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Ella Purnell as Lucy MacLean - Every Single 'Okey-Dokey!' Fallout (2024)

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Ah, I forgot that Lucy watched Cooper's movies with her dad!

So that means when hey first met, she was basically doing a terrified emulation of The Sheriff. Wow, no wonder that bizarre Vaultie spectacle made an impression on Cooper.

And of course, he sees this weird Vaultie is armed with a tranq gun. This isn't a Vaultie thing ... their armory had all sorts of weapons, including submachine guns that Lucy trained on. Lucy was specifically inspired by The Sheriff, who would take in villains alive rather than kill them in cold blood.

So, the shop lady is thinking like, wow Vaulties really are all nuts.

But Cooper's thinking like, this flavor of nuts is ... interesting ...

Huh. Crazy.

there’s something so brilliant in cooper howard’s costume design - it’s so much more than just a simple blue and gold cowboy fit.

at the beginning of the show, before the bombs dropped, cooper howard was a good person - always kind to others despite the circumstances or how he was feeling in the moment.

you could say… he was exemplifying the golden rule.

this is evident in his costuming - cooper is decked out in gold even when the bombs dropped. the golden rule is still so close to his heart - i mean come on - look at how tight that bandana is around his neck.

even in certain lighting, his hat looks gold.

cooper howard being a good person and living by the golden rule is what barb probably fell in love with (she has her own interesting character analysis and thought process which i would love to discuss later). because this trait is so admired by her and those around cooper, she probably saw him as who she would hope future generations would become as they grow up in the vaults. people like him are the better future she envisions - so it’s no coincidence that the vault suit is in his colors.

what does the blue symbolize?

well, to me, i think it’s the corporate presence in the world. there’s more blue in the suit than there is gold - hinting at vaultech’s corporate greed, capitalism, and evil machinations. (there was also blue in his old cowboy costume - i.e. the presence of the studio and how they use cooper to push a mccarthyism narrative. kinda in the same way vaultech will use him)

the blue in the suit - symbolizing vaultech’s overwhelming presence and the reason for such a bleak and cruel world - does not swallow up the gold - the small semblance of humanity’s capacity to do and be good. it’s the small hint at barb’s intentions (analogous to the road to hell being paved with good intentions).

yet the man who was an inspiration for vaultech’s workers - the man who they all wished they could be like, the man who symbolized all the “do good” ideas they pass down to their children but in the end have no intention of following them (wink wink, looking at you, hank) - was in the end stripped of all his humanity by the world vaultech created (wow, would you look at that? another analogy for capitalism!)

this man, once rich in morals now robbed of them all, wanders the wasteland a ghoul. everything has been taken from him - symbolized being devoid of layers of skin.

now, he’s nothing but the ghost of the man he once was - haunted by what has been done. everything he wears as the ghoul is frayed, tattered, and dark - symbolizing that cooper howard, that kind and caring man before the bombs is dead.

but wait - is that…

you don’t see it? Ok, i’ll zoom in some more

GOLD? (perhaps even the same shirt he was wearing during the bomb drop??)

perhaps the golden rule, those values that he once held so dearly, are still there just dormant - waiting to be awaken again.

maybe cooper howard can come back… that just maybe there’s still hope for the good in humanity…

#fallout tv spoilers #fallout tv series

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I love the gif because there’s an incredible number of mistakes crammed into just a couple of seconds. 

1. how the hole starts in the wall but it keeps moving forward

2. then magically heals itself

3. the triceratops walks right through the wall

4. the table blinking before the dinosaurs appear

5. both tables disappear

6. so suddenly appear again as they are toppling over

7. two people clipping into running without any transition 

8. the table outline hides a man’s legs but there is no table

9. the triceratops horns aren’t white in the second clip

10. tables changing both color and material in the second clip

11. a carnivorous dinosaur’s first instinct is to go and eat a whole plate with salad

#this is the stuff

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I'm gonna make this theory even smoother ...

The smelly doctor. His elixir ... actually works and turns you into a ghoul that doesn't deteriorate ... or takes a really long time to deteriorate. He's as old as Cooper, but in the confusion of the bombs he escaped to go on the run. And luckily no one noticed he was missing, so he's just been eeking out a living randomly wandering this whole time.

It's like ... the opposite of Wilzig's story - where Wilzig escaped and EVERYBODY was after him right away. The smelly doctor escaped but it was during a full on thermonuclear war so he got away in the confusion.

His elixir is what extended the lives of Moldaver and Barb.

Oh wait. Except Moldaver succumbed to a wound which should have just mended itself.

Okay, whatever.

Oh my god you know I've literally only just realised that the "management" vault Barb was talking about was vault 31 and the cryo pods. Cooper literally could've been frozen if he went along with Barb's plans. We wouldn't have got hot radioactive homeless cowboy :(

Edit : OH MY GOD THAT'S WHY HE DIDN'T GO IN THE VAULT, I'M A SMOOTH BRAIN

#fallout tv spoilers #fallout tv series

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Animation drawings for Sleeping Beauty by Marc Davis

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Fallout's canon love triangle

I feel like people are sleeping on the canon love triangle in Fallout - Dane x Maximus x Lucy.

I mean, obviously the show revolves around Lucy x Maximus, and it's adorable. But there's also this more messed up relationship with Dane and Maximus.

First off, Dane's obviously got it real bad for Maximus, but they haven't told him ... it's ambiguous how much Maximus realizes or not. Dane injured themselves to not leave Maximus, but was then disappointed when Maximus got their slot ... just goes to show, when you do crazy stuff because you're in love, in this show, it'll probably be about the stupidest thing to do at the time.

Later, though, Dane lies to Maximus, claiming that they did it because they were afraid of going out on the mission. Obviously, this lie was only necessary because Dane hasn't confessed feelings to Maximus yet.

So here's the thing. When Maximus first found out that Dane got picked but he hadn't, Maximus had a VERY jealous reaction. We're led to think that he felt this because he wanted to get picked himself. But in retrospect, it's not so clear-cut. Does he also have feelings for Dane, and he was upset because Dane was leaving him alone (with his tormentors)? Dane seems to be his only good friend at camp, so he could think his feelings were just about non-romantic friendship and feelings of abandonment, even if it unconsciously was something more.

Later on, Dane figures out that Maximus came back with the wrong head because Maximus was in love. Of course. What else could motivate him to do something so wrecklessly suicidal? I mean damnit Maximus literally lost his head.

But Dane asks, it was because of a girl, right?

What Dane was really asking was ... "Was it for me?"

Maximus obliviously answers with what Dane feared.

Naturally Maximus has no clue, so he offers Dane that they run off and live in this great vault ... with his girl. Yeah, Maximus is real clueless so he doesn't think how Dane might not be so enthused about that.

So yeah, Dane's NOT enthused about that idea. Later, given the chance to elevate Maximus's status in The Brotherhood ... yeah, Dane jumps at that chance, giving Maximus a reason to stay. Hey, being in love makes you do crazy things.

My point is ... why are we not talking about this stuff more? It's not just sappy romantic love triangle stuff, it's an integral part of Maximus's character growth journey. He's never really had a chance to figure out who he is, but now he's figuring it out. And it's messy and makes for an interesting story, I feel.

#fallout tv spoilers #fallout tv series #whatever #dane x maximus #lucy x maximus

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Here's my smooth brain theory ... Maybe Barb is asleep in Vault 31, and Cooper knows this already. But he's not after her. And he's not even really after his daughter. That's just what he wants Vault-Tech to think.

He's really after the head - Barb's boss. The one who's really at the steering wheel.

I mean ... that's what he tells Lucy after Hank leaves.

Cooper's got reason to deceive Hank about his true goal. But Lucy? I think Cooper has calculated that Lucy gets it. I mean, he saw Lucy pull her gun on her own father, so she's already got the right idea. She just needs to know that Hank's not the root cause.

(But seriously no - I think it's more likely that Barb's somewhere else. Vault 31 is "Bud's buds", which IIRC were described as interns in his management program or something ... low level folks, not anywhere near Barb's level.)

Oh my god you know I've literally only just realised that the "management" vault Barb was talking about was vault 31 and the cryo pods. Cooper literally could've been frozen if he went along with Barb's plans. We wouldn't have got hot radioactive homeless cowboy :(

Edit : OH MY GOD THAT'S WHY HE DIDN'T GO IN THE VAULT, I'M A SMOOTH BRAIN

#fallout tv spoilers #fallout tv series #thoughts

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I'm not sure, but I feel like the scene where The Ghoul is eating when that dad and son return to their shack is a lot like the scene where Angel Eyes sits down and eats breakfast with that guy.

man i wish someone could make gifs comparing fallout with the good the bad and the ugly…

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I think Lucy and Maximus met as kids

So here's my thinking:

Lucy kinda fell for "Knight Titus" a bit when she didn't know what he looked like, or heard his real voice, or his real name. Point is ... she definitely didn't recognize him from fuzzy memories of him as a kid.

Conversely, you can pinpoint the moment Maximus fell hard for Lucy when she starts geeking out over the details of the knight armor. It's the sort of detailed technical knowledge that definitely neither of them had when they were little kids.

So, from a story telling perspective, why did the writers go out of their way to show us that their attraction had nothing to do with what they might have unconsciously recognized from childhood memory?

I dunno ... I just feel like it makes story writing sense that this sets up a later reveal that they met each other before.

#fallout tv spoilers #fallout tv series #thoughts #vaultknight #lucy x maximus

[isaackuo]

I think Cooper is hiding his true nature, and he's been doing it for decades if not centuries.

He wants people to think he's just a loner mercenary after the money. He wants Vault-Tech to think he's just a dad after his family.

But what he's really after is justice. He wants to shoot the head of Vault-Tech. The real villain. The world will never be safe until someone shoots Vault-Tech in the head.

After Hank ran away, he doesn't mention his family to Lucy at all. You'd expect maybe for him to say something about them ... something for Lucy to relate to him with. Some sort of common ground. Shared emotional experience.

But no. he's been there done that. And he sees Lucy gets all that already. He's two steps ahead of Lucy already, and explains that no matter how bad Hank is, there's someone worse pulling his strings. And if you don't go for the head, it'll never be over.

Lucy doesn't answer Cooper with words.

there’s something so brilliant in cooper howard’s costume design - it’s so much more than just a simple blue and gold cowboy fit.

at the beginning of the show, before the bombs dropped, cooper howard was a good person - always kind to others despite the circumstances or how he was feeling in the moment.

you could say… he was exemplifying the golden rule.

this is evident in his costuming - cooper is decked out in gold even when the bombs dropped. the golden rule is still so close to his heart - i mean come on - look at how tight that bandana is around his neck.

even in certain lighting, his hat looks gold.

cooper howard being a good person and living by the golden rule is what barb probably fell in love with (she has her own interesting character analysis and thought process which i would love to discuss later). because this trait is so admired by her and those around cooper, she probably saw him as who she would hope future generations would become as they grow up in the vaults. people like him are the better future she envisions - so it’s no coincidence that the vault suit is in his colors.

what does the blue symbolize?

well, to me, i think it’s the corporate presence in the world. there’s more blue in the suit than there is gold - hinting at vaultech’s corporate greed, capitalism, and evil machinations. (there was also blue in his old cowboy costume - i.e. the presence of the studio and how they use cooper to push a mccarthyism narrative. kinda in the same way vaultech will use him)

the blue in the suit - symbolizing vaultech’s overwhelming presence and the reason for such a bleak and cruel world - does not swallow up the gold - the small semblance of humanity’s capacity to do and be good. it’s the small hint at barb’s intentions (analogous to the road to hell being paved with good intentions).

yet the man who was an inspiration for vaultech’s workers - the man who they all wished they could be like, the man who symbolized all the “do good” ideas they pass down to their children but in the end have no intention of following them (wink wink, looking at you, hank) - was in the end stripped of all his humanity by the world vaultech created (wow, would you look at that? another analogy for capitalism!)

this man, once rich in morals now robbed of them all, wanders the wasteland a ghoul. everything has been taken from him - symbolized being devoid of layers of skin.

now, he’s nothing but the ghost of the man he once was - haunted by what has been done. everything he wears as the ghoul is frayed, tattered, and dark - symbolizing that cooper howard, that kind and caring man before the bombs is dead.

but wait - is that…

you don’t see it? Ok, i’ll zoom in some more

GOLD? (perhaps even the same shirt he was wearing during the bomb drop??)

perhaps the golden rule, those values that he once held so dearly, are still there just dormant - waiting to be awaken again.

maybe cooper howard can come back… that just maybe there’s still hope for the good in humanity…

#fallout tv spoilers #fallout tv series #thoughts

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“But…you must promise to stay here forever.”

[isaackuo]

I agree with this analysis, or ... I did but ... I'm not 100% sure.

See, I feel like maybe there was a good long time when Cooper was just trying to find his family, but maybe when Shady Sands got nuked...

Well, he's smart, and he knows who nuked the world the first time. He probably figured out real quick that they did again to Shady Sands. And that means they're going to keep on doing it.

So my suspicious is that Shady Sands gave him a new purpose in life. He's seen revolutionary factions try and fail and fall ... time and time and time again. Because they never went for the root cause. They never went for the head.

But Cooper knows the head, he just needs to wait for an opportunity. In the meantime, he's an actor. He knows how to pretend to be something he's not. And he needs to pretend to just be some ruthless mercenary. And if the "smart" people think he's searching for his family, let them still think that.

That's sure the impression he gave to Hank, but as soon as Hank went away ...

Cooper didn't even mention his family to Lucy. He went on about how someone's actually pulling all the strings. And Hank's going to lead him to them. Is this just a step toward finding his family? Or is Cooper letting Lucy in on his true objective, because he needs help on this one, and he's calculated that Lucy is both trustworthy and capable.

I think Cooper wants to shoot Vault-Tech in the head. Because as long as Vault-Tech is making the decisions, all the revolutionaries up here haven't got a chance.

But in order for him to get close enough to the target, he's got to pretend. Pretend to just be another mercenary out for himself. Or just another father looking out for his family. Anything but what he really is, and what he's really after.

Because if Vault-Tech had any inkling what he's really after, they'd find out where he is and nuke the entire city around him just to take him off the board.

Maybe I'm totally wrong about this. Maybe I'm just seeing things, reading too much into stuff like how Lucy answered by shooting her undead mother in the head, or back when Cooper shot the Vaultie sign in the head.

But if I'm reading this right, I think Cooper isn't broken. He's just finally found his purpose. Early on, in the before times, he believed in rules like how the good guy sheriff isn't supposed to shoot a villain in cold blood. But don't mistake those rules for some sort of moral core - he was a real soldier in harsh combat where a lot of his friends died at his side. He wasn't playing by those rules in Alaska, that's for sure.

But evidently he thought nuking the world for profit was evil back then, and he still does I'll bet. Maybe he figured it out before the nukes. Maybe he figured it out decades later. Maybe he didn't figure it out until Shady Sands.

But I feel like, right now, he's got a purpose. And he's recruited Lucy to his cause. She just got there on the express train.

So maybe ... he's not broken. Maybe he's fixed. It just took him some time.

Of the main three, Maximus was taken by a militant cult as a child after his home was destroyed, and Lucy was born into a mad scientist corporation-based pseudo-cult - but Cooper, an original American, is the one who’s the most broken. It’s not only because he’s lived the longest and therefore been through the most shit. He believed the most in the most pervasive and powerful culture, and it was the deepest betrayal.  

Max and other Brotherhood members, even Thaddeus, are entirely aware of how they're abused and trapped. Lucy follows the values she was taught and genuinely believes in kindness, but she quickly accepts the truth about Vault-Tec and her father. In Cooper’s flashbacks, he’s by far the most resistant to challenges to his beliefs and personal security. He scoffs at his best friend’s criticism and walks out of a meeting where he agrees with the sentiment not so deep down. He throws around the word ‘commie’ because his society actually has a label for dissidents. He's hesitant to spy on Barb not just because he respects her but because he's scared of the truth. As the truth gains on him, his reaction is consistently denial - and it's ambiguous to what extent that's his own personality and to what extent it's cultural conditioning. Unlike other parents, he was honest with his daughter about the war, but he still wanted to believe a nuke was ‘just a fire’. 

In FO analyses there��s a common assumption that the Pre-War world was ‘still better’ and the post-apocalypse is regression. Actually, it’s not that simple. The current cultures are a continuation, not a reset. The wasteland’s brutality makes it possible for people like Max and Lucy to recognize the awful reality behind people claiming to protect them. They don’t cling to lies; at this point, they probably wouldn't choose to give their whole lives for a lie. Pre-War, Cooper fought and worked for outright evil people, but he couldn’t tell at first because his life was pretty good. The depth of indoctrination corresponds to how normal life seems - from the Brotherhood's open contempt for itself to Vault 33's cheery obsession with Reclamation Day to the last days of the upper class in Pre-War America.

And it's so interesting how they relate to each other?? Max tries to do things Lucy’s way, even after it doesn’t work, and he starts agreeing that it’s better to be compassionate than to demand and take. Lucy understands that morality is complex after two weeks in the wasteland, easily forgiving Max for lying, then believing Moldaver's story. Meanwhile the Ghoul tried to show Lucy that the world is terrible and she'll end up like him - not because Cooper was an asshole at heart, but because that complete loss of idealism happened to him, and even though he was once nice and honorable, his original worldview already emphasized Being Right or Proving a Point. 

#fallout tv spoilers #thoughts

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I wouldn't worry about the similarities. A popular IP just makes those things more popular, and people would be interested in seeing different takes.

i hate fallout actually bc all the cool things i would want to incorporate into an original apocalypse/post-apocalypse piece of media have already been done by fallout.

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Okay, I'm definitely too slow for this show, because I just realized ...

Cooper isn't just going after his family. I think that's what he wants Hank to think.

After Hank leaves, he doesn't mention his family at all to Lucy. He just talks about how someone's always pulling the strings, and he let Hank go so Hank'll lead him to them.

Because I'm slow, I thought it just went without saying that this is a step toward him finding his family. After all that's what motivated Lucy, and family motivates so many in the show.

But the way Cooper pitched things to Lucy ... I think he was telling the truth. I think he was explaining to her what he was really after. The head of Vault-Tech.

And how does Lucy answer Cooper? By shooting her undead mother in the head.

Lucy's true existential crisis moment?

I just started watching Fallout, but will finish soon so correct me if I'm wrong ...

Okay, so when Maximus tells Lucy that he was a kid when the bombs dropped ...

Her reaction was like, "Wow, you were so gullible" ... right?

Did I catch that right?

Because, I feel like Lucy's big existential crisis moment isn't actually when she finds out that humans already rebuilt after they dropped the bombs.

I feel like Lucy's big existential crisis moment comes later, when she realizes the true horror of the surface.

I mean ... she spent her whole life imagining the triumphant return of civilization - the proof that humanity could come back from when they dropped the bombs.

But I'm sure that in all those years, she never once imagined they would drop the bombs again.

When she realizes that horrible truth ... that humanity won't come back better. That it'll all be the same. That humanity is so incapable of learning any lesson, that they can't even learn the lesson to not do THAT again.

She has no words. She can't even say what she's thinking and feeling. All she can do is indirectly say it, by questioning how the surface people can even go on. What could possibly be the point, if there's no hope of ever getting better? If humanity can't even learn this one stupendously obvious no-brainer, what kind of future is there to struggle for?

Did I get that right? Or am I overthinking it? Or am I missing something? Am I way off base?

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More random Fallout thoughts

I just love how Maximus is clearly enamored with the idea of being a hero, but he has almost no idea how to actually do it. Certainly his "training" didn't include anything about how to be actually heroic.

Of course, after meeting Lucy he starts to learn. Not directly from Lucy's example, but because he's fallen in love. And Dane figures it out right away, because they know what crazy things being in love will make you do. (You think Dane was telling the truth about why they injured themselves?)

Okay, I AM going to compare to Finnrey. Finn didn't even have any ideas of becoming a hero, he just wanted to get away. Everything he did in TFA and the first part of TLJ was motivated by his need to help Rey be safe.

Anyway, the High Cleric seems oblivious to all this. He is impressed by Dane's act as a display of "loyalty", but he doesn't even comprehend where that loyalty stems from. He's aware that The Brotherhood has lost its way, but clearly has no idea how to find it again.

So, when he sees that Maximus is able to unusually inspire loyalty, he doesn't have a mental framework to try to understand why ... he just sees it as a potential asset to take advantage of. Uh yeah, we'll see how well that plays out for him.

= = = = = = =

"Feo, fuerte y formal."

One other thought - I love how Cooper quotes this movie line, which he knows Hank will recognize. It's the line which shows his sheriff "good guy" character turning dark, and killing a villain in cold blood.

But this isn't supposed to be symbolic or anything ... it's just Cooper doing what he needs to do, in order to best scare the shit out of Hank. He wants Hank so scared that he'll run to safety, leading him to what he's really after.

But hold on. Cooper is clearly smart enough and willing enough to use deception when he needs to. He's patient when he needs to be. Is he actually after his family? That's the impression he gave Hank.

But that's not what he tells Lucy after Hank has left. I think he tells Lucy the real truth - he's not after his family. He's after the one pulling the strings. He's seen centuries of different factions trying and failing to save the world. And so he thinks - they're just going to keep failing because they aren't going after the head.

To Cooper, Vault-Tech is an insatiable feral ghoul that needs a shot in the head.

That's the irony, isn't it? He hasn't lost his ideals. He hasn't lost hope. He's got a singular clear purpose. And he'll do anything to achieve it. Because he knows that's what it'll take.

"Oh, I’m you, sweetie. You just give it a little time."

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[isaackuo]

Wow, okay I finished watching Fallout, and they really did go out of their way to pin it all on Capitalism in general and the mindset of Vault-Tech and its conspirators more specifically.

Even so, I think the overall point still stands, because at the time Lucy had no idea - and also, learning the truth doesn't fundamentally change things. The problem is that Vault-Tech and friends are part of humanity - the part that is making the relevant decisions. But humanity as a whole either figures out how to make them NOT be the ones making those decisions, or the result is the same.

Evidently there have been factions resisting this status quo the whole time, but they haven't been able to dislodge the power structure.

So what keeps you going in a world like that? One where you've seen the attempts to change for the better, only to see it fail and fail and fail again?

Cooper might have, for a brief time, believed the "commies" were right - but he'd live to see centuries of all sorts of "commies" and what not try their own things and failing.

So, he clings to the only thing left he can believe in - his family.

Which, of course, left Lucy more than a little bit stunned about what to motivate herself with at the end of the last episode.

But yeah ... I didn't see those little twists coming. I had some inkling, but not ... wow. Well played, writers.

Just look at what I wrote above. "Wow, you were so gullible", right? Except ... no one lied to Maximus about the bombs when he was young. He was there. It's Lucy who was lied to. She's the one who was so gullible she was convinced she only imagined the warmth of the Sun. Ouch.

Lucy's true existential crisis moment?

I just started watching Fallout, but will finish soon so correct me if I'm wrong ...

Okay, so when Maximus tells Lucy that he was a kid when the bombs dropped ...

Her reaction was like, "Wow, you were so gullible" ... right?

Did I catch that right?

Because, I feel like Lucy's big existential crisis moment isn't actually when she finds out that humans already rebuilt after they dropped the bombs.

I feel like Lucy's big existential crisis moment comes later, when she realizes the true horror of the surface.

I mean ... she spent her whole life imagining the triumphant return of civilization - the proof that humanity could come back from when they dropped the bombs.

But I'm sure that in all those years, she never once imagined they would drop the bombs again.

When she realizes that horrible truth ... that humanity won't come back better. That it'll all be the same. That humanity is so incapable of learning any lesson, that they can't even learn the lesson to not do THAT again.

She has no words. She can't even say what she's thinking and feeling. All she can do is indirectly say it, by questioning how the surface people can even go on. What could possibly be the point, if there's no hope of ever getting better? If humanity can't even learn this one stupendously obvious no-brainer, what kind of future is there to struggle for?

Did I get that right? Or am I overthinking it? Or am I missing something? Am I way off base?

#fallout tv spoilers #thoughts

[isaackuo]

Lucy's true existential crisis moment?

I just started watching Fallout, but will finish soon so correct me if I'm wrong ...

Okay, so when Maximus tells Lucy that he was a kid when the bombs dropped ...

Her reaction was like, "Wow, you were so gullible" ... right?

Did I catch that right?

Because, I feel like Lucy's big existential crisis moment isn't actually when she finds out that humans already rebuilt after they dropped the bombs.

I feel like Lucy's big existential crisis moment comes later, when she realizes the true horror of the surface.

I mean ... she spent her whole life imagining the triumphant return of civilization - the proof that humanity could come back from when they dropped the bombs.

But I'm sure that in all those years, she never once imagined they would drop the bombs again.

When she realizes that horrible truth ... that humanity won't come back better. That it'll all be the same. That humanity is so incapable of learning any lesson, that they can't even learn the lesson to not do THAT again.

She has no words. She can't even say what she's thinking and feeling. All she can do is indirectly say it, by questioning how the surface people can even go on. What could possibly be the point, if there's no hope of ever getting better? If humanity can't even learn this one stupendously obvious no-brainer, what kind of future is there to struggle for?

Did I get that right? Or am I overthinking it? Or am I missing something? Am I way off base?

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