Ben Lindbergh
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I mean, it's got to be, right?
We get
essentially this daydream, it seems, that is happening only in Reg's head, where we get this Busby Berkeley musical number, you know, just kind of almost like the choreography of the brainwashed folks in the vault acting in lockstep.
Here, it's more of a grand production because we get Uranium Fever by Elton Britt, which is playing, which Fallout 4 players will remember from Diamond City Radio.
And the aspect ratio changes from 69 to 43.
So it's sort of old school and there's kind of like a different film stock or a film grain effect.
And then after this little delusion plays out, we kind of go back to reality and we see that really Reg is tapping out.
Mary had a little lamb.
on the piano and it's it's all quiet so to speak in this room except for the snacking sound so is is this what's happening in his head at all times is this his delusions of grandeur coming to fruition here like what is what is going on with this sequence like what is happening in reg's head and and why is this in this episode in this series so
Yeah, it's like, I like that there's a playful spirit to this series, but I'm sure, you know, we've already wondered, why are we spending so much screen time on the Vault East this season?
And for anyone who's thinking, gosh, we went a whole episode without House or without Norm or without this or that, and it's because we needed to see a musical number in Reg's head in the vault, but...
I kind of appreciate the audacity of it.
It's just it's so strange.
It is very much like it's it's kind of a hallucination.
It's like that option you referenced in Fallout New Vegas where you can play it the wacky way and just.
Yeah, this is a manifestation of that, essentially.
And I don't know, maybe it's the water shortage or something going to people's heads, although there doesn't seem to be any shortage there.
in the support group itself.
So Betty and her jackbooted thug enforcers finally show up.
And if anything, they're probably overdue.