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Deep Dive into the Opening Scene's Dark Tone
Exploring the Enclave Facility and Dog Eugenics Program
Wilsig's Escape and the Mysterious Blue Substance
Lucy's Wasteland Wanderings and Environmental Storytelling
The Brotherhood's Search and a Mutant Bear Encounter
Maximus's Moral Dilemma and the Power Armor
Lucy's Encounter with Diaper Boy
The Unlikely Hero: Maximus Steps Up
Chicken-Curious: The Snake Oil Salesman
The Town of Filly
A Tense Showdown: The Ghoul's Rampage
Harrowing Decision: The Journey's Grim Reality
Reflecting on the Journey: Episode Wrap-Up
It appears to be an enclave Training facility doing all kinds of research, but specifically this program is raising dogs and they have a minimum weight to be viable. And the ones who aren't are incinerated.
It starts hard, but it then immediately recovers for me with the way that Wilzig treats CX 404, which is what the dog gets named. She is possibly a little bit underweight and he kind of puts it right on the line. He rescues and raises her and you get a really great montage there
We don't know what he's supposed to be doing specifically. There are so many unknown factors, all we know is there's some kind of dog breeding program and he took one of them to save them from being, destroyed or possibly abused.
He is doing what we saw in the trailers for the show, njecting himself with something. Some kind of blue substance, but there's no explanation at this time.
So we cut from Wilzig and back to our Vault Dweller protagonist, Lucy, wandering in the wasteland. When we last saw her, she had just left and was hit with the vastness of the wasteland. Now she has to actually deal with it and she's still in wide eyed wonder, you know because, nothing has happened yet. Everything is still amazing and wonderful.
One of my favorite shots that I've seen was during this scene when she was wandering, and came across the upside down oil freighter. This giant ship that's upside down, it's hull rusted out and everything, I just think that's a really awesome set piece and really pops against the sand
If you're on the lam, you're just don't ever light a fire.
I thought the radroaches look really cool and I love the way that Wilzig just passionately explains how the radroach evolved. He does it so creepily too, just the way he describes it. "And that's so that they can take down larger prey."
He lets her know that she doesn't belong out here, that she should go back to Vault 33, warning her away from the wasteland.
Maximus, you get the sense of where they're flying over the wasteland and what the Veritibirds are like
Titus says, "I want to kill something I'm bored. Land, I want to shoot something."
So everything we've seen has subverted our expectations. The knight is not a knight in shining armor. He immediately, when the Yao Guai is dead, instead of saying thank you or help me, he just pulls off his helmet, "The wasteland sucks. You know what they do to squires like you that don't do their job. They string you up by your lungs and they hang you"
He can take it because he's a good person--but is he? I did find him very quick to murder. I mean, murder by absence of assistance.
If you stay, this could all be yours!
Yeah, you know the ghoul means business 'cause he gets up, he blows Wilzig's foot off, starts shooting a few people and then Ma June intervenes, pulls out a gun, and calls out a reward for help.
He takes a few bullets to the shoulder and you start to realize that ghouls here, they can take more damage before they're put down than you would expect.
I think the gun is a legendary weapon. I think what we're looking at here is he has a legendary weapon with the explosive perk.
He jumps down, does the jet arms, and lands in a bit of a superhero pose.
He chose to ignore the obvious opportunity that he had to completely regrow his foot by simply purchasing an elixir from the snake oil salesman.
He just goes flying. Classic Bethesda physics, just flying across town until he's crashes and is still.
He takes CX-404, cause he knows the dog was Wilzig's dog, who's whimpering and not doing great, and he stimpacks him.
Vault Tec Plan D. The most humane product Vault-Tec ever made. Quick, painless, tasted like banana.
And the only way she's going to succeed is if she doesn't have him, to burden her.
The Wasteland will change her and this is where you see the first big step of that, She might not like what she changes into, but she has to adapt. And it starts playing. I don't want to set the world on fire.
The vault scenes were funny before, but this one was just so much black humor.
These power armor suits are so goddamn heavy. Question one, how did he get Titus's dead body out? Question two, how did he stand the power armor up? Question three, how did he, I don't even know. Did he pull the dead body out, get into it? I guess he must've gotten into when it was still on the ground and then stood up when he was already inside the armor.
We only ever see the power armor standing upright, like in the game, we never see power armor laying down, except like when you die and you're ragdolling like ragdoll power armor, but you don't ever actually get in it laying down. It's always standing up.
That classic Fallout thing where everything is so familiar and yet it's just a little different.
One thing that was a bit surprising too was how we get Wilzig's entire story here.
Admittedly, it was a fight, you know what I mean? They didn't really get a chance to interact and have many scenes together fully, but they converged pretty quickly. A lot more to come!