Daniel Chin

And Maximus is still a little unsure of himself, but he is more sure of himself by now.

And this conversation that they have, I thought was really important to have in the episode where everything's moving so quickly because it grounds itself a little bit more.

And especially pulling back to that flashback sequence of Shady Sands and seeing a little bit of Maximus's

childhood and having that strong foundation of the goodness and his parents and the goodness of that community and this idea of the question of nature versus nurture is something that's just so important to this series and yeah just evidenced by by lucy being a vault dweller and leaving the vault and and seeing the way the wasteland is so i think it was it was a really good scene to have in this episode

Yeah, this is a pairing I'm looking forward to seeing a lot too.

It's going to be a lot of fun to see, especially not Thaddeus as a ghoul too.

I feel like it's a really fun component too.

And it's immediately something that I'm sure that the ghoul can just pick up on where it's just like, okay, well, Maximus must be different now if he's just hanging out with this ghoul.

yeah i will say the other aspect of it that i really enjoy especially before this this meeting with the the ghoul this reunion with the ghoul is just that you have the other parallel of them trying to figure out where they're going to bring cold fusion at the same time as coop is is working is working that out himself in the and barb working that out in the previous timeline yes so now that present day ghoul has uh

It was definitely really weird.

I thought it was very fun in the moment.

And it was definitely jarring just to have the aspect ratio switch, just to have a musical number in the middle of all this.

And just like an odd amount of insight into Reg's character.

Yeah.

I thought this was like the most fun part of this whole section.

But overall, like with all this, I was just like, why are we having any of this right now?

Yeah, I think in that respect, it is interesting to have this in this episode because it does fit into this whole nature versus nurture discussion.

But again, I mean, not to beat this point too much, but it's just like when you have so many storylines and the show is kind of spreading itself thin by dividing so much time between these different plot lines with all this.

This was the first time I really felt like this with the false storylines where I was just like,

I wish that they could just spend more time on the other plot lines where everything just feels more urgent.