I can't find a clip of it on youtube, but a ad on Amazon shows what I believe to be the Nuke that destroyed shady sands being uncovered in the back of a Pickup. So hopefully season 2 explains how exactly Shady Sands became a massive fuck off crater. Assuming, of course, that isn't in fact a second nuke.
I'm also hoping they explain what exactly Hank was hoping to accomplish by destroying just one city. Are we supposed to believe that he's so retarded, he thinks there exists only one city in the whole world that has rebuilt?
Even Vault City - with the benefit of having actually used a GECK - is said to be so small that it faced a choice between annexation into the NCR or annihilation.
What about the other cities, Hank? What about the other continents?
My best guess at this point is that he's going to launch nanotech-sized mind control chips into the atmosphere from New Vegas, and cause every living person in the world's head to explode. Kind of like what The Enclave were planning on doing, with their plan to use a eradicate "the muties" across the globe by releasing an aerosolized FEV derivative into the jet streams.
Even Gemini assumes that Shady Sands was an entire civilization, and not just a single city somewhere inside territory that contains two different massive civilizations (and a few micro-ones)
Up until now, I had assumed that Hank had re-nuked every city in the world - including the new ones - and brought civilization back to the state it was in at the time of Fallout 1. Because that is somehow less retarded than neither Rose nor Hank noticing The Hub or Junktown on the way to Shady Sands.
You know what, I think the mind control chips might be an invention by the writers to try and dig themselves out of this hole. The line from Roomba-Brain about how they will return to the surface "when there's no one left to disagree with us" is foreshadowing for how Hank intends to turn the entire world into mind-controlled slaves. This will end "factionalism" for good.
I think the scene is stupid, and frankly a waste of Big Iron, but I can hand wave most of the Kahn's retardation given the fact we see one of them inhale jet pretty much right before they hand Coop, I doubt they are firing on all cylinders.
That is a good point, but I still can't get over Ghouly and Lucy coming up with a plan this stupid.
1) pretend to be bounty hunters
2) let Ghouly get captured
3) ???
4) escape with the money
They just wanted to do the rope-shooting trick from The Good, The Bad, and fuck any logic standing in their way.
Come to think, they should have had House inhale a bunch of Jet and pop some Mentats and Buffout, and maybe Psycho, and
then do the bar fight scene. It would be less of a character assassination than what we got.
Instead, Lucy politely orders it, takes a sip and puts it down and then moves on.. which fits her character.
Am I the only one who thought she was doing the closed-mouth fake sip trick?
Futaman's review is out too:
You're going to need to do a little convincing before I watch something by a guy called Futaman.
I half-watched it during work hours for free courtesy of Cineby
I'm partial to Hurawatch's site layout. How is Cineby?
Since people weren't trained with foresight in mind and left entirely up to the GOAT to assign function, you got individuals being cripplingly overspecialised into specific roles to be used like tools for a specific task on specific whims. Blonde Overseer can't work the terminal and nobody else but Norm is capable of doing so because they weren't trained. Chet - guy now being forced into the role of a literal cuckoo bird - had the job of "gatekeeper," meant to either open/close a door that would never be opened (door to the surface) or one that'd be opened once every 3 years (door that connects to the other vault). The old dude needed a committee to approve the idea of putting up signs instead of doing it himself. When the tool is missing/gone, suddenly the vault is incapable of doing rudimentary tasks, and can't even decide for themselves to do something without first getting permission or orders. I'm guessing the guy doing the support group is probably going to realise he's good at therapy or some shit (he likes listening to people's problems) but he's not allowed to change occupancy because it's not his assigned role. Chet can't even stand at the gate anymore because it's been left open.
You could contrive a "a good leader alone isn't enough to make a good society" theme and link it to House (and Moldaver) or something, but I'm barely able to pull any of this out of the air.
I actually think you hit the nail on the head with what they're going for with the vault subplot. All the chuds who are looking for anti-white and anti-male messaging are missing the point.
Creetosis is a massive autist and there are times where he makes sweeping comments in-the-moment that are a bit premature
Him and his boyfriend were getting so angry over every little thing in the episode, it was truly hilarious.
