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And so, off they run, dodging a hail of bullets from a sentrys Gatling gun en route.
As postapocalyptic fiction traditionally posits, youre never not under threat.
Shes used to rules, to something approximating law and democracy.
She is not used to hulking radroaches that prey upon human-size meals.
On the other hand, he clearly loves dogs.
And what threatening bad guy ever loved dogs?
(Dont answer that.)
All in all, eh.
Vault dwellers are an endangered species here, he warns Lucy.
If it werent already clear, Ella Purnell is great in the part.
Optimism beams from her eyes.
Titus just chucks his codpiece at him and tells him to clean it.
(I like that theyve gone with the jockish egotism of the Brotherhood inFallout 4.
I also want Titus to die.)
(Titus haters, were eating good!)
This is the sort of scene thatFalloutfans have surely been waiting for.
At least, thats what he tells Titus and himself.
Theres an ambitious dark streak running through Maximus.
Not if I bring back the target.
Ice cold, baby.
Maybe we have a dark horse on our hands.
Not to be confused with Philly she is very much still in or around postapocalyptic Los Angeles.
(It also made me think of the town Tina Turner lords over inMad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.)
The town is built out of an old landfill site in the middle of a forest.
This is the closest thing the wasteland has, we can probably assume, to an economic hub.
Thats until Lucy says the name Moldaver, and Ma goes deathly serious.
As if it werent already clear, Moldaver isnt to be fucked with.
Everyone knows who Moldaver is, she says.
She gets contempt back.
One should imagine that the lions share of Fillys denizens are orphans.
You know what folks up here say about the vaults?
Then our characters converge for the episodes prolonged, action-packed climax.
Then … the Ghoul!
The shoot-out is tremendous, with buckets of gore, and it stays true toFallouts gallows humor.
(Whyshouldthe Ghoul waste his cherry tomatoes on a guy with a bullet hole in his neck?)
(As expected, Walton Goggins is killing these line reads.)
Lucy wanted to head that way anywho, right?
And, as Ma argues, Lucy needs Wilzig-shaped leverage to get anywhere close to a conversation with Moldaver.
Its a pretty easy choice.
Such will be our journey for the rest of the series.
Well, not for Wilzig.
With many miles still to go, they stop at the ruins of a crashed Soviet satellite.
No, you see, Ive just taken a cyanide pill, Wilzig says.
Vault-Tec Plan D. It was the most humane product that Vault-Tec ever made.
It was quick, painless.
It tasted like banana.
I was surprised it wasnt more popular.
But Wilzig still wants her to take him to Moldaver, even in death.
If she does so, he says, she can change the future.
But how can she carry his corpse across the wastes?
Thats where the handheld chainsaw (inFalloutterms, a ripper) comes in, folks!
Just before he dies, a pretty mega reveal: Wilzig knows Lucys full name.
Good timing to pull that one out.
Hope the baby-size skeleton liked the taste of banana.
Like many otherFalloutfans, I did not have a lot of love forFallout 4s awkward, bulky weapon design.
That is best embodied by the games assault rifle, which was nothing less than a steampunk monstrosity.
pistol fromFallout 1, which is a nice callback.
Ghoulgins bullets look like mini-mini-nukes, hence why his shots literally blow peoples limbs off.
The Ghoul stabs the dog.
And then saves the dog.
Im starting to think he has a soft spot for canines.
I really hope we spend more time with Ma June and Barv.
Maybe a spinoff:Barv and Ma Go to Vista…
