Ben Lindbergh

They're just trying to survive and trying to make their way in the world.

But if you play the games and you get to talk to the companions and learn more of their perspective, well, the NCR, the Legion, these factions are fighting over real issues and the future of the wasteland in a way like Hank is.

So...

Maybe he's selling people short or, again, is kind of elevating himself or Vault-Tec or the Enclave or whoever and underestimating and writing off everyone else as basically having these petty concerns, whereas he is the one who is high-minded about everything.

Maybe he just hasn't gotten to know everyone enough.

Partly because he blew them up, which that's sort of on him also.

And she's still maintaining that she wants to bring him to justice and bring him all the way back to the vault and have some sort of sentence pronounced, which seems pretty unrealistic at this point.

Granted, I know it's her father and, you know, he's trying to connect to her and manipulate her and appeal to her emotions and their shared history and reminiscing about when she was a kid and all this stuff.

And she's trying to resist that, obviously.

And

And, you know, she knows that he can be persuasive and manipulative.

And so I appreciate that she doesn't want to hear it.

Ultimately, he maneuvers her into a situation where she has to hear it and he forces her to see his way of thinking.

You know, she's trying at least to resist, I guess, that persuasion.

And I suppose I understand why she doesn't just sink the scissors into his throat just because, you know, she has some conflicted feelings about her dad, understandably.

But

You know, this is not going to go anywhere good in the short term.

And he continues to do his monologue.

You know, some things just never change, such as war, for instance.

People just want to kill each other, don't they?