Van Lathan

Even this backstory, normally when you get a character's backstory, particularly an unlikable character, you get some window into why they are the way that they are that humanizes them.

This gives a window into why the way she is the way that she is, but it does nothing to humanize her.

Even though she lost someone close to her, it's still like, okay, this is the origin of the fuckery and the reason why this character should be reviled and not something that delivers that character out of that perception of them.

I understand your concern about

This particular backstory, I did think that it was well executed.

And I thought that it really made me care more about the almost wedding that was at the end of the episode.

Because if not for this, I do not think that I would have cared at all.

Like coming back to that entire thing.

And I share some of your...

I guess, criticism about the vault-dwelling aspect of this.

To me, it's not unentertaining, but it is the least entertaining, the least compelling part of this season.

Sort of that stuff that's going on.

That setup at the beginning of it did provide us with, to me, a little bit more bite for some of the stuff that happened at the end of the episode, especially when the wedding blows up.

I made sense of it because the garbage disposal thing is really, really, really dumb.

I made sense of it.

If these are not human beings who are like you say, then she's really not concerned at all with them being her equal because she is not savvy at all.

She is dominating and she's cutthroat.

Literally.

Yeah.

Yeah.