Ben Lindbergh

But Maximus and Thaddeus, we were missing them in episode five.

We catch up with them again, wandering the wasteland here.

They have to abandon the power armor because the Brotherhood can track it.

And of course, Thaddeus wants to sell and or trade the cold fusion.

Maximus resists and says, we'll give it to the right person, a good person.

that girl i met so he is after all still hung up on lucy whom he seemed to be trying to put out of his mind when he was more committed to the brotherhood earlier in the season but no he is clearly still pining for his vault girl here and searching for her and we do get an interesting conversation between maximus and thaddeus which again touches on one of the core themes of the series

And Thaddeus is not so willing to allow that Lucy is the being of pure light and goodness and everything sweet and nice the way that Maximus sees her as.

Thaddeus says, I would be a good person too if I grew up on top of a mountain of food and supplies in some cozy little impenetrable home.

Wouldn't like like this, that's for sure.

Wouldn't have to steal and stab and fib all the goddamn time just to get by.

And Thaddeus, you know, tries to sell Maximus on his selling the coal fusion plan by essentially sounding like a

Sam Bankman Freed or something like effective altruists.

If we just get really rich, then we can be good and we can help more people in the long run.

Maximus isn't having it.

But Thaddeus is essentially arguing that there's no such thing as good people, only good conditions.

So what do you make of this ongoing debate that has been playing out across just multiple timelines and settings and character groupings in this series?

Yeah, and I thought so because it also interacts with a couple of the other things that we saw in this episode, just other plot threads, because Hank is essentially saying that the Wastelanders are irredeemable.

And, you know, maybe he always would have thought that because he's just a maniac at the core.

Yeah.

and a lot of his ill car but you know he's he's saying that uh that they cannot be redeemed now maybe that's because he destroyed shady sands and all the good people there right and and maximus is saying maybe he had it better than thaddeus which is really saying something about how thaddeus had it we learned by the way that he was born in the boneyard and not the nice part of the boneyard that's essentially los angeles in fallout one primarily so another nod to the og but