Ben Lindbergh

you know, this is again, like, Hank, are you sort of cleansing this this fallen world and bringing goodness to it by either wiping everyone out or brainwashing them?

Or are you the one who is making it fallen in the first place?

Because maybe you played some part in the

bombs dropping, or you destroyed Shady Sands where goodness was getting a toehold and the good people who helped raise Maximus were obliterated because of Hank.

But then again, is Thaddeus right?

Were the good people of Shady Sands only good because they had supplies and they had order and they had water and everything, right?

Because this ties into the vault scenes that we're about to see too.

Because are the vault dwellers actually good people?

Or are they just a mob that's out for itself?

And that's just been camouflaged by the fact that they have had ample supplies.

But when the water is short and when rationing is imposed, suddenly it's a dog-eat-dog world down there, right?

So that kind of argues that maybe actually Thaddeus is right, that maybe Lucy seems to be a good person because stuff didn't break while she was down there, maybe.

So it's an unresolved debate.

And

I don't expect Fallout, the television show, to resolve the debate about whether humans are inherently good or not, which is something that people have been wrestling with for millennia.

So, you know, our finest philosophers are still struggling with that one.

I don't know that Fallout will settle it once and for all, but it does help link together these disparate stories.

So we do see the redemption of Dog need partial redemption, at least, because he catches up with Thaddeus and Maximus

wakes them as they have dozed in front of the campfire, which I guess is as much as Lucy first encountered Dogmeat and Wiltzig at the campfire in season one when she was nodding off and Wiltzig was telling her, you got to watch out for the radroaches out here.

Seems like Maximus and Thaddeus have let their guard down.