not actuallly your name but the name they gave you.
@@jasperzanovich2504 Everyone in that specific area, yeah that's true. You're probably "The Ghoul" level of of notoriety or a little higher in most of them by the end.... Of course that does depend on your choices in some of them.
And while she hopefully remain Lucy, still Cooper/ghoul was right, "i'm you just give it time". She already killed Martha.
I'm sure Lucy won't ever give her drinking water to anyone casually.
Cooper was a nice guy, doing the same journey she does for 200 years.
Yet, hopefully they learn from each other.
15:15 I somehow love that the robot is whistling.
It beautifully underlines the absurdity.
Cooper finding the tape and seeing the old him right after Lucy kind of proved him wrong, really seem to make him realise how much he has changed.
The old him had objections to killing a fictional character
Fallout as a franchise is really good for juxtaposing the prewar Americana with the apocalypse for some seriously dark humour.
Ehhh... Lucy did not go through this for 200+ years and did not experience the savagery that went on right after the bombs went down. I love her character but we can't say how she would've fared in his position.
The greatest thing about this adaptation is that all little details that tie this to the game are shown not told, so many video game to movie adaptations are in your face about what they’re referencing. It’s like “we said/did the thing, did you see us do/say the thing!? We are going to do/say the thing again now, we did/said it, notice me senpai!”
Like in the very first episode you see a man unalived by a baby doll leg. It’s jarring to newcomers, but the gamers know that it came from an improvised device that basically makes use of all the useless junk you find in the wasteland. Nearly every other adaptation would put the weapon on a pedestal, with all this pomp and circumstance around it, maybe gave a character give some random forced monologue about it and some other tedious exposition. All this show did was play the sound and show the after effects and we got it, it’s blink and you miss it reference, but it ls so effective and so much better. They also use so much sound from the game, the slow look fights using some of the in game effects and music effects for a mode called VATs that lets you target various parts of enemy NPCs, again, they don’t tell you that’s what they’re doing, they just show it with auditory context clues and it’s wonderful.
The robot was Matt Berry.
Lazlo!
"FATHEEERRRRR!!"
The show got the green light for season 2 not too long after it was released. The actor/stunt performer that played Martha in this episode, also played the raider in "The End" that Lucy shot in the eye with a tranq.
I had no idea an elderly ghoul was played by such a beautiful young woman, Alexa Marcigliano!
Lol, "dude, just take the box".
That's actually on brand with the gameplay, in the games you never take the box, just its content.
Such a good episode...definitely one of my favorites of Season 1. Once again, the showrunners got the tone of the game world down perfectly, just nailing that juxtaposition between the horror and the resulting dark humor of this post-apocalyptic hellscape.
So, in the initial lore of the games, ghouls were humans who were exposed to extremely high levels of radiation during and immediately after the Great War, and somehow didn't die (they are described as having been mutated rather than killed by the extreme exposure). The result is functional immortality - they don't age and can regenerate wounds (though trauma to the brain can kill them) but they tend to look like burned and/or decaying corpses as a result. So they are looked upon essentially like zombies, especially if they go feral, like the ones at the end of the episode (which is caused by slow degradation of their brains until they lose all higher functions). Later games and this show have expanded on the lore, introducing other ways that normal humans can be turned into ghouls as well as the vials that prevent intelligent ghouls from going feral. (Some of these new lore retcons are controversial amongst the old-school purists who believe that the Bethesda-made games are inferior to the original two made by Black Isle). They are typically subjected to alot of prejudice and racism by 'normal' people ('smoothskins') and often live in their own communities, isolated from non-ghouls.
Coop taking Lucy's finger is one of the gnarliest things I've ever seen in a TV show. And I agree that the music in this is fantastic.
Most of these songs are in the game! There are a couple just for the show, but most of them can be played during the game.
"Can't get much worse!"
Cut to scene of people hanging from the ceiling
:)
Haha exactly!
You may remember snip-snip's voice actor, Matt Berry, from [redacted]. He's also Laszlo from "What we do in the shadows", and Douglas Reynholm in "The IT Crowd", and various other british shows.
Believe it or not, many of the songs used in the soundtrack for this series was used as background music for the games - though it feels like mostly Fallout 3 and 4. It will be interesting to see if the music for next season comes closer to what they used in Fallout: New Vegas.
As always, fantastic reaction. As others have said, the creative people behind this show absolutely understood the assignment -- this represents the very best of what Fallout is.
BTW, don't know if you play video games at all, but there's 150+ hours of amazing stories like this in Fallout New Vegas, the best of the series, and since it came out in 2010, it'll run on even modest laptops these days. Do yourself a favor and check it out, please.
One amazing aspect of this show that's only apparent to those familiar with the games is that nearly every aspect of every scene conforms to the ways the games work. Once you've played a few hours, you can rewatch these episodes and be like "Oh, that was a dialogue skill check success. Oh, he's (essentially if not literally) using V.A.T.S. here. Oh, that was a dialogue skill check *failure*." And on and on and on.
So good. So excited to see what you think of where it goes from here.
The three main characters are set up as players would be in the falout games.
Lucy is the high intelligence high karma player.
Maximus is low intelligence, high endurance, force solves all player.
The ghoul is a vats build with a renegade play style.
"vats"?
@@rmhartman - The Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System, or V.A.T.S., is a queuing system for Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, and Fallout 4, inspired partly by the ability to shoot specific body parts in the turn-based combat system of Fallout and Fallout 2. V.A.T.S. is also used for a cinematic combat experience.
@@rmhartman Vault-tec Assisted Targeting System = V.A.T.S.
It's why the ghoul is so good at shooting people and fighting power armor
IMO Cooper is the representation of a player who has and is doing every side quest in the game.
Maximus also gas Luck pretty much maxed out.
Love your reactions - insightful and paying attention to details.
Just a little note: Jonathan Nolan has always been a massive Fallout games fan and he gets the incongruity, the wicked sense of humour, the whimsical soundtrack, the lovely mix of despair and hope and humanity that are essential to Fallout vibe. He brought some of this storytelling and visual language into Westworld so I'd say, if anything, Westworld can be quite Fallout-like, not the other way round. Probably one of the reasons he and Bethesda got along so well and did such a good job with this adaptation.
Anyway, can't wait for you next video on Ep 5!
Fallout is one of the best shows made and I can't wait to see your reaction to the rest of the season! To think it gets better in the rest of the season.
This episode was when I fully fell in love with the Ghoul and Lucy as characters, their interactions, the glimpses of backstories and growth for both characters. Phenomenal episode.
If you're looking for what to watch next after Fallout, might I suggest *_Arcane_* ? It's a series on Netflix, 18 episodes total (across two seasons). and is highly rated. It's animated and I feel the show really highlights what the medium is capable of - which I feel is something you will appreciate. Plus, the cast includes Ella Purnell (Lucy from Fallout), but in a very different role. Won't say more so as not to spoil. 😉😉
So thrilled to see your continued enjoyment of the show and grasping bits of the lore. I pray that this is a sign of the future of adaptions in general, being done by people who actually love the source material!!
One thing from "WestWorld" was the idea of the black hat cowboys and the white hat cowboys. William "The Man In Black" you see transition from wearing the white hat when he was young and idealistic, but eventually as he keeps visiting the park he becomes more cruel starts the wear the black hat and become the "Man in Black". Showing his descent from a hero to a villian. Here you can see Cooper Howard "The Ghoul" wearing a white hat at the kids birthday party when the bombs fall, and then a black hat when he becomes "The Ghoul"; however, there is a subtle difference. If you look closely you can see, he didn't switch hats, in fact he is wearing the same clothes from 2077 in 2296. It is the same hat, it's just gotten dirty showing that underneath this exterior of villainy he puts on Cooper Howard is still there. He is an actor, and the Ghoul is just another role he must play. He is still at heart a white hat, its just that age, time, and wear has made it darker, like him. A couple of his actions can be viewed from both lenses:
Healing the dog: Black hat - use the dog as a tracker: White hat - save an innocent animal
Deny Lucy water from his canteen: Black hat - be a jerk and cruel: White hat - he drinks irradiated water that heals him, but will kill her
Kill Roger: Black hat steal his supplies and survive off what left of the vials in Rogers system: White hat - mercy kill a friend
Oooooooh! A Westworld reference I didn't catch! I love the white hat/black hat reference. I remember that from WW, hadn't noticed that connection here, so thank you for pointing it out! 😍
The Mouse Utopia experiment was a real thing and worth learning about.
And directly applicable to the vaults.
But wasn't the result of that not that they desperately tried to survive and eat each other but that they got cabin fever, became lethargic and stopped interacting?
I always wondered why that video runs. Maybe they managed to hack into some systems, looking for answers.
They found this video among things....
wrote "Death to Management"...
The rest i'm not getting into, from later episodes, would be spoiler.
I love how realistic Lucy feels. She acts in a way that just makes to her upbringing, situation, and morals.
One of the great things about this show is that Ella Purnell herself said she didn't want to be treated with kid gloves, she wanted Lucy to go through hardship for greater character development.
They have not only been renewed, they are right now filming season 2. Walton Goggins posted himself in half done Ghoul makeup on Instagram 17 days ago; saying "...it feels good to slip on this skin..."
10 mm pistol and leather armour, first upgrades straight out of the vault. She got lucky on the chest piece dropping so fast, though.
I love the evolution of Lucy in this show. She starts off very naive and sweet, and over the course of the season becomes more of a realist. She still tries so desperately to hold on to that sweet girl that left the vault, in a world that is not for that type of person anymore.
Oh you are me sweety... just give it time....
(Cooper was also a nice guy... but did the same journey Lucy is on, for 200 years.)
Still she might change him too, reminding him to his former self.
Technically this is the mission of (some) vaults. Lucy believes this. Show a better way when they enter the Wasteland.
11:17 the robot at Super Duper Mart is voiced by Matt Berry from What We Do in the Shadows and The IT Crowd.
It's been years since I watched it, but I love The IT Crowd so much! That's definitely where I knew him from 😃 Thank you!
@movienightwithjacqui You're welcome! I watch the series a couple times a year and the What we do in the shadows series finale was a couple days ago so his voice is still fresh in my head.
Fun fact, John McLean from Die Hard also has a daughter named Lucy.
Classicly players naming their characters in games after books and movies, etc.
and Lucy McLean in this show probably had the 'Die Hard' perk from fallout
yay, Jacqui's back just in time for Christmas 🎄☃🎅
02:23: It's at this point I'm realizing how clever the show is. Even casual fans like me have probably heard Ghouls talk about regular humans as "smoothskins," so we just knew "smoothie" was a contraction of that. But for someone with no knowledge, like you, Roger drops the term in, then casually and naturally relates it to Lucy, letting you make the connection that its a slang term for non-Ghoul people. I love the subtle touches like that, respecting the audience to make the connections without having The Ghoul have to turn to Lucy and say "Smoothie, Smoothskin, Ghoul slang for someone like you." Trust the intelligence of your audience.
06:25: In the games, water is plentiful in the Wasteland. . . _clean_ water, substantially less so. You can drink a lot of stuff you find, and it'll heal you, but also add to your Rads. It's a tradeoff. Now, last time, The Ghoul wouldn't give Lucy any of his water, probably because it was irradiated too and not safe for her to drink. Yet here, he almost seems to enjoy seeing her get so desperate she'll drink water she *knows* is irradiated. I have a hypothesis as to why.
This really didn't crystalize for me until I was watching The Media Knights' reaction, and they mentioned that, while being kind of an ass, The Ghoul was trying to coach Lucy in how to survive. And I thought, "Kinda, but not really. I think his motivation is more Joker-like. He feels the need to prove to Lucy that she'll need to become what he is to survive. Not a Ghoul per se, but someone who only cares about their own immediate needs, and to hell with anyone and everyone else. Because if not, then it means The Ghoul became who he is for nothing." And then that's carried out at the end, Lucy choosing to do the right thing when she has every reason to leave The Ghoul to his deserved fate, or kill him herself. She chooses to be kind to him because, roles reversed, she'd want someone to show her some kindness. And then it's punctuated by The Ghoul watching his old movie, and remember when we saw the behind the scenes on that? That Cooper Howard was uncomfortable with the idea of even *pretending* to kill a man in cold blood? The Ghoul literally has to face the man he used to be. For probably the first time in a very, _very_ long time, Cooper Howard looks at The Ghoul, and is disgusted by what he sees.
That's why I think The Ghoul watching Lucy drink irradiated water was so important. The Golden Rule has nothing at all to do with that, yet he brings it up. Why? Because despite stating "sidetracked" as the Wasteland's Golden Rule, what The Ghoul *really* believes is the Wasteland's Golden Rule is "do whatever the fuck you have to do." And Lucy rejects that idea at the end, choosing to believe that you can still be a decent person and survive. Whether or not she's *right,* well. . .
They are Indeed renewed.
I am so excited to see your reactions!
thank you for your brilliant insights and fantastic laughs!
The Steph and Chet scene always makes me laugh. It's heartbreaking, kinda sweet, and then bleakly hilarious in a matter of moments.
3:29 I'm with you 100%. It was merciful to let him go while on a happy memory.
7:58 Cooper saying that it's the closest thing to an honest exchange they've had is in reference to her touting The Golden Rule around. So as he sees it, her biting off his finger meant that he was fully justified to remove one of hers. Do unto others...!
Happy Holidays!! Can't wait for more!
Coop telling himself "I'll give you two out of three" is my favourite end to an episode of this show.
While he (and the Wasteland) changes Lucy (she killed Martha, know thirst, etc.), Lucy reminds him to his old self, who did the same journey 200 years ago.
"Just take the box."
Interesting fact.... you can't pick up a box in the Fallout games, you can only take the contents. So while taking the box would make sense, this actually keeps continuity with the games. 😆
I loved this show and re-watching it with Jacqui is a treat. Can we all agree that Lucy is how you should write a strong willed and capable female character without making her a Mary Sue? Kudos to Ella Purnell, she is a gem.
I've heard people say Lucy and Maximus are Rey and Finn from the Star Wars sequels done right, Lucy doesn't come off as a Mary Sue and Max isn't a completely wasted joke.
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That's a perfect description for them!
She is a Mary Sue in the vault though. It’s all in her introduction at the beginning of the show, it is all about how great she is at everything she’s put her mind to, phys-ed, shooting, teaching, being a dutiful daughter and expectant wife to continue the goal of keeping civilisation alive. What the show does after that is that all that inside knowledge with a heavy dose of naïveté means sweet feck all in the outside “real world.” However she’s quickly adapting to that world too, so I disagree she’s not a Mary sue, she is but the show is telling her she needs to quickly adopt a different set of skills to survive. The conflict arises in that she doesn’t want it to change who she is as a person.
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A Mary Sue wouldn't allow herself to get stabbed though.
So happy this won the best game adaptation award. Well deserved.
I think at the end as the Ghoul watches himself, I just imagine he's considering his downward spiral and this point where he sold out.
The Ghoul has the Cannibalism Perk plus Steady Aim 😂
Don't forget Bloody Mess!
The miracle of this show is that it manages to display horror after horror while making the viewer feel happy.
My two favorite shows this year are Shogun and The Penguin, but this is a close 3rd. Glad to see you're enjoying this.
In the 2D games, ghouls are slow and not much to worry about, there are some you can talk to. The most notable one is named Harold. In the 3D games (and show) feral ghouls are basically zombies. There are still a lot of normal ghouls you can talk to. In the games the ghouls refer to normal humans as 'smooth-skins' I don't remember 'smoothie' used at all.
Related to your last comment I've seen the characters described like this (and I agree): Lucy is a beginner Fallout player, Maximus is an intermediate player, and The Ghoul is a done everything veteran player.
21:15 Yup, when I watched this episode of Fallout I was yelling "just take the box" at the screen :)
If you like this and Westworld, you may like Jonathan Nolan's other series called Person of Interest.
Great reaction. Your movie making focused comments are the best.
Lucy's question "Why keep going?" One of many questions, but at least, one that is answered eventually.
Lucy levels up and gets an armored vault suit.
"you were ugly, strong and had dignity" The ghoul is strong and ugly, for sure, but watching himself makes him doubt his dignity.
10:48 And in the intro in episode 1, actually.
20:30 Gotta love Lucy. :)
Hopefully she does not lose herself too much, but she's up there just a very short time, while the Ghoul has been through this for a couple hundred years. And I'd argue the time shortly after the nukes was probably the most brutal and savage.
21:50 Especially when your past self kinda talks to your present self. The Ghoul got strong, and is ugly, but lost his dignity along the way. Just like the villain in his movie.
I do believe the voice of the robot is Matt Berry, who plays Lazlo in "What We Do in the Shadows."
Re: what happened in Vault 32 - there was a video running talking about rats in confinement, and that they turn on each other 😮
Fallout made me appreciate the older music, one thing I liked about Westworld season 1 was that the player piano would play current songs in an older style.
I found a great group called Postmodern Jukebox that does lots of current songs in the style of popular 1930s-50s, such as Thriller with Wayne Brady, Dream on was amazing as well th-cam.com/video/td-_pUPVjdo/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
Great reaction video. Thanks. It's always so much fun to see someone get what that franchise is about. Thanks again.
Thank you! I'm glad I get to share the experience with others who love it 😊
Lazlo Cravensworth! That's who I picture when I hear the robot.
Whatever the record is for Jacqui sitting there with her mouth open - this ep beats it!
You should check out Sweetpea. Another Ella Purnell show where she starts off kinda sweet, innocent, a little doormatish, but then.....turns........serial.
I don't think I've ever heard of it! Thank you for the recommendation!
11:48 Colloquially called Mr. Handy. Probably on account of all the "hands" and it being really helpful. Commercially sold as a household robot and a military murder machine.
13:30 Norm is even too smart for most people, he causes trouble because he doesn't just accept things. He is smart enough to convincingly lie, scheme and manipulate. Like how he exactly knew that Chet would help him. Chet hasa weak mind and a strong body, the later something Norm lacks and needs.
21:37 To my eyee Cooper is in a confused state and not thinking clearly. He was just in a very vulnerable state and the one he has mistreated and sold to be murdered just saved his life. It goes against everything he believes in. By his own reckoning she should have shot him. It's an "Am I the bad guy?"-moment.
Superman: Must...save...Martha! [no, wait, too late]
The idea of "show the world through the eyes of a newcomer" is very true to the games, too: most of the Fallout games have the player character with little or no knowledge of the world (like Lucy), so the character and the player are exploring everything anew.
the ghoul that says "hey, thank you" is Todd Howard founder, CEO of Bethesda, creator if Elder Scrolls, Fallout franchises and Starfield.
Thank you for the video!
My guess is that Snip Snip was a medical assistant robot before the bombs. And was re-programmed to harvest organs after. He does mention he had a temporal malfunction 'about a week ago'.
Yep, hence the reason he reattached her finger - actions his primary programming of tending to the sick & wounded, then the overlaid organ-harvest protocols kick in once Lucys back up and running.
10:55 - the great Matt Berry providing voiceovers.
That "surgeon" robot sounds like someone who encountered "the most devious bastards in Neew york cityyy"
This show got me playing the games for the first time. Played though F3 twice right after the show, and starting New Vegas again today immediately after a 99 hour play through. Edit: The show introduced me, and in retrospect it nailed the experience.
Love the videos, keep them coming!
Another Great Reaction,
I think the reason Norm lacked enthusiasm is that he was is smart that nothing felt like a challenge for him.
Could I recommend the Amazon Anthology Series Secret Level, it's by the same people who did Love Death & Robots.
the interesting thing about the parallels to Westworld is, Fallout could be *really* treated as some kind of Westworld season 6 (where S5 had been skipped) with a new simulation, lots of characters are not only similar versions, they are literally the same. Of course, it's also the same masterminds behind the show.
Lucy is definitely like Doloroes at the beginning of her journey, the Ghoul is the Man in Black after being stuck in that world for such a long time.
The Ghoul saying "I am you..." after Lucy asked what the Ghoul is could be foreshadowing for future seasons: There is a good chance that Lucy is *not* the hero of the show....
Btw. interesting that Lucy used the word "mother*****er" - I really doubt she ever learned it in the Vault, it's more likely a word she learned in Philly..
I know the last names are spelled different but in Die Hard John McClane has a daughter named Lucy McClane.
Every week I search "Reaction Predestination", and for 2 years there have remained only three channels(Biggest being Nerdy Nightly) to do so. Would love to see your take, specifically from a film student perspective on how it was handled. Even more so after you watch it a second time during editing.
Matt Berry. Is the bots voice. So cool.
To catch up on Fallout lore you should check out a few vaults to get an idea how Vault Tec operated in some of the vaults... Vault 77 or Vault 11 for instance.
GARY!
@@prollins6443 GARY?
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Gaaaary!
FUBAR sums up the world of Fallout very very much (Well... "Post-FUBAR, now rebuilding after the damage is done). Yes, season 2 has gotten the green light and it can NOT get here soon enough.
One of the saddest things in this episode is that the druggies had ample vials to give Martha and keep her from turning, but didn't.
Jacqui... I'm convinced you need a "DUH duh dunnn!" sound effect for when the "suspicious revelations" happen. LOL! Plus.. I'd love to see you, at least, try to play the games and explore the game worlds.
22:00 wouldn’t even give him too much
Hard to say your strong when you had to crawl through the super duper mart
And all of this is just setting the table for what's to come. As fun and entertaining as it's been so far, the conclusion of the season is even better.
They're currently filming season 2
I believe the character you're thinking of from superstore is named BRUH BRUH BRUHHHHH. Or Bo for short.
Redder is bedder, had to drop a comment and sub~
I will say theory about the show, I think vault 33 is all pep and sunshine, yknow follow the golden rule and all that, meanwhile 32 is the complete opposite. It’s a fight to survive kind of place. And they trade people every once and a while to see how the other adapts to the situation, not to “keep the bloodlines safe” because all of the other vault that’s never deemed an issue in fallout
the most incredible thing is that the video cassette tape has not been demagnetized in 200 years 😄
Well, they live in a different timeline to us. Maybe, because they're so reliant on atomic energy for everything, it's not a magnetic tape. It's probably some form of radiation tape that has a half life of a couple of thousand years. :)
Oh, if you like this, it continues to be this good and this darkly humorous the whole way through. And so are the games.
Seeing you enjoy this makes me think you'd appreciate The Magicians. That show spans two settings tied to eachother, a Narnia-analog that seems like it's from the same writers as this, and ... the closest I can come up with is "Dan Harmon's Hogwarts Toronto" (I'm open to a better descriptor). If any Patrons agree, I'd love to see you give it a bump in polls for future shows.
Foreshadowing in reverse... Hindshadowing??
😂😂😂 I'm pretty sure it's just a metaphor, but my brain didn't seem to want to come up with that in the moment. I think "hindshadowing" sounds way cooler anyway!
@movienightwithjacqui I totally get what you meant though! There's probably a fancy term for it... But hindshadowing works, right? 😁
I remember this was the episode i have realised Norm, and the Vault 33 is a full storyline. So the show went from 11/10 to 12/10 for me.
"Being all Targaryan" - lol
"still have all your fingers. Must be nice."
The cousin was down bad 😂 I'm glad he linked up with the other girl
This definitely felt like a level-up for Lucy.
The first time in a long time that the media industry has done something that is actually good! I have to say that there is very much a Lara Croft energy to Lucy but that's likely only because of the combination of physical 'robustness' and intelligence with eloquence.
Damn, I'm early today! 😊
Welcome to the party!
"fucked up and funny" ...... have you seen the movie "repo men" (2010). I think you'll like that one.
It's hard to beat the music in a Fallout game. It really sets the tone. One of the best things they've done in this series.
Also, I don't know if you have an interest in animated stuff. But might I suggest The Legend of Vox Machina?
He can't take the box. You can never pick up a container in the games. You have to put stuff in your bag and there is never enough room.