From the beginning, fall out It established Cooper Howard as a central part of not only the show, but the story. fall out His scenes are very much a back and forth between his pre-war days as an actor and activist and his current life as a bitter old ghoul. “The Wrangler” provides some of its biggest and most important moments to date, as well as one of the best episodes of Fallout yet, with Cooper navigating pre-war and post-war Vegas. He’s quickly becoming this series’ version of Forrest Gump, and I say that only as a compliment.
it’s great tv time fall out At its best.
Aside from the gnome’s journey with the unfrozen denizens of Vault 31 and Lucy’s own journey with the ghouls, this episode is pretty Cooper-centric. fall out There’s a bit of a singular focus that you don’t usually see on this show. It offers a version that is reminiscent of an episode of , and I think it works very well. lost I think it will serve as a blueprint for fall out We are moving forward. So far we’ve avoided expanding the cast much beyond the main trio, so we don’t have to worry as much about finding time for all the characters within each episode, but there’s so much narrative potential in the way this episode tells the story that I hope it does. fall out I hope I can find some way to reproduce this formula in the future.
This is obviously easy given Cooper’s nature as a ghoul, but why not have such a split timeline with the others? We could benefit from the flashbacks we see of Lucy and her father in the Vault in the present, especially seeing Lucy seemingly in Hank’s hands. There are also many possibilities to depict Maximus growing up, rising through the ranks of the Brotherhood in the past, and running away from the Brotherhood in the future.
anything fall out Cooper arrives in Las Vegas on a mission to kill Robert House in the past, while Ghoul drowns his sorrows in Freeside in the present.
Most of the really exciting scenes and revelations occur in the pre-war Las Vegas scenes. It is filled with a variety of characters who act with different goals. Moldaver is there to make sure Cooper kills House. Cooper decides to bring the cold fusion technology that has been delivered to House instead. House hopes to enhance his efforts to become digitally immortal through cold fusion. Hank has cold fusion technology handcuffed to his wrist like a nuclear football, but we don’t know if he works for Vault-Tec or is a double agent for someone else. Barbara Howard is apparently there to make sure the sale to House is successful.
How this is resolved remains to be seen, but it leads to one of the film’s best single scenes. fall out So far, House’s (confirmed) body double guides Cooper until he meets the real version on top of the Lucky 38.
Justin Theroux has been great as House in his limited time so far, but he really shines here as this show erases any doubts about how he will portray the character. This is classic New Vegas Robert House, convinced of his superiority and intelligence and furious that anyone would question it. He’s a big nerd with a goofy hat and a mathematical model that predicts the exact day the world will end. He thinks he knows everything and is in control, but deep down he is afraid of what he doesn’t know.
The most interesting takeaway from this scene is that the birth of Cooper’s daughter had some influence on House’s formula predicting the end of the world, and that there also appears to be some unspecified shadowy influence at work for Cooper, and who he believes is responsible for defusing the bomb, rather than the first season’s “reveal” that Vault-Tec defuses the bomb themselves.
Most people believe this is the Enclave, but I love this part nonetheless. Because in the end it doesn’t matter who shot first, so to speak, it never really mattered fall out. Anyone could start the end of the world, and everyone prepared for it in their own way. Vault-Tec, House, Enclave, China, they all could have fired first and then all reacted.
What matters is how this turns Cooper against Barbara, and how House prepares to protect his beloved city from destruction.
This interaction is a high point for both characters, with Cooper walking away seeing that House is trash and all the plans he had flying out the window, deciding to spend the rest of the night in a Band-Aid before passing out. He drunkenly rides atop a shocking nuclear bomb vehicle and tries not to fall, but so does the world. The final scene before the war suggests that Cooper is about to confess everything to Barbara, which may end their marriage.
Of course, these scenes directly parallel Hank’s ghouls drinking around Freeside before being contacted by a brainwashed and purified snake oil salesman who has kidnapped him and installed a mind control chip. The ghoul is literally sent flying out the window by Lucy’s power fist punch, and is skewered by Paul in the process. In this episode, we may have seen him break something up with both his wife and Lucy, all because he’s trying to do what he thinks is right.
Speaking of snake oil salesmen, or, to put it politely, chicken…enthusiasts, his actions were an interesting glimpse into the mind of a Wasteland resident, as he was instantly delighted to become Hank’s latest test subject. It may be easy to see the humor fall out And we lose sight of how miserable the daily lives of ordinary people are. This guy usually looks happy or at least accepting. He enjoys whistling along the way (fisting!!!), but the moment he is given the chance to forget everything, he does not hesitate. He would probably regret it later if he had the chance, but when it was suggested that he could escape the attacks of mutant creatures by simply walking down the street, he did what he thought was the right thing to do.
Lucy herself spends this episode trying to do what she thinks is right, but instead falls further into the familiar. fall out Vice. Most notably, she goes to buy Addictor to break her buff-out addiction and ends up killing another robber who was there in the first place. She also steals the aforementioned Power Fist as a self-respecting thing. fall out Fans would do that.
It’s clear that Lucy is just as lost as the ghoul, especially when he betrays her right to his face and agrees to return her to Vault 33 in exchange for the lives of her family. Everything that had happened since she found out that her father had nuked Shady Sands had weighed heavily on her shoulders, despite her best efforts to grin and bear it.
I’m worried about her now that she’s in her father’s hands again. This guy has a lab full of mind control chips, but there seem to be few moral or ethical guardrails to stop him from doing what he wants. Between encounters with the Legion, drugs, murder, and now Ghoul’s betrayal, Lucy will be in her darkest mood ever, and I’m anxious to see what she decides.
It’s heartbreaking, as the ghoul clearly hates Lucy for betraying him and has serious suspicions that his family is in Hank’s cryopod, possibly because of a lie. fall out Not actually seeing them is a major red flag that they are present. I don’t know if Hank is aware of this, but call me a skeptic.
Norm, on the other hand, faces his own betrayal, which was much more predictable and less heartbreaking. Maybe I’m just being sarcastic, but I think Claudia acted very unguardedly to get the truth out of Norm, and was probably helping Bud Akins’ shady FEV assistant. These middle management idiots are just that type of guy, trying to score points from a boss that may or may not even exist yet, hoping for promotions, bonuses, and all kinds of other bullish futures for the company.
We also received confirmation that Future Enterprise Ventures is the code for a forced evolution virus. This must have something to do with the Trio Vault experiment.
Both McClain brothers are currently in dire straits. As a result, I expect the next episode to focus on MacLean, but unless we hit pause for a week and return to the Maximus story fall out is gearing up to give us plenty of MacLean family drama, and we’re really looking forward to it. They are on their own right now, with no obvious help in sight.
(Unless I’m completely wrong about Claudia and a detachment of Vault 31ers is on the gnome’s side.)
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