We continue with the suffering. To be fair, this episode wasn’t as painful. However, it’s still not good. One reason is that they constantly mess up the tone. One example is when the water monster attacks the BoS guy and his squire. When the creature is about to take a chunk out of the metal-clad protagonist, the show slows down, the music becomes sinister – oh no, is our hero about to face mortal danger! NOPE. You can’t have any tense scenes, it’s not allowed, you see. One moment later the brooding music is replaced with Glenn Miller and the whole scene plays out as a comedy. All tension gone. Why must it be like this?
Odd vault design
I must correct myself in my last post about the show. The raiders didn’t come from the surface directly to infiltrate the vault. They came from a connected vault that let them in from the wasteland. It doesn’t change too much, as this makes this particular vault even stranger. Is this part of an experiment? To isolate three different groups with below genetic viability or something? I have never liked this introduction to the franchise overall if this is the case. That every vault is some kind of freaky experiment. It becomes very predictable after a while. It’s also silly. What horrors will this vault contain?
Other than that there isn’t much going on. The annoying low-intelligence rolling BoS guy is following lady vault dweller and the ghoul, but I don’t get the purpose of the ghoul currently. He takes lady vault dweller prisoner and walks through the desert, acting like an asshole 100% of the time. I thought he wanted the same thing as the women, but apparently not since he left the head with the plot device behind.
A knight’s tale
The BoS guy. He might have rolled low on intelligence, but he sure as hell maximized luck. He wins/survives every fight and other hardships, yet, it’s never through skill. It’s only luck. Like when he attacked all those raiders about to steal his power armor. For some reason, they drag him to the armor to kill him, which by some magic lets him activate it to help him out in the fight. Still not sure how or what happened though.
I can’t remember if anything else of interest happened. Some background lore for the ghoul was presented. Showing him being married to a black woman (what else?), and apparently, he was the original vault boy. Not sure how this will play out, because the vault boy has always been a cartoon. I should mention that beyond the tension-destroying stuff, the Marvel style of writing maintains its grip on the show. The only time the show lets up a little is when lady vault dweller and the ghoul have any form of dialogue since these two characters have some strain between them. Oh and yeah, the dog, which the ghoul saved, now bonded to him (zero loyalty dog by the way), has been abandoned by him. I don’t get the idea of wasting a stimpack on the dog, giving the ghoul some compassion but one episode later walking back on it.
Oh well, on to the next episodes. No idea where this show will take me, but it sure as hell doesn’t feel like Fallout.
Thanks for reading.
/Thomas
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