Fallout Season 2 is... (Episodes 1-4 Review)

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>> Will: Foreign.

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>> Sarah : Nerds. This is Scene N Nerd. I'm your host, Sarah

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Belmont, and with me, as always, is our Mr.

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Producer, will Will Polk How are you doing

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tonight. Will.

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>> Will: Doing very well, Sarah. Hope you are having a good

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Monday evening. Did you catch the, Golden Glows

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yesterday evening? No, I didn't either. I didn't

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either, but I didn't see what happened.

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>> Sarah : Yeah, yeah, I mean. I mean, did I watch it? No.

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Did I see all of the interactions with the. The

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guys from, Heated rivalry. Of course. So, I mean,

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that was the most important part.

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>> Will: Yeah.

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>> Sarah : Did anything else happen? Did people win stuff?

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>> Will: Oh, well, I. I will be completely 100%

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transparent. The movies sections this year. I. I

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mean, honestly, other than like Sinners and K Pop

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Demon Hunters, I haven't. I barely didn't watch

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hardly any of the other. I mean, yeah, I don't

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think I watched any of the other major, major

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nominees. But on the TV side, I could definitely,

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you know, definitely saw, where Adolescence won,

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big. I think it won like four. Four, awards last

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night for Best Limited Series. And then I was.

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>> Sarah : Yeah, I was looking at the winners for the TV

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section. It just seemed like a copy and paste from

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what happened with the Emmys. So I was like, okay,

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like. Like a lot of all of the big awards. I mean,

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studio won for Best Comedy. The Pit took home.

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Didn't the Pit take home Best Drama.

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>> Will: Best Actor?

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>> Sarah : Yeah, yeah. So. So none of that. And then all of

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the accolades adolescents got. I mean, of course,

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how could you not? the. The movie stuff. The one

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thing, even though I haven't watched really any of

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these movies besides Sinners, and K Pop Demon

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Hunters, but I don't really count that. I know, I

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know. They won Best Animated and Best Song, which.

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Which Golden's gonna win everything it's nominated

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for. It's just that is the song. but the big thing

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I saw was fact that, Leo did not win for one

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battle after another, Timothy Chalamet did. And.

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And which is increasing the possibility that he

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may finally score his first Oscar. But I mean, as

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far as I can tell with this whole Oscar race

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situation, it is, It's. I don't know, like the SAG

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Awards have, over the years have been, ah, the

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biggest indicator. And the Golden Globes kind of

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fell to the wayside because their categories are

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all sorts of messed up.

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>> Will: Yeah. Yeah.

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>> Sarah : And so, I mean, other than just making sure you

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see the opening monologue from the host, and just

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any funny bits that actually occurred, I like the

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Jason Bateman bit that it happened. Did you. Did

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you catch that one?

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>> Will: No, I did not. I've been like. I've been fully

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immersed in NFL playoff.

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>> Sarah : Yeah. Yeah.

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>> Will: Battles this weekend. So.

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>> Sarah : Yeah. So. So Jason Arnett. I want to say. No,

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Jason Bateman. Will Arnett. And then, forgive me

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if I get his name wrong. Okay. I know his face,

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but I want to say his name is Sean Hayes. they

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come out and the announcer, like, introduces them

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all. And then the announcer makes, like, a side

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comment about, like, not liking Jason Bateman. And

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then it was. It was a good bit. It was a good bit.

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so. And then the heated rivalry bit was really

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good. with the, Just picture everyone, you know,

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even though they've all seen, you know. Yeah, but.

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So. So while you were watching football, while the

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Golden Globes was going on, I. I was watching. I,

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got kind of stuck in my house all weekend. That's

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a story for another day. It's not really even that

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interesting. It just happened. So I was here all

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weekend and I ended up watching his and hers,

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which, came out. Don't. Don't watch it. Well, it's

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so stupid. You know, what's going to happen within

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the first episode, and then they throw in a twist.

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It's not even a twist. It's stupid because in back

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when mine, I was like, yeah, but I'm pretty sure

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this other character had something to do with it,

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too. And it just. It. It's so. Oh, it's such a.

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How do I put it? It's not an After School Special.

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it's almost like a Lifetime movie. And I have no

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idea why, Tessa Thompson and Jonathan Barnthal

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signed up to play in these parts because it wasn't

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a good story. It's quick, so it's really easy to

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binge because it's six episodes. but by the end of

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it, I know, like, something's bad when I can. I

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feel like I'm not on the edge of my seat where I

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have to catch everything. I start to get up and do

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other stuff while something is playing. I just

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hear things or. And then I just start fast

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forwarding, which. The other thing that for the

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last week, week and a half, I've been catching up

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on. And another big disappointment to kick off

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2026 has been Landman. so. And I think I mentioned

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this last week, so I am now fully caught up. I

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just have to watch the last 10 minutes, and I

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already know what happens. because I have the

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tendency when I get bored, I Look ahead. And my

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dad kind of warned me about this because he. My

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mom and dad, they've both been watching Landman

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and are really good, but my dad was like, second

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season, it's, it's not as good as the first

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season. And I was like, really interesting. And I

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started watching it and there's, there's so far

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been, I think, eight episodes or nine episodes.

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And yeah, I've started to skip over certain

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storylines. I don't care about Ansley and I

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honestly don't care about Angela, his wife. I, I

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just. They are the repeating the same things that

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they did in season one. And I would say that about

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every single character on this cast. I don't see

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an arc forming. I see just another. Here's season

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two. More day in the life of this, of this guy,

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his crazy work and his fucked up family. But it's

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like, okay, so, so what's the, what's the, what's

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the goal here? Like, where are we going with this

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character and this family? And it's just. It's so

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much of the same that it's really disappointing. I

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wasn't overly enthusiastic about season one, but I

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did appreciate it a lot more than I thought I

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would. but it's just the second season is way too

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much of the same. So that's, that's my take on

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Landman and his. And hers. I don't really

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recommend them right now.

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>> Will: Yeah, I know. I saw, Yeah, in between all my

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scrolling on Social, I did see a lot of. I saw a

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lot of buzz about his and hers. but, and, but, So

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I knew it dropped, but, I was, I was wondering if

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you, if you, if you caught it. And I was. And, and

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so if you hadn't asked, if you hadn't brought it

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up tonight, I was going to ask if you, if you did,

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did, catch it over the weekend. Which, which you

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did. And sounds like, it sounds like it's a miss

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from. Based off of your recommendation here.

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>> Sarah : Yeah, I'm, I'm sad that I did catch it.

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>> Will: Yeah, I can't get those hours back.

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>> Sarah : I really am disappointed by that. and then on top

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of that, I, watched episode three and episode four

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of Fallout season two, because previously last

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week, I watched the first two episodes. You're all

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caught up, even though you were prioritizing

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football this weekend. But. So, spoiler alert for

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our listeners. We're going to talk about the first

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four episodes. This is going to be a very casual

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conversation, very similar to last week's wrap Up

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a Stranger Things final season, where we're gonna

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just talk about the points that we want to talk

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about. And then next week will be more in the

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format of our episode breakdowns moving forward

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for the rest of the season. so Will, do you have

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an overall thought or a certain character or plot

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point you want to start to kick things off of

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season of Fallout Season 2 discussion? Will.

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>> Will: Will. Sorry, I hit. I had hit mute. but I had a

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sneeze. So quick. overall thought of Fallout

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season two, first four episodes it I. By the

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fourth, third and fourth episodes I got back into

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the show. I felt like the first two were, you

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know, they had the, they had the previously on the

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good little six minute like recap of season one.

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But I honestly it was hard for me to get back into

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the show. and I think, you know, whenever we get

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into deeper discussions I'll, you know, elaborate

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why. But overall. But I, I just think that it was

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just a lot of this, table setting and in those

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first two episodes and then But whenever. But I

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did get into more in the third and fourth

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episodes. And by the fourth episode I was like,

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okay, I remember why I really enjoyed this show.

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But but that's just sort of. That was sort of my a

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ah, quick, quick overview of starting season two.

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>> Sarah : So I'm completely the opposite. I really, for

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whatever reason, it was a very rare instance where

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I watched the previously on. For some reason even

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though I already watched it. and then I was in for

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the first two episodes and by the, by the end of

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the second episode I was sad where I was like, oh,

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I need, I need to put press pause or else I'm

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gonna forget. And then this weekend when I watched

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the third and fourth episodes I was like this is

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just still, still a lot of getting from point A to

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point B. And, And I think that that's one of the

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reasons why even though this is very much a

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popcorn type of show, it could very easily be a

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movie, if you focus maybe on one of the situations

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or characters storylines as opposed to three or

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four different ones. but I, I feel like having so

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many different arcs, it works to the show's

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detriment.

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>> Sarah : And. And I say that because it's because you get

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you. And because apparently Will hates episodes

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one and two. My words, my words. I will just say

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like for example, in the first episode it was very

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focused on, on. On the Ghoul and Lucy and. And

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also the ghouls flashbacks as Cooper, Howard, and,

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and then, and then in the second episode, it was

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all about Maximus predominantly. And, and if you

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really look at the second episode, how, how far

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did Lucy and the ghoul walk? Like, like what did

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they do? What did accomplish? And, and then it

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gets to the point where you, you suddenly reach

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in. Oh yeah, but besides those two or, those three

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storylines, then you have what's going on in the,

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What's going on in the, Oh my God. The vault.

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>> Will: Yeah.

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>> Sarah : Thank you. And. And I will be honest, I have. I do

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not understand what the heck was going on in the

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fourth episode with the whole, trading. I don't, I

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don't understand the politics because I'm, I kind

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of view this story as Lucy's, ah, our protagonist.

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Then we have the ghoul as an anti hero and then we

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have a second protagonist with Maximus. So the

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only person I really care about who's in the

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vaults is now suddenly no longer in the vaults.

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And that's nor norm is now out of the vaults with

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buds. And, and speaking of that, like, it's a lot

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and there are interesting things going on in all

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of these different places, but it's. It feels like

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the writers themselves don't know how to, how to

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proportionately divvy out the story and also make

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all of these connections kind of intertwined.

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Just. I, I think it works to the show's detriment

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overall. And it. It gets a bit frustrating.

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>> Will: Yeah. And see that. To see your critique there is

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what made. Made it hard for me to enjoy the first

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two episodes because I felt like there was no

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overarching through line with all, with all the

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disparate stories going on. So that's why I said

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in my opening comment, it just felt like it was,

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it was setting the table. And, and at least, you

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know, pick up on, on the, you know, because in the

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first episode Maximus wasn't even around. And

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thank God, because otherwise I think the whole

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thing would have collapsed under the weight of

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like navigating all these character stories. that

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happens later. See, I see the table. So even

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though it was frustrating for me at least with

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the, with the table setting, with episodes in

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particular episode four, I got the payoff with the

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whole Brotherhood storyline because, the. And it

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kind of did get, you know, did get kind of lost

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with the whole. With the, with what was going on

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with the Commonwealth and all that. And part of it

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is. So the, it gets into the, I guess the

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geopolitical. The internal political state of

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what's left of the United States. And in this. In

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this dystopian future. So, of course you have.

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>> Sarah : There's so many factions. I mean, yeah, I. I

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don't. I think they actually did a very good job

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with this brotherhood storyline. I mean, Maximus

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was not my favorite character, and I'm not saying

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that he is now, but I was very into his storyline,

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even though it was telegraphed that he was gonna

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kill. I think we all act coming.

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>> Will: Yeah, I cheered with that one because Xander. I

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don't. I don't know if it's how he. Kamal played

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him or what, but it just. It was grading. So in

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the third episode when he, like, he whacked him

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with the super weapon there and crushed his skull,

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and he was about to take out the kids.

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>> Sarah : Right?

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>> Will: yeah, that. That. I was like, yes, thank God that

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happened.

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>> Sarah : Well, I see. I love Kamal. I don't care who he's

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played. I always want to see him on the screen.

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But I just liked the interaction with Thaddeus

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afterwards, and then the whole bit about Thaddeus

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trying to be Xander. And, I just. There was, It's

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such an iconic moment of like, oh, hey, what

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you've been up to? I think I just started a war. I

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think what I did to save you just, you know, my

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whole world is now gone. So. So all of that is

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fascinating, but then when they pivot over back to

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the ghoul and Lucy, maybe they're. Who. Who is

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frustrating me the most right now, especially with

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the last two episodes, I'm just like, so when.

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When are we gonna get away from this whole I'm not

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like you, ghoul. I'm. I'm different. I'm better,

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and people are better. And the golden rule. I. It

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seems so repetitious from their. Their

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interactions during the first season that I really

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need them to press Fast Forward and get to a new

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place in their dynamic in their relationship,

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because we can only continue walking through Vegas

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for so long, and. And I just. And. And a part of

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me starts to want to, like, fast forward through

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their sequences, and I'm like, I've seen this five

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times now, so.

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>> Will: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I. I would agree with you with.

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With that. I mean, they have to. I have to give

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Ella Pernell, like, kudos, though, because even

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though it does get a little repetitious at times,

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with the. The. The I'm not like you, all that kind

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of stuff that you mentioned, I think she. She does

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a good balance of, you Know, still showing Lucy's

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navitae and. And I think she and Walton play. They

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play well off of each other. So even though it

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does seem sometimes repetitive, the, like,

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whenever. Like in the. In, you know, whenever she

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was, captured by Macaulay Culkin and the, The one

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brother, the region, the legion, that, you know,

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whenever, you know, once. Once they. Once she was

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freed and they go to what's left of the New

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California Republic and she gets, gets, given the

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steroid to buff out, to, you know, to help. Help

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get her strength back after being crucified.

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thankfully it didn't go to completion, but the,

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you know, whenever they were like walking there

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and. And. And. And she was like high off of this

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drug and the ghoul, it basically gave her like, is

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there two options to like, you know, come down

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from this? You could take more drugs. And he

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conveniently left out there's the other drug, the

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other option. As far as, you know, he kind of

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played with, you know, the second solution. But

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that whole. That whole sequence and especially

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when it did get in Vegas and then she was taking

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out the Elvis impersonator ghouls and just seeing

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the ghost in our, you know, Walton's ghoul

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reaction, you know, to that. Those sequences, you

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know, that's what for me, when I felt like there

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was good payoff with their. Their interaction and

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stuff. Even though, you know, even though may seem

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repetitive and then also how they like, taught,

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you know, whenever. At the end of the fourth

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episode where they do tie, you know, whenever she

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finds the big egg. And they do tie it back to,

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Cooper's experience in Alaska seeing the big death

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Death hunters or whatever they're called. The big

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howling, big big beast. that to me is like. Okay,

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that's where I really enjoy their interactions and

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stuff in. In these episodes.

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>> Sarah : So. Yeah.

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>> Will: Yeah.

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>> Sarah : Oh, go ahead.

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>> Will: No, no, the other one too is just. Just take it

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back to the beginning of the season as well.

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Whenever, Whenever the ghoul was like, in that. In

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that town and he was like hanging there on the

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gallows and she was up in the tower in the

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dinosaur tower. And you know, they had worked out

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a plan that she was going to take all these people

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out. But, again, Lucy's, vault ethos, you know,

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over. Overrode what their. Their plan was going to

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be. So again, I just. I just. I just really enjoy.

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Enjoy those. Those moments between the two

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characters because again, it just. It's that Push

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pull. as far as, you know, you're out here in this

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wasteland and how much of your, how much of

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yourself are. Are you going to give into this

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wasteland? As far as far as Lucy, so especially

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when they had the, had her doped up on the buff

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out, you know, you know, she did like take out a

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bunch of ghouls, but, showing the signs of

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addiction and so it's like, okay, I'm curious to

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see where this goes as far as the rest of the rest

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of the season.

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>> Sarah : Yeah, I'm not. I just. To me, her being addicted

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to drugs is kind of like, she, it, it appears she

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just had too much coffee. I was like, it was like

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Lucy's already added 10. They cranked her maybe to

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an 11. Yeah. And you kind of already know from

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previous episodes and that she's a good shot. So

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I, I don't know. I, I can appreciate you trying to

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sell it to me, but I think that what they're

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doing, like what you brought up with the, with the

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tie ins between the past and the present, and

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specifically with Cooper Howard, because he's the

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only one who is really in the past and in present.

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And so you're, you're seeing him in the past deal

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with the ethical issues of what is to come and

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create this world in this situation, in this life.

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And then you're seeing him in the present kind of

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200 years later. And now he's introducing, he's.

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He's beholden to this Vault person who, who and

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has to explain this world to them, even though

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they don't listen to them at all. And, and it's

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just trying to get that one answer that he's never

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been able to find in 200 years, which is what

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happened to his family. So all of, all of that, I

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think is, is good and interesting, especially

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because now they've leaned into, and they started

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this off in the first episode is, Robert House.

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Like, and, and he's the one who pushed the button

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and the one who created the missiles and, and

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really the Spearhead, and, and that's what brings

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them to Vegas. And I can see how this, this world

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is massive. and we're going to continue running

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into different factions, different obstacles. But

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here's my question. Yeah, the, Ghoul has spent 200

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years trying to figure out what happened to his

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family. How many seasons can we go with him trying

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to figure out what happened to his family?

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>> Will: Well, I think the show's been at least renewed for

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A third season.

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>> Sarah : So, I'm not talking about renewal. Just like, in

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the long run, how many seasons is a very similar

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conversation to what we've had when we've

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discussed the boys. Like, how many seasons can,

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can they retain Homelander being that bad guy

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without it being too repetitive?

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>> Will: Yeah. Yeah. it would not surprise me if they, if

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we, if we get, we get an answer at the end of.

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>> Sarah : This season to maybe one of them. To one of them,

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then it's like, no, I can see them stretching it.

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Like we get some kind of answer or a clear step

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forward to what really happened. Maybe we even see

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one of them in. Well, then there's a debate about

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is it past or is it present or is it like, when is

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it occurring? but I, I do, I can see them

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stretching that. but again, I do appreciate, and I

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think this is, this is why the flashbacks are

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working is because it's not just about Cooper.

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It's also about his wife getting little clips from

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potentially what happened to her, how, how, how

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involved she was, which is also a heartbreaking.

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To the demise of their relationship.

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>> Will: Yeah, yeah.

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>> Sarah : And. And then, and then the overall demise of the

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world, like who, who is to blame and who is Robert

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House? And, and how that's now also being

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thoroughly tied into where, Lucy's father is

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hiding. because he's, He's. He's gone straight

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into the reservoir and is like, sir, I will pick

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up where you left off and I will make sure that

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heads don't explode. What is with Amazon and shows

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with exploding heads?

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>> Will: I know. I was just, I was thinking that really,

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because I was like, okay, am I watching? It's like

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it must be written into the contract with these

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Sony shows that, ah, heads must blow up because.

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Or maybe there's like, here's some extra. We have

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some extra, blood. Blood and extra, you know, from

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the, from the boys that we didn't get to use, for

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Victoria Newman. So from, you know, she was a head

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popper. So we'll just bring it over to Fallout.

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>> Sarah : Yeah, I, I'm pretty sure we had some head popping

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going on in Gen V as well for Tuesday, so. Ah,

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yeah, we just, we just always have to have a head

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popper.

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>> Will: We gotta have a head popper. We gotta have, we

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gotta have exploding heads and explode. Yeah.

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Exploding rats. Because, that was the other thing

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too with Lucy's dad as he was trying to perfect

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the, House's, device. we saw the rats. And then of

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course, you know, as he, as he was walking, I

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guess, in his. In. In his journey, to. To whoever,

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wherever. To the sanctuary where he's at now. You

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know, we did see the carnage, throughout, the

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little devices with, you know, with test subjects

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all throughout the wasteland.

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>> Sarah : Yep.

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>> Will: And I did, you know, and to your point about, how

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one of the strong points of the show is using the.

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Is using the past, our introduction to House as

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the episode. First episode begins, as far as the

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tech. Tech. Tech bro person sitting in there, in

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the. In the bar. I knew that was how the, the

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sequence and it was going in the scenes was going

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to play out whenever he, was. He was sitting

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there. And then it took the three guys out to the,

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to the car to basically be the. The first lab rats

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for this thing. But, But. But it is really,

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really. It set the tone for me. That was one of

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the things that did stand out, at least that. As

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far as in the first episode, that really did work

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well for me. As far as some of the stories that

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they had stuff in the vault, not so much, because

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it just felt so disconnected from everything else.

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>> Sarah : yeah, I was, I was very distracted with the Vault

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because of Dylan. Okay. I was like, dude, dude,

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Dylan, where you been? Why are you in the pool?

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>> Will: Oh, yeah. Ah, he is in this show.

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>> Sarah : And, and honestly, I, I feel like. I feel like it

482
00:29:11,250 --> 00:29:15,690
was a mistake. I feel. I feel as though they

483
00:29:15,690 --> 00:29:18,290
should have for at least these four episodes,

484
00:29:18,290 --> 00:29:22,540
focused primarily on Norman, the Buds. Because the

485
00:29:22,540 --> 00:29:25,500
little bits that we do get from Norm and the Buds.

486
00:29:25,900 --> 00:29:28,300
Yeah, it actually is kind of funny.

487
00:29:28,540 --> 00:29:29,980
>> Will: Because it is kind of funny.

488
00:29:29,980 --> 00:29:34,140
>> Sarah : Like if you, if you take what. What the ghoul is

489
00:29:34,140 --> 00:29:38,940
dealing with with Lucy and then multiply that, I

490
00:29:38,940 --> 00:29:42,900
don't know, 25 people. Norm is stuck with that,

491
00:29:42,900 --> 00:29:45,300
and Norm has no idea what's going on. So.

492
00:29:45,300 --> 00:29:47,310
>> Will: Yeah, yeah, I loved it too when Bud tried to warn

493
00:29:47,310 --> 00:29:48,250
him. Like, you know.

494
00:29:48,250 --> 00:29:48,570
>> Sarah : Right.

495
00:29:49,050 --> 00:29:51,690
>> Will: Yeah. And then, yeah, he lets all these people go

496
00:29:51,690 --> 00:29:53,850
and it's. Yeah, that, that, that. That did work

497
00:29:53,850 --> 00:29:55,810
well also. I did like that. I did like those

498
00:29:55,810 --> 00:29:56,250
moments.

499
00:29:57,210 --> 00:30:02,480
>> Sarah : It's just. It's. It's a, It's a very interesting

500
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:06,920
storyline that I feel. And maybe. Maybe I

501
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,840
appreciate it because we're getting it in such

502
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:13,720
small doses. So. So maybe that's why. But at the

503
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:18,510
same time, I don't know what we're doing and why

504
00:30:18,510 --> 00:30:24,430
we should invest in the whole vault 33, 32 and 31

505
00:30:24,430 --> 00:30:28,830
situation. Like, like this is where to, like, kind

506
00:30:28,830 --> 00:30:30,629
of circle back to where we started the

507
00:30:30,629 --> 00:30:35,350
conversation. And sometimes it's. It's too much.

508
00:30:35,350 --> 00:30:38,350
We. Yes, we met those characters, but it doesn't

509
00:30:38,350 --> 00:30:44,140
mean they're not our lead characters. so unless

510
00:30:44,140 --> 00:30:47,940
you make a very compelling state as to why we

511
00:30:47,940 --> 00:30:51,380
should. We care about what's going on down there.

512
00:30:52,020 --> 00:30:55,620
It's hard to invest in that when you have, like, a

513
00:30:55,620 --> 00:30:59,310
Maximus and a Lucy and, Cooper Howard in the past

514
00:30:59,630 --> 00:31:06,390
and. And a Norm and his buds. Okay. So, I mean. I

515
00:31:06,390 --> 00:31:09,150
mean, we could have spent more time with Thaddeus

516
00:31:09,230 --> 00:31:12,500
and the. The sweatshop. I was very enjoy.

517
00:31:12,570 --> 00:31:14,810
Interested in the five seconds we spent there.

518
00:31:15,290 --> 00:31:17,490
>> Will: Oh, I know. Because. Yeah, you had these. You had

519
00:31:17,490 --> 00:31:19,650
the kid. You know, you had the regular. The ghoul

520
00:31:19,650 --> 00:31:21,610
kids and the regular kids. And I mean, Thaddeus

521
00:31:21,610 --> 00:31:23,770
was there, like, you know, like, almost like a Mr.

522
00:31:23,770 --> 00:31:27,130
Rogers type figure. Yeah, and. And. And, yeah,

523
00:31:27,130 --> 00:31:31,570
and. And we. And we get dropped into this and. And

524
00:31:31,570 --> 00:31:34,850
it. Yeah, you're right. I would have loved to have

525
00:31:34,850 --> 00:31:37,890
spent more time with that because it did seem kind

526
00:31:37,890 --> 00:31:42,390
of like we just hurried right on to, Xander and.

527
00:31:42,550 --> 00:31:45,830
And Maximus, like, you know, having their. Having

528
00:31:46,470 --> 00:31:48,070
their bro moment. And then.

529
00:31:48,230 --> 00:31:51,990
>> Sarah : Well, they wanted it to be a surprise. Like they.

530
00:31:52,150 --> 00:31:56,510
It was a. They're doing a good job, I think, these

531
00:31:56,510 --> 00:31:58,990
first four episodes. And I don't remember this

532
00:31:58,990 --> 00:32:02,710
from the first season, but this format of a cold

533
00:32:02,710 --> 00:32:06,030
open that does have significance later on,

534
00:32:06,190 --> 00:32:10,630
although. But they present it as the cold open

535
00:32:10,630 --> 00:32:12,310
because they kind of want the viewer to forget

536
00:32:12,310 --> 00:32:14,870
about it and then be a little bit surprised when

537
00:32:14,870 --> 00:32:18,390
it ties itself into what is happening by the end

538
00:32:18,390 --> 00:32:22,830
of the episode to one of the major characters or

539
00:32:23,630 --> 00:32:29,060
storylines. but I. I don't know. Maybe it's

540
00:32:29,060 --> 00:32:31,960
because Thaddeus just got me when he was in the

541
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:36,440
suit. It's like, no, we've needed this character.

542
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:39,480
We've needed him a bit.

543
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,320
>> Will: Yeah, it's. Yeah. Yeah. This reminded me of the

544
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,040
first season with that. Yes. You know, whenever he

545
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,080
was with dog meat, the whole. As they were walking

546
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:49,480
across the wasteland and he was descending into.

547
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:53,390
Into Guam. but, Yeah, with, But yeah, whenever he

548
00:32:53,390 --> 00:32:56,230
was. Whenever he had to impersonate Xander and,

549
00:32:58,430 --> 00:33:00,070
Whenever they had the big moment, the. In the

550
00:33:00,070 --> 00:33:02,140
cafeteria there with the other two, other two

551
00:33:02,140 --> 00:33:06,540
brotherhood leaders, you know, she. And what.

552
00:33:06,540 --> 00:33:10,860
Whatever the one faction head, like, shoved the.

553
00:33:10,940 --> 00:33:15,060
The knife into the owner's throat and like, Yeah.

554
00:33:15,060 --> 00:33:21,000
And, it just. It was, you know, again, how they

555
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,320
set up. Set it all up with, you know, with

556
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:30,180
Maximus, again. Again. Again. not having A fully

557
00:33:30,180 --> 00:33:32,660
thought out plan because, you know, basically he

558
00:33:32,660 --> 00:33:34,660
was like gonna go back and he was gonna kill

559
00:33:34,660 --> 00:33:39,660
Quintus and, and, and, and, and, and, and I did

560
00:33:39,660 --> 00:33:42,260
appreciate how they're like, okay, whatever. He.

561
00:33:42,420 --> 00:33:44,380
Maximus told his friend, like, look, you know, go

562
00:33:44,380 --> 00:33:47,140
get the other kids, get them to safety because

563
00:33:47,300 --> 00:33:52,930
there's going to be shooting here. or yeah, it

564
00:33:54,610 --> 00:34:01,050
shows. It just reinforces like how Maximus truly

565
00:34:01,050 --> 00:34:04,170
is that the Brotherhood's a found family for him.

566
00:34:04,170 --> 00:34:06,450
He's not, you know, he's not a full fledged

567
00:34:06,450 --> 00:34:11,410
acolyte to. Whereas like, you know, Whereas others

568
00:34:11,650 --> 00:34:16,250
are 100 in there because, you know, m. Maximum

569
00:34:16,250 --> 00:34:18,330
still. Maximus still has his humanity, whereas the

570
00:34:18,330 --> 00:34:20,570
other folks are not. Because they just, they see

571
00:34:20,570 --> 00:34:23,570
no humanity in any of the ghouls at all. I mean,

572
00:34:23,570 --> 00:34:27,210
they're all abominations. So I do. So that's one

573
00:34:27,210 --> 00:34:31,250
aspect of Maximus's story. And especially, you

574
00:34:31,250 --> 00:34:33,890
know, that, you know, we did get his, his back.

575
00:34:33,890 --> 00:34:37,900
Fuller backstory as far as in the Silver, Springs.

576
00:34:39,020 --> 00:34:41,380
Whenever, you know, we, we see his parents, we

577
00:34:41,380 --> 00:34:44,020
see, we see his dad, you know, he was there

578
00:34:44,020 --> 00:34:47,510
basically to you know, trying to, you know, they

579
00:34:47,510 --> 00:34:49,310
had the water, they had the garden. It was, you

580
00:34:49,310 --> 00:34:54,190
know, it's a community. And, and so, and, and with

581
00:34:54,270 --> 00:34:57,390
all the other stuff going around this, the, you

582
00:34:57,390 --> 00:34:59,390
know, the wasteland in the United States at this

583
00:34:59,390 --> 00:35:02,750
point, you know, that was sort of a, ah, sort of

584
00:35:02,750 --> 00:35:06,590
an oasis in, in. In the New California Republic.

585
00:35:07,230 --> 00:35:12,910
And, and so that, you know, seeing what happened

586
00:35:12,910 --> 00:35:14,790
with him, seeing how he, you know, you know, we've

587
00:35:14,790 --> 00:35:17,140
always seen the scenes of him getting, you know,

588
00:35:17,140 --> 00:35:19,100
coming out of the, out of the refrigerator, but

589
00:35:19,100 --> 00:35:22,140
getting the moments to see his life prior to that

590
00:35:22,700 --> 00:35:25,660
really helps to, for me, helps contextualize and

591
00:35:25,660 --> 00:35:29,300
frame why Maximus is the way that he is now and

592
00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:32,020
why, you know, he was able, you know, why he did

593
00:35:32,020 --> 00:35:34,900
take the actions against Xander and why he did

594
00:35:34,900 --> 00:35:37,100
want to kill Quintus. But then at the moment of.

595
00:35:37,100 --> 00:35:40,430
But of course, Maximus being Maximus, one thing is

596
00:35:40,430 --> 00:35:42,630
consistent. You know, whereas Lucy's. Consistently

597
00:35:43,420 --> 00:35:48,440
Lucy Maximus, consistently Maximus. And, and at

598
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,160
the moment of when he was ready to do. Take it.

599
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,720
Take the, Take the action, he didn't. He failed

600
00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:57,870
again. And, and and so it makes it, make it to me,

601
00:35:57,870 --> 00:35:59,670
it just makes this for a very interesting

602
00:35:59,670 --> 00:36:01,550
character and sort of see where things are gonna

603
00:36:01,550 --> 00:36:03,150
go next with the, with the Brotherhood.

604
00:36:04,910 --> 00:36:08,710
>> Sarah : Yeah, I'm way more interested right now in what's

605
00:36:08,710 --> 00:36:11,260
going on with the Brotherhood than I was, pretty

606
00:36:11,260 --> 00:36:14,690
much all of the first season. I really appreciate

607
00:36:14,690 --> 00:36:20,440
how they structured it. And So. So that's a high.

608
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:24,950
I've already talked about Norman, his buds. Yeah.

609
00:36:24,950 --> 00:36:29,070
I mean, and. And maybe I don't have much else.

610
00:36:29,070 --> 00:36:35,030
Much to say about it because. Because of how. And

611
00:36:35,030 --> 00:36:37,630
I did tell you this because I watched the first

612
00:36:37,630 --> 00:36:40,110
two episodes before you even started watching

613
00:36:40,110 --> 00:36:44,240
these episodes of Fallout that I was surprised by.

614
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,640
By the end of the episode, second episode, I

615
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,280
wanted to keep going. I didn't expect that to

616
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:55,920
happen. But then, but then like with third and

617
00:36:55,920 --> 00:37:00,610
fourth, it's clear to me that they do have a lot

618
00:37:00,610 --> 00:37:05,530
going on. But they. But there's so many. There's

619
00:37:05,530 --> 00:37:11,370
like three, if not four main storylines that they.

620
00:37:11,610 --> 00:37:17,650
They allocate the. The. The time. The run time in

621
00:37:17,650 --> 00:37:22,090
a certain way where. Where suddenly it feels like

622
00:37:22,090 --> 00:37:24,910
one of the storylines gets the short end of the

623
00:37:25,140 --> 00:37:28,740
stick, if not two. And then. And you. We always

624
00:37:28,740 --> 00:37:32,300
got to have a flashback to Coop Howard. And so

625
00:37:32,300 --> 00:37:37,340
it's. Even though I feel like it is over stuff,

626
00:37:37,340 --> 00:37:41,780
it's weird because at the same time I think that

627
00:37:41,780 --> 00:37:45,730
there's not a, Not a lot of ability for them to

628
00:37:45,730 --> 00:37:49,490
get really thoroughly deep, especially with some

629
00:37:49,490 --> 00:37:56,420
of the characters, that. That we could be spending

630
00:37:56,420 --> 00:37:59,100
with. But we have to go and check in on the vault

631
00:37:59,100 --> 00:38:01,540
people. We got to go check in on Norman, the buds

632
00:38:01,540 --> 00:38:04,610
and. And all this other stuff. or see what Lucy's

633
00:38:04,610 --> 00:38:11,070
dad is up to. so they. I. I guess my. What I'm

634
00:38:11,070 --> 00:38:14,790
overall trying to say in terms of what I think

635
00:38:14,790 --> 00:38:19,810
about the start of this season is I do. I have

636
00:38:19,810 --> 00:38:23,960
enjoyed these four episodes. it is still very much

637
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:27,200
like popcorn entertainment for me. I don't think

638
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:31,800
about it much if at all when I'm not watching it.

639
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:32,520
>> Will: Yeah.

640
00:38:33,079 --> 00:38:36,200
>> Sarah : But that's mainly because I feel as though

641
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:43,400
majority of it is spectacle and that. That takes

642
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:47,480
away unfortunately from more of the deeper

643
00:38:48,100 --> 00:38:51,940
character. Beats. Beats. And granted spectacle

644
00:38:51,940 --> 00:38:55,820
also that that doesn't just tie into. Oh, we got

645
00:38:55,820 --> 00:38:58,180
fighting robots and exploding heads. I'm also

646
00:38:58,180 --> 00:39:01,620
talking about just the fantasy world building

647
00:39:01,780 --> 00:39:05,500
element of this show which is explaining the

648
00:39:05,500 --> 00:39:07,900
brotherhood and the Commonwealth and all of these

649
00:39:07,900 --> 00:39:11,300
factions explaining the Legion for a full episode.

650
00:39:11,620 --> 00:39:13,980
I'm with Lucy. I had no idea what they were

651
00:39:13,980 --> 00:39:15,930
talking about. The full. Full time and very

652
00:39:15,930 --> 00:39:20,330
confused and it was very overlapping. But there.

653
00:39:20,330 --> 00:39:24,210
There's so much world building that also has to go

654
00:39:24,210 --> 00:39:27,330
on as these characters move through this world

655
00:39:27,410 --> 00:39:32,610
that, that it's. It's hard to really get more than

656
00:39:33,250 --> 00:39:37,090
okay. In first season, we see. We see Maximus as a

657
00:39:37,090 --> 00:39:39,690
young boy Enter a fridge. Now we're going to show

658
00:39:39,690 --> 00:39:41,770
you the five minutes leading up to him getting

659
00:39:41,770 --> 00:39:47,590
inside the fridge. Okay. But yeah, that's just my,

660
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:48,640
overall thought.

661
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:51,400
>> Will: Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, as far as the

662
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:57,280
brotherhood storyline, I think for me it. So the

663
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:01,040
earlier when they already had the council and the

664
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:04,950
whole. The negotiation as far as, trying to. To

665
00:40:06,950 --> 00:40:09,080
come, together so they could basically take on the

666
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:11,040
Commonwealth. So common. So basically the

667
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,730
Commonwealth essentially, you know, it's the

668
00:40:13,730 --> 00:40:18,840
faction basically in Boston. and then I think the

669
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,280
other two, I think the one I know, I think Max, I

670
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:23,520
think they're in vague. I think they're in Nevada

671
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:28,890
as far as, Maximus's brother Night the Knights.

672
00:40:28,890 --> 00:40:31,210
And then I think the other two are like, ah, you

673
00:40:31,210 --> 00:40:32,930
know, two other west coast factions. But any

674
00:40:32,930 --> 00:40:35,690
event, I think, you know, whenever they were

675
00:40:35,690 --> 00:40:37,930
having the ski. The. The power plays and the

676
00:40:37,930 --> 00:40:40,370
schemes and I guess the Quintus that like, I guess

677
00:40:40,370 --> 00:40:44,080
developed a whole cold fusion, device, you know,

678
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:47,430
that whenever Maximus like, you know, gave it to

679
00:40:47,430 --> 00:40:51,620
his friend to make sure, that it doesn't fall into

680
00:40:51,620 --> 00:40:54,620
the hands of the other. Other. Other factions, you

681
00:40:54,620 --> 00:40:57,380
know. You know, again, to your point about world

682
00:40:57,380 --> 00:40:58,860
building, that's. That's part of the world

683
00:40:58,860 --> 00:41:01,980
building that. That I really, really did get. I

684
00:41:01,980 --> 00:41:06,150
got into more really in the. The last. Really the

685
00:41:06,150 --> 00:41:08,510
fourth episode is where it really came home for

686
00:41:08,510 --> 00:41:17,820
me. so. So that the table setting did. Even. Even

687
00:41:17,820 --> 00:41:19,620
though, like, even though it frustrated me at the

688
00:41:19,620 --> 00:41:22,460
beginning, I felt like I did get the. I got. As

689
00:41:22,460 --> 00:41:26,300
for me, I got a good payoff from. From that. And

690
00:41:26,300 --> 00:41:30,630
then as far as the vault, the Vault dwellers, I

691
00:41:30,630 --> 00:41:32,590
agree with you. Not. Not too much there. I mean, I

692
00:41:32,590 --> 00:41:36,130
guess we did. We did see Chet like going through.

693
00:41:37,410 --> 00:41:40,020
Going through Steph's drawer and you know, seeing

694
00:41:40,020 --> 00:41:44,050
that. That card, that ID card where she was like

695
00:41:44,050 --> 00:41:47,530
from the Annex United, you know, we learned that

696
00:41:47,530 --> 00:41:51,050
Canada was annexed by the United States. So, you

697
00:41:51,050 --> 00:41:53,210
know, so we learned a little bit more about her. I

698
00:41:53,210 --> 00:41:55,250
don't. You know, and. And again, to your point

699
00:41:55,250 --> 00:41:57,010
about world building, you know, how does that tie

700
00:41:57,010 --> 00:42:01,100
into the larger, largest scope of things? We may

701
00:42:01,100 --> 00:42:03,820
get resolution to that this season or it may be

702
00:42:03,820 --> 00:42:08,060
something down. Down the line. but, but beyond

703
00:42:08,060 --> 00:42:10,020
that. And I guess there was the one guy who was

704
00:42:10,020 --> 00:42:12,140
trying to create the support group in the. In the.

705
00:42:12,140 --> 00:42:15,260
In the vault. And again, it just kind of felt like

706
00:42:15,260 --> 00:42:17,660
out of left field at the beginning. But then. And

707
00:42:17,660 --> 00:42:20,820
it's even whenever they did have a little bit more

708
00:42:20,820 --> 00:42:24,190
resolution to it in subsequent episode. I still

709
00:42:24,190 --> 00:42:26,110
didn't quite. It still didn't really like,

710
00:42:28,110 --> 00:42:30,390
register with me as far as, like, to your point

711
00:42:30,390 --> 00:42:34,660
about, there's so much. These shows are only like,

712
00:42:34,660 --> 00:42:38,460
you know, 58 minutes so that they.

713
00:42:39,740 --> 00:42:40,860
>> Sarah : Why should we care?

714
00:42:41,180 --> 00:42:42,220
>> Will: Why should we care?

715
00:42:42,220 --> 00:42:45,100
>> Sarah : Like, like, yeah, it could have something to do

716
00:42:45,100 --> 00:42:51,390
with world building, but fantasy is only fantasy.

717
00:42:51,390 --> 00:42:54,870
World building is only done correctly if you care

718
00:42:54,870 --> 00:42:56,630
about the characters who are involved.

719
00:42:57,030 --> 00:42:59,710
>> Will: Right. And I was trying, honestly. Yeah. And

720
00:42:59,710 --> 00:43:01,270
that's, that's the thing because I was trying to

721
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remember, like, what's so relevant, what's so

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important about Reg here is he. Was he Norm's

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buddy? I couldn't remember from the first.

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>> Sarah : He had a thing with Lucy there. There was

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something, I feel like there. So, yeah, he. He is

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connected and he's the only one who, Who I, I kind

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of am m. Like interested in, but I don't. I'm not

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interested enough to understand the geopolitics

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between these two opposing vaults and, and the

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mysterious that's going on down there. I mean, if

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they want to do a vault storyline, we should have

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moved to a different vault. We should have opened

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up our vault vault eyes a little bit more. But I

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feel. I feel like at this point point we're just

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retreading over points that we've. We've brought

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up before. but any, any final ones before we wrap

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up tonight?

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>> Will: No, I, I think, like I said, I do enjoy this show.

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even though I had some. It took me a minute to get

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back into. Into the world of Fallout. But. But,

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once I did, I. I'm looking forward to the, the,

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the. The. The last four episodes of season two.

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Yep.

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>> Sarah : And next week we will continue in the Fallout

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world, a little bit more as well as we are headed

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back into Westeros, where we get to start to cover

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half hour Westeros show.

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>> Will: Yeah, Yeah. At least with HBO half hour shows, it

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truly will be a half hour HBO Max. Unlike Disney

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where it might be like, you know, half hour and

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then. But it's only like 15 minutes of content. 15

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minutes of credits.

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>> Sarah : Very interesting. so on that note, Will, why don't

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you tell our listeners where they can find you?

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>> Will: Yes, you can find me on all the Socials at Will

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and Polk. W I L L M P O.

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>> Sarah : L K. And you can find me there too at SJ Belmont.

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