fall out
radio
season 1
Episode 7
Editor's rating
Photo: Jojo Wilden/Prime Video
As is often the case with penultimate episodes in series, “Radio” offers an overwhelming sense of the calm before the storm, as the three main characters converge on what we now know to be the Griffith Observatory. there is. Lucy retrieves Wilzig's head, looking worse than ever, and heads there to retrieve the chip stuck in her throat and negotiate with her father. Ghoul also had a new reason to visit, aside from her promise of bounty. As it turns out, Moldaver is a mysterious figure from a previous life as Cooper Howard. She is a master anti-Vault-Tec and asks him to spy on her wife Barb with the promise that Barb will live a hidden second life. And by the end of the episode, Maximus is retrieved by the Brotherhood, but once they realize Wilzig's chip is there, it's sure to come down like a hammer to the Hollywood Hills Observatory. Dew. Remember the words of the old priest. It has the power to transform wastelands and more. There's a poetic symmetry in the fact that this season begins, and perhaps ends, overlooking the LA skyline.
The last few episodes are Packed. It's enough to make you wonder if this show was conceived with a longer first season in mind. Even though He is just under an hour long, episodes 6 and 7 require you to overcome a lot and retain a lot of new information by the finale. Still, it's impressive that this show has managed to weave together pre-war and post-war arcs so seamlessly. The cryopod feels like a convenient device to take the characters from the past to the present, but even if that's actually how Moldaver got to his year 2296, both times We tend to care about both timelines equally because there are important characters in the lines. The past is not superfluous to the drama at hand.that teeth The drama in front of me. With each episode, fall out It is abundantly clear that past and present events are directly linked by more than just nuclear weapons.
Speaking of the past, one of the best scenes in this episode comes in a two-way interaction between Cooper and Moldaver (or “Miss Williams” as she is known in 2077). Leading her one of Hollywood's Red Conferences, she addresses: She calmly criticized the current situation in America, pointing out that their enemy was not the ordinary boys killed by soldiers in the East, but those in power within the country. Of course, that's not the case with Cooper, who fought in the war. “That's about as bad as I can take,” he said, getting up to leave the room. In Cooper's case, they task each other for their supposed hypocrisy of becoming Vault-Tec's annihilation mascots, cue an exchange of zingers. “Vault-Tec is the biggest company in America. There's a lot of money to sell the end of the world,” says Miss Williams. “Well, there’s probably a lot of money to be made selling a political ideology that ends in a bread line,” Cooper retorts.
Through this intense exchange of ideas, they must come to respect each other enough to continue the conversation in the hall outside. There, Dr. Williams tells Cooper that he has discovered a way to end the resource war that America has been locked in for ten years. Therefore, nuclear Armageddon can be prevented in the form of cold fusion. But Vault-Tec bought it from her “to put it on the shelf.” All because it didn't fit their business model. ” That's why she asks him to listen to Barb's meeting at her workplace, because she wants his help in bringing back cold fusion technology before the world is destroyed.
Well, that was very good. Nevertheless, this meeting goes some way to explaining why the ghouls are now so eager to talk to Moldaver. Inglourious Basterds The beginning of the episode showed a family of lead miners eking out a living in the wilderness. (Father and son each wear armor worn by the NCR's elite legions. Fallout: New Vegas, so perhaps the father is a veteran from before the collapse of Shady Sands. )
Meanwhile, in Vault 4, Lucy is chastised by Overseer Benjamin for betraying the Vault's trust and ascending to Level 12 despite the gifts of clean water, food, safety, and security. ) And in the experiment that Lucy saw, surely Atrocious, it wasn't really what it is now. It was a record of horrifying experiments that the old Vault denizens had performed on the ancestors of the new denizens in the past. The old inhabitants (essentially a society of mad scientists) were turning humans into Gulpers until the Gulpers fought back and the new inhabitants took over. So while Lucy's reaction was understandable given the heat of the moment; maybe I jumped the gun.
What is her punishment? death. Well, of course, death by banishment to earth with two weeks worth of supplies brought for her. Yeah, they're essentially letting her go. Meanwhile, Maximus steals the vault's fusion core, uses it to enhance his power armor, and raids the vault's atrium in order to “save” Lucy from pending execution. After some of the Vault Dwellers were destroyed, he realized his mistake and the Wasteland duo returned peacefully to the surface. However, before they can move on to catch up with Thaddeus and Wilzig's head, Lucy's guilt trips Maximus and returns the fusion core to the vault.
They are getting closer. Maximus agrees to return to Vault 33 with Lucy once everything is over. Can you hear the wedding bells? Oh, and he finally tells Lucy her truth about who he is: not Night Titus. Lucy is very forgiving. “I just threw acid in an innocent man's face,” she says. “And I've only been here two weeks. The wilderness sucks.”
The only thing worse than the current Thaddeus is that Wilzig's head is still there, but his legs are shattered into a mush of blood and bones. He is on his way to the radio station to be picked up by the Brotherhood. Meanwhile, being a total asshole, he left his CX404 in the Nuka-Cola fridge. What other tragic events will befall him? Whatever it is, it doesn't happen to men this nice. Coincidentally, he encounters a suicidal snake oil salesman (John Daly), last seen by Maximus and Lucy in episode two. He's a real Thespian and melodramatic type, and Daly makes the most of his flashy lines like: disease and misfortune That can trouble a wandering traveler like you,'' and so on.
In exchange for Thaddeus' fusion core, which he stole from Maximus' T-60, the snake oil salesman gave Thaddeus a mysterious elixir that almost instantly repaired his leg. Thaddeus was then shot in the throat with a planted crossbow outside the radio station he had rented to communicate with his Brotherhood, but he was not killed. According to Maximus, who has just arrived with Lucy, the snake oil salesman's snake oil has turned Thaddeus into a ghoul. “I should never have trusted a doctor who smelled like that,” he says. Thaddeus then flees, a move that makes sense given the Brotherhood's zero-tolerance policy toward mutants. But weren't they supposed to be heroes? Lucy wonders. Well, as Thaddeus himself says, “It's a complex organization.”
At least Lucy and Maximus now have Wilzig's head. When the Brotherhood arrived near the radio station, Maximus picked up another decapitated Noggin from one of the radio station's many corpse-filled traps and smashed its face beyond recognition. He gives Wilzig's head to Lucy and tells her to go find Hank. Before they part, they kiss – finally!
In Vault 33, the imprisoned Raiders are mysteriously poisoned, and Betty hatches a plan to relocate half of 33's population to 32 (even Reg and Woody are doomed to spend the rest of their lives in separate vaults). there is). Frankly, you get fed up with all this weirdness and hack into the Overseer's terminal to send a message to the ever-unseen Overseer of Vault 31. Posing as Overseer Betty, he claims her mission has been compromised and is told to return to Vault 31. immediately.
Thus, the past and present stories are nearing their conclusion and ready to intertwine in the finale. It's anyone's guess how the timelines will converge: Cooper Howard and the Ghoul, Miss Howard and Moldaver, the mystery of Vault 31 and its secrets that have been hidden for hundreds of years.But if there is an inevitability that we have learned fall out, which means that the sins of the past are always repeated in the present. We essentially exist in a time loop. Even the greatest of them all, the nuclear exchange that wiped out at least 90 percent of the Earth's population, sparked more conflicts.But that's the human condition, that's the way it is. fall outThe Gonzo Mind: Our Propensity to Fight, Hurt, and Kill. After all, civilization is only one part of the timeline of human history. Ever since humans discovered fire, we've been lighting each other on fire. When the first stones were used as tools, they were also used for bashing skulls.
In other words? war. War never changes.
• Ghoul saved CX404. More importantly, he called him Dogmeat. This is a common name for many dogs that can be found in the waste. fall out series.
• The mad scientist who dies in Gulper's esophagus, created in Vault 4, is the same family Cooper met while filming an ad for Vault-Tec.
• In the past, Cooper has been seen reading an issue of Tesla Science magazine. fallout 4. Each magazine increases critical damage from energy weapons by 5%.
• Cameo alert! The radio host will be longtime bandleader Fred Armisen. Seth Meyers' Late Night.
• When the gnome hacks Overseer Betty's terminal, it's the same hacking interface seen in the game.
