Turns out Jane Espenson can still write good television. "The Demon in the Snow", the new episode of Fallout, actually had a good flashback scene, some genuinely funny dialogue, and a really impressive set.
Lucy and Walton Goggin's Ghoul finally reach the New Vegas strip and it looks to me like they replicated the location in every precise detail from the New Vegas video game. I got a kick out of it. Lucy getting hooked on buffout also felt like vintage Fallout humour. All in all, the show has never before felt so much like the game.
And we finally get Deathclaws. Interestingly, the flashback establishes that Deathclaws were created before the nuclear war as Walton Goggins is shown encountering them on the Alaskan front, a conflict between the U.S. and China that had been established in the games. I liked that the episode actually featured some Chinese soldiers.
It's kind of implied that the Deathclaws are a secret U.S. weapon, which I didn't find interesting. Maybe I'd prefer that the Deathclaws' origins remained a mystery. I remember how scary they were in the first Fallout game I played, Fallout 2, and in every subsequent game, usually when a Deathclaw showed up, you knew you were about to become a bloody smear on the desert. I also liked the whole menagerie of body horror, limb and organ conglomeration monsters randomly encountered in the wasteland. You really only need the context of the nuclear wasteland to explain their presence, anything more robs them of menacing mystery.
Fallout is available on Amazon Prime.
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