I think my oldness might be showing here - “Maybe” is really central to Fallout 1, playing over that incredible ending, and so it’s the song I most closely associate with the games. “World On Fire” is also a biggie, but “Maybe” will always be THE Fallout song for me. Zur’s soundtrack is a whole other, great thing -…

For context: I’ve probably played through Fallout, Fallout 2, and New Vegas three or four times apiece; I’ll admit I’ve only played the Bethesda games once each, and didn’t do any of their DLC. My apologies for missing this enemy from the DLC of 4!

My terrible, horrible secret is that I don’t like Fallout 4 (which means I only played, what, 80 hours of it) and so I never played the DLC. I missed the Gulper, apologies!

Very surprisingly, it’s turning out to be a pretty good show.

“The wasteland has its own golden rule. Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time.”

The show clearly isn’t taking the position that they should all just be killed.

That’s interesting that book focused on that. I imagine it was cut from this show for more pragmatic reasons, i.e. having limited space to explain foreign cultural concepts in a limited series. But you’re right that the Japanese probably wouldn’t love it. And the series already touches very lightly on the invasion of…

You know, like sane people do.

Disney has to be especially careful about antisemitism.

Can’t wait to hear Ryan Gosling belting out “I’m Just Thimble”.

It’s true - I read the Constitution and there’s no mention of Gina Carano anywhere in it!

saying she was merely “asking questions”

Pipe down, Igor.

Wait a minute... THIS is the Bad Place!

The plot should be that Monopoly has Jumanji’d us all without knowing and it’s why we’re in a capitalist dystopia where the New York Times is publishing op-eds about how it should be legal to sell your kidney.

Not to mention the fact that Monopoly was invented to warn people about the evils of Capitalism.

Absolutely unacceptable lack of Fuji-sama in this episode.

I find it interesting that they seem to have decided to drop all mention of the “Eta” or Untouchable caste of the time, although it came up multiple times in the book and original show, most notably when Blackthorne attempts to reunite with his shipmates. In the book and original show, aside from them being filthy drun…

Ya, the recapper has this wrong. The seppuku was not meant to get his underlings to keep fighting. It was to really, REALLY convince even his own people that he was serious about surrendering and getting their pledge to do so as well. He needs this to convince Ishido and Ochiba as that signed pledge was what was…

Ochiba also says at the start before Ishido proposes marriage that she won’t celebrate or buy that Toranaga isn’t up to something until Toranaga is actually there with his forehead touching the floor in submission. The Hiromatsu thing convinced her