“Hell, maybe we would just watch a TV show of Johnny Pemberton wandering the Wastes, running into weirdos like this.”

I definitely thought that and even expected a musical cue, but didn’t really get one.

The scene where Maximus sees Lucy being dragged off and has a moment of decision between his bowl of popcorn or rescuing here was awesome. 

J. Michael Straczynski has written quite a bit about his time in a cult, and one thing he keeps coming back to is that they never start with the really crazy-sounding stuff. Instead they give you something just a bit out of your comfort zone at most, and then once you’ve accepted that, it becomes easier to accept…

I am truly enjoying Aaron Moten’s performance as an immature, impulsive weirdo who’s stumbled into a hero’s journey. Or at least a lead character’s journey.

It occurs to me that Cooper Howard is much like Jonathan E. from Rollerball. Corporate types underestimate him as a dumb but pretty advertisement that they can manipulate. It turns out he was just uninformed, which is a correctible state.

One of the funniest comments I’ve read about the Maximus arc is that Titus is intended to be the player. As in, he’s whining and threatening his NPC, has them do the hard work, dumps inventory on them as mules, and otherwise behaves like a genuine dick to everyone around him.

One of the things mention is that Lucy is an archetypal new player , Maximus is supposed to be a min/maxing il’ignore the side quests) player , and the Ghoul is the veteran “finished the game a few times over” player who’s just wandering around being completely overgeared and overpowered* ...how accurate that ends up…

I wonder if Maximus and Thaddeus are dim enough to qualify for the “idiot savant” perk (for non-players, while having a high intelligence is generally a good thing for your character to have, having a particularly low score can let you succeed in some situations because your character’s own idiocy works in their…

That’s a good point. The Ghoul style is what a lot of people do, which is just kill and steal what you want, but the games usually allow you to play other ways, like the nice person who tries to talk their way through conflict (Lucy), or the Power Armor guy who stumbles his way into conflicts and only survives because…

I do appreciate that there is a sub-section of the internet that deems this show to be too clean both literally and, with Ella Purnell’s “lawful good” portrayal of Lucy, figuratively but one of the things I’ve found interesting about this show is it’s a little like watching 3 playthroughs at once of the same questline.

Literally why do you even care. Most people who associate Bethesda with the licence probably weren’t even alive when numbers before 3 existed, so he’s probably more of an expert than you are.

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

Oh God, that sounds terrible.

Hey, Futurama is a good show with a loyal fan base.

Its one of those 07 shows that really should have just stopped at one season , like Prison Break.

That’s not the real Gamera song and you know it! This is the REAL Gamera theme:

And there I was thinking it was some heretofore unknown Zoomer slang I needed to Google...

I think it was half-transition, and half kind of chastising the media at large about getting hung up on light news/basically puff pieces about a weather phenomenon (that isn’t even potentially destructive like the weak-ass Jersey quake) instead of focusing on the very real shit going down in Gaza.

Ah, an attempt was made at wordplay. Got it.