Maximus

Some thoughts I have on season two of Fallout

Nothing's coming to mind to talk about other than the show, so I'll talk about the show. I already made a post saying it was the best piece of media I've seen in a long time. Now I just want to dive into things I've noticed while watching. There will be spoilers.

Maximus quickly became my favorite character, and I think you can tell. He's just a very capable no-bullshit good-natured guy. Then there's Hank MacLean and his plan on mind control. I'm still kind of on the fence about whether or not it's a good plan or if it's a morally justifiable pursuit or maybe it's the best idea ever. I'm leaning towards that being a questionable and undesirable outcome for an individual, because it takes away your freedom, and in this scenario your memory as well, and gives your freedom away to somebody else. Yes, everyone behaves, but everyone behaves in accordance with somebody else's plan. There's no way to opt out of the plan, and there's no way to tell whether the plan changes to something bad.

It's not a new trope. If you played Assassin's Creed, you know in that game they also had a mind control device they wanted to use to make everyone behave so that everyone would stop struggling. Same thing. It goes back even further, and I don't know history that well but even Thomas Jefferson said he preferred dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. I agree with him, because peace is not guaranteed in slavery, because somebody else chooses if you have peace or not. Another point I'd make is that when you achieve peace in freedom, it's much more rewarding, because you know you're in control, and you get to keep it. And not lose it, at least for the foreseeable future.

Also, I'm so so so very glad, like so glad they didn't use any of that artificial intelligence cancer when writing this show. Bless them for that.

Anyway, Ghoul's wife supposedly left him a postcard saying Colorado was a great idea. That could mean a million different things, but realistically as someone pointed out she might have secured a spot in a vault somewhere in Colorado. Or they simply avoided the nuclear blasts somehow in Colorado, and both his wife and daughter died, and he's going to meet his grandkids. I mean, I'm pretty sure it's a waste of time to theorize on this, so I think that's enough from me for now.

P.S. If you're a writer of the show or know how to be in the next season even as a side character, please lmk. I'm in the process of moving to LA, and I think the stars might be aligning.