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Man, isnt it crazy what 200 years does to a motherfucker?
To get to this level of brutality and barbarism?
Thats 200 years of real depravity right there.
The end of the episode might offer a clue or two about how he got here.
Shes zapped by the chip concealed in his neck, which dissuades her from further inspection.
Hes a bottle cap short, so he has to make up the difference with a tooth.
No freebies in Filly, baby!
he finds it being prodded over by a group of rough n ready locals.
His second go, this time armed with a wrench and a toilet seat, bears more fruit.
(Cant do that in the games.)
Still, he torments Thaddeus in other ways.
Sounds very, very Brotherhood.
In the games, they are mutated salamanders; this version looks to be a giant, radioactive axolotl.
The creature design, a combination of practical and digital effects, is terrifically slimy and gross.
Lucy isnt left to face the Gulper alone for too long though shed wish that she was.
The Ghoul soon catches up to her and strings her up as bait.
He concedes that torture is pointless, but he still enjoys dishing out pain.
He throws a fit, leashes up Lucy, and theyre waylaid to find a new source.
Oh, and they get Wilzigs head.
Theyve come across the ruins of the movie studio where the Ghoul worked many lifetimes ago.
Flashback to the movie studio hundreds of years ago, before the world burned.
Cooper Howard emerges from his trailer not in cowboy garb but … in a vault suit.
His wife, Barb (Frances Turner), wolf whistles.
The only question left is the pose hell take on camera.
What if I were to do, like, a thumbs-up?
Maybe the Ghoul has plenty to feel guilty about.
Bottle Caps
Three episodes in, I have reservations about the design of the wasteland.
You know, in 2277, the Washington monument is still up.
Here, landmarks are few and far between.
But maybe the California climate is especially erosive.
An NCR flag was spotted in the trailer, so we know theyre in it somewhere.
But when are they going to show up?
Instead, as one guy says: I can teach the raiders Shakespeare.
And when theyre up to it, Marlowe.
How have they survived this long?
Johnny Pemberton is doing a lot to make an unlikeable character likable.
And theyd feed us, then theyd feed our shit to the flies.
Mulch em up and sell em as protein.
Anyway, thats why Im so fat.
Another great line read for Ghoulgins: The wasteland has its own golden rule.
Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time.Someonedoesnt like doing side quests.
