These reviews are great and very appreciated. I miss the time when AV Club reviewed more shows.

I love that when Lucy’s brother finds Bud-in-a-jar, he’s gotten hopelessly stuck in a corner. The entire Bud’s Buds plan, doomed by a bad turn if he hadn’t shown up! It ended on a cliffhanger, but I feel like we’re going to get another funny exchange between them at the start of the next season and he’s not just going…

Unanswered mysteries: what the hell Moldaver is doing in the future

My read was that she wasn’t necessarily feral, but had been basically so burned and half destroyed by the explosion that this was all that was left of her. Ghouls basically run on zombie logic, so if they don’t take care of themselves like Cooper obviously has, they physically degrade into a mess, but the radiation…

Two hypotheses: 1) there’s a wider spectrum of ghouls in the show universe than what the games have shown us; 2) we can presume Moldaver has had her captive since whenever she went feral (unlikely she just went out into the wild and found her now), so maybe she’s been unfed and wasting away to nothing. It would be…

Ro Ron Pearlman cameos are the best! ;) I would theorize just like NCR in the past, Moldaver makes use of raiders when she wants to a achieve a morally ambiguous objective. In order to claim Hank a lot of people got murdered.

And what’s up with Hank’s wife/Lucy’s mom? I get that she was ghoulified when Shady Sands was nuked, and that Moldaver has brought her there to torment Hank for his actions, but why does she look so decrepit? Shady Sands was nuked, like twenty years ago? She’s pretty young so far as ghouls go.

and, most pressingly, no Ron Perlman cameo. Really?!

Indeed RIP Rene Auberjonois. Fantastically funny in Benson and achingly earnest in The Patriot. Wish he was still around doing his thing.

Useless fact! Hanks authorisation code is 101097 , the date that Fallout 1 was released!.

Yeah, when I heard that my heart sank a little because it made me think that Amazon doesn’t have any faith in it.

It seems an intentional choice given the amount of comedy this ep started with.

I would say the total lack of naturalism around the stem pack is a bit of an issue for something trying to not be 100% a cartoon.

There was a connecting tunnel. It’s where the welcome ceremony took place, and how Lucy’s brother got there to see the blighted crops and dead people.

Watched the first episode, and I had a ball. Very fun. Ella Purnell’s great. “Okey doke,” indeed.

I agree. So far in this show, most of the fan service is in set decoration, and they’re not actively calling too much attention to much of it. It’s just genuinely background Easter eggs, more than anything.

Xelia Mendes-Jones identifies as he/they, there’s actually a notable lack of female BoS shown

Maybe it’s just me but I didn’t think the episode felt particularly bloated. I mean, they probably could have saved “The Ghoul” for the second episode as a re-introduction of Walton Goggins, since we obviously got that amazing opening with him. But the episode positively flew by for me.

Dane is not a “her”. Even the uber-religious Elders of the Brotherhood of Steel referred to Dane as they/them.

All episodes dropping at once surprised me. I thought this was going to be prestige week by week tv.