PurpleTentacle

The writers seem to be trying to cram as many plot points from the comics into this season as they can and lose all narrative pacing in the process. Even Professor X has only been "dead" for 5 episodes, before he showed up again. Usually you'd expect him to be dead for a season and then have a stinger of him being alive at the end of the final episode.

Considering they still have chickens I don't see why they wouldn't have pigs.

It was a nice foreshadowing in an earlier episode where Lucy said that as a little kid she thought she played in a corn field under the real sun. Now we know, she actually did. So Kyle MacLachlan nuclear bombed an entire city? Man he is a nasty piece of work. Btw. the show did amazing things with its budget, but it clearly didn't go into deaging him convincingly. That was rough. And I always thought it was easier if you had a lot of footage from an actor when he was younger, like you would have here. What was Moldaver on about with her cold fusion the whole time? What is in the fusion cores if not cold fusion? Can't really be hot fusion in such a small form factor. But even if it was, they already seem to provide unlimited energy, so what is the difference to her cold fusion? At first I thought maybe Vault-Tec didn't just lock it away, but used it in the fusion cores, just propriatary. But that can't be, since the suits run on fusion cores and Cooper Howard had fought in one of those years before she developed cold fusion. Speaking of Moldaver, so how did she survive and not age for over 200 years? She wasn't a Ghoul and it didn't seem like she was frozen for any time. Are they just never going to reveal that? Because it seems like her story is over. I still don't think Vault-Tecs plan makes much logical sense. But it makes a weird kind of internal sense. I could see it happening if enough Elon- Musk- type billionairs get together to realise their delusions of grandeur. I was googling something about the show a few days ago and accidentally stumbled over a reddit thread where people discussed who dropped the bombs in the war. The overwhelming consensus was that it was China. Nobody ever even mentioned Vault-Tec. But I have to say, from a world building perspective it being Vault-tec makes so much sense and I wouldn't be surprised if that was also always the plan in the games, but just kept vague until now. Of course like I said, the plan is just insane. Not only is the plan basically "1. steal underpants, 2. ???, 3. ???, 4. Profit!", but even the profit, where there is no war anymore, because there aren't any factions, is insane. Humans will always split into factions along arbitrary lines. We have seen this in history time and again. Yet, it isn't unbelievable that some people would actually believe it. I actually read the sentiment from quite a few people about the Attack on Titan finale, that if Eren had just killed everybody on the planet but the Eldians, there would never again be war. It blew my mind that some people would actually believe something this stupid. But there they were. The Deathclaw skull at the end was a nice touch. I guess we are saving the real thing for future seasons. I can live with that. I very much assume that there will be future seasons, as this is getting very good word of mouth and seems to get quite good numbers, as far as you can tell with a streaming service.

Man, Dogmeat gets around between our protagonists. I guess the experiments in Vault 4 explain why that Axolotl had fingers in its mouth. Those descendants of the experiments were really super nice guys though. Lucy, honey, when somebody asks you what the experiment in your vault was and you don't know of any, you are the experiment. Though I'm interested in learning what specifically the experiment is. Thaddeus, you are not the sharpest tool in the shed, are you? Once the "doctor" told you that you didn't have to worry about radiation anymore, you should have known you were a Ghoul now. Still, could have been worse. The alternative would most certainly have been death.

Oh live action Matt Berry. Nice. I mean it's true that Vault-Tec is only beholden to its shareholders, but I don't think shareholders would like it if the entire society and thus the economic system would explode. I don't think you can convert Vault-Tec stock into bottle caps... Moldaver was alive over 200 years ago without being a Ghoul? Interesting. Those experiments in Vault 4 are weird.

The sinister nature of the vaults lowly comes to the surface. This is going to be fun.

Matt Berry really voices everything nowadays, doesn't he? Not that I'm complaining.

Shitter doesn't seem to be a very well thoughtout job. If you feed pigs, they produce shit for the flies and on top of that you can butcher them for meat after a relatively short time. Also couldn't they find one fat actor in Hollywood, if this guy is supposed to be fat? Was that water thing a mutated Axolotl? I guess they are meat eaters.

I at first thought it was going to be a deathclaw. A slightly mutated bear was the much, much better scenario for our young friend there. I don't know writing people this dumb that they threaten and insult the people who have currently their lives in their hand was kinda played out a long time ago. I can maybe stomach it once or twice, but not this many times. He probably should have just died from the bear attack right away. Also Maximus, you don't think you should bring your support bag, with all the medicine inside? It's not like it's going to be hard to carry in the power armour...

I really liked this episode. It bodes well for the series. Those were some rather tiny nukes. Were they never further developed from the first prototypes in this world? Well at least those would spew out more radiation, so it kinda tracks.

Teams where the two team members are too similar to each other usually don't do very well. See the twins being out two weeks ago or every other twin team before. The twin team who did the best in TAR history were Emily & Molly, who didn't grow up together and thus had quite different experiences and personalities. So I have to assume the boyfriends have quite a few differences under the hood. They just have the same type as themselves. With same sex couples that happens. There are also doppelbangers in the straight world, but it's not as noticable for obvious reasons. Of course the matching outfits don't help, but that is encouraged by production... I mean not deep into the mountains, just towards them. As soon as they noticed they were leaving the city, they pulled over the next option they got and then they still finished 5th, so they couldn't have lost that much time.

So how did Moll know they were on Trill? Because she put the tracker on somebody now, so clearly didn't have one before. I assume she just went back to the necropolis planet and found the second part of the riddle, because nobody destroyed it and nobody thought it was a good idea to set a trap there. -.-

I'm not sure if that stripper was meant to be conventionally hot, despite the abs. But I have to say he really did it for me. I have a thing for mustaches, then the nice ass and on top he's also nerdy? *swoon* So I totally get where Isaac is coming from with his second thoughts.

Usually teams check backpacks on their last flight and pick them up at the airport once they are done with the race. But in general you are allowed to ditch your backpacks whenever you want. You could even come on the race without one. You are probably going to regret it, but nobody is forcing you to bring one. Quite a few teams swear on just bringing one and giving that to the stronger team member. I have no confirmation for this season. But usually the teams eliminated out of the final ~6 run decoy.

Hmm still no asia. Guess it makes sense. In some parts the pandemic was worse in those days, when it was already getting better in the west.