Ben Lindbergh

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

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.