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Probably because Filly is the only bigger settlement in the area. Lucy gets directed towards it by a random wastelander, Wilzig goes there because that's where he was told his contact would be waiting. Maximus gets there because him and Titus were literally ordered to go there.

Yes. They were founded after Fallout 1 by one of the game's npcs. In Fallout 2 they are a fullfledged nation state. In Fallout: New Vegas, they are expanding into the Mojave in order to claim Hoover Dam as a power source. But they are terribly overstretched and things back home aren't looking good either (water shortages, famine, etc.)

Not Star Trek. That was straight up from The Martian. Mark Watney just did not have the luxury of a PMU, so he had to use the air in his suit as a propellant.

As far as musical episodes go, this was pretty damn good. Not as good as OMWF because, let's be honest, that one was perfection and just cannot be topped. But i'd rate Subspace Rhapsody at second place, which is still quite an achievement. The songs weren't quite as catchy, the lyrics not quite as clever and witty and i would have liked more genre variety. Seriously, where was my Rock Ballad?

Being descended from generations of Crusher women who were all fucking the same ghost, does that to your genes i guess?

It's an option you have but you don't have to take it. I didn't. I don't care for Abby but i do understand her motives. Do i think Part II has an amazing story despite this? Yes, absolutely.

Joel's mission was to get Ellie to the meeting place outside the Boston QZ, where an armed group if Fireflies would have taken her (the armored truck and the dead guys they found) . That was it. It was never the plan for him to get her all the way to SLC. That was improvised. Marlene was busy being shot in the gut and was in no condition to escort anyone through fungus-infested Boston. Edit: Nevermind, didn't see that this was already answered. Anyways, this was the first episode that did not quite click with me. From the arrival at the hospital to the end, the pacing felt way too fast for me. This part might have worked better with 5 to 10 more minutes to flesh everything out.

Yeah, they fed cows the brainmmatter of other bovines. The human equivalent to this is called Kuru, which plagued a tribe of cannibals in New Guinea. Basically, don't ever eat brains because that's where prions accumulate.

Also antibiotics, which us sooo damn ironic in this setting, if you think about it.

You should see the one he gets in the game, lol. This is way more realistic. Loved the native american couple at the beginning. After Bill and Frank, this is another pair that "won" the apocalypse. They've lived their live like that even before the outbreak. Nothing has changed for them.

The ones i know only work within days to weeks, not hours. They're useless in this case.

I think the simplest answer would be that they don't actually intent to kill, but do so on accident because the cordyceps does not have perfect control over the body's movements. All infected are shown to be very clumsy. Another explanation could be that they switch from "Infect!" to "Survive!" as soon as you start fighting them, so they focus on eliminating the threat instead.

Agreed And microbiologists aren't denying the possibility, as far as i'm aware.

Boy, do i have something to read for you. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518 That event, btw, could also be the Inspiration for how the fungus spread on the show. There are quite a few hints in the prologue. The neighbour grandma gets fed bisquits. Sarah refuses them because they contain raisins. Joel is on an Atkins diet and he forgets to buy the birthday cake. It was contaminated flour, most likely.

I know the games and i loved it. The story has barely been changed, so far. My only pet peeve is the lack of spores in the room with the dead fungusman on the wall. In the game a room like that would be filled with so much spores that people would need breathing masks otherwise they'd get infected. Sure, it's mostly a gameplay thing. Put on your mask and do whatever you must in that section before your filter is saturated and needs to be changed and filters is something you get from scavenging. But spores are the main way that fungi propagate, so it still should have stayed in, imho. Kinda weird to have a super invasive fungus but no spores...