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Elephant in the room, wtf happened to Vegas! What happened to the NCR! guess we'll find out. It's sad though! Real sad! I'm watching this show with my friend who's never played fallout, and I'm like "the ncr used to be a country bro. They had a president bro." so Where's the president huh! Huh!!

Anyway, I've honestly been pretty much loving everything else. Maximus is killing it this season. I never really GAF about the BOS (compared to other factions) but i like this direction. The confrontation between him and quintus in ep. 4 was so good. I love dane, i love thaddeus. I love thaddeus being the Fagin to a bunch of ragamuffin orphans. Great stuff. Hope to see him and max leading their band of children across the desert next ep.

Speaking of which, HOLY SHIT i love the desert. Every tv show and movie ever made should be set in the mojave desert. They'll cut to some shot of a character talking and you'll just casually see the most staggeringly beautiful landscape you've ever seen in the background. The mountains. Oh my god. The desert!!!! 🏜

Lucy and Ghoul roadtrip is also great. Lucy getting addicted to buffout is so fkcin funny. I love ella purnell and her big baby deer eyes.

I'm also excited for the continuing adventure of norm and his managers. "I just drove under that bridge last week." Sad.

The vault stuff? Also good. Betty begging for her vault's life. The scene between her and eyepatch gave me a real sense of unease. The vaults have always freaked me out. Being trapped down there. And then chaos erupts. Your water dries up. Awful, awful. Great stuff. And zach cherry is there!

The fate of the Legion, i think, is hilarious, and i accept that I'm biased, bc fuck the legion. Love to see this bunch of assholes fighting the lamest and dumbest civil war you've ever seen, a no-mans-land that's just a single hill, literally squabbling over caesers nasty bones. I do wonder what this means as far as the wider legion "civilization". What the hell is going on tucson and pheonix, etc.

My biggest complaint so far (because I'm not drawing my final judgment abt the Vegas/NCR Lore Implications until the season is over) is that....they got to vegas and.... it's so small. Like. I get it. It's a tv show. And the set is gorgeous, it looks....well it looks just like the game. All the sets so far have been gorgeous. The effects are great. I've been loving all the practical effects, the puppets (!!!!).

But the thing i'd really, really hoped to see is New Vegas At Scale. The game is small bc it was made fifteen years ago, in 45 minutes. And I get it. Theres more eps to see. For now I'm just gonna stare some more at the concept art.

Anyway. Would love to talk abt it with anyone who wanna talk!